663: A Lot of Ocean

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Our Book Club begins our walk through awards shortlist reading with two Nebula Awards nominees for best novel, “The Mountain in the Sea” by Ray Nayler and “Spear” by Nicola Griffith. One’s a near-future thriller about sentient octopi, the other’s an Arthurian fantasy with a few twists. Next time we’ll be reading Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher and Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. If you’re on Goodreads, you can also join our Book Club there....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 663, April 2023.
0:09.9	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.6	I'm your host Jason Snell.
0:12.6	This is an episode of our book club.
0:14.8	And the book club has begun the march, the slog.
0:19.3	No, the exciting march through award shortlists.
0:26.3	Nebula award nominees are on display now.
0:30.7	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about two more nebula nominees.
0:35.7	The Hugo nominees are coming out soon, so we'll know how many more books we have to read after this.
0:40.6	Only one nebula nominee remains, but there will be more added to our list for sure.
0:45.2	Almost for sure.
0:47.4	But in this episode, we read two of them.
0:50.8	And so we're going to talk about them and then also tell you what we're reading that we liked.
0:58.0	Let me introduce my panelists who are on this book club journey with me.
1:00.1	Erica Ensign is here. Hello.
1:05.9	Hi, Jason. I read books. All right. Good. Two books assigned this time. Two books. A little extra assignment there. Assigned by the Nebula people, not assigned by me. So I, it's not me.
1:12.8	One of them was short, or at least it fell short.
1:15.3	One of them was very short.
1:17.0	Aline Sims is also here.
1:18.5	Hi, Aline.
1:19.4	Hi, I also read books.
1:21.0	Nice.
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