678: People Who Care About Kaiju

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Our book club reads two Hugo nominees, “Nona the Ninth” and “The Kaiju Preservation Society.” One’s the third book in a series that’s a real departure from what has came before, and whether that’s good or bad depends on how you were feeling about the series! The other is a standalone novel that’s perfectly fine, from an author who we think could be a better student if only he applied himself. And as usual, we also recommend many more books for you to read!...

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0:51.9	The incomparable.
0:58.6	Number 678, August 2023.
1:01.6	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
1:06.3	I am your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode, we are reconvening our book club as we continue our Sprightly March, nay dance uh promenade uh just uh we're we're skipping along
1:16.2	through the flowers as we go from nominated novel to nominated novel with the hugo's and nebulas when we last
1:24.6	left our book club the hugo award nominations had not come out yet. They have now
1:28.8	arrived. And that's good because one of the books that we read, well, both the books we read for
1:35.3	this episode were nominated for Hugo Awards. One of them was nominated for a nebula so we could
1:39.2	get ahead on that one, but we had to like wait for the other list to come out to decide what else
1:44.6	we would read. So this episode, uh, we've got a two Nebula, one Nebula award-nominated
1:51.5	novel, two Hugo Award-dominated novels, but not three novels, just two novels, because one
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