683: It Was Okay

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club concludes its reading of the Hugo and Nebula shortlist novels with “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and “The Spare Man” by Mary Robinette Kowal. One’s an homage to H.G. Wells (sort of?) and the other plays like “The Thin Man” in space. Plus: We debate the meaning of star-rating systems, and what else are we reading?...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 600A3, September 2023.
0:09.8	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.8	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this episode is all about books.
0:15.3	It's the Book Club.
0:15.9	We're back.
0:16.8	We are finishing the shortlisted novels and the Hugo and Nebula awards with two Hugo
0:22.4	nominees.
0:23.8	It's The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Cowall and daughter of Dr. Moreau by Sylvia Moreno
0:29.2	Garcia.
0:30.1	As I discovered before we started as a true professional, hey, those authors have three names
0:36.4	each.
0:38.4	It's too many names.
0:39.4	That's some analysis.
0:40.5	That's the kind of analysis you can come to expect here in the incomparable book club.
0:43.9	Let me introduce the club members.
0:47.0	Aline Sims is here.
0:48.3	Hello.
0:49.3	Hello.
0:49.9	I have three names too, but I just, I don't use the middle one.
0:52.5	Yeah, but you don't go by them, right?
0:54.0	I don't go by the middle one, yeah.
0:55.7	I don't have two first names.
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