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The Incomparable Mothership

719: Three Novellas in a Trench Coat

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Our 2024 book club shortlist read continues with “Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon”, “The Terraformers,” and “Some Desperate Glory.” We enjoyed them all, to varying degrees! Plus: What else are we reading?...

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The incomparable.

0:58.2

Number 719, June 24.

1:01.5

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

1:02.8

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

1:16.3

In this episode, we return to our shortlist reading journey as we read the nine nominated best novels of 2024 or from 2023 in 2024, whatever,

1:21.2

from the Hugo and Nebula Awards. You know what I'm talking about. We're going to talk about three of them in this episode, three whole books and whether you might want to read them or not,

1:25.9

what we thought of them, you know, stuff about books let me introduce uh the usual suspect here to talk about this journey

1:32.9

that we're all on aline sims joins us hello i believe the standard greeting is now books books books

1:39.8

books oh no well yeah don't say it nine times that's too many times to say it, but it is books nine times that we are in now.

1:50.4

Erica and sign, books to you.

1:54.5

Book, book, book, I guess, technically.

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