769: Wrestle a Book

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Our Awards Book Club continues its run through the roses with a tougher than expected review of Vajra Chandrasekera’s “Raksefall,” Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Alien Clay,” and Kelly Link’s “The Book of Love.”...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 769, June 2025.
0:10.3	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.0	Our book club is back in session.
0:14.5	We are continuing our slog, I mean, journey, our wonderful, romantic journey with the scent of flowers.
0:20.4	And it's just a sunny, bright birds are chirping as we read many, many books that were
0:25.9	nominated for the Hugo or Nebula Award for Best Novel.
0:28.6	This is our annual magical journey through books that were nominated by someone somewhere.
0:37.0	Joining me to talk about three of those books in this, our second installment, are these
0:42.4	wonderful people, Aline Sims, read all the books, hello?
0:46.7	I read all the books.
0:48.9	It was a little iffy, but I got them all done.
0:51.2	Thank you.
0:52.1	Very nice.
0:53.0	Erica Ensign is also here.
0:54.3	Read all the books.
0:55.8	Books, books.
0:56.7	I'm skipping along the garden path.
1:00.1	I'm trying to make it sound cheery.
1:01.6	Smell the flowers.
1:02.6	It's all great.
1:03.4	It's all great.
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