779: Not a Hugo
The Incomparable Mothership
Jason Snell
4.7 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The incomparable number 779, August 2025. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, Jason Snell. |
| 0:14.0 | This episode is the conclusion, finally, the end of the road, |
| 0:19.0 | for our 2025 journey journey the assigned reading of the hugo and nebula |
| 0:26.0 | nominees for best novel all 10 of them as well as we're going to cover a little nominated |
| 0:32.4 | short fiction from the hugos to see if there's anything out there that we think that you might like |
| 0:36.2 | we're not going to grind through it. |
| 0:37.8 | We're really going to just make some recommendations. |
| 0:39.3 | We're going to do some, what are we reading at the end? |
| 0:41.1 | And of course, I'm going to make my panelists rank all 10, if they read all 10, or at least the books that they read. |
| 0:48.2 | And we're going to generate what is essentially our own award, which is the incomparable award for the best novel in the short list or something. |
| 0:59.8 | I don't know. |
| 1:00.5 | Here are the panelists. |
| 1:01.2 | He'll be ranking things. |
| 1:02.7 | Aline Sims is here. |
| 1:03.7 | Hello. |
| 1:04.7 | Hello. |
| 1:05.4 | I guess stories, stories, stories. |
| 1:08.2 | Yes. |
| 1:08.8 | And also books times 10 in order. |
| 1:12.7 | Eric Anzines also here, hello. |
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