The Incomparable Podcast, number 96, June 2012.

Welcome back to The Incomparable Podcast.

I'm your host, Jason Snell, and I am here with three lovely panelists to talk to you about the Hugo Awards.

This is something that we've done, I think, all three years of the incomparable's existence. We're going to talk to you about the Hugo Awards. This is something that we've done, I think,

all three years of the incomparable's existence. We're going to talk about the books that were

nominated for the Hugo Award this year. The Hugo Award is an award bestowed by science fiction

fans on the best novel and also various categories of short stories and TV shows and movies

and things like that.

And I've always sort of treated it with some degree of reverence because I sort of had a quest

to read all the Hugo winning novels. And for the last few years, I've read all the nominees and I voted in the Hugo Awards.

Because although I sort of treated the Hugo Awards as the Oscars of science fiction, in many ways it's the People's Choice Awards of Science Fiction and that anybody can pay to be a voter and then vote.

And that explains perhaps the quality of some of the selections.

But be that as it may, we are going to talk about it because it was always a way for me to get some books that I could read.

And I, you read the nominees. That sounds like a perfectly good idea. I questioned this idea

this year, but I still read them all. And I'm joined by people who've read various combinations

of honored sci-fi books this year. First up, the man who reads everything, my partner in crime when it

comes to discussing a book called Deadline that will be coming up, it's Scott McNulty. Hi, Scott.

Jason, I blame you for making me read another book by Miragher. I'm sorry, I blame the voters.

I swear it was not me. I didn't want to read it either, but I did, just like you, because we are committed to the incomparable. I do it for the people. Yeah, that's right. It is for the people. It's because we love. Exactly. So, uh, also joining me today, you may have heard him murmuring to himself in the background there.

It's Glenn Fleischman who also reads many things.

Hi, Glenn.

I think you were hearing me breathe deeply.

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