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The Incomparable 412: His Books Are Like Popcorn
The Incomparable’s Book Club reaches the finish line of our annual SF/Fantasy award read, as we discuss the six nominees for the Hugo Award for best novel. From new series to concluded trilogies to standalone epics, this year’s list had a lot of variety. And for good measure, we throw in a few of the short-fiction nominees that we really liked.
Host Jason Snell with Scott McNulty, Erika Ensign and Aleen Simms
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Our consensus rankings:
- “The Stone Sky” by N.K. Jemisin
- “Provenance” by Ann Leckie
- “Raven Stratagem” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Collapsing Empire” by John Scalzi
- “New York 2140” by Kim Stanley Robinson
- “Six Wakes” by Mur Lafferty
Stories mentioned:
- “And Then There Were (N-One),” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny, March/April 2017)
- “Wind Will Rove,” by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s, September/October 2017)
- “The Martian Obelisk,” by Linda Nagata (Tor.com, July 19, 2017)
- “Carnival Nine,” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2017)
- “Fandom for Robots,” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny, September/October 2017)
- “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells