On this episode, we're doing a bird's-eye view of the six finalists from this year's Best Novel ballot of the Hugo Awards!
What We’re Into Lately
Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant
Schitt’s Creek
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Sungkyunkwan Scandal
The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold
Good Omens (the miniseries)
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal (Freya misquotes the second title as The Fated Stars)
Hidden Figures
Record of a Spaceborn Few and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Farscape
Chants from A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
Star Wars: A New Hope
Trail of Lightning
Karl Urban
Buffy
Lost Girl
Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, and Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
Hannibal Lecter from The Hannibal Lecter series by Thomas Harris
Space Opera by Cat Valente
Saga Press
Eurovision
Eurovision 2019 Iceland
Eurovision 2019 Australia
The Fifth Element
Jupiter Ascending
Spinning Silver
Uprooted
The Starlit Wood (‘Navah Wolfe anthology’)
Discworld
N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy
For Next Time:
"Geometries of Belonging" by RB Lemberg
Transcription:
The transcript of this episode can be found here. Sing, muse, of the work of the scribes!!
Episode 101: Jumping the Shark
Episode 100: Superstravaganza
Episode 99: Detective Boyfriends
Episode 98: [SPOOKY NOISES]
Episode 97: A Symphony of Serpents
Episode 96: Changing Places
Episode 95: The Jasmine Throne
Episode 94: Into the Woods
Episode 93: The Glamorous Authorial Life
Episode 92: Podcasting: The Musical!
Episode 91: Anything You Can Do, We Can Do Better
Episode 90: Extravaganza
Episode 89: A Particularly Heartless Wizard
Episode 88: Singing a Song of Angry Men
Episode 87: Let the Games Begin!
Episode 86: 9 to 5 (What a Way to Make a Living)
Episode 85: Girl Meets House
Episode 84: Not With a Bang...
Episode 83: Space Sweepers!
Epsode 82: On Wednesdays, We Wear Pink
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