The Incomparable Mothership

683: It Was Okay

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Our Book Club concludes its reading of the Hugo and Nebula shortlist novels with “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and “The Spare Man” by Mary Robinette Kowal. One’s an homage to H.G. Wells (sort of?) and the other plays like “The Thin Man” in space. Plus: We debate the meaning of star-rating systems, and what else are we reading?

Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Aleen Simms and Scott McNulty

Referenced Works
The Spare Man
[Amazon] [Apple]
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
[Amazon] [Apple]
Show Notes & Links
What are we reading?

Scott McNulty

  • Saint Death’s Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
  • Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

    • Aleen Simms

    • The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
    • Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

      • Erika Ensign

      • The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
      • The Music of the Siphorophenes by C.L. Polk
      • Can You Hear Me Now? by Catherynne M. Valente

        • Jason Snell:

        • Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
        • The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter

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