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The Incomparable Mothership 779: Not a Hugo

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Our Awards Book Club closes up shop for 2025 with a final set of rankings, the presentation of an award we made up, and an overview of all the Hugo-nominated short fiction.

Awards Book Club final rankings and Hugo short fiction

Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Scott McNulty, Aleen Simms and Heather Berberet

Show Notes & Links
What Are We Reading?
  • Scott: How to Solve Your Own Murder
  • Erika: Swordheart, Throne of Glass series specifically Heir of Fire
  • Heather: Dungeon Crawler Carl
  • Aleen: When Women Were Dragons, Lake of Souls
  • Jason: The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton, Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
    • The Incomparable Award
    1. Service Model (4 first-place votes, 2.0 average placement)
    2. The Tainted Cup (3.4)
    3. Someone You Can Build a Nest In (1, 4.0)
    4. A Sorceress Comes to Call (4.4)
    5. Alien Clay (5.0)
    6. The Ministry of Time (5.8)
    7. Asunder / The Book of Love (tie) (6.4)
    8. Rakesfall (8.6)
    9. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory (9)
      10. The Short Fiction

      Novella

      • “The Brides of High Hill” by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
      • “The Butcher of the Forest” by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
      • “Navigational Entanglements” by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
      • “The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain” by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
      • “The Tusks of Extinction” by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
      • “What Feasts at Night” by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)

        • Novelette

        • “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
        • “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons)
        • “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s)
        • “Lake of Souls” by Ann Leckie (in Lake of Souls)
        • “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny)
        • “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny)

          • Short Story

          • “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed)
          • “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)
          • “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny)
          • “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny)
          • “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed)
          • “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld)
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