On this week's episode, we're doing a whirlwind survey of the six finalists from this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, Middlegame by Seanan McGuire, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The City In the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders, and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow!
What We’re Into Lately
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons
A Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Agatha Christie vibes
Skeleton Puzzle-Solving video games
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
John Scalzi
For Next Time
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. We're definitely nominating our transcription team for the Serpents' Award For Best Scribes. ;)