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!!