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
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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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