About this episode

The episode covers the final book in the Awards Book Club, discusses Hugo-nominated short fiction, and ranks all eleven books read.

Eleven books later, our Awards Book Club has finally reached the end of the line. In this episode we cover our last uncovered book, “Shroud” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, recommend some Hugo-nominated short fiction, and rank all eleven books. Plus: What are we reading other than shortlisted novels?! See you next year....

People in this episode

Host: Jason Snell

Topics covered

• book club
• Hugo Awards
• book recommendations
• fiction
• reading

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