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)

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)