The Incomparable

Show Notes

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)