Hugo, Girl!

This minisode we open and peruse Cooking for Wizards, Warriors and Dragons, a fantasy-inspired collection of recipes, created by Hugo Award winner and co-founder of The Book Smugglers, Thea James, an…

This month we read The City and the City by China Miéville, which was...fine? Maybe goodish? Is it "New Weird," or is it just weird? We don't know. But we do know that Mare of Easttown would have cra…

In honor of her birthday, please enjoy this reading of Haley's middle school Star Wars fanfiction. There are twins, a quest, an evil guy who definitely isn't just the Emperor, an underwater eatery, 3…

Episode 29 is here, and now with 50% more podcast! This month we read Hyperion by Dan Simmons, winner of the 1990 Hugo for best novel, and we took a whopping hour and a half to discuss it. This is a …

This month we read A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the 2020 Hugo for best novel! This was a fun, steampunky romp. Don't forget to tweet us your Teixcalaanli name!

CW/TW: brief dis…

This month we went back into the bunner tuggles as we discussed Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

Music by Eon: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss

BIG NEWS! We're jumping on the true crime train. For our inaugural episode, we discussed the sensational jewelry heist of approximately 3,070 years ago, popularly known as The Lord of the Rings. Thes…

This month we discussed Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. We didn’t like it.

CW: rape, intimate partner violence

Music by Eon: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss

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Hitch a ride on the nearest vehimal and join us for the conclusion of NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy! It's been a wild ride, and everyone is either dead or turned to stone or both.

CW: everyone’s …

WE WERE KIND OF CONFUSED BUT MOSTLY LIKED THIS BOOK AND ALSO GEORGIA IS BLUE!! IT'S BLUUUUUUUE!

Music by Eon: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss

This month we discussed the 2015 Hugo winner for best novel, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. 

There's a lot going on in this book, so our plot summary is longish. If you don't need a plot summary y…

We're taking a break from recording this month, so we're releasing the crossover episode we recorded back in January of 2020 with Seth Heasley, creator and host of the Hugos There podcast. This book …

It's our Halloween Spooptacular! In honor of Spooptober, we bring you a special episode on Fritz Leiber's 1944 retro Hugo winner for best novel, Conjure Wife. Big thanks to Seth (@hugospodcast)  for …

This month we discussed A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter H. Miller, winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel. It has lots of men, lots of death, and almost no women - and we all loved it! We lo…

Welcome to our inaugural Hugo Babygirl episode! These are shorter episodes (hence the "baby") where we read and discuss Hugo Award-winning short fiction (and other stuff if we feel like it).

For this…

To borrow a term from our friend Seth at the Hugos There podcast, this was a comfort read chosen by Haley. As far as we know, it won no awards, but it is composed of many words printed on paper and i…

This month we bring you a supersized episode for a supersized book. We read (and read and read) the 2004 winner for Best Novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. We also recorded the…

This month we discuss Ancillary Justice, winner of the 2014 Hugo for best novel, and the first book in Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy. It's got sentient ships, zombie soldiers, tons of tea, and …

This episode we discussed The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lori's new bff). We had no complaints, and we digressed often. This one was great fun!

CW: sexism, racism, anxiety, brief refe…