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The Incomparable, number 834, September 2026.

Welcome

back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we are here celebrating the summer of Sundance

by just watching

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Hello.

Yes, I'm branching out to other parts of the incomparable.

[upbeat music] The Incomparable, number 833, September 2026.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host Jason Snell and the summer of Sundance is continuing because we are talking about 1973's The Sting.

Yes, it's the stars and director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, uh, but now it's, uh, the Depression, and there's, uh, interesting outfits and a lot of Scott Joplin and a long con, and there may be more cons in there than you even expect.

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Perfect.

And thanks everybody out there for listening to The Incomparable.

We will see you next time.

Yeah.

Yeah, I had seen, like, on The Incomparable, their ranking episode came out recently because they also cover...

Um, the Hugo and Nebula and maybe one other, I forget, but you know, they do the best novels essentially.

And, um, their clear favorite was also the everlasting.

The Incomparable Number 832 August 2026

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I am your host, Jason Snell.

Our book club, our awards book club, is back together one last time for this cycle to talk about one book we haven't talked about, remind you we already talked about another book, talk a little bit about short fiction Hugo nominees that we wanted to recommend, and then a mean man makes everybody rank things.

That is Emily Tesh, The Incandescent.

Another writer who I like a lot is Adrian Tchaikovsky, who was nominated this year for a book called Shroud.

Now, Adrian Tchaikovsky, by the way, our reigning... champion and winner of the incomparable ranking book award or whatever, the award for best novel, which we rolls off the top, which we, well, I'm more, I'm working on it.

I'm working on

[instrumental music] You're listening to Vulcan Hello, The Incomparable's only podcast dedicated to Star Trek.

I am Scott McNulty, joined, as always, by Mr. Jason Snell.

Hello, Jason.

Mm-hmm

... of mine on The Incomparable, and, uh, I s- I, I just-

They sponsored this show a l- a very long time ago.

Did they?

... like Jason.

Yep.

Um, my friend David Lohr, who I saw this weekend, he, uh, has been spending a bunch of time out in Albuquerque, um, dealing with some family stuff, and, um, he went into the New Mexico Tea Company and they, and he says that, that the moment he spoke and they heard his voice, they're like, "Oh, you're from The Incomparable.

Oh."

But there ...

We are planning a bonus for members of The Incomparable that should be really fun based on a thing we kind of, uh, discovered while we were talking to David in the podcast.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.