Episode 29: Omphalistic Hugosity

<p style="text-align:center;">This episode is dedicated to the memory of Brian Robert Middlemiss (20 July 1930 - 5 June 2020).</p> <p>David and Perry talk about the shorter fiction nominees for the 2020 Hugo Awards, and then take the Hugo Time Machine back to 1962, when Stranger in a Strange Land won Best Novel.</p> <ul><li>Dedication to Brian Middlemiss (03:26)</li> <li>Awards season (00:46)</li> <li>Nebula Awards (01:40)</li> <li>Locus Awards (02:10)</li> <li>Hugos 2020 Short Fiction (00:41)</li> <li>Hugo Voting Package (01:16)</li> <li>Novelettes (14:56) <ul><li>Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey (01:23)</li> <li>For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll (01:35)</li> <li>Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (02:09)</li> <li>The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye by Sarah Pinsker (01:58)</li> <li>The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim (02:49)</li> <li>Omphalos by Ted Chiang (04:42)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Short Stories (11:24) <ul><li>Blood Is Another Word for Hunger by Rivers Solomon (01:02)</li> <li>And Now His Lordship Is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas (01:49)</li> <li>As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang (01:21)</li> <li>A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde (01:31)</li> <li>Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen (02:06)</li> <li>Do Not Look Back, My Lion by Alix E. Harrow (03:24)</li> </ul> </li> <li>The Hugo Time Machine~1962 (01:01)</li> <li>Special awards (02:26) <ul><li>Handbook of Science Fiction and Fantasy~Donald Tuck (01:31)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Novels (29:28) <ul><li>Second Ending by James White (03:32)</li> <li>Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye (04:06)</li> <li>Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison (03:10)</li> <li>Time Is the Simplest Thing by Clifford D. Simak (05:16)</li> <li>Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (13:03)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Short Fiction (12:06) <ul><li>Status Quo by Mack Reynolds (01:49)</li> <li>Lion Loose by James H. Schmitz (01:24)</li> <li>Sc