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    The Incomparable Mothership December 1, 2023 “The Wheel of Time” season 2
    693 Short-Selling Magic Crystals
    Moisés Chiullán with Kathy Campbell and John Siracusa

    Almost 100 episodes later, we reconvene (most of) our original panel to discuss season two of “The Wheel of Time.” How does it fit into the current set of big fantasy TV shows? Team Didn’t-Read-the-Books seems to be in agreement with Lady Dragonmount that it helps when a fantasy saga’s book series is complete before it’s adapted for the screen.

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    The Incomparable Mothership January 8, 2022 “The Wheel of Time” (season 1)
    596 Tom Bombadilification
    Moisés Chiullán with Glenn Fleishman, John Siracusa and Kathy Campbell

    More than three decades since the Wheel of Time book series began, it’s arrived as a TV series on Prime Video. We discuss the first season with the help of our resident Wheel of Time book expert and three non-book-readers. How much is or isn’t it the “next Game of Thrones?” Why would it need to be be? And how does a book series that was wildly progressive for the 1990s approach a modern audience?

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    The Incomparable Mothership July 11, 2014 The 2014 Hugo Award nominees.
    202 The Partial Monty
    Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Scott McNulty, Monty Ashley and David J. Loehr

    Bury your dead in a Zeppelin and call your interplanetary accountant—it’s time for our annual read of the Hugo Award nominees. We cover this year’s award nominees, plus the “retro Hugos” from 1939, both of which will be awarded in August in London. Also, someone defends Mira Grant.