But I don’t think it’s going to win the Hugo. I especially don’t like them when they’re bad, as anyone listening to me talk about the new Star Trek can tell you, but this is a dark story I think is done very well. I don’t mind dark stories when they’re good. And the reason I don’t think it’s gonna win is that it’s pretty dark. Oren: This is definitely the best one, in my opinion. I thought maybe it actually deserves a Hugo. It’s still good!Ĭhris: Three for three! I liked this book. We just went over talking about some of its problems. It’s just got all of it and it’s perfect. ![]() Because it has ‘the wimmenz’, and a character whose gender is not immediately stated so that we could put them into the gender boxes, and also doing what the ‘daddy corporation’ says is Not Great, it turns out. I love that it’s very unlikely that anyone on the far right is going to try to claim this book. So it’s not like you need to look very far to figure out what the message of the story is. Oren: This is an explicitly leftist book in that it is anti-corporate and thinks that company towns are a bad idea. The interrogator says, “You’re a communist, then.” And then Dietz says, “Let’s say I’m old enough not to be dazzled by Ayn Rand.” I’ll embrace that part! It doesn’t make it all worth it… It’s just kind of an excuse for the interrogator and Dietz to basically swap philosophy and talk. Wes: There’s this one line that I gotta share. What I don’t like to read is essays badly disguised as fiction, because they don’t work as fiction but you also had to make them not work particularly well as an essay so you could fit them into this fiction guise.Ĭhris: Honestly, those could pretty much just have been removed and very little would change. If you’re writing a story, tell it in story format. Oren: Nothing good has ever happened in an interlude.Ĭhris: We have a future Dietz being interrogated, and they’re honestly just excuses for Hurley to put in an essay, but with less coherency than an essay would normally have? My opinion is, if you want to write an essay, go write an essay. The dreaded interludes… They ARE the dreaded interludes, honestly. The basic format is it’s a first person retelling by a future Dietz - that’s for the most part what it is - but there are these occasional… they could be called interludes. You don’t know that premise for a fair bit of time…Ĭhris: Does take a while to get there. And as a result, she perceives the war out of order. And the basic idea is that the main character, Dietz, when she is sent through these “light jumps” to go away on a mission, she sometimes gets displaced in time with another version of herself from another light jump. And this dystopian world is run by corporate entities. ![]() So…Ĭhris: So this is a dystopian science fiction… I’m reluctant to give it the label “military science fiction” because I feel like that belongs to a very niche audience that I don’t know whether it fits, but it takes place in the military and the main character is a soldier. I did not like the beginning, but I knew I had to get through it for you guys. This is her first Hugo nomination, at least as far as I know. Oren: You might’ve heard about Kameron Hurley as the writer of the essay “We Have Always Fought,” and she’s won a few awards for her other work. And it’s going to be about The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, which - spoilers - is a story about time travel and also evil corporations, two things that I dig. ![]() Oren: And today, I have actually come back in time from the end of the podcast to tell you what it is going to be about. Oren: And welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Mythcreants podcast. You’re listening to the Mythcreants podcast with your hosts Oren Ashkenazi, Wes Matlock, and Chris Winkle.
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