Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

2025 Nebula winner and nominees - the best fantasy books of the year?

Episode Summary

We rank all six of the nominees, talk about whether the winner deserved it, and let you know which ones are worth reading. There's one truly great book on this year's Nebula list!

Episode Notes

In addition to ranking all the nominees, we talk about why the entire shortlist this year was all fantasy, no sci-fi. 

This episode is sponsored by The Boy, the Cube, and the Elf by Brent Golembiewski, which is available in print or kindle edition here

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If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for all the books / series we talked about: 

• 00:00 Intro
• 1:50 Episode Sponsor - The Boy, The Cube, and the Elf
• 2:21 #6 - Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
• 6:33 #5 - Sleeping Worlds Have no Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov
• 10:42 #4 - The Book of Love by Kelly Link
• 15:28 Why are all the nominees fantasy?
• 18:46 #3 - Asunder by Kerstin Hall
• 23:22 #2 - A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• 27:53 #1 - Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell