Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Ranking the 2026 Hugo nominees plus the other best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the year!
Episode Summary
The Hugo Award shortlist this year is stacked with great science fiction and fantasy books. Plus, we read all the Nebula nominees, most of the Locus nominees, most of the Arthur C. Clarke's, plus a bunch of the Goodreads Readers Choice nominees - all to bring you the best of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of the year!
Episode Notes
We rank all the Hugo nominees, plus tell you about seven more amazing books that deserve to be in contention for the best speculative fiction novels of the year.
No spoilers at all in this episode.
If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for the episode:
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:03 6 The Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
- 02:37 5 The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
- 05:20 4 The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
- 07:30 3 Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 14:40 2 A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
- 16:56 1 The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
- 19:05 Thank you for 100 episodes!
- 20:11 The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
- 23:05 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- 24:37 Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
- 25:21 Slow Gods by Claire North
- 29:02 The Goodreads miss list
- 30:44 The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
- 33:32 There is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM