Ranking the 2025 Hugo nominees plus 4 more of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of the year!
The Hugo Award shortlist this year is stacked with great science fiction and fantasy books!
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
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Show Notes
In addition to ranking the six nominees, we also talk about four more amazing books that deserve to be in contention for the best speculative fiction novels of the year.
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If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for all the books we talked about:
- 00:00 Intro
- 1:26 Episode Sponsor - Doppelgänger by Chip Walter
- 2:03 6 - A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
- 4:58 5 - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- 7:51 4 - Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
- 9:12 3 - Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 12:49 - Four more great books that deserved a nomination
- 22:36 2 - Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 27:15 1 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett