Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

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


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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
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