David and Perry discuss 1961, an amazingly good year for science fiction:

Hugo Time Machine (1961)

Novel nominees

Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys

The High Crusade by Poul Anderson

Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon

Deathworld by Harry Harrison

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jnr

Other books which might have been nominated

Short Fiction nominees

Need by Theodore Sturgeon

The Lost Kafoozalum by Pauline Ashwell

Open to Me, My Sister by Phillip Jose Farmer

The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson

Other possible nominees

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