

Ranking the Sci-Fi greats - Books that won both the Hugo & Nebula
No spoilers at all in this episode. Join the Hugonauts book club on discordOr you can watch our episodes on YouTube if you prefer video BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE: Doomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette KowalAmong Others by Jo WaltonBlackout/All Clear by Connie WillisThe Yiddish…

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“Thanks for another fine show. I guess I don't understand your downgrading of the Connie Willis stories. What you seem to object to, seems to me like small quirks, mostly related to current times, and not at all a problem with her overarchin…”
“A great time-travel book set in the Middle Ages is "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".”
“I hate to be That Pedantic Person, but Network Effect is very much NOT the beginning of the Murderbot books. The previous FOUR books were novellas. This is the first full novel. It very much builds on things that happened in earlier novella…”
“None of Fountains of Paradise takes place in India - it takes place on an island called Taprobane - which is a slightly alternate Sri Lanka. One of the reasons why I disliked Blackout / All Clear - is because of the research errors. Willis…”
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