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Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer

Explore the best of sci-fi with Brent and Cody. Each episode dives into a single book or series in the sci-fi cannon. Author interviews, reviews and analysis, and related book recommendations. Happy reading y'all!

Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Flowers for Algernon - An incredible, timeless classic!

Ranking the 2026 Hugo nominees plus the other best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the year!

Accelerando absolutely blew our minds with its crazy, realistic science ideas!

The Best Military Sci-Fi Books of All Time - with a legend of SF!

Horror & Fantasy we actually loved - 2026 Nebula books!

The Best of Sci-Fi and Fantasy - YA Books so Good we Loved them as Adults

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie - Monsters, the Pope, and a hell of a lot of good jokes!

There Is No Antimemetics Division - This Book Erases Itself From Your Mind

Project Hail Mary - Book vs Movie (plus other sci-fi book to movie recommendations)

The Dark Tower: Unraveling Stephen King's Mid-World

PAGE TURNERS: 15 binge-worthy Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books!

The Best Space Operas Ever Written - the biggest stories and the best characters!

Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age - Nanotech, Atom-scale 3D Printers, and a subversive Primer!

The Myths that Inspired Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Best Starter Science Fiction Books

Cloud Atlas - A genre-bending book we can't stop thinking about!

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe - Full Audiobook

The Best Time Travel Books... of all time

I Who Have Never Known Men - Review and Analysis

Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett - Author of The Tainted Cup!

The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks - would utopia make you happy?

Ranking the 2025 Hugo nominees plus 4 more of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of the year!

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

The 10 Best Fantasy Books and Series of all time!

Redshirts by John Scalzi - funny, rule-breaking scifi!

The God's Themselves - Asimov answering the biggest question in the universe!

Altered Carbon - Wild tech, visceral action, and an unhinged plot!

Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton - An Incredible Space Opera!

Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

The 14 Best First Contact Books

Ministry for the Future - Heatwaves, Super-Storms, and Cutting-Edge Climate Tech!

A Clockwork Orange - the classic dystopia of crime and punishment!

Neuromancer by William Gibson - an unforgettable world of sleek techno-criminals, AI, and body mods!

The Silo Series by Hugh Howey - Wool, Shift, and Dust

The Best Dystopian Books of All Time

The Mercy of Gods - Reviewing James S. A. Corey's new book

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - A doomed mission to an alien planet!

Starship Troopers: the deeply Philosophical classic of Military Sci-Fi!

12 Books - the best of last year! Ranking the Hugos plus Six More

7 Amazing, Short Sci-Fi Books for when you need a quick read!

Embassytown - Aliens who are truly alien and a wild, techno-organic world!

Your top 20 sci-fi books - listener survey results!

2024 Nebula nominees - 3 great books on this short list!

Metro 2033 - The book that inspired the hugely popular video games!

The Martian - Poop, Taters, and Tenacity

Roadside Picnic - the book that inspired Stalker and Metro 2033!

The Expanse - Full series review!

We - The book banned by the Soviets that inspired 1984!

Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick - complete short story audiobook!

The Mountain in the Sea - Octopuses, AI, and the struggle to communicate!

The Top 15 Sci-Fi Books of All Time!

Permutation City - A mind-bending look at the singularity, consciousness, and immortality!

Interview with Peter Watts - Author of Blindsight!

Spin - A first contact book that starts with a bang (and the stars going out)!

1984 - The techno-surveillance dystopia that keeps coming true!

2023 Hugo Nominees - plus 3 great SF books that should have made the list!

The Dispossessed - Anarchy, capitalism, and fighting for freedom across two planets!

The Road - the best post-apocalyptic book ever written?!

Solaris - An intensely creative, mind-blowing first contact book!

The Expanse - Books 1 thru 3 - the biggest space opera of the modern era!

Fahrenheit 451 - book propaganda or flamethrower celebration?

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick's best book?

Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2022: Part 1 - The Nebula Nominees

Brave New World - Sex, Drugs, and Dystopia

Providence by Max Barry - an AI battleship, a hapless crew, and black-hole spewing aliens!

Interview with Becky Chambers - author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet!

Contact by Carl Sagan - a scientifically grounded and totally ground-breaking first-contact story!

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - The wildly entertaining book that invented the Metaverse!

The Andromeda Strain - A scientific thriller about an alien virus!

The Handmaid's Tale - A chilling, theocratic dystopian classic!

Dark Matter - A sci-fi thriller that is way too fun to put down!

Double Star - A hilarious, lighthearted book that is a perfect introduction to Robert Heinlein!

Parable of the Sower - A very real dystopia that helped launch Afrofuturism!

Behind the scenes with Seth Fishman - agent for Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie & more!

Blindsight - A haunting, mindblowing first contact book!

Interview with Ken Liu - author of the Paper Menagerie!

Author interviews from the Hugo Awards - Seanan McGuire, Ryka Aoki, and Joe Haldeman!

The Windup Girl - A gene-hacking dystopia full of anti-heroes!

Ancillary Justice – A unique take on AI and a sprawling, complex galactic empire!