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Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — 95 episodes
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!
Ranking the best sci-fi books of 2021! Who are the frontrunners to win the Hugo award?
House of Suns - An epic space opera with solid science!
The Machine Stops - A dystopian short story that feels almost too real! (analysis episode)
The Machine Stops - Complete Short Story Audiobook with Full Cast!
Interview with David Brin - Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Startide Rising and the Postman!
Foundation - The rise and fall of a galactic empire!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The funniest thing to ever happen to sci fi!
Station Eleven - A character-driven post-apocalyptic survival story!
The Three Body Problem - some of the biggest ideas in sci fi!
Ted Chiang's short stories - Like the optimistic version of black mirror episodes!
Ender's Game - The page turner where empathy is a superpower!
An interview with Joe Haldeman, author of The Forever War!
Children of Time - A book so good it makes you root for the giant spiders!
The Mars Trilogy - colonizing and terraforming Mars!
Rendezvous with Rama - What if an alien ship flew into the solar system?
The City and the City - A Mystery in a Mystery!
The Left Hand of Darkness - an incredible book that shattered the glass ceiling in sci fi
A Fire Upon the Deep - Aliens and AI and Internet Trolls, oh my!
Hyperion - A space epic with a classic literary twist
The Vorkosigan Saga: what INCREDIBLE main characters!
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Who knew the nuclear apocalypse could be so funny?
Dune: Do you like sand?