Ranking the 2026 Hugo nominees plus the other best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the year! — Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

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We rank all the Hugo nominees, plus tell you about seven more amazing books that deserve to be in contention for the best speculative fiction novels of the year.

No spoilers at all in this episode.

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If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for the episode:

00:00 Intro
01:03 6 The Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
02:37 5 The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
05:20 4 The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
07:30 3 Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
14:40 2 A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
16:56 1 The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
19:05 Thank you for 100 episodes!
20:11 The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
23:05 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
24:37 Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
25:21 Slow Gods by Claire North
29:02 The Goodreads miss list
30:44 The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
33:32 There is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM