Best Fantasy and Sci Fi Books? || Hugo Awards Reviews & Recommendations
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2023
- Hey Booktube, I'm on a quest to find a new reading challenge for 2024! Today I'm reviewing the winners and nominees of the Hugo Awards to see if I should take my recommendations there!
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My cat has officially taken up the role of the 'Feline Gargoyle' in our household. Every day, without fail, he climbs to the top of my bookshelf and stares at me with a look that says, 'I've seen things, human. Things you wouldn't believe. And I will fail to use my litter box again and again and...."
Oh god! At least they’ve been good about the litter box… except poor Charlie. I’ve had the clean up a little 💩 stuck to his leg a few times 😆
@@BookswithEmilyFoxI have to keep my long haired cat’s butt “cheek” hair trimmed sometimes due to “will-nots”! 😆
Clawdia the librarian, reporting for reshelving duty 😂♥️
She's busy!!
Really like the idea of the Hugo and Nebula awards. Your kitties are so funny! Love them!
The cat content is always appreciated. I love my cats but they drive me crazy. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Are they really your cats if they don’t?? 😅
You should try out the Locus award too! Has separate awards for sci-fi/fantasy/horror award, also includes an award for debut author, YA etc. One of my faves!
That kitty jump! 😍
She’s good… a little too good lol
Have you considered the Women's Prize for Fiction? Piranesi won that award and some other recent winners include Demon Copperhead, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and Hamnet. It is different from the hugo/nebula awards in that it is definitely more literary that SFF but SFF books do make the cut! It is one of my favourite awards to follow and I feel like the books are (almost) always great!
I love the idea of Nebula/Hugo themed reading vlogs! Mostly because they do usually include some of my favorite books of the year.
I also want to recommend The Blighted Stars by Megan O’Keefe, I definitely think this is a Sci-Fi you would enjoy!
Also I LOVED the world building in Master of Djinn. That was such a fun read!
I suggest you do a choice awards for the decade! For example, you read the nebula nominees/winners from 2010 to 2020 and choose your top picks
My oldest cat used to be just like Clawdia. So we named her Pusifer 😂she is extremely cuddly and chill now though. It gets better! I say that..our 11 year old cat still has insane zoomies where he climbs doorframes while growling.
She's adorable for 40% of the time and really cuddly... then she'll slap me to keep me on my toes XD
@@BookswithEmilyFox like a real child xD
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There is also the Arthur C Clarke Award which is very unique because the nominated/winner authors aren’t always from USA & the sci-fi pros are really creative 😃 Herve Le Tellier, Kazuo Ishiguro and China Mieville were nominees 👽🛸
My cat also catches my shoulder when I pick her up. She always takes out her claws, and I have several shirts with a claw-sized holes in the same spot.
Chunky the Sabertooth kitten!
I love him
I love the Hugos. A ton of these books are on my TBR - Nettle & Bone, A Master of Djinn, Six Wakes, Piranesi, Goblin Emperor, and A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms to name a few. I liked Old Man’s War (Scalzi) - there’s a fun, brain-related piece of technology in that book that I desperately want. (I’ll keep it vague!!) I didn’t like the Kaiju book. I loved how it started but the second half was like watery tea. I liked Parasite by Mira Grant but not nearly as much as her other book, Into the Drowning Deep. Clawdia kills me. I loved that epic leap onto the higher shelf!
Hugo awards does have a lot books I liked. Might look into it more as well. Could be a fun challenge to read all of them and see if I agree with them.
The 2004 winner, Paladin of Souls, is so good. I would recommend it. Also, I haven't read Blackout/All Clear, but I have read other books in the same series (I think every entry in the series won the Hugo in its respective year) and I have enjoyed all that I've read. Fire Watch won the best novelette Hugo and Nebula and is a nice short introduction to the series.
Glad you found the Hugo one successful.
You could also check out the Philip K Dick awards? From memory, they tend to pick not so mainstream books. And of course are only scifi ones.
Absolutely adding Spin to my TBR right now after hearing you describe it. I also need to read Old Man's War.
Maybe you could choose either Nebula or Hugo awards for the sci fi and fantasy lovers and a fiction award category also? Hoping that you continue reading some classics also! 😊
Posting here to let you know that I just read The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. Gave me some I Who Have Never Known Men vibes.
Hugo seems to work the best for me! I am also doing a Hugo challenge!
Love 💕 the cats 😅! Loved this video!
My goal is to create the best sci-fi book of my entire Generation! My Entire series will one day blanket the world! You hear that DEPRESSION! IM GONNA MAKE IT!!!!! The best
I hope you do get to do that :)
@@caitlin6810 I just sent my manuscript in pray for me, but do not forget to check out what I am doing now and our sample.
As a fellow Canadian, you might want to investigate the Aurora Awards.
Project Hail Mary stands solid in my 1st position so far.
I loved Project Hail Mary. It was my favorite book from 2022.
@@cynthiafialka glad to hear, yes seriously the flavour and the richness this book contains is completely unbeatable. Book gives you chance to experience every expected and unexpected feeling exist.
Mind me asking your other favs.?
it's one of my favourites too
@@jaydeepvara217 well The Martian of course. Also, Dark Matter and Recursion by Blake Crouch. Station Eleven, A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World - these are just some I can think of off the top of my head. None of these take place in space like the Andy Weir books.
@@cynthiafialka Thanks! we share the same taste, i guess. 😅
I really like China Mieville he writes very weird books … he won Hugo, Nebula & stuff…
I remember you had one of his books, not sure if you unhauled or if it’s in that jar….
I only have one on my shelf… it’s huge so maybe one day lol
Among Others is a witchy story, you might enjoy it although it's not my favorite I've read from this author. She has one with the one life - two timelines trope (My Real Children) that I always think about whenever you talk about loving those kind of book. I've also read a standalone cozy fantasy by her which is pretty awesome too (Lifelode). I've heard good things about her series, but her books are so hard to find.
I may have missed it, what's wrong with Chunky? He's so cute! I got a 6 month old kitten and he is huge, I think he must be at least 7 months. He's pretty much bouncing off the walls like Claudia.
I miss seeing mama cat! She started it all & now I never see her. 🥺
She can’t be anywhere near the babies so it’s been hard. We have a schedule and I’m usually not filming when she’s walking around. Ill try to show her in a future video
Have you ever looked at the book club selections by Jenna Bush? (Read with Jenna) Or all the sub-categories for the Edgar Awards for mysteries? Or Pen awards (Canada for instance)? Have any of their winners appealed to you. Another booktuber suggested analyzing what books we liked as children, write the top 10 down, write out what that was which drew us to them. It helped me to stop buying books that would never appeal to me. And I would only buy paperback books to see if I agreed with the person or organization that recommended those books. This way I could see if I could trust those recommendations. Also, do you have book recommendations that you wish your subscribers would read about Canada?
The Edgar Awards are for mysteries!
Alex awards are usually pretty good. Written for adults but also can be good for YA
I get it why you didn't continue with the Expanse but I'm so sad though. It's my favorite scifi series of all time. I've read it all last summer. And it's amazing. I think you'd love Holden, his character arc is soooo good. The detective - he's built to be noir, it's outdated yes, but ... I mean, I still liked it, but I can see how not everyone would. However the rest of the characters are super awesome. ;/
I have bought spin based on your recommendation but did not started it yet!
For me hugo books have always been good!
You’re the only person I’ve seen who doesn’t like middlegame. I’ve never read it so I don’t have my own opinion but it’s just funny to me how your opinion is so unique 😂
Middle Game is a dumpster fire. The twins are named Roger and Doger, they're dangerous science experiments or school children. Who knows.
Have you ever read Roadside picknick from the strugackij brothers ? If not put all other books aside and grap that one first 🤗
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The story Annihilation was based on. Very good!
The Strugazkis like misogyny and domestic violence too much for my liking. I stopped reading them.
🦇 Chunky!!
He looks more like a seal tbh 😆
I’ve had the spare man on my TBR forever
Don't forget about the Locus and World Fantasy Awards.
That 'no award' year was when a reactionary group called the 'sad puppies' worked with a right wing website to nominate a slate of works on the ballot because they were unhappy with the trend of work being nominated/awarded by Hugo voters which they considered too focused on progressive issues and/or too literary. (Not all the authors in the slate were aware they were being lumped in with the group, and several of them don't suck as humans afaict.) The actual Hugo voters responded by selecting 'no award' as preferable to anything on the slate (novel list gets the most nominations, and thus is hardest to game, 3 of the 5 nominees were 'legit' and you might consider skipping the other two within your challenge) . And then the Hugo rules were changed in subsequent years to make it somewhat more challenging for one group to game the system like that.
I do find the Nebula award (voted by authors) and the Hugo award (voted by sf convention fans/goers) to have interesting overlaps and disagreements on what is best. In both cases, there are personality things happening (e.g. imo Mira Grant getting the nomination for Parasite because she didn't win for Feed) and timeline things happening (Song for a New Day is very much a 2020 book, impressive partially because it was obviously written before then). And of course some authors being nominated/winning for the awareness of their body of work rather than that particular piece (e.g. the later Willis novels imo).
That was rough to read :/ I'll make sure to google them if I read any for that year!
Off topic but do you think any of the cats will tolerate wearing any of the cat costumes you have since Snowglobe Emily isn't using them?
Im hoping they will 🤞🤞
Hugo awards look like a great selection of books
The cats are cute
How is mama cat doing? I hope everything gets sorted out soon ❤
She’s good (I just posted her on my IG stories) but she hates her babies so much more than before :(
Oh no 😢 I hope everything gets better Emily!! Fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Im reframing I don't read a lot of novels in my mind tooo " I'm looking forward to reading acclaimed sfi fntsy novellas"
every time my book club picks a book that's Reese Witherspoon. I groan in pain. I have hated all but one of her pics that we have read so far I just stay away at this point.
Emily, I love your content, so much, but at this point, we all know Claudia is the star of the show
❤️📚 🐱
I have to say, I don’t like the repetition of the nominees… like they gave the first book of a series an award and then went in and nominated every other one published (or directly gave the award to every sequel)… I wish they would’ve tried to consider other authors too
There was a while there 10 (15?) years ago that everyone raved about Neil Stephenson so I picked up one of his books, Cryptonomicon, and it was sexist, toxic trash. Would not recommend his writing at all. I love the idea of a Hugo/Nebula challenge though!
Actually read Seveneves this year. I was highly influenced by the fact that it was one of Obama's book lists. Would not recommend - great premise, but so tedious
It always stings a little to hear you talk about Chunky... Calling him Chunky because he was a fat/big baby hurts my fat girl feelings XD lmao
Okay so my brother JUST finished fifth season last night and he's chomping at the bit to get me to read it so we can talk about it. But I was kind of put off by the second person narration. Does it continue like that the whole way through? I'm sure I can get over it. But I need warning! haha The amount of hype these books get makes it impossible for me to resist. I also watched N. K. Jemisin's masterclass and she's so fricken smart.
It’s is official name now! It’s not negative at all, he’s the best to cuddle with, a soft marshmallow 🥰
One POV does use the second person the whole time (ish?) it all makes sense at one point! Worth it!
This is short story erasure, how am I going to get you to finally read The Paper Menagerie if you don't look at that category ;__; lol
Hahaha it’s on my shelf so it will happen one day
Emily I am so sorry but I only come to watch your videos with your beautiful and wonderful kitties 🐈⬛ in them and not you lol 😂 my wallet is not happy with you and is crying 😭 prayers and blessings for you and your kitties 🐈⬛ love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤