Favorite Books | Reading Hugo & Nebula Winners
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THINGS MENTIONED
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
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Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
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Wrap-Up: • Reading Hugo & Nebula ...
Dune by Frank Herbert
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Thoughts on Dune: • Thoughts on Dune by Fr...
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
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Review: • Babel-17 by Samuel R. ...
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
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Review: • This Immortal by Roger...
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Review: • The Left Hand of Darkn...
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
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... Green Mars: / green-mars
... Blue Mars: / blue-mars
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Starting the Vorkosigan Saga: • Starting the Vorkosiga...
I recommend starting with:
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... Barrayar: / barrayar
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The others from the Vorkosigan Saga I mention are:
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Slow River by Nicola Griffith
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Review: • Slow River by Nicola G...
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
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Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Annals of the Western Shore Review: • Gifts, Voices, & Power...
Among Others by Jo Walton
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
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Just found your channel, I love your insights. You really know your stuff.
Just now getting around to rewatching and adding these all to my monstrous TBR. LOL!
I read the Curse Of Chalion and Paladin Of Souls back-to-back, and while I really enjoyed the first one, the second one blew me away. I related to the MC so much, this 40 year old woman desperate to break out of her confining life and roles. It was phenomenal. I'm not surprised it won a prestigious award. I should reread it!
Fabulous! I have a couple books already on my TBR list, but I am most excited about trying the early decades. Thank you so much for this video!
I really hope the list is helpful - and you like some of the older ones!
Yayyyyy! This is like Hugo award crib notes. You've done all the hard work so we can all benefit from the excellent books. And The Demolished Man was so damn good. Made me think all Hugo books would be as interesting. It was not to be however. As you well know.
So glad I discovered The Demolished Man! I really hope the list will be helpful to others - and there are so many others I had to leave out!
Brilliant review great content and presentation really good
I really enjoyed this video! I had always assumed that every Hugo and Nebula award winning novel would be worth reading or else they wouldn’t have won such prestigious awards. I have struggled reading some or just haven’t finished them and wondered how some of these books even won the award, but then I considered that in many cases it simply was just a bad year for science fiction, but they still had to pick the best of the lot. The reverse could could be true that many great novels lost due to the fact that it had really tough competition for that year. Anyway, just some food for thought. My favorite science fiction novel so far is Dune and favorite series are Asimov’s Foundation novels. (I know you don’t like Foundation, but that’s okay! 😉).
This is just full of books that I really like or greatly want to read. Vorkosigan Saga I'll be starting in February, finally.
Big thumbs up!
Great wrap up, I've been waiting for this! I think Hyperion and Dune are the highest on my list, I've heard amazing things about both although Dune intimidates the heck out of me lol.
Hyperion, yesss! I think it's more complicated than Dune but more rewarding. Strangely, they both have some mysticism.
A book I really love by Connie Willis is The Bellwether. It is a fairly short novel with a lot going on. It reminds me of some of the novels from the 50s & 60s for how much story there is for book only 200-300 pages long.
What a project!!! I'm so impressed. I've probably read few Nebula or Hugo winners, as I've never deliberately sought them out. But the ones I know of and LOVED are Dune, Enders Game & Speaker for the Dead, Hyperion (although I was really lost in the final 2 books, they didn't click for me), and The Snow Queen/Summer Queen by Joan D Vinge. This past year I began the Broken Earth trilogy and just Wow.
I just checked on Goodreads and see you read The Snow Queen but not it's sequels. I respect both of them but the Summer Queen is just spectacular. The in-between novella World'sEnd was also fascinating. It's takes the the whole world, the stakes, the consequences to such a new level, and the payoff is incredible. 25 years after my first read and I still think about these books. I hope you are afforded the opportunity to read the sequels some day!
I still hope to get to The Summer Queen eventually! I've been on the lookout for the new edition of it.
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YAY!! I'm so glad to hear that! Is they're any particular reason you're looking for a new edition, like new content perhaps? Or is it just for the scrumptious cover art? I was gifted a signed print of the Summer Queen cover. Yes, it is one of my save-from-a-housefire treasures. :D :D
For the cover art! I really want the matching editions with the lovely cover art. I keep running into the The Snow Queen at bookstores, but not the second :-)
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Wait a minute... Is it possible to get the Whelan cover for the Snow Queen in hardback??? I've been looking for YEARS! I couldn't even find any evidence that there was a new printing in the era where the Summer Queen was published. Omigosh, maybe I've been going about it all wrong.
Just found your channel, this project -- was scared that Downbelow Station was going to show up in the DNF video; awesome that it shows up here! I haven't gotten super deep into the genre despite being a long time admirer, but DS seems to succeed at -- is the epitome of -- something that it's super rare (in my experience) for a book to succeed at, which is privileging situation over character. This should be a thing that SF shines at, but so many books seem duty-bound to show development, psychological depth, etc. And if that's not what's cool about your book, it's just not. DS is committed to presenting an absolutely fascinating unfolding situation that has lots of different facets and takes place over a fairly limited time span, and it's willing to let pretty much all the characters have to remain sketches in service of that situation. Which gives it a really different feel as a book, one which I don't think can be chalked up to its "dry" tone. Really interested to check out Rendezvous with Rama based on this recommendation.
My favorite three sci-fi series are all mentioned! Vorkosigan, Ender and Hyperion are fantastic.
I can’t wait to get to all these books!
Excellent recommendations!
I adored Leckie's Radch books and have been looking for another great space opera series. Any suggestions?
I'm happy to say I've read almost everything you recommended here :) I think I'm only missing 5 of the books you talked about and 4 of them are already on my TBR. I was also surprised at how readable The Demolished Man was. It's probably my go-to rec for people who want to read "the classics of science fiction" because a lot of other books haven't aged nearly as well.
I figured you would have read most of these! :-D I have the same feeling about The Demolished Man. I was so impressed that it had an unlikable character I still enjoyed reading about.
Amazing video. Don't know if you will read this. I've been watching your videos on and off for years. Anyway, our tastes are very similar. I'm in my 70's.
Here is my recommendation to you: Macroscope, by Piers Anthony. This is hard sci fi with heart. Written in the 60's, it predicts the internet, albeit on a galactic scale, and explores things rarely attempted in any book. And it is very accessible. Later, Anthony segued into fantasy, a field he is best know for.
Have you read “The day of the triffids” (John Wyndham, 1951) or “Hothouse” (Brian W. Aldiss, 1962)? (I prefer the first one). I ask this because when I search information about “Aniquilation” (Basically I have read the synopsis) I think about the two books I mentioned before.
A strange or stupid question, why your average rating from fantasy novels is higher because many of them wrote by women?
why would it be strange or stupid question?
Writing down so many books to read!
Fabulous,I have the complete collection from Demolished Man to date....
Yes! "Demolished man"! "Hyperion"! Nice! And … ("Slow river"? checked it out on Goodreads) ... this is fun to watch!
Yes, this is so great and useful! And you know I love Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell! I'll definitely choose from these when I want to check out an SF classic. Might even try The Demolished Man even though I disliked that other book of his.
I was thinking of you when mentioning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell! I know how much you love it :-) Having read Stars My Destination now, I think The Demolish Man's protagonist isn't nearly as terrible as Gully Foyle, if that helps.
Among Others by Jo Walton is the first book I read by her. It namedrops so many books and authors I read in the period covered by the book. I've read more by her since, Jo Walton usually knocks it out of the park whether it is fiction or non-fiction. I really love What Makes This Book So Great.
What about Ringworld!?
thank you for this video !:)
Great choices! After reading Aurora I'm a bit ambivalent about KSR. Does the Mars trilogy have scenes set on a beach?
There are some beaches, but KSR pretty much does that same thing at the end of Aurora with parts of Martian scenery, lol. I had a lot of problems with Aurora that I did not have with the Mars trilogy.
Thanks for this vedio. What is your take on “A canticle for Leibowitz” , “Sirens of Titan” , “To live again” . I thought these books are great.
Then why is everyone pretty much certain that this is nothing but liberal bias? I haven't read any of these books, mostly because of the rotten image Hugo awards now have, but are they as nasty and SJW influenced as people say. And if you have a problem with the generalization, Im sure you know where you should go.
No NK Jemisin or Octavia Butler?!?!? Octavia is my absolute fave. Though I also love Lois McMaster Bujold.
I really dislike almost everything I've read by Heinlein, but maybe I'll check out Double Star. I've been avoiding Rendezvous with Rama because of that very reason. :/ lol "huh Cherryh" One day I'll read something by her maybe. I haven't read either Slow River or To Say Nothing of the Dog, but I really want to read both. So much to read... it's kind of nice to be able to structure your options this way. :D
I would totally recommend Double Star. It still has some politics / dated stuff in it, but the only story so far by him that I've been able to turn off that part of my brain and just enjoy the caper.
I'd like to recomend you a book that hasn't won this awards but it's worth reading, it's called Axiomatic by Greg Egan, if you loved Story of your life and other stories by Ted Chiang you are gonna love this one. It's a book of short stories of speculative scifi, with topics such as the nature of consciousness, genetics, mind uploading, quantum ontology, etc. My favourite stories were Learning to be me and Axiomatic. I hope you have the chance yo read it. I love your channel. Love from Argentina!!!
That sounds really interesting! I will definitely look up Axiomatic. Greg Egan is a big name I haven't read before.
Kalanadi Fantastic! I hope you like it when you read it and I look forward you talk about it on the channel. 😊
Have you heard about the new series in the Radch universe?
Musicbookoholic Yes!! I am so excited. I got to hear chapter 1 read by Leckie at Worldcon.
I have been a prolific reader all my life. Still am.... Now that being said, would you come and read to me? Perhaps, "The Left hand of Darkness"? I never got to that one. But I'm sure we could discuss her works afterwards? Or Jonathan Strange? Surprise me? 📚😀💕
I'm sorry for being juvenile, but when you hold up your copy of Hyperion the book cover looks like a bum.
I have always, always wondered how they got away with that Hyperion (and Fall of Hyperion) cover, because yes, it is a butt. And you can never unsee it.
I tried to read Dune in high school and just couldn't get through it... maybe I'll try again some day.
I think I first read Dune when I was 17? I had read some other SF before then and I feel that prepared me!
Among the Others by Jo Walton is the worst Hugo and/or Nebula winner I've read. That book was so boring that I could barely finish it. Mentioning a lot of classics of sci-fi and fantasy doesn't make it a good book, definitely not an award winning one.
I've read 16 books and I got 2 on my to read books.
You're a cutie! You've got good taste in literature, too. 😉
why do so many of these books have TERRIBLE artwork :(