Whether you like ripping page turners, incredible characters, books that make you laugh out loud, exploring unforgettable new worlds, or literary books that will make you see the world in a new way, there's a great intro to scifi out there for everyone!

Join the Hugonauts book club on discord to tell us about your favorite time travel books
Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer video

If you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for all the books we talked about:

00:00 Intro
00:38 Incredible Characters - Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
3:07 A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
4:04 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
4:52 Unforgettable Worlds - The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
6:58 Hyperion by Dan Simmons
8:24 House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
9:20 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
10:56 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
12:22 Funny SF - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
13:36 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
14:50 Old Man's War by John Scalzi
16:01 Page turners - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
17:43 Dark Matter or Recursion by Blake Crouch
18:52 All Systems Red by Martha Wells
20:01 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
21:35 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
22:34 Literary SciFi - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
24:55 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
26:26 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
27:49 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
28:40 Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

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