
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
4.7from 163 ratings
- 102
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 163
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Explore the best of sci-fi with Brent and Cody. Each episode dives into a single book or series in the sci-fi cannon. Author interviews, reviews and analysis, and related book recommendations. Happy reading y'all!
- Publisher
- Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Oct 2021
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
11 of 102 episodes have a transcript.

29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ranking the Sci-Fi greats - Books that won both the Hugo & Nebula

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Flowers for Algernon - An incredible, timeless classic!

18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ranking the 2026 Hugo nominees plus the other best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the year!
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Ranking the Sci-Fi greats - Books that won both the Hugo & Nebula
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, it's about a mentally disabled man who volunteers to participate in an experiment to do this procedure and radically increase his intelligence. And it's all told through these journals that he has to take as part of the experiment. Yeah. and uh yeah it's just got a really incredible voice the change is very profound the things he is concerned with change it's sort of like a coming of age story even though he's an adult the whole time um yeah next time i mean so anyway we literally just talked about this in our last episode um and it's definitely the most lit fictiony of of these maybe other than among others but Anyway, next time, I've read the novel three times and I've read the short story. […]
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