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Ologies Podcast Suggestions
Ologies is a weekly science podcast hosted by Alie Ward. Each episode, Ward interviews an expert from a distinct scientific field.
This unofficial list contains book suggestions made by the host or by her guests. I avoided extremely technical books or papers. Currently from episode 1 to 525 More details on these books and their associated episodes in my ever evolving spreadsheet.
In the spreadsheet there are also books not found on Goodreads and general book recommendations (like the entire bibliography of a specific author or group of people)
Niche Classics
Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.
This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.
Hugo Award Winners - Best Novel
A list of all the novels which won the Best Novel category of the Hugo Awards. To be nominated for this award a story must be 40,000 words or more and written in or translated to English and it must be either a science fiction or fantasy story. This list should be in descending order (most recent winners first while earlier winners are further down.
Copy, Moon Joy 🌙
On space travel and moon joy. 🌌 A mixture of non-fiction, historical fiction and hard science fiction.
Polyamory across genres
Hello! I love my non-fiction polyamory books but I want to read more fiction books with polyamory rep in it. I've tried to include a variety of genres although it is leaning towards scifi quite heavily.
I haven't read all the books here and am open to books being suggested or removed.
I've tried to keep it to positive rep. I've edited the list to focus on main characters engaging in polyamorous relationships.
Earning Sci-Fi Chops
This is for the classics, the old and new, the lesser known books, the short stories and the translated speculative fiction. Sci-fi could be argued to be one of the best and most expansive genres out there - it’s just a matter of finding the right book for you.
If there is a series, I will only be putting the first book unless they are unrelated.
The Hugo Award for ‘Best Novel’
Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel of science fiction/fantasy
Stars on a Pedestal
The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.
Get In, We're Going to the Moon!
Books set on the moon, heavily involve the moon, or about the moon
Hugo Award - Best Novel Winners
Science Fiction Classics
The original greats of the scifi genre from the 19th through late 20th century, including the big three: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein & Arthur C. Clarkle
Fae & Flame Society: Sentient Objects
For the Fae and Flame Society book club bingo we have a square for books that have sentient objects. This is a list of books that include that!
Anglophone Science Fiction by Decade: The 1960s
Science fiction books in english published between 1960 and 1969 (going by when it was published as a book, generally).
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