Recs if you like Downbelow Station...

books featuring older women protagonists, age 30 and up, in sci-fi and fantasy. for books containing multiple povs/protagonists, older fmcs should hold equal weight and presence in the story as other mcs. ideally, aiming for more women centred additions, but open to all suggestions and feedback!

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.

Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel of science fiction/fantasy

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.

Novels written by women/nonbinary folks that won a Hugo or Nebula award for best novel.

Some fun facts:

• Lois McMaster Bujold has 5 Hugo/Nebula best novel awards, the most all-time
• Women have authored over 70% of the winning novels since 2015
• 9 women have won both awards and 2 of them (Ursula K. Le Guin and Connie Willis) won both awards twice

Women (or nonbinary) winners of Hugo for best novel

A list of books selected for the Sword and Laser Podcast

The full title is the List of Indispensable Science Fiction for the Compleat Gentleman.... this is a list I found online in 2020 which I did not finish after having a bad time with H.G. Wells, but I'm ready to dip my toe back in. If anyome else wouod like to be a compleat gentleman (gender neutral) with me, come along :)