It's always a great time to be a fan of science fiction and fantasy literature but this time of year is especially great because it's when the Hugo Awards are announced. We have most of the traditionally published works - it can be hard to find novelettes - so take a look and get reading!
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Network effect
by Martha Wells WINNER - BEST NOVEL When Murderbot’s human associates are captured and need its help, it must choose between inertia and drastic action, in this first, full-length standalone novel about a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction. |
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke Nominee - Best Novel Living in a labyrinthine house of endless corridors, flooded staircases and thousands of statues, Piranesi assists the dreamlike dwelling’s only other resident throughout a mysterious research project before evidence emerges of an astonishing alternate world. 300,000 first printing. |
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The relentless Moon
by Mary Robinette Kowal Nominee - Best Novel When political divides, riots and sabotage compromise the Earth’s response to the Meteor strike, Elma departs for a fledgling Mars colony before the challenges of interplanetary pioneer life are further complicated by her husband’s presidential campaign. |
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The city we became
by N. K. Jemisin Nominee - Best Novel This first book of an exciting new series by a Hugo Award-winning author takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City, where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars. |
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Harrow the ninth
by Tamsyn Muir Nominee - Best Novel A sequel to the best-selling Gideon the Ninth continues the story of Harrowhark Nonagesimus, whose failing health and uncooperative magic are complicated by the schemes of a would-be assassin in the twisted halls of the Emperor. |
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Black sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse Nominee - Best Novel A trilogy debut by the Nebula Award-winning author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse. |
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The empress of salt and fortune
by Nghi Vo WINNER - BEST NOVELLA A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for. |
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Finna
by Nino Cipri Nominee - Best Novella When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store -- but not that one -- slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. |
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Ring shout : or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the end times
by P. Djèlí Clark Nominee - Best Novella A dark-fantasy, historical novella from the award-winning author of The Black God’s Drums follows a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter as they fight a supernatural Ku Klux Klan in Macon, Georgia in the early 20th century. |
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Upright women wanted
by Sarah Gailey Nominee - Best Novella A near-future exploration of queer identity, written in the style of a pulp western, finds a woman stowing away to escape her arranged marriage to a man who was once engaged to the late best friend she secretly loved. |
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Come tumbling down
by Seanan McGuire Nominee - Best Novella After leaving with the murdered body of her deranged sister, Jack discovers that something has gone very wrong upon her return to Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, in the fifth novel of the series following Every Heart a Doorway. |
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Riot baby
by Tochi Onyebuchi Nominee - Best Novella The author of the award-winning young-adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult-science-fiction debut. |
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The Murderbot Diaries
by Martha Wells WINNER - BEST SERIES A team of scientists and their security android, who unbeknownst to the scientists has hacked its own governor module, must investigate a neighboring mission that has gone dark. |
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The Daevabad Triology
by S. A. Chakraborty Nominee - Best Series Nahri, a young con artist, inadvertently summons a mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, revealing the existence of true magic before the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom falls into her hands. |
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The poppy war series
by R. F. Kuang Nominee - Best Series An epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the violent history of China's 20th century, follows the efforts of an unexpected, dark-skinned war orphan to obtain an education at Nikan's most elite military school in spite of prejudice and the challenges of her lethal shaman skills, which raise her awareness about the existence of gods and the imminence of war. |
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The Lady Astronaut Universe
by Mary Robinette Kowal Nominee - Best Series On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition's attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn't take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can't go into space, too. Elma's drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her. |
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The October Daye series
by Seanan McGuire Nominee - Best Series Retreating into the human world after being rejected by her Faerie family, half-fae changeling Toby finds her anonymity compromised by the murder of a high-profile countess who binds her to investigate, a situation that forces Toby to resume her fae position among dubious companions. |
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When humanity discovers the existence of an extra-dimensional field capable of transporting travelers to different worlds instantly, a significantly depopulated Earth is threatened by a subsequent finding that the field is unstable and may be cutting travelers off on the wrong side of Earth-friendly worlds. |
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Beowulf : a new translation
by Maria Dahvana Headley WINNER - BEST RELATED WORK A feminist rendering of the epic poem, written by the best-selling author of Magonia, follows the campaign in verse of a woman who would avenge her murdered son in a violent world of dragons, heroes and injustice. |
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Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Damian Duffy, Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings WINNER - BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC The award-winning team behind the #1 best-seller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation now offer an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower. |
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Ghost-Spider : dog days are over
by Seanan McGuire, Takeshi Miyazawa, Rosi Kampe Nominee - Best Graphic Story or Comic Gwen Stacy, the former Spider-Woman of Earth-65, travels to the Prime Marvel Universe for school, but as she travels between the two universes, she is being stalked by a devious villain. |
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Die 2 : Split the Party by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowles Nominee - Best Graphic Story or Comic No one can escape DIE until everyone agrees to go home. Or rather, no one can escape DIE until everyone who is alive agrees to go home. The second arc of the [...] bleakly romantic fantasy fiction starts to reveal the secrets of the world, and our heroes' pasts. There's always the chance they'll escape DIE. They'll never escape themselves. |
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Once & future : The King is Undead Volume one, The king is undead
by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain, Ed Dukeshire Nominee - Best Graphic Story or Comic When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring King Arthur back from the dead, retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary threat. Now the two must navigate the complicated history of the McGuire family, all while combating the deadly secrets of England's past that threaten its very future. |
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Monstress : Warchild Volume five, Warchild
by Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda Nominee - Best Graphic Story or Comic The long-dreaded war between the Federation and Arcanics is about to explode. Maika must choose her next steps: will she help her friends, or strike out on her own? |
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Edge of everything : Edge of Everything
by G. Willow Wilson, Christian Ward Nominee - Best Graphic Story or Comic The explosive aftermath of their shocking discovery has pushed the now-renegade team of captain Grix and acolyte Vess to the furthest reaches of their solar system. They're all alone... but not for long. And when their crew encounters a group of ruthless spacefaring privateers, they might not be safe for long either. |
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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
by T. Kingfisher WINNER - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries... |
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Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn Nominee - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother’s death. |
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Raybearer
by Jordan Ifueko Nominee - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince. |
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Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger Nominee - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) Imagine an America very similar to our own. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. |
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A deadly education : a novel
by Naomi Novik Nominee - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents. |
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Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas Nominee - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death. |
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Drowned country
by Emily Tesh WINNER - Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines) Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can't ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what he'll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea--a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him. |
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Truth of the divine : a novel
by Lindsay Ellis Nominee - Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines) Caught up in the madness near the alien crash site, reporter Kaveh Mazandarani sees more than he is meant to and forms a special bond with Cora that neither of them could have predicted, launching them into an interstellar battle that will decide the fate of humankind. 200,000 first printing. |
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The vanished birds
by Simon Jimenez Nominee - Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines) A lone space traveler who has outlived everyone she has ever known takes in a mysterious, traumatized boy who falls from the sky and communicates through the haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. |
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The space between worlds
by Micaiah Johnson Nominee - Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines) The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from diseases, from turf wars, from vendettas they couldn't outrun. But on this earth, Cara's survived. And she's reaping the benefits, thanks to the well-heeled Wiley City scientists who ID'd her as an outlier and plucked her from the dirt. Now she's got a new job collecting offworld data, a path to citizenship, and a near-perfect Wiley City accent. Now she can pretend she's always lived in the city she grew up staring at from the outside, even if she feels like a fraud on either side of its walls. But when one of her eight remaining doppelgangers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined-and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse. |
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The unspoken name by A. K. Larkwood Nominee - Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines) Destined to become a sacrifice on behalf of her superstitious people, Csorwe accepts a powerful mage’s alternate offer to become his bodyguard and spy to help him reclaim his power in the land from where he was exiled. |
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The house of always
by Jenn Lyons Nominee - Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines) As the enemies of Kihrin move forward with their plans to free the King of Demons, the Eight Immortals must decide if they can save the world while saving Kihrin, too, or watch him become the very evil they have all been sworn to destroy. |
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WINNER - Best Dramatic Presentation, Longform A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered. Note: This has not been released on DVD but you can borrow our Roku with Netflix to watch it on that streaming service. |
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When a notorious Gotham gangster puts out a hit on a young woman, Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey set out to take down the gangster. |
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Nominee - Best Dramatic Presentation, Longform When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for. Note: This has not been released on DVD but you can borrow our Roku with Netflix to watch it on that streaming service. |
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Palm Springs
Nominee - Best Dramatic Presentation, Longform When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated as they are unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other. |
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Nominee - Best Dramatic Presentation, Longform Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover the answers to the most important questions. |
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Tenet /
Nominee - Best Dramatic Presentation, Longform An unnamed CIA agent embarks on an undercover mission to save the world that unfolds beyond real time. |
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Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler in which you defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash your way out of the Underworld of Greek myth. |
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
Nominee - Best Video Game The game follows a villager customized by the player, who, after purchasing a getaway package from Tom Nook, moves into a deserted island. After Tom Nook gives the player essentials, such as a tent, the game proceeds in a non-linear fashion, allowing for the player to play the game as they choose. |
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Nominee - Best Video Game Final Fantasy VII Remake is a visually enhanced edition of the critically acclaimed and award-winning FINAL FANTASY VII. |
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Nominee - Best Video Game Five years after their dangerous journey across the post-pandemic United States, Ellie and Joel have settled down in Jackson, Wyoming. Living amongst a thriving community of survivors has allowed them peace and stability, despite the constant threat of the infected and other, more desperate survivors. When a violent event disrupts that peace, Ellie embarks on a relentless journey to carry out justice and find closure. As she hunts those responsible one by one, she is confronted with the devastating physical and emotional repercussions of her actions. |