Top 10 Sci-Fi Books That Won The Hugo Award

Today, we're exploring the pinnacle of sci-fi literature, counting down the Top 10 Sci-Fi Books that have won the Hugo Award.

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - 10: Neuromancer
2:22 - 9: The Man in the High Castle
4:03 - 8: Rendezvous with Rama
5:35 - 7: Stranger in a Strange Land
7:17 - 6: The Forever War
9:06 - 5: The Left Hand of Darkness
10:38 - 4:Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
12:29 - 3: A Fire Upon the Deep
14:12 - 2: Dune
16:05 - 1: Hyperion
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DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.

When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.

She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.

But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.

BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.

Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.

Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:

Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...

The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…

Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...

Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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[gaaadzella]

Dune won the Hugo In the 60s. Not 1996

[QuinnsIdeas]

All of these books deserved the award!

[VangelVe]

Nice job. I love Hyperion and most of the books that you mentioned. But I also love Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz and would put it ahead of some of the novels that you mentioned. I go back to it repeatedly and always find something new that makes me think about Miller's relationship with his conscience and religion. The book is brilliant, even though there are bits that bug me a little.

[MaIIek]

No one ever mentions or talks about the 1984 winner Startide Rising or the entire Uplift series. The book and series which brought me into high Sci-fi.

[clancykelly]

Leaving off Foundation is an inscrutable decision, but your method of delivery is perfect - no music in an attempt to sound more important, a vocabulary not dumbed or slowed down, and exquisitely edited summaries of each novel's plot.

So very well done!

(One thing: I think Vinge is pronounced "vin jee.")

[douglasdea]

Read 7 of these so I guess I'm doing alright.
I would cut a couple of these to make room for two of my all-time favorites: Gateway (1978) and Startide Rising (1984.)

[winsomehax]

Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep is an amazing book - so are its sequels. As a retired computer science professor, his ideas are astonishingly forward thinking. All of Vinge's writing is brilliantly thought out.

It's a real shame he doesn't write more often.

[alanwatts]

I am so impressed that you went more than 10 years back to find these truly seminal books. Too many of these top 10 lists only include material from the last 10 years as if material older than the author's adolescence never existed.

[ubxs]

Fun video. I’ve read these all. I don’t care for Speaker or Stranger, and I would move Hyperion lower on the list because of the way it ends and the sequel is so bad, but that’s just personal preference. Keep up the great work, thanks!

[fishdrew]

GREAT list! Can't believe I haven't ever read Rendezvous with Rama! Ever since reading Hyperion I've had trouble getting into any Sci-Fi: it's just so well-written!

[lorensims]

I read all of these when I was in high school, except for Neuromancer, A Fire Upon the Deep, and Hyperion which came later. I was also reading an awful lot of Asimov, Heinlein, and Vonnegut at the time.
Stranger and Dune have always been very special to me and I have reread them several times, finding something new every time.

[tobytanzer]

A Canticle for Leibowitz and Stand on Zanzibar deserve honourable mentions, at least.

[kevinobrien]

Forever War is one book that I really think deserves a film version. Sad that various productions have crashed and burned in preproduction.

[PeBoVision]

After years of watching your contributions, I have concluded that you really Grok it!

I am of the perfect age (child of the mid 50's) to have collected the annual Hugo Winner compilations in their golden era (throughout my youth and young adulthood).

I don't think I've ever watched a mutiple book review where I had indeed read every entry until the 12 minute mark (I will be looking for Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" as soon as I have finished posting this comment. (Thank You!!)

Kudos on the economy demonstrated in reviewing 10 books in under 20 minutes, and still presenting a detailed summation of the stories. It was a masterclass in conciseness.

Despite the mysogyny inherent in novels of the 50's and 60's, Stranger in a Strange Land remains the book that most influenced my world view as I grew into the cantekerous old fart I have now become. I had hoped that I would see a cinematic, or television serialized adaptation before my final departure, but having seen how they destroyed my long time favourites (Foundation, I Robot, The Martian Chronicles, Brave New World (dear lord that was awful), and so many more), perhaps the fact that no one has had the vision to adapt it is a blessing.

Sci-Fi Odyssey is up to the task of bringing the best of the genre to the coming generation much more effectively than Hollywood anyway..

[PoorPersonsBookReviewer]

You did the right thing by adding speaker of the dead, great video

[andrepiotrowski]

In 1993, the Hugo was split between Vernor Vinge’s »A Fire Upon the Deep« and Connie Willis’s »Doomsday Book«. Both books deserved the price (although the latter is not Hard SF).

[danroosh]

Rendezvous With Rama pulled me into science fiction when I read it years ago. The overwhelming mystery and how existentially small it made me feel blew my mind. Surprised I've read all of these but necromancer!

[jaimecastells]

Interesting list, mate. Dune is my favorite. My list would have included Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh.

[zenrand]

I read Stranger in a Strange Land in high school. One of the first sci-fi novels I remember reading an I t hooked me on the genre to this day - read and loved all of Heinlein’s books. Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels were also a fantastic read - highly recommended.

[juanesg.cardona]

Great video. Really enjoyed it all. Thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing similar videos to this.