/lit/ - Literature

>>18586037
I find most Hugo books to be decent, although the last I really loved was Red Shirts.

It doesn't have the absolute best stuff IMO though. Alistair Reynolds is really great and was never nominated I believe, but I think his books will hang around for awhile.

I guess the Darkness That Comes Before is only sci-fi in its very peripheral elements but that's been the best genre fiction I've read and it didn't get nominated for much.

I'm surprised pic related isn't more popular. Kind of a better Hunger Games/Ender's Game type academy/arena story that expands after the first volume into a highly entertaining Game of Thrones like sci-fi world building series, but also has the pacing of a thriller.

Definitely not great literature, but honestly the most entertaining story I've read in years (more than Bakker's second series, which drags a bit, or Game of Thrones, which has shitty Bran chapters and drags in the later books at points).

I guess Brown has the problem of dealing with the fact that it was originally edited down for a YA audience and he had a kind of goofy premise. However, you get over the goofey premise and start to enjoy the action pretty quickly, sort of like how Old Man's War is humorous in the first volume, and gets serious in the second.

Also like the Bobiverse books. Pretty goofy, non-literary sci-fi. Reminds me a lot of Star Trek TNG since it is all discovery, problem solving, and relationships, not so much action.

The premise for these is dumb, and yet the plot twists and cool shit makes it the most enjoyable sci-fi I've read in awhile.