Side Tripping through the 21st Century

 Side tripping through the 21st Century

With the 


Hugo Awards Nominees

2020

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

2019

Spinning Silver by  Naomi Novik 

Record of a Spaceborn Few by  Becky Chambers 

Trail of Lightning by  Rebecca Roanhorse 

Revenant Gun by  Yoon Ha Lee 

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

2018

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi 

Provenance by  Ann Leckie

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty 

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee 

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson 

2017

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders 

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee 

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers 

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer 

Death’s End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu 

2016 

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher 

2015

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Ancillary Sword by  Ann Leckie

Skin Game by Jim Butcher

The Dark Between the Stars by  Kevin J. Anderson 

2014 

Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross

Parasite by Mira Grant

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia

2013 

Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed 

Blackout by Mira Grant

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

2012

Embassytown by China Miéville 

Leviathan Wakes by  James S. A. Corey 

Deadline by Mira Grant 

A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin 

2011

Feed by Mira Grant 

Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

The Dervish House by  Ian McDonald

 

2010

Boneshaker by  Cherie Priest 

Wake by  Robert J. Sawyer

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson 

Palimpsest by  Catherynne M. Valente

2009

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross

Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi

2008

The Last Colony by John Scalzi

Halting State by Charles Stross

Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

2007

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn

Blindsight by Peter Watts

2006

Learning the World by Ken MacLeod

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Accelerando by Charles Stross

2005

River of Gods by Ian McDonald

The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks

Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross

Iron Council by China Miéville

2004

Ilium by Dan Simmons

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson

Humans by Robert J. Sawyer

2003

Kiln People (alt: Kil’n People) by David Brin

Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick

The Scar by China Miéville

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

2002

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Passage by Connie Willis

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson

Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod

2001

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer

The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

2000

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling