10 of My Favorite Short Sci-fi & Fantasy Books! (Standalone or First Book of a Series)
572Hi everyone! The fantasy and sci-fi genres are often intimidating because of how big the books in the genre are. And sometimes, shorter books are unsatisfying or immediately deemed inferior. But that is not a universal truth. There are many incredible shorter books in SFF. Today's video will be a short SFF books recommendation video. Let me know what's your favorite short SFF books! They can either be novels or novellas! Also, there are three rules applied to this list:
Rules:
1. Only the first book of a series or standalone.
2. Each book mentioned will be under 400 pages or 140,000 words.
3. All of them are on my list of favorite books. The list is unranked.
I first saw this type of video recommendation on @ebnovels channel, and I highly recommend you to check out her channel and video if you haven't: https://youtu.be/z6pu-Bm33Do
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Rules
2:45 The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu: https://gizmodo.com/read-ken-lius-amazing-story-that-swept-the-hugo-nebula-5958919
3:32 Recursion by Blake Crouch
4:45 The Martian by Andy Weir
5:50 Red Rising by Pierce Brown
7:32 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
8:21 The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee
9:40 Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
10:48 Never Die by Rob J. Hayes
12:01 The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
13:25 Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
15:28 The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
16:49 Closing
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Glaurung by Markus Erdt (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/vrbLA)
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