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Welcome to The FFTA Father-Son SFFH Awards — The Sassies: 2025 Edition! 🎉

It’s perhaps the start of an annual tradition, where Jim and Zach team up to celebrate (and sometimes lovingly roast) the very best of our fantasy, science fiction, and horror reading from the past year.

No cash prizes. No trophies.

Just bookish joy, chaotic energy, and two nerds sharing the stories that stuck with us long after we turned the final page.

This year’s Sassies categories include:

🔥 Best Character You Wanted to Punch

🐉 Best Monster Who Deserved a Raise

🤯 Best “Wait… WHAT?!” Plot Twist

🎧 Best Audiobook Narration

💬 Best Quote

📚 The “Couldn’t Put It Down, Forgot to Eat” Award

🕵️ Best Supporting Character Who Stole the Show

💔 The “I Need Therapy Now” Emotional Devastation Award

🌍 Best Worldbuilding Flex

🧪 The “I Can’t Believe That Worked” Genre Mash-Up Award

We’ll each reveal our nominees, debate (over-) passionately, and crown a single winner for each category. Expect laughs, hot takes, questionable choices, and plenty of love for the books we read that made 2025 awesome.

If you enjoy SFFH book talk, father-son banter, or discovering new reads to add to your already-overflowing TBR… this is your episode.

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Want to purchase books/media mentioned in this episode?

Artificial Condition: https://t.ly/qc9Ay

A Breath of Snow and Ashes: https://t.ly/o8IhN

Book of the Ancestor Trilogy: https://t.ly/DL67U

Dungeon Crawler Carl Series: https://t.ly/2lTYR

Ex-Heroes Series: https://t.ly/XuifA

The Girl With All the Gifts: https://t.ly/bb_AD

The Indian Lake Trilogy: https://t.ly/OE8Ck

Lightbringer Series: https://t.ly/NzrYc

The Murderbot Diaries: https://t.ly/xvnyY

The Newsflesh Trilogy: https://t.ly/3at8Z

Pilgrims: https://t.ly/rnlMT

The Realm of the Elderlings: https://t.ly/Jvhui

The Stand: https://t.ly/UG_4m

Swan Song: https://t.ly/i5F6p

This Inevitable Ruin: https://t.ly/_Z_qZ

The Three-Body Problem Trilogy: https://t.ly/vDm19

The Will of the Many: https://t.ly/O3i8i

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0:00 - Opening

1:26 - Episode Explanation

2:03 - Awards Intro & Disclaimer

4:30 - The Award Reveals

48:38 - Conclusion & Wrap-up

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