Tag: Hugo Award
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SF Classics – The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion (1997) by Dan Simmons is the fourth and latest instalment of the Hyperion Cantos, and set in the same fictional…
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SF Classics – The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
The Time Ships (1995) is Stephen Baxter’s first SF novel. Its particularity lies in the fact that it is an (authorised) sequel to The…
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SF Classics – The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
The Fountains of Paradise (1979) is SF novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It discusses for the first time the possibility of space elevators linking…
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Doomsday Book (1992) by Connie Willis is a science fiction novel. It portraits time travel to medieval history, in a back-and-forth within the city of…
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SF Classics – Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) by William Gibson is a SF novel and the final instalment of the Sprawl trilogy, after Neuromancer and Count Zero,…
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SF Classics – Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead (1986) by Orson Scott Card, is a SF novel and the sequel of Ender’s Game, even though the events take…
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SF Classics – The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is an utopian SF novel. It belongs to the same fictional universe of the Left Hand of…
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SF Classics – Blood Music by Greg Bear
Blood Music (1985) by Greg Bear, originally published as a novelette in the SF magazine Analog, portrays the frightening experiment of a biotechnologist who creates…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo Bacigalupi is a SF dystopian / biopunk novel. It’s set in Thailand in the 23rd-century, where powerful biotech…
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SF Classics – Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama (1973) is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, set in the 2130s in the Solar System. Rama, initially mistaken for an…
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SF Classics – The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman is a military science fiction novel, telling the story of William Mandella, a soldier of the United…
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SF Classics – Steel Beach by John Varley
Steel Beach (1993) by John Varley, is a sci-fi novel where humans now live on the Moon after an alien invasion. Steel Beach, this…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Spin (2005) by Robert Charles Wilson, describes a future Earth that a race of powerful aliens, the Hypotheticals, have put in protective cocoon –…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (2007) by Ted Chiang, follows a fabric merchant of the ancient city of Baghdad that one day discovers…
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SF Classics – Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card is a military SF novel, and one of the most famous books of this genre, with sequels,…
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2014 Hugo Awards – almost there
Friday 1 August was the last useful day to vote for the 2014 Hugo Awards and now, finally done with them, I must admit I…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Equoid by Charles Stross
A visionary and ironic melange of comedy and SF, Equoid (2013) is a brilliant example of Charles Stross’ prose and a stand-alone novella in…
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SF Classics – Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, and the first in the cyberpunk genre. Also the first book to win the…
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SF Classics – The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is the first, famous example of feminist science fiction. Also well-known for the…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Countdown by Mira Grant
Countdown (2011) by Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire is a novella part of the Newsflesh trilogy and the prequel of the famous novel Feed,…
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Voting for Hugo Awards 2014
There are many great things about attending Sci-Fi Worldcons, and not just when they are organised in cities like London. One of them is…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I…