Tag: Hugo Awards
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Three for the Month (September 2019)
In these difficult (in the sense of super-busy) days at work, it is never an easy task to find time to read a new…
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Voting for the Hugo Awards
The end of July is rapidly approaching, and it’s now the time to vote for the Hugo Awards, whether you’re attending Worldcon (this year…
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WWW Wednesday: 5 September 2018
The WWW Wednesday meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. It’s a great way to do a weekly…
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
Blindsight (2006), by Peter Watts, is a hard SF novel of first contact with a unique twist. It asks difficult questions about the nature of…
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SF Classics – Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Nova (1968) is an SF novel by Samuel R. Delany. It reads like space opera, with a hero on a quest and two interstellar…
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His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
His Majesty’s Dragon (2006) by Naomi Novik is an SFF novel, and one of the best examples of alternate history. It’s set during the…
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Hugo Night and other winners
Worldcon 74 is nicely folding up, and it’s time for a recap. First of all, the location for 2018 – decided in MidAmCon II:…
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Hugo Award 2016 – Voting
Like last year, 2016 Hugo Award nomination has been affected by SP/RP slating issues, resulting in the nomination of works and authors (Chuck Tingle…
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010) is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin, and the first book of The Inheritance Trilogy. Complex, at times…
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The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
The Dervish House (2010) by Ian McDonald is near-future science fiction/ thriller novel. It follows, through alternate character perspectives, a bus bombing incident in…
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Hugo Nominations 2016
There’s still about one month or so left to nominate people/zines for the Hugo Awards (and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New…
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SF Classics – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and…
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Hugo 2015 Awards – now it’s done
After all the controversies and the issues of this year’s Hugo Award, it’s sort of a miracle that things went not so bad, after…
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Hugo Award 2015 – How to (not) cast a vote
This year voting for the Hugos has been painful, for a series of reasons – not least because of the so-called Puppygate that has…
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Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a SF/ space opera by James S. A. Corey – i.e. the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.…
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Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Brasyl (2007) is a novel by Ian McDonald. It portrays an original SF thriller set on three different timelines – i.e. Brazil at different…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The City & the City by China Mieville
The City & the City (2009) is a weird fiction novel by the British author China Mieville and based on the investigation of a…
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Flaming the Eastercon (and the web) – The 2015 Hugo Controversy
If you had the impression by following the twitter feed of Dysprosium/ Eastercon 2015 (i.e. the Eastercon SF convention in the UK where, among…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Parasite by Mira Grant
Parasite (2013) by Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire is an interesting blend of techno-thriller, horror and SF. It features a near-future humanity made virtually disease-free…
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SF Classics – The Uplift War by David Brin
The Uplift War (1987) is a SF novel by David Brin and part of the Uplift Universe. It portraits a fictional future universe where…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
Neptune’s Brood (2013) is a SF novel by Charles Stross. The story is set in the same universe of Saturn’s Children, but 5000 years…
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Dangerous visions – a controversial SF anthology
In 1967, Harlan Ellison put together a short-story anthology titled Dangerous Visions. Mildly put, this collection made history and “almost single-handedly [it] changed the…
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Interview to Ken Liu, on Amazing Stories
An interview to Ken Liu, the SF Chinese-American writer, author of some excellent short stories (published on F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld among others)…
