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An informal history of the Hugos : a personal look back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
Title:
An informal history of the Hugos : a personal look back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
Author:
Walton, Jo author
ISBN:
9780765379085
Additional ISBN:
0765379082 9780765379085

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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : TOR, 2018.

©2018
Physical Description:
574 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Hugo Award winners and nominees -- 1953, Essay: "Telepaths, murder, and typographical tricks: Alfred Bester's The demolished man" ; 1954 ; 1955 ; 1956, Essay: "Parliamentary democracy with Martians: Robert A. Heinlein's Double star" -- 1957 -- 1958 -- 1959, Essay: "Ever outward: Robert A. Heinlein's Have space suit -- Will travel" ; 1960, Essay: "Over the hump: Robert A. Heinlein's Starship troopers" ; 1961, Essay: "Dark ages and doubt: Walter M. Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz" -- Essay: "Really good fun: Poul Anderson's The high crusade" ; 1962, Essay: "Smug Messiah: Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land" ; 1963, Essay: "A future that never came: Arthur C. Clarke's A fall of moondust" ; 1964, Essay: "I think I'll go for a walk and think about aliens: Clifford Simak's Way Station" ; 1965, Essay: "Telepathy and healing: John Brunner's The whole man (aka Telepathist)" ; 1966, Essay: Wisecracking, aliens, and hot places: Roger Zelazny's This immortal -- Essay: In league with the future: Frank Herbert's Dune ; 1967, Essay: "A self-aware computer and a revolution on the moon: Robert A. Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress" ; 1968, Essay: "Fantasy disguised as science fiction disguised as fantasy: Roger Zelazny's Lord of light" ; 1969, Essay: "Growing up for real: Alexei Panshin's Rite of passage"; 1970 ; 1971 ; 1972, Essay: "Effective dreaming: Ursula K. Le Guin's The lathe of heaven" ; 1973, Essay: "Great aliens, rubber humans: Isaac Asimov's The gods themselves" -- Essay: "Dying inside, by Robert Silverberg" ; 1974, Essay: "Menopause, aliens, and fun: Larry Niven's Protector" ; 1975, Essay: "Clear-sighted Utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin's The dispossessed" ; 1976 ; 1977 ; 1978 ; 1979 ; 1980, Essay: "Sunlit clouds beyond the iron grating: Thomas M. Disch's On wings of song" ; 1981 ; 1982 ; 1983 ; 1984, Essay: "The tea, the statue, the dragon, and you: R. A. MacAvoy's Tea with the black dragon" ; 1985 ; 1986, "Who is alien? C. J. Cherryh's Cuckoo's egg" ; 1987 ; 1988 ; 1989, Essay: "Designing people and societies: C. J. Cherryh's Cyteen" -- Essay: "The most expensive plumbers in the galaxy: Lois McMaster Bujold's Falling free" ; 1990 ; 1991 ; 1992 ; 1993, Essay: "The net of a ,illion lies: Vernor Vinge's A fire upon the deep" -- Essay: "Time travel and the black death: Connie Willis's Doomsday book" ; 1994 ; 1995 ; 1996 ; 1997 ; 1998, Essay: "Transformative in this as everything else: Walter Jon Williams's Metropolitan and city on fire" ; 1999 ; 2000, Essay: "So high, so low, so many things to know: Vernor Vinge's A deepness in the sky".
Language:
English
Abstract:
"The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science-fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been given out since 1953. They are widely considered the most prestigious awards in science fiction. Between 2010 and 2013, Jo Walton wrote a series of posts for Tor.com, surveying the Hugo finalists and winners from the award's inception up to the year 2000. Her contention was that each year's full set of finalists generally tells a meaningful story about the state of science fiction at that time. Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. Now these posts, lightly revised, have been gathered into this book, along with a small selection of the comments posted by SF luminaries such as Rich Horton, Gardner Dozois, and David G. Hartwell."--Dust jacket.