There’s no financial prize, but I’ve been told that it’s the only genre award that actually affects sales of a book. I have voted for them every time I’ve gone to a Worldcon and therefore been entitled to vote.
I care about them passionately, not just as a writer but also as a fan. They’re science fiction’s most important award-and they’re entirely fan voted and fan administered. After I was done defending Zelazny and Vinge, I started thinking about the Hugos. He said this with casual assurance, as if nobody could disagree-but I disagreed strongly, in both cases. Mike Glyer posted on the File 770 website, saying that everyone agreed that Frank Herbert’s Dune was a better book than Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal, and Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book was better than Vernor Vinge’s A Fire upon the Deep.
Naturally, this caused discussion of the two other times there had been a tie.
China Miéville’s The City & the City and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl had both won. Publisher: St Martin's Press ISBN: 9780765379085 Number of pages: 576 Weight: 781 g Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 43 mm You may also be interested in.In 2010, for the third time in history, there was a tie for the Best Novel Hugo Award. 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 the late David G. Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. 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. They are widely considered the most prestigious award in science fiction.īetween 20, 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. 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. Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, this is a book for those who enjoyed Walton's previous collection of essays from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great.
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