The Hugo Winners
An Anthology of Hugo award winners. The highest prize in Sci-Fi. Each of these stories, by different authors, was voted as the best novella/short story of a particular year. Asimov was also the editor or something. I have read it and loved it. Science Fiction at it's best.
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- Most Highly Recommended:
Cosmos - !!!
The Measure of Reality - How quantification has completely changed the face of society. Very interesting stuff. This has probably been my favourite read this year.
Nightfall - Interesting ideas of the role of religion in society and mass hysteria
Speaker for the Dead - Really fascinating book. I love sci-fi where there is an alien species that humans have trouble understanding for whatever reason
Books I unrecommend:
Heretics of Dune - Ugh. Tedious. I actually couldn't finish it. Didn't start Chapterhouse either.
Information Doesn't Want to be Free - Pretty basic. How many footnotes do you really need before you just include them in the text?
Was on maternity leave this year so there are quite a few. Those marked * are also recommended.
Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond *
The Vital Question - Nick Lane *
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath *
Convergent Series - Larry Niven *
Cosmos - Carl Sagan *
World of Ptaavs - Larry Niven
The Integral Trees - Larry Niven
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeongseo Lee *
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M Pirsig *
The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage (Comic) - Sydney Padua
The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 - Roger Zelazny
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250 - 1600 - Alfred W. Crosby *
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark *
The Time Dweller - Michael Moorcock
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card *
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card *
Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible - Tim Gunn *
The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimon *
The Hugo Winners vol. 3 - Various
Between Planets - Robert A. Heinlen
The Martian - Andy Weir *
Perelandra - C S Lewis
Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert (Unfinished, couldn't do it.)
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov *
Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov *
Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov *
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlen *
Information Doesn't Want to be Free - Corey Doctorow
Currently Reading
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era Of Nanotechnology - K. Eric Drexler *
Planets for Sale - A.E. van Vogt
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Here's a short story on a similar subject, the ethics of a brain transplant. Won a Hugo in 1973. http://docs7.chomikuj.pl/1852561988,PL,0,0,Frederik-Pohl---T... Ignore the first 2 paragraphs. Its the end of an introduction by Issac Asimov from an anthology of Hugo winners.
