Hugo Winners

[stoutfellow]

Me and lists again. This time, it's a list of the Hugo winners for Best Novel. I've bolded the ones I've read and italicized the ones I own.

2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2004 Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
2002 American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
2000 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
1998 Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
1997 Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
1996 The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
1995 Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
1994 Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
1993 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
1993 A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
1992 Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
1990 Hyperion, Dan Simmons
1989 Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
1988 The Uplift War, David Brin
1987 Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
1986 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
1985 Neuromancer, William Gibson
1984 Startide Rising, David Brin
1983 Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov
1982 Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh
1981 The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
1980 The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
1979 Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
1978 Gateway, Frederik Pohl
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
1976 The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
1973 The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer
1971 Ringworld, Larry Niven
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
1968 Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
1966 Dune, Frank Herbert
1966 "...And Call Me Conrad" (This Immortal), Roger Zelazny
1965 The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
1964 "Here Gather the Stars" (Way Station), Clifford D. Simak
1963 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M., Miller Jr
1960 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
1959 A Case of Conscience, James Blish
1958 The Big Time, Fritz Leiber
1956 Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (The Forever Machine), Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
1953 The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Erm. Because it's by Neal Stephenson. I enjoy his work a lot, but reading it requires Effort. With a capital "E".

Yeah, figured it was something like that. Haven't actually read him before.

Bester the psi-cop was named after Bester the author, who was very good indeed. The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination are both fairly short and excellent; I think they're both in print at the moment.

Yeah, I figured a people doing a science fiction tv show would have taken the name from the author. Pretty cool!

I'll have to keep the author in mind, but unfortunately, I don't end up reading books I want to these days, the library around here isn't that great. And I try not to buy too many books. So I end up reading what looks good at the library...

By the way, have you read anything by Stephen Baxter? I found him at the library and quite enjoyed his Destiny's Children books (Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendant).

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Baxter, Baxter... [checks] No, it seems not. What can you tell me about him, without spoiling?

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Apparently he's a well-known and well thought of English author. So far a lot of the books of his that I've read have a strong biological component to them, which, since he gets it mostly right, I tend to like.

Anyway, the Destiny's Children books start with Coalescent, which goes back and forth between the present and the past, following two people in particular. So I'm not even sure it'd be called science fiction as such. The next book takes place thousands of years in the future switching points of view between a person and his time-double. The last of the three takes place 500,000 years later and switches between someone of that time and connects back to someone from the first book in the present. All three books stand alone, but do have some strong connections between them.

They're not the best books I've read, but they certainly kept my interest and gave me something to think about. The first book has a lot of historical interest -- the past stuff takes place in Roman Britain when the Romans are losing their empire. The second book has a bunch of interludes in it that have a lot to do with physics -- cosmology and descriptions of the beginnings of the universe and the organisms that inhabited each phase, I really enjoyed that bit.

He's also written some interesting books about woolly mammoths, the first one is Mammoth, and is about woolly mammoths actually surviving to the present day. I missed the second one, but read the third, which is about the mammoths having been taken to Mars and left by the humans to fend for themselves. These books weren't as interesting to me, somehow a bit too boring for some reason.

He's on my list of people to grab if I see at the library for sure but I don't think I'm going to try buying any of his books. He's got a series of books that I think relate to the Destiny's Children books, but I haven't read any of those yet.