Back to the Hugos: Dreamsnake by Vonda N McIntyre
Rather than relying on the science fiction staples of fighting and force, this determinedly feminine approach uses healing, respect and skill to make a powerful mark"For the six or seven major male science fiction writers who emerged during the 1970s, ...
Back to the Hugos
Compelling speculation and excellent writing add up to one of the prize's very best winnersTo get a sense of the appeal of Frederik Pohl's 1977 Hugo winner, Gateway, have a look at what the author is up to at the moment. The Way The Future Blogs is ost...
All Clear by Connie Willis – review
Hugo winner is a book of two halvesThis year Connie Willis shared SF's blue riband prize, the Hugo, with herself. The joint winners were Connie Willis's Blackout and Connie Willis's All Clear – the two halves of a lengthy narrative about time-travell...
All Clear by Connie Willis – review
Hugo winner is a book of two halvesThis year Connie Willis shared SF's blue riband prize, the Hugo, with herself. The joint winners were Connie Willis's Blackout and Connie Willis's All Clear – the two halves of a lengthy narrative about time-travell...
Connie Willis wins 11th Hugo award
Two-volume time-travel sequence, Blackout and All Clear, secures author's remarkable haulConnie Willis's gripping portrait of London during the Blitz has won the American author a remarkable 11th Hugo award.Willis's two-volume time travel sequence, Bla...
Further Reading – Untold Story by Monica Ali
There are certain events that live on in all of us. Everyone remembers exactly where they were when the world changed. It’s natural to want to look back and think, “What if….” What if it had been different? What if it had never happened at all? Monica Ali does that in her new novel Untold...
Women dominate Hugo awards shortlist
Four out of five novels in line for prize are by female authorsFrom Isaac Asimov to Frank Herbert, science fiction has historically been viewed as a male-dominated genre. But the shortlist for this year's prestigious Hugo best novel award, voted for by...
Back to the Hugos: The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
This tale of neighbouring planets occupied by anarchists and capitalists reminds us that the old left has plenty to teach us, as the new right accrues ever more powerThe government contains only the sneering rich and serves only the sneering rich. They...
‘Old Man’s War’ To Be Adapted by ‘The Perfect Storm’ Director
John Scalzi‘s Old Man’s War will be adapted by The Perfect Storm director, Wolfgang Petersen. According to Deadline, David Self will write the script and produce for the science fiction adaptation.
Scalzi discussed the news on his blog: &...
A stone-cold classic
Clarke's account of a vast alien object hurtling towards our sun is a stone-cold classicThe friendly rivalry between the two giants of science fiction, Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov, was legendary among genre fans. It reached such a peak that some t...
Otherworldly pleasures
He may not have been much bothered about his prose style, but this novel repays the attention you'll be hard pressed not to give itIsaac Asimov was a remarkable man. As well as writing more than 500 books, he somehow managed to work full time as a bioc...
China Miéville and Paolo Bacigalupi tie for Hugo award
The City and the City and The Windup Girl draw equal numbers of votes for prestigious science fiction prizeFor only the third time in its 57 years of existence there has been a dead heat in the Hugo award for best novel, with China Miéville's The City...
