It’s the awards season (honestly, I hadn’t noticed), so it is also, and inevitably, the season for debates about awards. By which I don’t mean the standard ‘how did he win?’ ‘she was robbed!’ sort of debate. More the perennial philosophical puzzle that the very existence of awards always seems to arouse (in this iteration [...]
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About Awards
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arthur c clarke award, bfs award, bsfa awards, carl brandon award, Clareson Award, hugo awards, James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award, John W Campbell Memorial Award, Locus Award, nebula award, orange prize, Pioneer Award, science fiction canon, sfra on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
[At last, after laying out my wares, turning in turn to Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson, I finally arrive at the final novel in this threesome of Hugo nominees, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. And at last, I hope,bring this mammoth post to some sort of conclusion ...]
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 16, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[And so it goes on. Having set out my stall and considered Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, I now give a little more attention to Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson. Again, I pick up directly from where I left off last time (which, if you remember, was a passage discussing the Civil War in Priest's [...]
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
[Yesterday I started this mammoth post on Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Today I continue from where I left off, with rather more concentration on Boneshaker.]
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 14, 2010 | 19 Comments »
When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on each book. For the first two books I was able to stick to that modest ambition, but the next three I read set off such resonances and cross-currents that I felt I had to read [...]
Blogging the Hugos: The City And The City
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged china mieville, hugo awards on May 3, 2010 | 9 Comments »
[Note: many of the ideas about the border as heterotopia come from an as-yet unpublished paper by Maureen Kincaid Speller, and have been stewing in my mind so long that I forgot to acknowledge her work. Apologies.] In the old days, when territory used to change hands with great regularity between Russia and Poland, an [...]
Blogging the Hugos: Wake
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hugo awards, robert j sawyer on April 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
By chance, I happen to have all bar one of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Hugo Award (the one I’m missing is Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente), and I’ve not been asked to review a single one of them, a rare combination. So it seems like an ideal opportunity to blog about the novels [...]
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