Hugo Winner Meme

[selenite0]

From kd5mdk:

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

[estokien.livejournal.com]

You mean I've managed to reference 3 series that you've never read in the last week with you? (Heechee, Mars series and Cyteen) Well I heavily recommend the Mars books to you (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) as well as the Zelazny.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I've read some of the HeeChee stories, not the big one. I started Red Mars but couldn't finish it. The first wave of colonists should not include particle physicists. They need plumbers. There was various other stuff driving me up the wall as well.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

I also started Red Mars and couldn't get enthusiastic enough to finish.

I read a lot of Asimov's early work, but grew tired of his fiction. He wrote some splendid non-fiction. Very readable, and, in the areas I knew about and might suspect he'd be weak, he wasn't a bit. I consider it a failing of our academic system that he was not recognized (by it) as an educator.

I very much like the Zelazny, but it is fantasy. Of the ones you haven't read that I have, you might like Hyperion, but you might not. Basically a collection of lightly-connected short stories. You might like They'd Rather Be Right, but I don't know if one can get it, and I suspect it is a bit dated. A Campbell-era story.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Double Star won a Hugo? I'd thought that was one of RAH's weaker books.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Whereas I regard it as one of his best.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

what stoutfellow said.

That was an actor running the country years before Ronnie Reagan. Not, I admit, quite the same scenario, but who would have believed it then?

(And Stranger in a Strange Land had significant influence on running the country from the President's wife's astrologer :<)

This guy had his limitations and his self-indulgences, but he was damn good!

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

Too bad; it should have been The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. I loathed Stranger and still do.

I recommend Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, but you could probably serve to stay away from the Endymion duo, because they are chum on the waters.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

It's like hikers and bears--it only had to be better than the others that year.