An anthology of authentic and realistic hard science fiction
And finally we have the last of the novellas in this year’s Hugo shortlist: ‘True Names’ by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum, first published in Fast Forward 2 (published by Pyr and edited by Lou Anders). This one was a headache to read. If I hadn’t been writing this series of blog posts, I’d probably [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, benjamin rosenbaum, cory doctorow, novellas | Leave a Comment »
I was a bit busy last week, with four deadlines all landing on the last day of the month. So I didn’t get the chance to read, or write about, the next novella on the Hugo 2009 shortlist. Which is ‘The Tear’ by Ian McDonald. This was published in Galactic Empires, edited by Gardner Dozois [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, ian mcdonald, novellas, science fiction | 10 Comments »
Here’s the third of the novellas on the Hugo shortlist, ‘The Political Prisoner’ by Charles Coleman Finlay, from F&SF‘s August 2008 issue. This is the second time Finlay has been nominated for the Hugo – he was also on the shortlist in 2003 for ‘The Political Officer’, which was set in the same universe and [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, novellas, science fiction | 2 Comments »
Next up is ‘Truth’ by Robert Reed (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008). I think I might have read this before, but since I don’t subscribe to Asimov’s, or buy copies of the magazine, it must have been online. And yet, as I became more convinced I’d read it before, I still couldn’t remember the ending. Ramiro is [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, novellas, science fiction | 2 Comments »
I had intended to write a single post covering all of the novellas on the Hugo shortlist but, well, a novella is pretty much a short novel. So I’m going to split it into a post on each. First up is ‘The Erdmann Nexus’ by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008). I quite like that branch [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, novellas, science fiction | Leave a Comment »
I was planning to read and write about the novellas on this year’s Hugo shortlist. But only two of the five are currently available online, so there isn’t much point at this time. Asimov’s are being a bit crap for some reason – the Swanwick is still unavailable, as are two of the novellas. Of [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, science fiction | Leave a Comment »
Now it’s the turn of the novelettes. The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is “awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) words”. This year’s shortlist looks like this: ‘Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders’ by Mike Resnick (Asimov’s Jan 2008)Sigh. Another Resnick. [...]
Filed under: 2009 hugo award, novelettes, science fiction | Leave a Comment »
