Archive for the ‘Hugo Award’ Category
NEUROMANCER by William Gibson
One of the rare books to wear the coveted triple-crown of science-fiction, winning all three major prizes in the genre (the Hugo, Phillip K. Dick, Nebula awards), as well as being included on Time Magazineās 1995 list, āAll TIME 100 Best Novels,” it isnāt hyperbolic to claim that William Gibsonās 1983 classic, NEUROMANCER, is a must-read in our world of ubiquitous WI-FI, 24-hour connectedness, and the Blue Brain reverse engineering project, a world in which a recent Time magazine cover claimed The Singularity would be upon is in less than 40 years.
August 21, 2011
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Tags: A.I., Cyberpunk, Cyberspace, Identity, Sprawl, William Gibson Ā· Posted in: Classic, Debut Novel, Hugo Award, Japan, Nebula Award Winner, Philip K. Dick Award, Scifi, y Award Winning Author
THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi
Unlike much of the world, the Thai Kingdom had avoided inundation by the rising oceans. It had avoided pandemic decimation of crops and population. It had kept the global agri-corporations from accessing and either exploiting or destroying its vast and precious seed banks. It had taken drastic, isolationist steps to preserve itself while most of the rest of the world faltered into massive contraction and potential extinction.
The white shirts of the Environment Ministry enforced the official policy of the Child Queen’s regime, burning fields and villages if genetic blight or plague struck, conducting customs inspections of the expensive goods imported on dirigibles and confiscating and destroying even items supposedly protected by large bribes. And, “mulching” any windups they discovered.
May 14, 2010
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Tags: Climate Change, Dystopian, Future, Greed & Corruption, Gritty, Post-apocalyptic, robot Ā· Posted in: Hugo Award, Nebula Award Winner, Scifi, Speculative (Beyond Reality)
THE CITY & THE CITY by China Mieville
Think of the now-passed-into-history segregated American South where Caucasians and African Americans, then called Negroes, lived in the same cities and towns but attended different churches and schools, sat in different areas in theaters, used different doors and water fountains, and often ignored one and other when walking down the same streets. Think once-enforced apartheid in South Africa. Or think of Berlin while the Wall separated it and Belfastās volatile Protestant/Catholic duality. The citizens of the city states Beszel and Ul Qoma in China MiĆ©villeās THE CITY & THE CITY live in a somewhat similar situation: they co-exist on the same land, but they have separate facilities and they go to extremes to āunseeā the āforeignā co-residents…
August 15, 2009
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Tags: China Mieville, Murder Mystery Ā· Posted in: Allegory/Fable, Hugo Award, Noir, Scifi
WWW : WAKE by Robert J. Sawyer
In this first book of Robert J. Sawyer’s WWW series, Caitlan Decter is a teenage math whiz who’s getting used to her family’s new digs in Canada. They moved from Texas where she attended a school for the blind. Now she’s entering a public school as a sophomore. But she’s not worried, because she’s “made of awesome.” With the help of cutting-edge technology, Caitlan spends a lot of time on the internet where her disability is unnoticedāuntil she gets an email from a Japanese researcher offering a new advancement that could restore her sight.
May 29, 2009
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Tags: 'net, Robert J. Sawyer Ā· Posted in: 2009 Favorites, Hugo Award, Speculative (Beyond Reality)