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A one-in-200 chance that an interstellar drive will be developed soon? Gene Wolfe thinks it's possible. The author…
Take one highly vulnerable space station. Pack it with realistic characters. And then start a war. You'll end up…
Need a break from holiday commercialism? Want to send a much-needed gift to groups cleaning up one of 2010's worst…
Do you enjoy space opera, fantastic technologies, millennia-old mysteries, and terrifically wicked villains who want…
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then I can't help but think God must like 1980's Hugo-winning novel, The…
It's Dreamsnake weekend for Blogging the Hugos! Today, an interview with author Vonda McIntyre about writing 1979's…
Back when it won the Hugo in 1979, Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake was one woman's radical ride through a…
Long before he was named Best Fan Writer — way back in 1978, in fact — Frederik Pohl won another Hugo (and a Nebula…
The musical, measured Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm — which won the Hugo in 1977 — is an artful…
It's been nine years since our own interminable War on Terror started. Can we learn anything from 1976's…
After a short break, "Blogging the Hugos" is back with 1975 Hugo winner The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. I…
People have talked about turning Arthur C. Clarke's 1974 Hugo winner into a movie, but no one's done it. Should that…
There's a lot going on in 1972's Hugo-winning novel, Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go. But in this…
Larry Niven's Hugo-winning novel from 1971 has a surprising amount in common with network television's biggest…
It's 1970, and with this Hugo winner — Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness — we finally got the ladies up…
Somehow, John Brunner's 1969 Hugo winner has fallen out of print. That's a terrific shame, because Stand on Zanzibar…
In the first chapter of Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny — which won the Hugo in 1968 — the book's hero preaches a…
With 1967's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, we bid a fond adieu to Robert A. Heinlein's Hugo winners. And there's just…
On the harsh desert planet Arrakis, a boy faces off against Destiny with a capital D, in Frank Herbert's 1966 Hugo…