David Brin's Startide Rising takes off, but could use more gravity
Dolphin starship pilots! Chimpanzee scientists! Hordes of vicious aliens! And a fleet of billion-year-old warships…
In which a great work is finally completed: Isaac Asimov's Forward the Foundation
Though not without its flaws, Forward the Foundation is a fascinating book, in which both author Isaac Asimov and his…
In Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov delves into psychohistory's sorta psycho history
In the prequel Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov takes us back to see how psychohistory, the science that saved…
Home again, home again, in so many ways: Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Earth
Having determined the fate of the galaxy, our intrepid space travelers move on to the next task at hand — finding the…
Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov: The end is the beginning is the end
Three decades after his Foundation stories became classics, Isaac Asimov returned to that universe. In Hugo winner Found…
Mind games and mysteries abound in Isaac Asimov's Second Foundation
The Mule has disrupted Hari Seldon's plan, and nothing can save the Foundation. Unless — yes! There's another…
In which events take a generally darker turn: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Hari Seldon's plan is working perfectly, and thanks to psychohistory, the Foundation is well on its way to saving what…
Isaac Asimov's Foundation: The little idea that became science fiction's biggest series
On the planet Terminus, a group of academics struggles to survive as the Galactic Empire crumbles. With no weapons,…
Downbelow Station: Here's how you write a novel
Take one highly vulnerable space station. Pack it with realistic characters. And then start a war. You'll end up with…
Joan Vinge’s The Snow Queen: The girl-power counterpart to Star Wars
Do you enjoy space opera, fantastic technologies, millennia-old mysteries, and terrifically wicked villains who want…
In Arthur Clarke's Fountains of Paradise, man makes tidy work of the heavens
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then I can't help but think God must like 1980's Hugo-winning novel, The Fountains…
Feminism, astronauts, and riding sidesaddle: Talking to Dreamsnake's Vonda McIntyre
It's Dreamsnake weekend for Blogging the Hugos! Today, an interview with author Vonda McIntyre about writing 1979's…
Dreamsnake: The controversial Hugo winner that's no longer in print
Back when it won the Hugo in 1979, Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake was one woman's radical ride through a post-apocalyptic…
Gateway by Frederik Pohl: The most dreadful of Hugo winners
Long before he was named Best Fan Writer — way back in 1978, in fact — Frederik Pohl won another Hugo (and a Nebula…
Kate Wilhelm's Sweet Birds: How protecting a species can endanger it
The musical, measured Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm — which won the Hugo in 1977 — is an artful…
The Forever War remains timeless, especially on September 11
It's been nine years since our own interminable War on Terror started. Can we learn anything from 1976's Hugo-winning…
Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: When you want to like a book but don't
After a short break, "Blogging the Hugos" is back with 1975 Hugo winner The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. I…
Hey, Morgan Freeman: Here's how to make a Rendezvous With Rama movie
People have talked about turning Arthur C. Clarke's 1974 Hugo winner into a movie, but no one's done it. Should that…
Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves: In which scientists are jerks and aliens masturbate
At long last we come to perhaps the biggest name in science-fiction literature. Settle in for a long, long — long —…
The first novel of Riverworld covers deep waters, but it's a rough ride
There's a lot going on in 1972's Hugo-winning novel, Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go. But in this…