The New Hugo Winners
''The New Hugo Winners'' was a series of books which collected science fiction and fantasy short-form works that had recently won a Hugo Award for best Short Story, Novelette or Novella. Published by Baen Books, the series succeeded Doubleday's '' The Hugo Winners'' following that series' discontinuation after volume five. ''The New Hugo Winners'' ran for four volumes, published in 1989, 1992, 1994, and 1997, together collecting stories that had won the award from 1983 to 1994. The first two volumes were edited by Isaac Asimov. Due to Asimov's death in April 1992, the third volume was edited by Connie Willis and the fourth by Greg Benford. Volume I Volume I was edited by Isaac Asimov and first published in 1989. *1983: 41st Convention, Baltimore **"Souls", by Joanna Russ (novella) **" Fire Watch", by Connie Willis (novelette) **"Melancholy Elephants", by Spider Robinson (short story) *1984: 42nd Convention, Anaheim **"Cascade Point", by Timothy Zahn (novella) **" Blood Music" ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-Canadian science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978. Early life and education Robinson was born in the Bronx, New York City; his father was a salesman. He was an avid reader of science fiction, and it was his early childhood exposure to the juvenile novels of Robert A. Heinlein that later influenced him to become a writer. He attended a Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary; this was followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the 1960s, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English. While at Stony Brook, Spider entertained at campus coffeehouses and gatherings, strumming his guitar and singing in harmony with his female partner. It was at this time that his fr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo Award, Hugo,Who's Getting Your Vote? , October 29, 2008, ''Reason magazine, Reason'' Locus Award, Locus, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel ''The Postman'' was adapted into a 1997 The Postman (film), feature film starring Kevin Costner. Early life and education Brin was born in Glendale, California, in 1950 to Selma and Herb Brin. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astronomy, in 1973."David Brin". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2018-02-01. Available onlin[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Crystal Spheres
"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by American writer David Brin, originally published in the January 1984 issue of '' Analog'' and collected in '' The River of Time''. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1985. In it, Brin presents an explanation for the Fermi Paradox. Plot summary Humanity's first attempt at interstellar space travel ends in disaster as the ship is destroyed near the edge of the Solar System by a transparent barrier. They come to realize that Sol and every other Earth-like solar system are surrounded by "crystal spheres", while uninhabitable systems are not. Every attempt to break spheres around other systems from the outside fails. Radio waves and other attempts at communication from the outside are blocked as well. Humanity is thus prevented from expanding and colonizing the universe, as well as communicating with any intelligent life that is inside such a sphere. The main character takes part in an expedition to a newly discovere ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bloodchild And Other Stories
''Bloodchild and Other Stories'' is the only collection of science fiction stories and essays written by American writer Octavia E. Butler. Each story and essay features an afterword by Butler. "Bloodchild", the title story, won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. It was first published in 1995. The 2005 expanded edition contains the additional stories "Amnesty" and "The Book of Martha". Stories "Bloodchild" "Bloodchild" was the winner of the 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 1985 Locus Award for Best Novelette, and the 1985 ''Science Fiction Chronicle'' Award for Best Novelette. It was published in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' in 1984, in ''Bloodchild and Other Stories,'' Four Walls Eight Windows in 1995, and by Seven Stories Press in 1996 and 2005."Annotated Bibliography of Butler's Fiction." ''Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler''. Ed. Rebecca J. Holden and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Varley (author)
John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer. Biography Varley was born in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Fort Worth, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, graduated from Nederland High School—all in Texas—and went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship. He started as a physics major, switched to English, then left school before his 20th birthday and arrived in Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco just in time for the " Summer of Love" in 1967. There he worked at various unskilled jobs, depended on St. Anthony's Mission for meals, and panhandled outside the Cala Market on Stanyan Street (since closed) before deciding that writing had to be a better way to make a living. He was serendipitously present at Woodstock in 1969 when his car ran out of gas a half-mile away. He also has lived at various times in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, New York City, San Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. Varley has written seve ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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43rd World Science Fiction Convention
The 43rd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Aussiecon Two, was held on 22–26 August 1985 at the Southern Cross, Victoria, and Sheraton Hotels in Melbourne, Australia. The convention was chaired by David Grigg. Participants Attendance was 1,599. Guests of Honour * Gene Wolfe (pro) * Ted White (fan) Awards 1985 Hugo Awards * Best Novel: ''Neuromancer'' by William Gibson * Best Novella: ''PRESS ENTER■'' by John Varley * Best Novelette: " Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler * Best Short Story: "The Crystal Spheres" by David Brin * Best Non-Fiction Book: '' Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction'' by Jack Williamson * Best Dramatic Presentation: ''2010'' * Best Professional Editor: Terry Carr * Best Professional Artist: Michael Whelan * Best Semiprozine: '' Locus'', edited by Charles N. Brown * Best Fanzine: ''File 770'', edited by Mike Glyer * Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford * Best Fan Artist: Alexis Gilliland Other awards ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Octavia E
Octavia may refer to: People * Octavia (given name) Ancient Rome * Octavia the Elder (before 66 – after 29 BC), elder half sister of Octavia the Younger and Augustus/Octavian * Octavia the Younger (c.66–11 BC), sister of Augustus, younger half sister of Octavia the Elder and fourth wife of Mark Antony. * Claudia Octavia (AD 39–AD 62), daughter of Claudius and Valeria Messalina and first wife of Nero Post-Ancient Rome * Octavia (early 20th century), the name taken by Mabel Barltrop of the Panacea Society in 1918 * Octahvia (fl. 1980s), American vocalist * Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), African-American science fiction writer * Octavia Hall Smillie (1889–1970), American dietitian * Oktawia Kawęcka (born 1985), jazz musician, singer, flutist, composer, producer and actress * Octavia Spencer (born 1972), actress Culture * Octavia (play), ''Octavia'' (play), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Speech Sounds
"Speech Sounds" is a science fiction short story by American writer Octavia E. Butler. It was first published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' in 1983. It won Butler her first Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1984. The story was subsequently collected in Butler's anthology '' Bloodchild and Other Stories'' and in the science fiction anthology '' Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse''.Butler, Octavia E. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. San Francisco: Nightshade Book, 2008. 245-55. Print. Plot summary The world has been decimated by a mysterious pandemic: the survivors have reported intellectual deficits and can no longer speak, understand speech, or read. Communication is therefore compromised and the attempt to express oneself with gestures or grunts generates misunderstandings and conflicts. People have also become prone to violence triggered by resentment of their own impairments and harbor jealousy toward the very few who are still able to speak and who, t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American science fiction writer. His work covered themes of Interstellar_war, galactic conflict (''The Forge of God, Forge of God'' books), parallel universes (''The Way (Greg Bear), The Way'' series), consciousness and Cultural_practice, cultural practices (''Queen of Angels (novel), Queen of Angels''), and accelerated evolution (''Blood Music (novel), Blood Music'', ''Darwin's Radio'', and ''Darwin's Children''). His last work was the 2021 novel ''The Unfinished Land''. Greg Bear wrote over 50 books in total. He was one of the five co-founders of San Diego Comic-Con. Early life Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California. He attended San Diego State University (1968–1973), where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the university, he was a teaching assistant to Elizabeth Chater in her course on science fiction writing; in later years, they were friends. Career Bear is often classified as a hard science f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blood Music (novel)
''Blood Music'' is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. It is an expanded version of a short story of the same title, originally published in the June 1983 issue of '' Analog'' and the winner of both the 1983 Nebula and 1984 Hugo awards for Best Novelette. The novel won the 1986 Prix Apollo Award, given to the best science fiction novel published in France during the preceding year, under the title ''La Musique du sang''. ''Blood Music'' deals with themes including biotechnology, nanotechnology (including the grey goo hypothesis), the nature of reality, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. Plot summary Renegade biotechnologist Vergil Ulam creates simple biological computers based on his own lymphocytes. Faced with orders from his nervous employer to destroy his work, he injects them into his own body, intending to smuggle the "noocytes" (as he calls them) out of the company and work on them elsewhere. Inside Ulam's body, the noocytes multiply and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |