The Nominees Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman Children of Dune by Frank Herbert Man Plus by Frederik Pohl Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg Where Late the Sweet Birds Sing by Kate Wilhelm The Actual Results How I Would Have Voted Explanation It’s interesting to see which of these books hold up after nearly fifty… Continue reading How I would vote now: 1977 Hugo Award (Best Novel)
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Do all books deserve to be read?
From TV Tropes: Half an hour after the show is over, a random viewer is staring into their refrigerator, vaguely bemused by the fact that their six-pack of beer has somehow become a two-pack of beer. Rather than work out how this might have happened, it occurs to them to wonder how in the hell… Continue reading Do all books deserve to be read?
Reading Resolution Update: April
My 2022 reading resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones. In 2007, when I was a sophomore in college, I went up to Salt Lake City with some friends and was browsing the awesome (and fairly run down, even at the… Continue reading Reading Resolution Update: April
Reading Resolution
My resolution last year was to read or DNF 100 books. I was doing pretty well on it through the summer, but then I stopped using Goodreads and lost count. (No particular reason, other than that I just fell out of using the site. It’s clunky and difficult to navigate, and after I started using… Continue reading Reading Resolution