|
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] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian list of science fiction authors, 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 Heinlein juveniles, juvenile novels of Robert 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 Stony Brook University, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction. He has won the Hugo,Who's Getting Your Vote? , October 29, 2008, '''' , and s. His novel '' |
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's inside such a sphere. The main character takes part in an expedition to a newly discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Originally published in 1995, the 2005 expanded edition contains two 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 ''Asimov's Science Fiction, 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''. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. 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 and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Octavia E
Octavia may refer to: People * 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 * Octahvia (fl. 1980s), American vocalist * Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), African-American science fiction writer * Octavia (early 20th century), the name taken by Mabel Barltrop of the Panacea Society in 1918 * Octavia Spencer (born 1972), actress * Oktawia Kawęcka (born 1985), jazz musician, singer, flutist, composer, producer and actress Culture * ''Octavia'' (play), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death * ''Octavia'' (opera), by Reinhard Keiser * ''Octavia'', a romance by Jilly Cooper ** ''Octavia'' (TV serial), an ITV adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 words, 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 towards the very few who are still able to speak and who, theref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict ('' Forge of God'' books), parallel universes ('' The Way'' series), consciousness and cultural practices ('' Queen of Angels''), and accelerated evolution ('' Blood Music'', ''Darwin's Radio'', and '' Darwin's Children''). His most recent work was the 2021 novel ''The Unfinished Land''. Greg Bear wrote over 50 books in total. 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, and in later years her friend. Career Bear is often classified as a hard science fiction author because of the level of scientific detail in his work. Early in his career, he also published work as an artist, including il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Music (novel)
''Blood Music'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine ''Analog Science Fact & Fiction'', winning the 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Greg Bear published an expanded version in novel form in 1985. ''Blood Music'' deals with themes including biotechnology, nanotechnology (including the grey goo hypothesis), the nature of reality, consciousness, and artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r .... Plot summary In the novel, 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 inje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
