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Hugo Award For Best Short Story
The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The short story award is available for works of fiction of fewer than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novelette, novella, and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". The Hugo Award for Best Short Story has been awarded annually since 1955, except in 1957. The award was titled "Best Short Fiction" rather than "Best Short Story" in 1960–1966. During this time no Novelette category was awarded and the Novella category had not yet been established; the award was defined only as a work "of less than novel length" that was not published as a stand-alone book. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Kritzer
Naomi Kritzer is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her 2015 short story "Cat Pictures Please" was a Locus Award for Best Short Story, Locus Award and Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Nebula Award. Her novel ''Catfishing on CatNet'' won the 2020 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Biography Kritzer has lived in London and Nepal. She attended Wingra School (an independent school) in Madison, Wisconsin (1978 - 1986); Highgate Wood Secondary School in London Borough of Haringey, Haringey, England (1986 - 1987); Madison West High School (1987 - 1991); and Carleton College of Northfield, Minnesota (1991 - 1995). As of 2020, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and blogs on local elections. Career Since 1999 Kritzer has published a number of short stories and several novels, including two trilogies for Bantam Books, and her Seasteading, Seastead series of short stories for ''The Maga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael A
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The Dragon (short Story)
"The Dragon" is a short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in 1948 in the magazine ''Esquire''. A limited edition (352 copies, signed and numbered or lettered) of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988. It appears in ''A Medicine for Melancholy'' (1959), ''R is for Rocket'' (1962), ''Classic Stories 1'' (1990), and ''Bradbury Stories'' (2003). Plot The story concerns two knights who have a mission to slay a dragon A dragon is a Magic (supernatural), magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in Western cultures since the Hi .... They describe the dragon as huge, fire-breathing, and horrific, having only one eye. They charge the dragon but fail, presumably dying in the attempt. The "dragon" is then revealed to be a steam train, and its single eye is the train's headlight. The operators discuss the encoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Game Of Rat And Dragon
"The Game of Rat and Dragon" is a science fiction short story by American author Cordwainer Smith (1913–1966). It was written in 1954J.J. Pierce (ed.), '' The Best of Cordwainer Smith'' (1975), p. 67. and published in ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' in 1955. It is set in the far future, though no date is given. It occurs in the same universe as most of Smith's works, with a passing reference to the super-powerful regulatory ' Instrumentality'. The "dragons" are mysterious aliens which attack human starships and drive the inhabitants insane. Cats guided by telepaths are used to fight the "dragons", because of their very quick reactions. They see the aliens as giant rats, hence the story title. The human telepaths form very strong bonds with these cats, seeing them as almost human. Non-telepaths sometimes mock them for this. Plot summary Human travel in outer space is threatened by strange creatures known as the Dragons. Imperceptible to ordinary people, Dragons are experienced as n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobody Bothers Gus
"Nobody Bothers Gus" is a 1955 science fiction short story by American writer Algis Budrys. It was first published in '' Astounding Science-Fiction''. There were two sequel stories: "The Peasant Girl" (1956), and "And Then She Found Him" (1957).VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION: ANTHOLOGY STORIES (by author) compiled by ''''; archived at the ''''; retrieved May 17, 2018 Synopsis Gus Kusevic has astounding mutant powers, but canno ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Science Fiction
''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. Gold, who rapidly made ''Galaxy'' the leading science fiction magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology. Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman", later expanded as ''Fahrenheit 451''; Robert A. Heinlein's ''The Puppet Masters''; and Alfred Bester's '' The Demolished Man''. In 1952, the magazine was acquired by Robert Guinn, its printer. By the late 1950s, Frederik Pohl was helping Gold with most aspects of the magazine's production. When Gold's health worsened, Pohl took over as editor, starting officially at the end of 1961, though he had been doing the majority of the production work for some time. Under Pohl ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinity Science Fiction
''Infinity Science Fiction'' was an American science fiction magazine, edited by Larry T. Shaw, and published by Royal Publications. The first issue, which appeared in November 1955, included Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star (Clarke short story), The Star", a story about a planet destroyed by a nova (an exploding star) that turns out to have been the Star of Bethlehem; it won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award for that year. Shaw obtained stories from some of the leading writers of the day, including Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Sheckley, but the material was of variable quality. In 1958 Irwin Stein, the owner of Royal Publications, decided to shut down ''Infinity''; the last issue was dated November 1958. The title was revived a decade later by Stein's publishing house, Lancer Books, as a paperback anthology series. Five volumes were published between 1970 and 1973, edited by Robert Hoskins; a sixth was prepared but withdrawn after Lancer ran into financial p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star (Clarke Short Story)
"The Star" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the science fiction magazine ''Infinity Science Fiction'' in 1955 and won the Hugo Award in 1956. It is collected in Clarke's 1958 book of short stories '' The Other Side of the Sky'', and it was reprinted in the January 1965 issue of ''Short Story International'' as the lead-off story. Plot summary A group of space explorers from Earth return from an expedition to a remote star system, where they discovered the remnants of an advanced civilization destroyed when its star went supernova. The group's chief astrophysicist, a Jesuit priest, is suffering from a deep crisis of faith, triggered by some undisclosed event during the journey. The destroyed planet's culture was very similar to Earth's. Recognizing several generations in advance that their star would soon explode, and with no means of interstellar travel to save themselves, the doomed people spent their final years building a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 In Literature
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analog Science Fiction And Fact
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William Clayton (publisher), William Clayton, and edited by Harry Bates (author), Harry Bates. Clayton went bankrupt in 1933 and the magazine was sold to Street & Smith. The new editor was F. Orlin Tremaine, who soon made ''Astounding'' the leading magazine in the nascent pulp science fiction field, publishing well-regarded stories such as Jack Williamson's ''Legion of Space Series, Legion of Space'' and John W. Campbell's Twilight (Campbell short story), "Twilight". At the end of 1937, Campbell took over editorial duties under Tremaine's supervision, and the following year Tremaine was let go, giving Campbell more independence. Over the next few years Campbell published many stories that became classics in the field, including Isaac Asimov's Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allamagoosa
"Allamagoosa" is a Hugo-winning humorous science fiction short story by the English author Eric Frank Russell, originally published in the May 1955 issue of ''Astounding''. The story is a satire of the bureaucratic mindset - in this case in a military setting - and the second-order complications caused by a "creative" attempt to evade it. It has been collected in '' The Hugo Winners'' (1962), ''The Best Of Eric Frank Russell'' (1978), and ''Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell'' (2000), as well as a number of other anthologies. Plot summary Shortly after landing at a spaceport in Vega, the military spaceship ''Bustler'' is informed of an impending surprise inspection. Captain McNaught recalls the crew from leave and begins a tedious line-by-line inventory of the ship's manifest. Communications officer Burman discovers that the list of equipment the ''Bustler'' was originally issued includes something called an "offog"; however, no one among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1954. Events *January – Kingsley Amis's first novel, the comic campus novel ''Lucky Jim'', is published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in London. *January 7 – The Georgetown–IBM experiment is the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, held in New York at the IBM head office. *January 25 – Dylan Thomas's radio play ''Under Milk Wood'' is first broadcast in the U.K. on the BBC Third Programme, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as "First Voice". *February – '' The London Magazine'' is revived as a literary magazine, with John Lehmann as editor. * March 31 – A. L. Zissu is sentenced in Bucharest to life imprisonment for "conspiring against the social order". This has been a focal point in the anti-Zionist clampdown in Communist Romania. * May 29 – The rediscovered and restored early 17th-century Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain is re-ina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
