Hugo & Nebula Winners
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, April 17th, 2004 at
12:37 am
An interesting cross-reference from Locus: All books that have won BOTH the Nebula and Hugo awards. Note that the novels by Card, Clarke, Haldeman, and Le Guin account for nearly half of them.
- Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves (1972)
- David Brin, Startide Rising (1983)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (1985)
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (1986)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (1973)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods (2001)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)
- Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace (1997)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
- Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake (1978)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (1970)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (1977)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (1992)
Sadly, I’ve only read 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 (actually, I couldn’t finish this one), 15, and 16. And I call myself an sf fan. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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*Catholic nun smacks editor’s fingers with a ruler*
“And after lunch it’s detention for you, until you’ve read ‘The Gods Themselves’ from beginning to end! Schneller!”
-A.R. Yngve
I haven’t read “Doomsday Book” by Willis, but it’s on the ever-growing To Be Read pile.
I tried to read a book by Gaiman, but was so bored that I gave up. So, I haven’t read “American Gods” either.
“Forever Peace” is also on the TBR pile; in general I’ve liked Haldeman’s stuff and wish he would write more. “Forever War” is one of my all-time favorites, especially the “restored edition” that is currently in print.
Interestingly enough, all the others have ratings of 9 or better, generally 10 or 10+ in my book database.
I’ve read 3, 4, and 11…
Betcha never figured that I read those at all, didn’t ya, John…
Nope, Pete, you surprised me. And, as I recall, none of those stories had any supermodels in ‘em. So, congratulations, there’s hope for you yet! That’s more than I can say for “Mr. X”.
Let’s see – the only books I haven’t read are Dreamsnake and the two Halderman – I’ve never heard of them. Hmm, must be good though.
Of course, I think I read the Doomsday Book, I read some by Willis and can’t remember exactly which ones now.
But what’s the best book on that list? I’d say Startide Rising.
Worst book on the list – easy, Neuromancer (what an overrated book!)
The Doomsday Book involves time-travel back to the time of the Black Death. Excellent book. American Gods reminded me a lot of Tim Powers’ work but the ending didn’t live up to the rest of the book. Good read though. A much more ‘mature’ Gaiman book.
The only ones I haven’t read are The Gods Themselves and The Forever Peace. And I concur with Scott’s picks but I’ll go one further on Gibson: Most over-rated author, more interested in atmoshphere and word-play than, say , plot…
I had picked up one Gaiman (“Neverwhere”), as I was hoping for somebody along the lines of Powers. But, it was nowhere nearly as good as even the earliest Powers efforts, so it got tossed.
Neverwhere is a really ‘light’ book. Its so light, it almost floats. American Gods is a much better effort. Worth a read, even if the ending is a let down. Although Scott might say that Expiration Date isn’t worth the read because of the ending. I used to feel that way, but not anymore.
You’re saying that reading a book that is 90% good with a bad ending is still worth a read?
I can see your point, even if I don’t agree. I guess I feel that by reading a book I have invested something in it such that the ending, if weak, makes me feel cheated somehow. Doesn’t make sense though I can see – if I didn’t like the first quarter but the rest rocked I’d recommend a book where I wouldn’t if the ending wasn’t any good.
Actually, I just think that bad endings are caused by bad writing – the craft of writing involves getting it all right – ending included, and I feel cheated if parts of it aren’t right.
Well, what I was actually saying is that I’ve reconsidered the ending to Expiration Date. Its not as bad as I thought. In fact, it works well, I think.