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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

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Not many pure fantasy novels have won the Hugo award for best novel. One notable winner was The Sword in the Stone in 1939. This book, t...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Winner of the 1975 Hugo for best novel, this is a fascinating story about an unlikely hero and two planets with widely differing politic...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

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This was the 1977 Hugo award winner for best novel. It is a near-future apocalyptic tale with some aspects that are disturbingly famil...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov wrote the award winning Foundation trilogy, originally as a series of eight short stories published from 1942 through 1950, ...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

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I started this journey of reading Hugo award winning novels with books that were written well before I was born. Over 30 novels in, I...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

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Winner of the Hugo award for besr novel of 1979, this is a touching and beautiful story with an original and imaginative plot, well devel...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Hugo Winner Book Review: Gateway by Frederik Pohl

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This novel won the Hugo award for best novel of 1978. I enjoyed it, finding it an eclectic mix of science fiction themes with interest...
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