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I love this book because I have read, almost, every Hugo Nominee and this book brought back the memories.

Here the reader will get Jo Walton's opinion on the Hugo Winners and Nominees each year, focused mainly on novels, with selected comments from some key readers of her blog. It is an edited compilation of her blog.

Here are some things I loved about the book and the authors approach. If she hasn't read a book, she says so, and says why, and says she probably doesn't intend to read it! There are a few authors she doesn't like their books so much so she isn't going to waste her time reading them. I like that.

If she doesn't like a book she is very clear on why. And she also admits, well maybe it's just me, to each their own. I love that! Just because I love a book doesn't mean someone else might not hate it, with good reason, and vice-versa.

Maybe I also like it a lot because I agree with a large amount of her commentary. Books she tends to think are overrated or not very good I generally do too and books she loves I tend to love too. There are a few key differences but, hey, to each their own.

Each year she also names some novels (or short stories), tons of them in some cases, that could or should have been considered for the Hugo. So it becomes a treasure trove of suggested reading of great books you might have missed.

While I read all this book, it frankly is also set up to be easy to skim too. If there are some sections you aren't as interested in or you want to skip the comments, it's easy enough to do so and pick up the commentary you want to read.

It is also well laid out, even on Kindle, that it can be used as a reference guide. The book goes through 2000 and is rich with insight and commentary.

If you are a science fiction fan this is a great book to have.


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An Informal History of the Hugos A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards 19532000 Jo Walton 9780765379085 Books Reviews

This is a book made of rambling that should not be able to work - but it does. And splendidly so. Taken together with her novel "Among Others" and her idiosyncratic "What makes this book so great", Jo Walton has now created a triptych of knowledge and love - of Science Fiction, of Fantasy, of Reading in general. All three books combined are something of an autobiography of a learned poet and the history of her field, and she shares generously, strong in knowledge, strong in opinions, strong in an unrelenting desire to know, to pass on and to like (or to dislike, as the case may be, e.g. Gibson's Neuromancer). That's one of the things you simply have to like no Hugo winner is sacrosanct per se, some loser's are rediscovered, the field in all its permutations stays visible throughout the book, gold and silver, warts and all.
If the field is in conversation with itself (Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton appear every so often as counterpoints), Jo Walton is THE hub. These books are the most expensive in the world - you want to buy and read a LOT of what she is writing about. To be sure these very personal books are also an ego-trip of gargantuan proportions. Thank god her ego is above all suspicion. SFF would be poorer without her work and wisdom.
I love this book because I have read, almost, every Hugo Nominee and this book brought back the memories.

Here the reader will get Jo Walton's opinion on the Hugo Winners and Nominees each year, focused mainly on novels, with selected comments from some key readers of her blog. It is an edited compilation of her blog.

Here are some things I loved about the book and the authors approach. If she hasn't read a book, she says so, and says why, and says she probably doesn't intend to read it! There are a few authors she doesn't like their books so much so she isn't going to waste her time reading them. I like that.

If she doesn't like a book she is very clear on why. And she also admits, well maybe it's just me, to each their own. I love that! Just because I love a book doesn't mean someone else might not hate it, with good reason, and vice-versa.

Maybe I also like it a lot because I agree with a large amount of her commentary. Books she tends to think are overrated or not very good I generally do too and books she loves I tend to love too. There are a few key differences but, hey, to each their own.

Each year she also names some novels (or short stories), tons of them in some cases, that could or should have been considered for the Hugo. So it becomes a treasure trove of suggested reading of great books you might have missed.

While I read all this book, it frankly is also set up to be easy to skim too. If there are some sections you aren't as interested in or you want to skip the comments, it's easy enough to do so and pick up the commentary you want to read.

It is also well laid out, even on , that it can be used as a reference guide. The book goes through 2000 and is rich with insight and commentary.

If you are a science fiction fan this is a great book to have.