A Fire Upon The Deep shared the Hugo with Connie Willis' Doomsday Book (which I personally preferred) and beat KSR's Red Mars, which is on my current reading list, Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang, which is somewhere on the to-read shelves, and Steel Beach by John Varley, which I haven't otherwise heard of. More remarkable perhaps is the absence of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, surely at least as important a book as any of the above, from any of the short lists.
August Books 10) A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon The Deep shared the Hugo with Connie Willis' Doomsday Book (which I personally preferred) and beat KSR's Red Mars, which is on my current reading list, Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang, which is somewhere on the to-read shelves, and Steel Beach by John Varley, which I haven't otherwise heard of. More remarkable perhaps is the absence of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, surely at least as important a book as any of the above, from any of the short lists.
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The Tiptree/Otherwise Award, Peter Handke’s Nobel, The Sparrow and Mountain Ways
The James Tiptree Jr Award, "encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender", has announced that it is changing its name to the…
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The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog, by Doris Lessing
Second paragraph of third section: Dann had wanted to leave the Centre - leave the past - because of the weight of sorrow on him, which he believed…
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Second paragraph of third chapter: But Isaiah College has come up in the world today - excepting educationally- for in 1931 it held the Dartmouth…