Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book - Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book Winners of the Hugo Award for best non-fiction book. (After 1998, the category was retitled best related book. Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year. Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year. 1980: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia edited by Peter Nicholls 1981: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 1982: Danse Macabre by Stephen King 1983: Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction by James Gunn 1984: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. III by Donald Tuck 1985: Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction by Jack Williamson 1986: Science Made Stupid by [[Tom Weller] 1987: Trillion Year Spree by [[Brian Aldiss] with David Wingrove 1988: Michael Whelan's.
Hugo Award for Best Related Book - Hugo Award for Best Related Book Winners of the Hugo Award for best related book (previously best non-fiction). Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year. 1999: The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch 2000: Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History by Frank M. Robinson 2001: Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleston by Eggleston and Suckling. 2002: The Art of Chesley Bonestell by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant with Melvin H. Schuetz. 2003: Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril by Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary..
Hugo Award - Hugo Award The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas such as best science fiction art, best film, and best related book. The award categories have changed over time, as the field of science fiction has grown and changed. The winners are voted on by science fiction fans, and the awards are handed out at the annual World Science Fiction Convention. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The Hugo Award itself was co-designed by longtime SF fan and booster Benedict Jablonski who based the trophy on a rocket-shaped hood ornament from an Oldsmobile 88. The first World Science Fiction Convention.
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Harlan Ellison - 1934, Cleveland, Ohio) is a prolific speculative fiction writer of short stories, novellas, and criticism. His work is influenced by a number of literary genres, especially science fiction, fantasy, horror, and psychological drama. Ellison left home in his youth and became a drifter, working various jobs. He briefly attended Ohio State University. In the mid 1950's, he began to sell science fiction stories to pulp magazines. He was drafted into the army and served 1957 to 1959. Afterward, he briefly edited Rogue magazine. He subsequently began to sell scripts to television and publish short pieces, fiction and nonfiction, in various publications. He moved to California in the early 1960's. Ellison has written for several science fiction television series, including the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, the original Outer Limits series,.
Brian Aldiss - Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. In 1943 he joined the Royal Signals regiment, and saw action in Burma; his encounters with tropical rainforests at that time may have been at least a partial inspiration for Hothouse, as his Army experience inspired the Horatio Stubbs second and third books. After the war, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford. Besides short science fiction for various magazines, he wrote a number of short pieces for a booksellers trade journal about life in a fictitious bookshop, and this attracted the attention of Charles Monteith, an editor at the British publishers Faber. As a result of this, Aldiss' first book was The Brightfount Diaries (1955), a collection of the bookshop pieces. In 1955, the Observer newspaper ran.
Poul Anderson - - July 31, 2001) was a prolific science fiction author of the Golden Age; some of his short stories were first published using the pseudonyms "A. A. Craig", "Michael Karageorge", and "Winston P. Sanders". He recieved a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota and later became President of the association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Awards 2 Partial Bibliography (book-length works only) 2.1 Series 2.1.1 King of Ys 2.1.2 Tomorrow's Children 2.1.3 Psychotechnic League 2.1.4 Hoka 2.1.5 Technic History 2.1.6 Time Patrol 2.1.7 History of Rustum 2.1.8 Three Hearts 2.1.9 Operation Otherworld 2.1.10 The Last Viking 2.1.11 Maurai 2.1.12 Harvest of Stars 2.2 Novels 2.3 Collections 2.4 Omnibus 2.5 Anthologies 2.6 Non-Genre 2.7 Serials 3 Related topics Awards Gandalf Grand Master.
Leigh Brackett - 7, 1915 - March 18, 1978), although best known for her fantasy and science fiction, also wrote mystery novels and Hollywood screenplays, most notably "The Big Sleep" (1945), "Rio Bravo" (1958) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) She received the Hugo award posthumously for this in 1981. The last was a departure for Brackett, since until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories rather than screenplays. Her first published science fiction story was "Martian Quest", which appeared in the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Her first novel, "No Good from a Corpse", published in 1944, was a hard-boiled mystery novel in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. Hollywood director Howard Hawks was so impressed by this novel that he had his.
List of books by award or notoriety - List of books by award or notoriety American literature Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Fiction History Poetry General Non-Fiction British literature Booker Prize Commonwealth Writers Prize International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Newdigate prize Orange Prize for Fiction Whitbread Awards Canadian literature Giller Prize Griffin Poetry Prize Governor General's Award Stephen Leacock Award Trillium Award Canadian Poets Award Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award Finnish literature Finlandia Prize for Literature French language literature Prix Décembre Prix Fémina Prix Goncourt Prix Médicis Indian literature Jnanpeeth award Kalidas samman Swedish literature Augustpriset Lilla Augustpriset Science fiction Hugo Award Nebula Award Sidewise Award for Alternate History Tiptree Award BSFA award Prix Apollo Arthur C. Clarke Award Writers of the Future - contest for new authors Illustrators of the Future.
Stonewall Book Award - Stonewall Book Award The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually for the best fiction (Barbara Gittings Literature Award) and non-fiction (Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award) book of the previous year relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience. The awards are sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table. When first given in 1971 the award was called the Gay Book Award. Over the years the name has changed: Gay and Lesbian Book Award (1987-1989) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award (1994-1998) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award (1999-2001) In 2002 the award was made under its current name which derives from the 1969 Stonewall riots..
Flowers for Algernon - Algernon Flowers for Algernon is a very moving science fiction story written by Daniel Keyes. It was originally written as a novella, winning a Hugo award for Best Short Fiction in 1960 and it was later extended into a full-length novel by the same name. It has also been filmed twice, as Charly and later under its own title, dramatized for BBC Radio 4 with Tom Courtenay as Charlie, and even made into a musical. But to many people, the most moving and successful version of the story is the original novella. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. The story is about a young mentally retarded janitor named Charlie who volunteers to take part in an experimental intelligence-enhancing treatment. Algernon is a laboratory rat who is also 'enhanced'. The story is told from.
List of science fiction short stories - List of science fiction short stories This is a non-comprehensive list of short stories with significant science fiction elements. Due to the large number of short stories this list is limited to stories that have done one of the following, Defined a sub-genre of science fiction. Founded an important science fiction series. Been the first to introduce a science fiction concept. Won major science fiction or general fiction awards. Topped a major bestseller list. Been important to the field of science fiction in another way. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Humans colonizing other planets 2 Intelligent animals 3 Large Artificial Worlds 4 Non 3-Dimensional Space 5 Robot Stories 6 Time Travel Humans colonizing other planets ;Weyr Search (1968) by Anne McCaffrey : Founding story of the Pern series..
Frank Herbert - 1920 - February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction author. As an author Frank Herbert was both critically acclaimed and a worldwide commercial success. He is best known for the novel, Dune, and the five other novels in the series that followed it. The Dune saga dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. It is considered by many fans of the genre to be the best science fiction epic ever written, and is certainly one of the most popular. Dune itself was awarded the Nebula award in 1965 and shared the Hugo award in 1966. The film of the novel Dune, made by David Lynch, while flawed, remains a classic of the genre. Dune was made into a TV.
Ursula K. Le Guin - has written novels, poetry, childen's books, and essays, she is best known for her science fiction and fantasy, which she has written in the form of novels and short stories. First published in the 1960s, she is now regarded as one of the best science fiction authors. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003. The daughter of the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber, Le Guin is noted for her exploration of Taoist, anarchist, feminist, psychological, and sociological themes and for her exemplary style. Her interests in literature manifested themselves early. At the age of 11, she submitted her first story to Astounding Science.
Stranger in a Strange Land - a Strange Land Stranger in a Strange Land is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, which was first published in 1961. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians on Mars, as he returns to Earth in early adulthood; the novel explores his interaction with -- and eventual transformation of -- Earth culture. The book was a breakthrough best-seller, attracting many readers who would not ordinarily have chosen science fiction. It also became quite popular among the late-1960s counterculture -- some aspects of hippie philosophy were influenced by this book, most notably Smith's advocacy of sexual freedom and liberation. Rumor has it that the book was a favourite of Charles Manson, who used some ideas from the book in his own commune. When Heinlein.
Robert A. Heinlein - 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential authors in the science fiction genre. Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, but spent his childhood in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early years of the 20th century. This was a time of great religious revival across America, especially socially marginalized areas such as Missouri. The outlook and values of this period would influence his later works; however, he would also break with many of its social mores, at least on an intellectual level, frequently portraying them as narrow-minded and parochial. After high school, Heinlein attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. After graduating from the Academy in 1929, he served as an officer in the United States Navy until 1934, when he was discharged due to pulmonary tuberculosis..
Orson Scott Card - (born August 24 1951) is a prolific and best-selling author of numerous genres. His initial launch in the publishing industry was with science fiction (Hot Sleep and Capitol) and later fantasy (Songmaster). He became much more widely known with the publication of the seminal Ender's Game in 1985, for which he was awarded both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award (a feat he repeated with the sequel Speaker for the Dead the next year, being the first ever to win both awards twice in a row). However, he has not limited himself to those genres. Stories of horror and suspense such as Lost Boys and Treasure Box demonstrate his versatility. His writing is dominated by detailed characterization and moral issues. As Card says, "We care about moral issues, nobility, decency,.
Libertarian socialism - to carry out business, for example. Adherents of capitalism or Austrian economics would argue that the distinction between "personal" and "productive" property is specious, and that consequently such paradoxes are doomed to arise regardless of the delineation chosen. Opposition to the state Anarchists are most famous for opposing the existence of states or government. Indeed, in the past many anarchists refused to defend themselves in court because they did not wish to participate in what they viewed as illegitimate institutions, instead choosing to go to jail or die. The critique of states is built on the same principle opposing concentration of authority, which according to anarchists inevitably leads to abuse. In lieu of states, libertarian socialists seek to organize themselves into voluntary institutions (usually called collectives) which use direct democracy or.
Vernor Vinge - 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present.
Katherine Paterson - Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson is an award-winning Americann author of books for children. Katherine Paterson She was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents. She graduated with a degree in English from Kings College, Bristol, Tennessee. She taught for a year at a rural school in Virginia before going to graduate school in Virginia. She received a Master's degree and worked as a missionary in Japan. She married her husband, John, in 1962. They have four children. Her first novel was written while taking an adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Jip, His.
