![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is essentially what Jo Walton has set out to do in An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, a series of columns written for Tor.com beginning in 2010 and now collected in book form. ![]() For those reasons and others, it’s a fairly easy game to spot oddball or undeserving winners – Mark Clifton & Frank Riley’s They’d Rather be Right, which won the second novel Hugo in 1955, is the favorite whipping boy – but quite another to look at other books published in the same year, whether or not among the nominees, and show just how many now-canonical works inexplicably seemed invisible to Hugo voters. Since their inception in 1953, the Hugo Awards have been SF’s most unignorable elephant in the room, providing generations of readers with a de facto canon and reading list, despite an often wild inconsistency and occasional tendency to reward beloved authors simply because they’re beloved. An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton ( Tor 978-0765379085, $29.99, 576pp, hc) August 2018. ![]()
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