An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 [Audiobook] download free by Jo Walton
- Listen audiobook: An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
- Author: Jo Walton
- Release date: 2018/6/23
- Publisher: ST MARTIN'S PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780765379085
- Rating: 8.4 of 10
- Votes: 225
- Review by: Zavier Whelan
- Review rating: 9.18 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/23
- Duration: 7H7M12S in 256 kbps (115.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, AIFF, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, WavPack (compression ZIP, TAR, RAR, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 576
- Includes a PDF summary of 57 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 43M41S (11.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, this is a book for those who enjoyed Walton's previous collection of essays from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great.The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been given out since 1953. They are widely considered the most prestigious award in science fiction.Between 2010 and 2013, Jo Walton wrote a series of posts for Tor.com, surveying the Hugo finalists and winners from the award's inception up to the year 2000. Her contention was that each year's full set of finalists generally tells a meaningful story about the state of science fiction at that time.Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. Now these posts, lightly revised, have been gathered into this book, along with a small selection of the comments posted by SF luminaries such as Rich Horton, Gardner Dozois, and the late David G. Hartwell.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy Books, Literary Studies: General, Literature: History & Criticism, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 28.79 USD
- Dimensions: 163x241x43mm
- Weight: 763g
- Printed by: Tor Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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