Hugo novels read

[bugshaw]

The ones I've read are in bold:

(I think I've read more than I've bolded, but our bookshelves are in disarray and I can't check exactly which Clarkes, Brins and Asimovs I've read)
EDIT: and an asterisk denotes books I own but have not yet read.

NOVEL
*2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (RSN, honest)
2004 Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
2002 American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
*2000 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
1998 Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
*1997 Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
*1996 The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
1995 Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
*1994 Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
1993 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
1993 A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
1992 Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
*1990 Hyperion, Dan Simmons - (bought it in 1991, have been really looking forward to reading it ever since - so why haven't I? Is it as hard work as I imagine?)
*1989 Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
*1988 The Uplift War, David Brin
1987 Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
1986 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
1985 Neuromancer, William Gibson
1984 Startide Rising, David Brin
1983 Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov
*1982 Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh
*1981 The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
1980 The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
1979 Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
1978 Gateway, Frederik Pohl
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
*1976 The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
1973 The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer
1971 Ringworld, Larry Niven
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
1968 Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
*1966 Dune, Frank Herbert
1966 "...And Call Me Conrad" (This Immortal), Roger Zelazny
1965 The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
1964 "Here Gather the Stars" (Way Station), Clifford D. Simak
1963 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
*1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M., Miller Jr
*1960 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
1959 A Case of Conscience, James Blish
1958 The Big Time, Fritz Leiber
*1956 Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (The Forever Machine), Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
1953 The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

Comments

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz, and The Diamond Age.

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

Hyperion is a good read, but you'll probably find yourself wanting to read the sequels too, and apparently some people found them disappointing (personally I quite liked them).

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I have the sequels too ;-)
One I bought myself, the other two I obtained when major_clanger did that thing of "With all my worldly books I thee endow..."

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

(Sorry if there are typos, it's late & I'm just back from a formal dinner.

I loved Hyperion, it is fantastic, magical, a brilliant futuristic version of the Canterbury Tales, and works, and that is where the sequel (I've only read Fall) fails. He tries to provide some rational explanation for the stranger events in the first book, and those explanations never quite work. There are still moments of brilliance, but nothing that touches the first book.

I've found the same problem with Ilium and olympus, he is always much better at build up than resolution.

I'd recommend The Diamond Age in the same sort of way, Stephenson doesn't really do resolutions but there is some fantastic stuff leading up to that.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I second Diamond Age, and also that the sequels to Hyperion aren't as good; they're very different. Hyperion is chaucer-in-space, the rest are standard-issue sci-fi novels. I also loved Rendezvous with Rama, but again would disrecommend the sequels for having poor characterisation and explaining all the lovely crunchy mysteries too much.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Again, I bought The Diamond Age when it came out, and have been really looking forward to reading it ever since. I think it'll be so good I want to be on top form when I read it, so as to properly appreciate it, but that state of mind has not happened yet ;-)

I am currently reading James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder (jolly good so far), then TDA looks a good size to take for my long journey to Boston (then Simon can carry it home for me).

[hnpcc]

disrecommend the sequels for having poor characterisation and explaining all the lovely crunchy mysteries too much.

Seconded. I know I read them all, but they annoyed me. I liked Rendezvous because they were totally ignoring us, and the sequels just went in the complete opposite direction.

Actually I was surprised at how many of that list I'd read. Must read more SF than I realise at times.

[marcushill.livejournal.com]

What they said, but about Dune.