Hugo Award Winners Can Give Rise To Collecting Ideas
September 8th, 2006 by Alan Chudnow
The 2006 Hugo Awards were voted on and announced at the World Science Fiction Convention two weeks ago. Along with Robert Charles Wilson’s excellent novel Spin other author awards went to Connie Willis’ novella “Inside Job”, Peter S. Beagle’s novelette “Two Hearts” and David D. Levine’s short story “Tk’tk’tk”. The other noteworthy author award to come out of the WorldCon was the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer which went to John Scalzi.
I always pay attention to the Hugo awards. Not only am I quite likely to find something worth reading that I may have missed but as a collector the Hugos and the Campbell Awards always give me ideas on what to consider collecting.
Here are some thoughts off the top of my head:
- Works by Robert Charles Wilson
- Works by Connie Willis
- Works by Peter S. Beagle
- Works by David D. Levine
- Works by John Scalzi
- All Hugo Award winning novels
- Stories about Time Travel
- Stories about the Military in Space
- Stories about Cloning
- Stories about Unicorns
- Stories about Human/Alien culture shock
Some are probably easier than others. Scalzi as opposed to Wilson or Beagle for instance. Time Travel is a huge subject but how about time travel on a personal level like David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself or strictly on a societal level like Issac Asimov’s The End of Eternity? A complete collection of all Hugo award-winning novels, now that would be some collection!
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