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An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#305586-VA9
Titel	An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
Auteur	Walton, Jo
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Tor
Jaar van uitgave	2018
ISBN10	0765379082
ISBN13	9780765379085
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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-inf... (Lees verder)ormed 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.
Pagina's	574
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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