DJ: What is An Informal History of the Hugos about? My novels have also won an embarrassing number of awards – I’m actually embarrassed to list them at this point. This is my second collection of blog posts, the first one was called What Makes This Book So Great and it won the Locus Award for Best Non Fiction in 2015. I also write poetry, and very occasional short stories, I had a short story collection out earlier this year from Tachyon Press, called Starlings. Jo Walton: I’m a science fiction and fantasy writer, I’ve published thirteen novels with a fourteenth, Lent due out in May 2019. ◊ ◊ ◊ DJ: Hi Jo! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview! For readers who aren’t familiar with you, could you tell us a little about yourself? It's great."- New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing on What Makes This Book So GreatĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Today I am interviewing Jo Walton, author of the new book, An Informal History of the Hugos. "A remarkable guided tour through the field-a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. 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 David G. Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. 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. They are widely considered the most prestigious awards in science fiction.īetween 20, 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. The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science-fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been presented since 1953.
Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great.
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