Books10/22/11Oct 22 20111Books10/22/11BooksDavid Brin's Startide Rising takes off, but could use more gravityJosh Wimmer53Dolphin starship pilots! Chimpanzee scientists! Hordes of vicious aliens! And a fleet of billion-year-old warships…
Books1/18/11Jan 18 20111Books1/18/11BooksGene Wolfe talks dystopian futures, and the chances of star-drive in our lifetimeJosh Wimmer55A one-in-200 chance that an interstellar drive will be developed soon? Gene Wolfe thinks it's possible. The author…
Books1/15/11Jan 15 20111Books1/15/11BooksDownbelow Station: Here's how you write a novelJosh Wimmer67Take one highly vulnerable space station. Pack it with realistic characters. And then start a war. You'll end up…
Books12/26/10Dec 26 20101Books12/26/10BooksBreaking Waves showcases the fury and fragility of the seaJosh Wimmer3Need a break from holiday commercialism? Want to send a much-needed gift to groups cleaning up one of 2010's worst…
Books11/28/10Nov 28 20101Books11/28/10BooksJoan Vinge’s The Snow Queen: The girl-power counterpart to Star WarsJosh Wimmer82Do you enjoy space opera, fantastic technologies, millennia-old mysteries, and terrifically wicked villains who want…
Books11/7/10Nov 7 20101Books11/7/10BooksIn Arthur Clarke's Fountains of Paradise, man makes tidy work of the heavensJosh Wimmer118If cleanliness is next to godliness, then I can't help but think God must like 1980's Hugo-winning novel, The…
Books10/24/10Oct 24 2010SaveBooks10/24/10BooksFeminism, astronauts, and riding sidesaddle: Talking to Dreamsnake's Vonda McIntyreJosh Wimmer35It's Dreamsnake weekend for Blogging the Hugos! Today, an interview with author Vonda McIntyre about writing 1979's…
Books10/23/10Oct 23 20102Books10/23/10BooksDreamsnake: The controversial Hugo winner that's no longer in printJosh Wimmer38Back when it won the Hugo in 1979, Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake was one woman's radical ride through a…
Books10/9/10Oct 9 20103Books10/9/10BooksGateway by Frederik Pohl: The most dreadful of Hugo winnersJosh Wimmer74Long before he was named Best Fan Writer — way back in 1978, in fact — Frederik Pohl won another Hugo (and a Nebula…
Books9/26/10Sep 26 20101Books9/26/10BooksKate Wilhelm's Sweet Birds: How protecting a species can endanger itJosh Wimmer20The musical, measured Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm — which won the Hugo in 1977 — is an artful…
Books9/11/10Sep 11 20101Books9/11/10BooksThe Forever War remains timeless, especially on September 11Josh Wimmer90It's been nine years since our own interminable War on Terror started. Can we learn anything from 1976's…
Books8/29/10Aug 29 20101Books8/29/10BooksUrsula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: When you want to like a book but don'tJosh Wimmer84After a short break, "Blogging the Hugos" is back with 1975 Hugo winner The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. I…
Movies7/31/10Jul 31 20101Movies7/31/10MoviesHey, Morgan Freeman: Here's how to make a Rendezvous With Rama movieJosh Wimmer119People have talked about turning Arthur C. Clarke's 1974 Hugo winner into a movie, but no one's done it. Should that…
Books7/3/10Jul 3 20101Books7/3/10BooksThe first novel of Riverworld covers deep waters, but it's a rough rideJosh Wimmer40There's a lot going on in 1972's Hugo-winning novel, Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go. But in this…
Books6/19/10Jun 19 20101Books6/19/10BooksRingworld is a lot like Lost, but there's a crucial differenceJosh Wimmer89Larry Niven's Hugo-winning novel from 1971 has a surprising amount in common with network television's biggest…
Books6/5/10Jun 5 20102Books6/5/10BooksThe truth is self-evident: Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness isn't about genderJosh Wimmer75It's 1970, and with this Hugo winner — Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness — we finally got the ladies up…
Books5/22/10May 22 20101Books5/22/10BooksHey, Neal Stephenson fans: You’ll wanna read lost classic Stand on ZanzibarJosh Wimmer64Somehow, John Brunner's 1969 Hugo winner has fallen out of print. That's a terrific shame, because Stand on Zanzibar…
Books5/9/10May 9 20101Books5/9/10BooksLord Of Light: Big Wheels Keep On Turnin'Josh Wimmer56In the first chapter of Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny — which won the Hugo in 1968 — the book's hero preaches a…
Books5/2/10May 2 20101Books5/2/10BooksHeinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress Goes Dismayingly Easy On Its CharactersJosh Wimmer127With 1967's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, we bid a fond adieu to Robert A. Heinlein's Hugo winners. And there's just…
Books4/11/10Apr 11 20102Books4/11/10BooksIn Dune, The Earth Lifts Up Humans Into GodhoodJosh Wimmer248On the harsh desert planet Arrakis, a boy faces off against Destiny with a capital D, in Frank Herbert's 1966 Hugo…