Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Hugo Winners Volume 4 - Isaac Asimov

An exceptional anthology, obtaining the platinum standard of a 4 average, including two 5s. The only weak spot is the Leiber.

Hugo Winners 4 : Home Is the Hangman - Roger Zelazny
Hugo Winners 4 : The Borderland of Sol - Larry Niven
Hugo Winners 4 : Catch That Zeppelin! - Fritz Leiber
Hugo Winners 4 : By Any Other Name - Spider Robinson
Hugo Winners 4 : Houston Houston Do You Read? - James TiptreeJr.
Hugo Winners 4 : The Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov
Hugo Winners 4 : Tricentennial - Joe W. Haldeman
Hugo Winners 4 : Stardance [short story] - Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
Hugo Winners 4 : Eyes of Amber - Joan D. Vinge
Hugo Winners 4 : Jeffty Is Five - Harlan Ellison
Hugo Winners 4 : The Persistence of Vision - John Varley
Hugo Winners 4 : Hunter's Moon - Poul Anderson
Hugo Winners 4 : Cassandra - C. J. Cherryh


Telepresence party prank has terrible results, robot killer wrongly represented afterwards, but does his duty despite detective.

5 out of 5


Indestructible interstellar ship interference.

3.5 out of 5


Airship transport changes.

3 out of 5


Genius' common cold cure provokes civilisation smelling overload suicide slaughter.

4 out of 5


Solar flare spaceship time lost in space, plague earth now has paucity of separatist clone chick population.

4.5 out of 5


Robot evolution legal test case.

4 out of 5


SETI success spurs space dwellers to sneaky space mission.

4 out of 5


Showing a bit of galactic leg.

3.5 out of 5


I am the Music Man, and I talk to people who don't come from down your way.

4 out of 5


Parents eventual terminal lack of patience with kid with the brilliant new old stuff.

5 out of 5


Communication fuller but lots weirder with fewer senses.

4.5 out of 5


Xenology swarm study feedback a bit two-way.

3.5 out of 5


Ghost ruins.

3.5 out of 5




5 out of 5

No comments: