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I read a lot. I've posted over three hundred book reviews over the last four and a half years, which averages out to over one per week. And I've been reading for a long time. My parents left books around the house so I'd pick them up and teach myself how to read. My mother was called into school when I was four because I could read before I started there and the teachers somehow felt miffed; after all, it was their job to teach me how. My first encounter with science fiction arrived when I was ten, with The Day of the Triffids BBC mini-series, and my mother subsequently assuaged my eagerness for more with Lije Baley, Way Station and the entire run of Heinlein juveniles. I was hooked there and then. But there's a heck of a lot out there that I haven't read. My tastes are such that I've become an expert in niches, whether in books, music or films, but I'm often blind to the mainstream. Sure, I've been reading science fiction since I was ten and I now have a teenage granddaughter, but I haven't even read all the novels that won Hugos and that's a state of affairs I really should do something about. So I am. I'm reviewing one novel per month at The Nameless Zine, in chronological order. To read the reviews here, just click on the covers below (which represent the editions I read) or the titles below them. These reviews also interlink if you want to read through them in order. Links to the original Nameless Zine posts are towards the top of each review. |
Click on a cover to read that book's review.
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| 1950s | 1960s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
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| 1950 | 1960 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| 1951 | 1961 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | |||
| 1952 | 1962 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| 1953 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | 1963 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | |
| 1954 | no award | 1964 | Here Gather the Stars (aka Way Station) |
Clifford D. Simak | ||
| 1955 | They'd Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine) |
Mark Clifton Frank Riley |
1965 | The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber | |
| 1956 | Double Star | Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 | Dune | Frank Herbert | |
| ...And Call Me Conrad (aka This Immortal) |
Roger Zelazny | |||||
| 1957 | no award | 1967 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1958 | The Big Time | Fritz Leiber | 1968 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | |
| 1959 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | 1969 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | |
| 1970s | 1980s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
| 1970 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1980 | The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 1971 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | 1981 | The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge | |
| 1972 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Philip José Farmer | 1982 | Downbelow Station | C. J. Cherryh | |
| 1973 | The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | 1983 | Foundation's Edge | Isaac Asimov | |
| 1974 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1984 | Startide Rising | David Brin | |
| 1975 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1985 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | |
| 1976 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 1986 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1977 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | 1987 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1978 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1988 | The Uplift War | David Brin | |
| 1979 | Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1989 | Cyteen | C. J. Cherryh | |
| 1990s | 2000s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
| 1990 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 2000 | A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | |
| 1991 | The Vor Game | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2001 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | |
| 1992 | Barrayar | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2002 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1993 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | 2003 | Hominids | Robert J. Saywer | |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | |||||
| 1994 | Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2004 | Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold | |
| 1995 | Mirror Dance | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2005 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | |
| 1996 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | 2006 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | |
| 1997 | Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2007 | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | |
| 1998 | Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman | 2008 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | |
| 1999 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | |
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Last update: 23rd May, 2023
