Of the following Hugo Award winning books, which have you read? (Really Long Survey)

I wish they'd hurry up and announce the 99 winner. I'm getting antsy.

I've read a few of them and have a few more of them here waiting to be read. I'm an SF/F fan, so eventually I'll do the traditional thing and work my way down the list :)

Brian: The next Worldcon is still four months away, so I suggest you prepare to wait ;)

Someone has WAY too much time on their hands. Long surveys bore me.

I think there's a difference between a long survey and a survey with a lot of options - it's not like these options actually take thought "Have I read this?" "What about this?" is not exactly challenging, it's not like "If in hypothetical situation Y would I behave in X manner? and if so why? or perhaps I'd behave more like Z manner...?"

This is an aside. I don't like Science Fiction, but the Hugo is presented at the World Science Fiction Convention every year, and that's a hell of a party. If it comes to your area, don't miss it. You just THINK people on the net are weird. Wait until you see people strolling around a mall in chain mail.

I'm going to bookmark this survey and use it as a reading list...

I changed this survey to be sorted, and I reformatted to the answers to have more spacing so the page would stretch better.

I should really start on these classics. ;)

"I didn't like any of them" seems like an odd single opinion (vs. experience) option to add in.

There are very few of these that I haven't read that I want to read. I've started a couple of them and put them down unfinished. Like most of these kind of awards, the Hugos are more of a popularity contest than a good-writing award.

The Diamond Age. And a lot of the others are "on my list"... just haven't gotten to them yet.

BTW: Good survey.

Some of the ones I've read were amazingly great and remain on my best books list, others were OK (and I wondered why they were so highly rated).

I've read about 40% of these, and I liked all the ones I read.

I don't think these are my kind of books/.

I am reading "A Fire Upon the Deep" at this moment

I didn't mean to imply that there aren't some very good books on here, just that it's not a list I'm trying to complete. In fact, a couple of my all-time faves are on here (Speaker for the Dead and The Dispossessed). I'm curious about Fritz Leiber, but it looks like this is a bad place to ask about his work :)

Interesting: I've read and enjoyed '82 -'88 but very few before and none since.

None of the above.. and I don't know what this award is... but I have read books by Kate Wilhelm... I really enjoyed The Good Children.

What are the Hugo Awards? I would have thought it to be a good survey, except that should have been defined a little better.

they, the Hugo Awards are voted on by the paying members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (i.e. anyone who wants to pay $100+ to vote and/or go to the con) and are presented in various categories (novel, novella, short story, film/TV, etc.). The above choices are the winners in the "novel" category.

Not One... What are they, Sci Fi? Help????

hunter: I'm not sure I really agree that the Hugo awards are a popularity contest entirely. There is certainly a bit of that, like "Hmmm... this novel wasn't very good, but their other novels are so I'll vote for them" but I think it is less of a popularity contest than something like the Oscars, which is kind of ironic since the Hugos are voted by a bunch of fans, whereas the Oscars are voted by the industry :) (I would also say the Nebulas suffer the same problem as the Oscars)

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