2005 Hugo Nominees

I haven’t had time to do reviews of the nominated novels this year, though I reviewed Iron Council back in September, and I’m hoping to review Charles Stross’s Iron Dawn before the end of August. Meanwhile, you can find the entire list of nominees here and the winners, posted at the link below.

In addition, my thoughts on the nominated short stories follow, along with links to each.

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Movie Discussion: Stealth

nkuzmik
writes, Just saw Thursday night. While I wasn’t
expecting much other than a rewrap of a familiar man
v. machine-out-of-control story, paired with flying
that would make Maverick and Ice wet themselves I was
pleasantly surprised. I totally did not expect them
to go in the direction they did. Not having seen
it myself, I’m not sure which direction nkuzmik is
referring to. Is it possible that this movie has more
going for it than the ads would indicate?

Galapagos

And people still laugh about as much as they ever did…. If a bunch of them are lying around the beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.
–Galapagos

Vonnegut wrote his best novels in the 1960s; his work started to founder in the 1970s. Critics often called his 1985 novel, Galápagos a comeback. Uneven but often brilliant, it would prove one of his last really good books.

In short: the future of humanity falls in the hands of the people who most likely would have been voted first off the island.

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