Nebula Winning Books

[blues008]

Looking for something to read, and was wondering if anyone has read the recent Nebula Award winning books:

Examples:

Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon 2003
American Gods by Neil Gailman 2002
The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro 2001

Looks like the first winner from 1965 was Frank Herbert for Dune:

http://www.dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/#00s

 

[atom]

Heh, I've had American Gods sitting on my bookshelf for a while now, I should really get to reading it......

 

[nakedfrog]

Nope... not a one... read other books by some of those authors, however.

 

[Kilgor]

I've read

Ringworld, by Larry Niven 1970
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke 1973
THE FOREVER WAR, by Joe Haldeman 1975
Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl 1976
Gateway, by Frederik Pohl 1977
Ender's Game , by Orson Scott Card 1985
Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card 1986 (Didn't know it won, didn't like it.)

I don't read as much Hard Science Fiction as I used too. I read more Fantasy and MilitaryScifi now It's lighter on the Brain. 🙂

 

[DaveSimmons]

Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy (fantasy) was excellent and Hunting Party and Remnant Population (both SF) were good, but Speed of Dark didn't appeal to me from the description and her last couple of books before that were only ok (IMHO).

Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett's Good Omens was a lot of fun, I liked it even though I never got into Pratchett's Discworld books.

Kilgor lists some great past winners, I've read all except Rama. In general I'd say Nebula winners are a mix of excelllent books and arty/pretentious books that appeal to voters' desire to treat SF as "serious literature." (The Disposessed = allegory thicker than crocodile leather)

 

[blues008]

anyone else?

 

[Armitage]

2002: American Gods.
Thought it sucked actually, not sure why it's considered SciFi. Maybe fantasy, but certainly not scifi

1994: Moving Mars
I know I read this, but it obviously didn't make an impression either way as I don't remember a thing about.

1986: Speaker for the Dead
Bleh

1985: Enders Game
Rocks!

1984: Neuromancer
One of my all time favorites

1980: Timescape
See Moving Mars

1979: Fountains of Paradise
Pretty good, but not Clarke's best work

1973: Rendevous With Rama
Excellent

1972: The Gods Themselves
Another of my favorites

1970: Ringworld
Used to be one of my favorites, then I read it again, and it didn't have the same impression.

1969: The Left Had of Darkness
One of the few SciFi books I didn't make it through. Just didn't get into it.

1965: Dune
Great read ... much better then the movie. And the movie was good.