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Seth is joined again by Olav Rokne from the Hugo Awards Book Club to discuss the 1977 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hugospodcast
Time Codes:
| Start – 2:18 | Intro/quick chat with Olav |
| 2:19 – end | Spoiler discussion |
Links:
Hugo Club: http://hugoclub.blogspot.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hugo_Book_Club
Notes & Mentions:
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart
The Death of Grass, by John Christopher
Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank
Children of Men, by P. D. James
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Sonnet 73, by William Shakespeare
More often than not I tend to prefer the Nebula Winning novel (example Timescape over The Snow Queen, No Enemy But Time over Foundation’s Edge), but in this case I agree with the Hugo voters, Wilhelm over Pohl’s Man Plus.
One thing I’m definitely looking forward to is picking some Nebula winners to cover/contrast.
Yes. Its really interesting to compare. Things happen like Jack Mcdevitt gets 12 Nebula nominations for best novel, but 0 nominations for the Hugo novel? Why is that? I have only read one of his novels so I don’t know the reason for this. I think the opposite it true for Charles Across he has 16 or no Hugo nominations and only one Nebula nominations. I know different people are nominating works by I still find this unusual.
Actually I thought of 2 more examples where I prefer the Hugo winner- Stand on Zanzibar is better than Rite of Passage. And I prefer The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to Babel 17.
But sometimes the Hugo voters infuriate me- ex. giving awards to Harry Potter books or nominating Black Genesis.
I am not well read enough to say this with certainty but so far my tastes are inline more with the WFA award, even though I prefer sci-fi to fantasy.
Charles Stross.
Robert Charles Wilson who of course won for Spin only gets nominated for Hugs its 7 to 1.
You know, if you follow me on Twitter, a lot of this would make for great conversation, and Juan and others would weigh in I’m sure.
I am going to admit that I am not versed in Twitter and have yet to participate in it.
No worries. It can be a bit of a cesspool after all. There’s also the Facebook page if you hang around there. Juan and I are friends there as well. It’s amazing how many Internet Friends one can make just by reading books and talking about them.
Yes. Especially if one has strong opinions about them.
Yes I can’t deal with Twitter. But I will try Facebook. Sometimes I go on the Ted Chiang fan club on Facebook. I got into a rather heated- lets say spirited discussion with someone from Denmark about Chiang’s works.
There’s good to be found on Twitter, but a lot of bad to sift through.