The 2007 Hugo Awards were announced recently in Japan. The Hugo awards recognize the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing.
The Hugo is named after Hugo Gernsback, a magazine publisher credited with publishing the first science fiction magazine.
Some of this year's winners are:
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Set in the future of 2025, computers have become ubiquitous and connect people in ways not possible today. In a genre sometimes referred to as cyberpunk, this novel from Vinge looks to be an interesting addition to his Fast Times at Fairmont High collection of short stories.
This next three novellas were published in the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction.
A Billion Eves by Robert Reed
Robert Reed tells us the following tale “It is a brutal reworking of a story that I first wrote in my mid-twenties. What remains from that earlier attempt is the flashback sections with the sorority house . . . except that I changed the point-of-view and the general tone, and, hopefully, I bring to bear the wisdom of a couple of decades of life experience.”
The Djinn's Wife by Ian McDonald
“The Djinn’s Wife” shares the same background of near-future India as Ian’s last Asimov’s story, “The Little Goddess” (June 2005), and his most recent novel, the 2005 Hugo-nominee River of Gods (Pyr). The author’s current book-in-progress is Brasyl. Ian works in television program development, and lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with the hills behind him and the sea before.
Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt’s stories have been published in Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and other places. His first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl (Bantam Spectra), appeared in 2005, and his next collection, Hart & Boot & Other Stories, will be out later this year from Nightshade Books. Tim co-edits a little literary ‘zine called Flytrap with his wife, Heather Shaw. They live in Oakland, California. In his new story for Asimov’s, he takes a fresh look at that mysterious little shop we’d all like to find once again, and offers us a tantalizing glimpse of some . . .
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