The Hugo Winners 1955-1961
10 best books like The Hugo Winners 1955-1961 (Isaac Asimov): Make Way for Ducklings, Jazz, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Sugar Skull, Unfettered, Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event, X'ed Out, The Hive, Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
| Author | Robert McCloskey |
| ISBN | 0670035386 |
The Big Chill Except With The Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up is what I originally was going to post for this review but then I was like you know who likes ridiculous things with extremely long titles is McSweeney's, I should see if they want this, and they did. Here are the...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452269652 |
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story...
Harold and the Purple Crayon
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0747532036 |
"One night, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight." So begins this gentle story that shows just how far your imagination can take you. Armed only with an oversized purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of beauty and excitement. But this...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907902 |
Gorgeous, Obsessive, Nightmarish
Charles Burns’ X'ed Out-The Hive-Sugar Skull Trilogy feels to me like an amalgam of all my personal obsessions, which in itself is a little scary: thick, clean, stripped-down lines – check; lots of soothing black ink – check; a fragmented narrative...
| Author | Shawn Speakman |
| ISBN | 0984713638 |
You define life or it defines you.
In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both.
Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hogdkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author...
Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1506701981 |
4.25ish stars.
Maybe my favorite on-going title. Great character work and a solid, clever plot that deftly balances Golden Age superheroes with New Age struggles. It makes the '90s flashbacks feel like the '40s but it works. This is a big improvement over the first volume; now that the character...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307379132 |
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow.
What’s...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907880 |
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing...
| Author | Lynd Ward |
| ISBN | 0486435008 |
The most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evocative novel, told entirely through woodcuts. Ward (1905–85), in employing the concept of the wordless pictorial narrative, acknowledged his predecessors the European artists Frans Masereel...
| Author | Ted Chiang |
| ISBN | 1596061006 |
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves,...
| Author | Tom Shippey |
| ISBN | 0192803816 |
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre -- science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0345254171 |
James Tiptree Jr, or Alice Sheldon as she was known when publishing psychology papers instead of science fiction stories, is one of the best of an innovative era for the form, beginning to publish right at the cusp of the 60s and 70s. Whether originally intended or incidental, her choice of a male pseudonym...
| Author | Troy Denning |
| ISBN | 1560761210 |
A new creed kindled from despair...
Kalak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced the majestic city of Tyr to a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear.
His thousand-year reign of death is about to end.
Banding together to spark a revolution are a maverick...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0425190447 |
Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points...
Le jour le plus long du futur
| Author | Lucas Varela |
| ISBN | 2756063444 |
Dans une ville futuriste, un robot et un employé de bureau sans histoire vont voir leur existence chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un étranger portant une mystérieuse valise. Cette dernière donne accès à une étonnante pièce permettant la matérialisation des désirs inconscients. Des désirs...
