Otorgados anualmente en el transcurso de las convenciones mundiales que celebran los aficionados a la ciencia ficción, y votados por los propios lectores, los premios Hugo son el máximo galardón al que aspiran los cultivadores de este género. El Premio Hugo representa, ante todo, la popularidad. Su obtención supone la consagración definitiva del autor como maestro, y en muchos casos ha catapultado a la fama a escritores desconocidos. Presentadas con desenfado por Isaac Asimov, se recogen aquí las narraciones que ganaron el premio en los años 1978 y 1979, dentro de las categorías de cuento y novela corta. Su lectura, además de ser apasionante para el aficionado, es una toma de contacto idónea con la ciencia ficción para el profano que desee conocer las narraciones que consagraron en su día a los grandes maestros. En el presente volumen se incluyen seis nuevos relatos que recorren el amplio abanico de temas y enfoques imaginados por los mejores escritores del género para sus lectores. Con ellos, Spider Robinson ganó por segundo año consecutivo el premio a la mejor novela corta, esta vez contando con la colaboración de su mujer, Jeanne; Poul Anderson y Harlan Ellison merecieron su sexto galardón, al tiempo que mostraban, respectivamente, las virtudes de la ciencia ficción más tradicional y de la vanguardia del género; John Varley causó una verdadera conmoción entre los aficionados, gracias a una historia realmente extraordinaria; y dos mujeres, Joan D. Vinge y C. J. Cherryh, consiguieron alcanzar el estrellato antes de que sus nombres pasaran a figurar en las listas del Hugo a la mejor novela. Los relatos que ganaron el favor del público y forjaron la historia del género. Premio Hugo de Novela Corta 1978: "Danza estelar" (Stardance, 1977) - Spider y Jeanne Robinson. Premio Hugo de Relato 1978: "Ojos de ámbar" (Eyes of Amber, 1977) - Joan D. Vinge. Premio Hugo de Relato Corto 1978: "Jefty tiene cinco años" (Jeffty is Five, 1977) - Harlan Ellison. Premio Hugo de Novela Corta 1979: "La persistencia de la visión" (The Persistence of Vision, 1978)- John Varley. Premio Hugo de Relato 1979: "La luna del cazador" (Hunter's Moon, 1978) - Poul Anderson. Premio Hugo de Relato Corto 1979: "Casandra" (Cassandra, 1978)- C.J. Cherryh
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Spider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. He was born in the USA, but chose to live in Canada, and gained citizenship in his adopted country in 2002. Robinson's writing career began in 1972 with a sale to Analog Science Fiction magazine of a story entitled, The Guy With The Eyes. His writing proved popular, and his first novel saw print in 1976, Telempath. Since then he has averaged a novel (or collection) a year. His most well known stories are the Callahan saloon series.
Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley. Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3] Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously. Series: * Time Patrol * Psychotechnic League * Trygve Yamamura * Harvest of Stars * King of Ys * Last Viking * Hoka * Future history of the Polesotechnic League * Flandry
Full name: John Herbert Varley. John Varley was born in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University. He has written several novels and numerous short stories.He has received both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Harlan Jay Ellison was a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5. Several of his short fiction pieces have been made into movies, such as the classic "The Boy and His Dog". webmaster@harlanellison.com
