Hominids

His Hominids is possibly the worst book ever to win the Hugo (and yes, I have read They'd Rather Be Right); and The Terminal Experiment, while not quite as dire, is certainly one of the least impressive Nebula winners.

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Robert J. Sawyer's Hugo Award-winning Hominids is nominated for Ontario Library Association Award. [via Sawyer's blog]

March 2006 2006

Robert J. Sawyer's Hugo Award-winning Hominids is nominated for Ontario Library Association Award. [via Sawyer's blog]

SF Tidbits for 3/15/06 2006

Dunno about "Hominids" or "The Diamond Age" or "To Say Nothing of the Dog", not having read them, but as for the rest of the Hugos of the past ten years, they're all clearly built on a skeleton of excitement.

Miss Snark is not informed on this Miss Snark 2006

I was at Starbucks reading Rob Sawyer's "Hominids" when I heard it:

Archive 2006-02-01 Mac 2006

This evening I finished "Hominids" and started "Child of the River" by Paul J.

Archive 2006-03-01 Mac 2006

While "Hominids" was a good book, it holds little in the way of surprise; it's essentially a "stranger in a strange land" story and shares much of that template's limitations.

Archive 2006-03-01 Mac 2006

South American Hominids – The Mapinguary of the Amazon are hairy, bipedal creature that has been reported in the folklore and legends of the area for centuries.

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Not only was it unusual for a novel actually labeled as science fiction to be adopted for such a program, but Hominids had been serialized in Analog-and you can't get any more hardcore hard-SF than that.

SF Signal Interviews Robert J. Sawyer 2009

RJS: Actually, since 1997, a large number of haven't even been set in the future: Frameshift, Illegal Alien, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids are all set in the present day (the year the novels came out).

SF Signal Interviews Robert J. Sawyer 2009