Hugo History

Join us as we discuss one of the Hugo Award winners for 1966 (there was a tie!): Roger Zelazny's ...And Call Me Conrad , which was retitled This Immortal when it was published as a fix-up novel.  Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month...

Join us as we discuss one of the Hugo Award winners for 1966 (there was a tie!): Frank Herbert's Dune .  Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Stephen Kotowych, who is probably best known for putting together yearly anthol...

Join us as we discuss the eleventh Hugo Award winner: Fritz Lieber's The Wanderer . Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Roseanna Pendlebury, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer and nominated for the Hugo for BEST Fa...

Join us as we discuss the tenth Hugo Award winner: Clifford D. Simak's  Way Station, also known as "Here Gather the Stars."  Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Paul Weimer, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer. He w...

Join us as we discuss the ninth Hugo Award winner: Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle . Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Vancouver-based horror writer, Joseph Andre Thomas , who has most recently published a...

Join us as we discuss the eighth Hugo Award winner: Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land .  Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Elias Eells of Bar Cart Bookshelf , where he reviews books and makes cocktails to...

Join us as we discuss the seventh Hugo Award winner: Robert A. Miller's Canticle for Leibowitz .  Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Josh Nudell, historian and speculative fiction fan. You can find Josh on Bluesky @jpnu...

Join us as we discuss the sixth Hugo Award winner: Robert A. Heinlein's  Starship Troopers!   Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is journalist and long-time Doctor Who podcaster, Warren Frey, @freyburg.bsky.social, from Ra...

Join us as we discuss the Hugo Award winner for 1959: James Blish's A Case of Conscience .  You can find the book on the Internet Archive here . Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Alana Vincent, a scholar who studies th...

Join us as we discuss the Hugo Award winner for 1958: Fritz Lieber's The Big Time : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Time_(novel) You can find the whole book at The Internet Archive .   Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website:  https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's gu...

Join us as we discuss the third Hugo Award winner: Robert A Heinlein's  Double Star , which won in 1956. Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ Hugo History has a patreon !  This month's guest is David Blaeser, a Vancouver-based fiber artist who...

Join us as we discuss the second Hugo Award winner: Frank Riley and Mark Clifton's They'd Rather Be Right,  which is often called 'the worst book to ever win the Hugo'!! Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Rob Tomshany, @...

Join us as we discuss the first ever book to win a Hugo Award: Alfred Bester's  The Demolished Man : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demolished_Man Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Miles Reid-Lobatto of Casual Trek....