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Hugo Award Winners

Nov

22

2022

Memories of Science Fiction Legend
Greg Bear

I met Greg Bear thirty years ago, in early 1992, when I was a clerk at Half Price Books in Seattle’s University District. I’d been a fan since high school, and when he handed me the credit card for his purchase, I froze with my heart slamming in my ears. “You’re not the science fiction …

Nov

16

2020

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

This excellent trilogy’s first book, The Fifth Season, begins on a dying world with a mother searching for her missing daughter. Opposing forces are using the power of the earth for their own benefit and using children as pawns in their struggle to control the world. This riveting trilogy will keep you on the edge of your …

Oct

12

2018

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On the 2018 Hugo Awards

On August 18, the Hugo Awards were handed out. This is a big deal mostly in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community, but, this year it should be a big deal to everyone who values inclusive writing, especially the voices of women and more particularly women of color. For years, Science Fiction and Fantasy were …

Oct

11

2018

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

It is rare and wonderful to find a book that takes me completely by surprise. This one did. Twice. –Kim R., Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Delve into this stunning, complex world—  and relish the fact that you don’t have to wait to read the whole trilogy since the final volume is already out. …

Jan

24

2018

RIP Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, October 21, 1929 – January 23, 2018 As University Book Store bookseller, author, and nwbooklovers doodler Brad Craft so perfectly put it, Thank you for all our journeys together. We …

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