fifteenth in a series of reviews of those pieces of written science fiction and fantasy which have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. I had some reservations about including "Flowers for Algernon" in this series. It is an unusual case in that different versions of the story won different awards; the original short story, published in Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1959, won a 1960 Hugo, while the novel length expansion jointly won a 1966 Nebula. So to do it justice I would have to review two separately
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Published in 1945, George Orwell’s dystopian novel Animal Farm parallels the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent brutal regime led by Joseph Stalin. As a democratic socialist, Orwell was highly motivated to expose and condemn what he viewed as Stalin’s corruption of socialist ideology. When Orwell originally attempted to publish Animal Farm, several British publishers rejected his work because they viewed the novel as
During this time, many of Orwell’s companions were killed, yet he and his wife safely escaped in 1937 which prompted him to compose the true story Homage to Catalonia. (Merriman 2) During the years of World War II, Orwell turned back to what he did best, freelance writing. He wrote for New English Weekly, The Tribune and New Statesman. (Merriman 2) Continuing on, Orwell typically wrote stories that included a deep meaning, and others that were a simple read and a “journal” of his many life experiences
first published PARABLE. In 1995, Four Walls also published my short story collection, BLOODCHILD AND OTHER STORIES. One story in this collection, "Speech Sounds," won a Hugo award as best short story of 1984. The title story, "Bloodchild," won both the 1985 Hugo and the 1984 Nebula awards as best novelette. And speaking of awards, in the summer of 1995, I received a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Her most recent book now is Lilith’s Brood published in
Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal