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Welcome to Speculative
Fiction Winners!
Here you'll find a list of major speculative fiction award-winning
novels where you can (in most cases) see the cover, get a book
synopsis, read reviews, and purchase the title.
Latest Hugo Award Winner:
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Canadian author Watts (Starfish) explores the nature of
consciousness in this stimulating hard SF novel, which combines
riveting action with a fascinating alien environment. In the late
21st century, when something alien is discovered beyond the edge of
the solar system, the spaceship Theseus sets out to make
contact. Led by an enigmatic AI and a genetically engineered
vampire, the crew includes a biologist who's more machine than
human, a linguist with surgically induced multiple personality
disorder, a professional soldier who's a pacifist, and Siri Keeton,
a man with only half a brain. Keeton is virtually incapable of
empathy, but he has a savant's ability to model and predict the
actions of others without understanding them. Once the Theseus
arrives at the gigantic and hideously dangerous alien artifact
(which has tellingly self-named itself Rorschach), the crew
must deal with beings who speak English fluently but who may,
paradoxically, not even be sentient, at least as we understand the
term. Watts puts a terrifying and original spin on the familiar
alien contact story.