Is The Windup Girl the next science fiction classic?

Will Paolo Bacigalupi's first novel The Windup Girl end up winning the Hugo? It's next on my reading list, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will just because of all the other awards it's been winning like the Nebula and the Locus award for best first novel. All that attention has the Washington Post publishing a belated review of the book.

Bacigalupi has since written another book called Ship Breaker. Here's a mini review of the book and a profile of the author. As an added bonus, it explains how to properly pronounce his name.

If you like belated reviews, the Guardian is going back to examine past Hugo winners. Their most recent write-up was on Larry Niven's Ringworld.

Niven's book is included in Gollancz Science Fiction Masterworks series which consists of close to 100 books. Some ambitious bloggers aim to read all of them and review them along with Gollancz's Fantasy Masterworks books.

I picked up that last link from this blog which lists all of the titles in the series and asks readers how many of the books they have actually read. I've only read about half of them which means I've got lots of catching up to do.

Of course, that prompts the question, can you have too many books? This observer tackles that conundrum.