title: Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick
author: Mike Resnick
description: Between 1989 and 2012, a span of 23 years, the members of the World Science Fiction Society have seen fit to honor Mike Resnick with 36 Hugo nominations, 30 for his fiction, more than any other science fiction author. The 30 nominated short stories, including the five winning tales, are included in this volume. As you read through these stories, you ll find Theodore Roosevelt attempting to bring civilization to the Congo...and to London. You ll return, with some regularity, to Africa, whether a mythical version existing on a terraformed asteroid or the historical birthplace of humanity along the Olduvai Gorge. Love and loss are depicted whether for a missing spouse, an old friend, an author one has never met, or a copper-skinned Martian princess. Walk in the dusty footsteps of Koriba or see what it is like to live with Dr. Frankenstein, his monster, and Igor. Like the fables which are embedded in so many of these tales, these stories will entertain and make you think. Without seeming to, Resnick adds layers of depth to even the most innocuous-seeming story. And when you are finished, you ll find yourself thinking about all they have to say.
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  Book Description
  
  
  Some writing classes caution their students to avoid first-person stories—too
  traditional, too dated, too difficult to sell. We’ve convinced 5-time Hugo
  Award winner Mike Resnick to show you how it’s done with two dozen of his best
  first-person stories.
  
  
  
  
  
  You want Hugo nominees? We got ’em.
  
  
  Humor? Them, too.
  
  
  Award winners and nominees? Yep.
  
  
  Fantasy? But, of course.
  
  
  Science fiction? Absolutely.
  
  
  Sherlock Holmes? We’ve even got one of them.
  
  
  
  
  
  Mike Resnick is, according to _Locus_ magazine _,_ the all-time leading award
  winner, living or dead, for short fiction. _First Person Peculiar_ will
  explain why.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Mike Resnick
  
  
  
  
  
  Smashwords Edition - 2014
  
  
  WordFire Press  
  www.wordfire.com
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-61475-151-9
  
  
  Entire contents copyright (c) 2014 Kirinyaga, Inc.
  
  
  Additional copyright information at end of book
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduc