The New Hugo Winners: Award-Winning Science Fiction Stories

Roger Zelazny appears with two winners: What happens when an electronic demigod defies a living planet for the lives of a man and a woman - and how an intelligence hidden in the world's computers and secretly manipulating the lives of billions is challenged by the only woman who knows how to defeat it... Orson Scott Card records the life of an orphaned teenager who can kill with a thought... Harlan Ellison presents the guardian of the talisman that keeps the world from ending - who is getting very old and tired.... Ursula K. Le Guin tells of a little girl lost in the wilderness encountering talking animals that Disney never dreamed of... Frederik Pohl tells about the moments after nuclear exchange... Greg Bear introduces a child prodigy whose music has charms that reach into other dimensions... AND MORE!

I enjoyed this collection of stories; there is something for everyone. The writing styles are varied enough to keep you interested. The themes are similiar to other books and stories, but I liked it anyway.