Monica Hughes (1) (1925–2003)
Auteur de Invitation to the Game
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Monica Hughes, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Monica Hughes was born in Liverpool, England on November 3, 1925. Before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service, she lived in Egypt as a child and went to school in Scotland. During World War II, she worked on breaking German codes. In 1952, she immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began afficher plus working at Ottawa's National Research Council. She started writing survival stories and science fiction novels for young adults. Her works include the Isis trilogy and Hunter in the Dark. She won numerous awards including the Phoenix Award for literary merit. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2002. She died from a stroke on March 7, 2003 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Monica Hughes (1925-2003) from Life in Legacy
Séries
Œuvres de Monica Hughes
Oeuvres associées
No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices (1997) — Contributeur — 138 exemplaires
Dragons & Dreams: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories (1986) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: As the Crow Flies • Hard Fall • Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish • Hunter… (1991) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hughes, Monica Mary Ince
- Autres noms
- Hughes, Monica Mary
- Date de naissance
- 1925-11-03
- Date de décès
- 2003-03-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK (birth)
Canada - Lieu de naissance
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (tout afficher 11)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
London, Ontario, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Professions
- Dress designer
laboratory technician
children's book author
science fiction writer - Prix et distinctions
- Vicky Metcalf Award, Canadian Authors Association (1981)
Order of Canada
Membres
Discussions
Sci-Fi Trilogy, alien world, female protagonist à Name that Book (Septembre 2020)
Sci-fi - wealthy in city (bald), poor in forest - boy escapes from city à Name that Book (Novembre 2012)
YA Dystopian, kids who fail exam become slaves à Name that Book (Juillet 2011)
YA 80's Science Fiction - Mind Control Device Removal à Name that Book (Juillet 2009)
Critiques
Listes
Best Dystopias (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 39
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 2,584
- Popularité
- #9,938
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 56
- ISBN
- 790
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 7
There are some fine evocations of the alien planet with its different lifeforms and the wildness of the mountains, and Olwen is described vividly also.
Quite an interesting YA tale which deals with issues such as prejudice, attitudes to people who are different in some way, and how sentient a robot could become. There's also the background information of how humans have totally wrecked Earth and are now spreading out into the galaxy, seemingly without having learned any lessons from what they have done to the home planet. This gives the book an underlying thread of pessimism, not that common in a YA novel, at least of the period when it was written.… (plus d'informations)