Monica Hughes (1) (1925–2003)
Author of Invitation to the Game
For other authors named Monica Hughes, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
Image credit: Monica Hughes (1925-2003) from Life in Legacy
Series
Works by Monica Hughes
Associated Works
No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices (1997) — Contributor — 137 copies
Dragons & Dreams: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories (1986) — Contributor — 41 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: As the Crow Flies • Hard Fall • Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish • Hunter… (1991) — Contributor — 5 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Hughes, Monica Mary Ince
- Other names
- Hughes, Monica Mary
- Birthdate
- 1925-11-03
- Date of death
- 2003-03-07
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK (birth)
Canada - Birthplace
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Places of residence
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (show all 11)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
London, Ontario, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Occupations
- Dress designer
laboratory technician
children's book author
science fiction writer - Awards and honors
- Vicky Metcalf Award, Canadian Authors Association (1981)
Order of Canada
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Discussions
Sci-Fi Trilogy, alien world, female protagonist in Name that Book (September 2020)
Sci-fi - wealthy in city (bald), poor in forest - boy escapes from city in Name that Book (November 2012)
YA Dystopian, kids who fail exam become slaves in Name that Book (July 2011)
YA 80's Science Fiction - Mind Control Device Removal in Name that Book (July 2009)
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Best Dystopias (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 11
- Members
- 2,538
- Popularity
- #10,118
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 56
- ISBNs
- 791
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 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.… (more)