Even though I am once again very out of the loop regarding the Hugo Awards, I'm still happy I caught the livestream of the announcement. There have been a number of reasons why I haven't been involved, including that it has been an absolute clusterfuck in recent years. The 2023 Awards in China are the …
Continue reading My Very Brief Thoughts on the 2026 Hugo Awards
The 2025 Hugo Award were awarded last night, and first of all, a big congratulations to all the winners. And the nominees; just being on the ballot is a huge achievement. I have to be honest, This will be a quick post because I have not been following the Hugo Awards closely this year. This …
I did this a few years ago and it was really fun, so I'm gonna do it again; let's read all the short stories that have been nominated for the big three SFF awards and talk about them. The best part about this, is that most of the finalists are available to read free online, …
Continue reading 2025 Hugo, Locus and Nebula Nominated Short Stories
Yay, it's that time of the year again, where the Hugo Finalists for the year get announced. For another year I've been a bit out of the loop (money and time issues mostly, I might talk more about that later) but I think we can have fun discovering some new favourite stories and games together. …
Well, you know what they say, "better late than never". It's been the while since the Hugos were announced, but even being late to the party the Novellas this year were mostly good and deserve to be talked about. So let's not waste anymore time and get right into the reviews. The Mimicking of Known …
The Hugo results are out and first things first, I CALLED IT. Naomi Kritzer got two Hugos, with Better Living Through Algorithms and The Year Without Sunshine both winning their categories. I love being right. But, let's start at the beginning and talk about individual results in a little bit. First of all, there was …
Novelettes are such an awkward length. Just enough more of a time sink than short stories to make it easy to put them off, but still effectively just a short story without the space to go deep the way a novella can. However even just a couple of thousand words extra allows for so much …
Welcome to Award Season everyone. Within the last fortnight the the finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards and the 59th Nebula Awards have been announced, and it looks like another competitive pair of ballots. Here are links to both sets of final ballots: Hugo Awards: https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/2024-hugo-award-finalists/ Nebula Awards: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-the-59th-nebula-awards-finalists/ I was having concerns with the …
So, last week I made a post about how shitty it was that award worthy authors and works were shafted in the 2023 Hugo Awards for no apparent reason. You can read it by clicking here. Not long after I made that post, a bombshell in the story dropped. Emails were leaked which show that …
Continue reading But the emails! More information on the 2023 Hugos comes to light.
I did say I would talk about the Hugo Nominations when the nomination statists page was released, and well... here we are. Worldcon23 dropped the data at the last possible second and damn, there is some controversy. Click here for a link to the PDF if you want to follow along. If you aren't interested …
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