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 …
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Hugo Awards 2024 Results
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 …
Hugo Award Novelette Nominees 2024
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 …
Hugo Award Short Stories 2024
As I said last post, I've been busy... but fortunately it doesn't take too long to read short stories. I've read most of this year's Hugo nominees in the short story category, and enjoyed... most of them. Let's get into some quick reviews. Answerless Journey Han Song, Translated by Alex Woodend Originally Published in English …
But the emails! More information on the 2023 Hugos comes to light.
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 …
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Hugo Nominated Short Stories 2022
With the Hugo Nominees announced, I decided to dive right into the short stories. The finalists this year are a good batch, and are all free online. The first three stories in this list; Mr. Death, Proof by Induction, and Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather, are also finalists for the Nebula Award. Here's what I …
Hugo Finalists 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Hugo Awards have just been released. For the full list, check out the the Hugo Award site here. For here, I'm going to mostly focus on the four written fiction categories; the novel, novella, novelette and short stories. In the novel category, there were a total of 443 works nominated. …
Hugo and Locus Award Nominations
It feels like I've only just stopped talking about the 2021 Hugo Awards, and now nominations are open for the 2022 awards. In fact, they opened up just after the ceremony, but I haven't been blogging a lot lately. Nominations for the Hugo Awards are open to all members of both the 2021 DisConIII and …
Hugo Awards 2021
After such a long wait, I was still so excited to see who would take home the rockets today. I had to wait a bit longer due to technical difficulties, but I still love watching the ceremony life. Especially one as good as this one, which was concise and flowed well. The hosts Andrea Hairston …
2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel Nominees as Pokémon
Time to do my annual reviews where I relate everything back to Pokémon. In a normal year, the Hugo Awards would be over and done with by now, but this year it got dragged out due to certain world events. In this post I will be reviewing the nominees for Best Novel, but since this …
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