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 Award 2025 Finalists
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. …
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 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. …
2017 Hugo Award Finalists
2017 Hugo Award Finalists Wow, the Finalists for the 2017 Hugos have been announced. It seems like I’ve only just finished nominating. This is the biggest ballot on record, with 108 Finalists in total. Part of the reason this ballot is so much bigger is because there are six finalists in every category instead of …
Worldcon75 and the Hugo Awards
Nominations for the 2017 Hugo Award are open now. The Hugos are the biggest awards in the Science Fiction and Fantasy world, and are given out each year at the World Science Fiction Convention. Awards are given in dozens of categories, and honour everything from novels to short stories to comics to movies. The awards …
2016 Hugo Award Nominations
The 2016 Hugo Awards Today is the day. This is the first year I have been a member of Worldcon, and therefore the first year I am able to vote in the prestigious Hugo Awards. The Hugos were first held in 1953, and have come to be considered one of the most important awards …
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