#hugo winner

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The Hugo Winners Volume One: 1962-1967, redactie: Isaac Asimov

Bespreking: Peter Motte, 1460 woorden Mijn huidige boek, The Hugo Winners 1963-1967, bevat twee verhalen van Jack Vance: “The Dragon-Masters” en “The Last Castle”.Van “The Dragon-Masters” zouden er maar liefst 3 vertalingen in het NL bestaan, tenzij minstens één van de vertalers met een pseudoniem werkte.De uitgave in de SF-Kwadraten bij Meulenhoff heb ik jaren geleden gelezen, maar ik…

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FOUNDATION TRILOGY - Isaac Asimov (1951-'53)

For about a decade I didn’t read any fiction. About 14 years ago a friend recommended me Anathem by Neil Stephenson, and I’ve been back at reading fiction since. Some Culture novels by Banks followed, and I became enamored with science fiction as genre. So I dove into its canon, and the Foundation series became the first thing I read after I gobbled up Iain M. Banks. It became one of my favorite…

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Blue Lions? Nope.

Purple Lions.

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One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert / Hugo Weaving as Anthony "Tick" Belrose (Mitzi Del Bra)

Year: 1994

Designer: Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner

In a movie full of flamboyant costumes, this minidress adorned with pink and orange flip-flops definitely stands out for its original materials. It's got a definite 1960s vibe, between the length, the colors, and the "pop art" feel to it. Accessories include matching earrings, knee-high "gladiator" sandals, a cotton-candy-pink wig, and many large rings.

This was the first movie I ever saw Hugo Weaving in, so he wasn't cemented as "Agent Smith" in my mind, as he seems to have been for those who first encountered him in The Matrix. Consequently, I had no trouble shifting to viewing him as Elrond in the LOTR movies.

[rocicrew]

THE EXPANSE (2015-2022)

HUGO AWARD WINS (& 3 NOMINATIONS)

[mossyshadows]

prequel to priory, a day of fallen night, is like.. not bad so far but i’m only 1/8 through it and it already feels like a slog because it just feels like a rehash of priory and it’s the prequel and yes loops and tragedies and fate etc but it has to be Good to still be interesting and i don’t think it’s that good to pull it off... anyway might abandon this . want to reread imperial radch

[jellyaibo]

fuuuuck FUUUCK i kinda love hugo can u tell ? ft winnerloser cosplaying as....well yknow

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General Colville in the eleventh hour at Waterloo: “You have fought well, brave Frenchmen! Surrender!”

A relatively unknown French officer named Cambronne: “Shit!”

Beloved author and certified Frenchman, Victor Hugo, forty-ish years later:

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excerpts from the Lambda Literary Award winning 2 Trans 2 Furious: an extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies

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I have been following the Hugo Award scandal the whole time, mostly via my mother, and I know "evil Chinese government censorship" is a whole conspiracy theory model, but also: the Chinese government does have censorship and media standards, and

WorldCon 2023 and the Hugo Awards did take place in China with official support and hype as an event

and the voting statistic numbers could be "one or more mistakes covered up clumsily by multiple people" - they're certainly the latter part

but the impossible statistics are not the scandal.

The scandal is that multiple works were rejected as "ineligible" even though they were very much eligible, including the frontrunner for Best Novel, which we know was eligible because it had just won the Nebula (why it was the frontrunner) which currently has the same standards. Multiple, across multiple categories. That would be a hell of a mistake.

It and two other works rejected are by diaspora Chinese people. (Again, different categories.) That doesn't prove anything, but when people started going "what the hell happened", a pattern is a pattern.

So when it turns out via leaked emails that the English-language members of the committee were indeed feeling the need to check for "anti-China elements" in nominated works

that's not a conspiracy theory and it never was. it is, in fact, more likely that entries were deliberately rejected due to either active or passive censorship, than that someone's fingers slipped five times in the same way during the same process and they decided not to fix any of them.

[booksandchainmail]

My Hugo Award thoughts:

Best Novel: Nettle and Bone

this makes sense to me! It was my second choice (and my first choice, Nona the Ninth, is a controversial entry in controverial series) (controversial in that people tend to either love or hate them). I think I've made it clear that I think this year's Novel nominees were weak: while this was at the top of the nominees it is nowhere near the best sff novel of last year.

Best Novella: Where the Drowned Girls Go

this one confuses me. I very much like Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, but I don't think this was one of the best of that series, and it is heavily context dependent. It's a good novella! But the novella category was so strong this year that I don't know why it won. This was actually my lowest ranked novella. My first choice was Ogres, with Into the Riverlands as a close second.

Best Novelette: The Space-Time Painter

Confession time: I did not read this or include it in my rankings. There was no English translation provided, and I was running low on time and energy and didn't machine-translate it myself. Sorry. That said, I've heard good things about it elsewhere, and it is of course nice to have a work from the host country/language win. My vote was for Murder by Pixel, and in general I thought this was a good category.

Best Short Story: Rabbit Test

yeah this was always going to win. Excellent short story, well written and topical, it was my top vote. I'm interested to see how the voting metrics break down: this category was a mix of chinese and english entries, and I'm curious as to how that impacted results.

Best Series: Children of Time

YES! YESSSSS! This category was incredible this year, six well-deserving nominees, very hard for me to choose between them. But this was my top vote (a hard decision), and I'm delighted it won. Three hefty volumes of the best kind of drawn out philosophical science fiction, deeply moving, with incredible worldbuilding and alien minds. This was absolutely the highlight of works I read because they were nominated.

Best Related Work: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

No surprise here, Terry Pratchett is beloved and this book was well written. This was in my top three, which I had a very hard time choosing between and all I would have been happy to see win. My own top vote ended up going to Chinese Science Fiction, an Oral History, which was also the only work I couldn't read, aside from the translated introduction and table of contents. I voted for it on the grounds that what was translated made an excellent case for it being an important work, not just a good one, digging into the history of science fiction in China in a way that had never been done before, and I felt that nonfiction about a specific person or movie, no matter how well-written or informative, couldn't compete with that scope.

Professional Artist: Enzhe Zhao and Fan Artist: Richard Man

this is fine! Neither was my top pick, but both were near the top, and I will freely admit I know little about art.

Lodestar (Not a Hugo): Akata Woman

Not my top pick, but a perfectly good winner. I suspect my ranking of it suffered from a) being in a reading slump that made me have to push to get through it and b) this being the conclusion of a trilogy I last read six years ago, and remember very little of. There were a lot of moments of resolving emotional conflicts that I had no context for, which left the book a little flat. My top vote was for The Golden Enclaves, which I think was by far the best nominee, but also dubiously qualified (while the books, especially the earlier ones, certainly feel like YA, and center around teenagers in a magical high school, they are published as adult fantasy). My runner up was Into the Serpent's Wake, the sequel to Tess of the Road, a book I am still bitter did not win in the first year of the Lodestars.

Astounding (Not a Hugo): Travis Baldree

... ok. I do not get the hype for Legends & Lattes, and by extension Travis Baldree. The book was delightful! But it was also fluff, not something that provoked any strong thought or emotion, not any great work of prose, not innovative or creative in any new way that would mark a rising new author. This was my lowest ranked nominee (leaving out Weimu Xin, whose work did not have an english translation). This would be less disappointing, given I found most of the nominees so-so, were it not for Isabel J. Kim, whose short stories were miles above any of the other nominees.

Other Awards:

I didn't vote in the other categories, or read/watch/listen to their nominees. Nothing in their results jumps out at me, though I'm happy EEAAO won.

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stars at the dance off part 2: teens & seniors

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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE - Philip K. Dick (1962)

Glad that I finally read this – the first PKD I truly liked. Reading it almost never happened, as after Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said I decided to stop seeking out more Philip K. Dick. But as I’m also slowly trying to read all big classics of scifi, I had to tackle it one day. The Man in the High Castle got Dick a Hugo award, and is one of the stalwarts of alternative history. It is…

[runawayballista]

one of my summertime hobbies is going into used bookstores on the beach and specifically seeking out two things: the weirdest golden age/new wave science fiction i can find, and old noir and hardboiled detective novels/magazines. generally the latter is a much rarer find because it's on the whole older (and i find a lot more new wave scifi than golden age, although a fair amount in the 50s cusp) but i haven't read a lot in english the last couple of years so i have amassed a pretty hefty quantity of scifi books of extremely dubious quality. time to take the plunge into my current collection and see what i can find

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Omg winksy's goodbye video made me cry for real 😭😭😭

[aerithisms]

i own a physical copy of this is how you lose the time war and have owned it for years but after the whole bigolas dickolas twitter blow-up i saw a recommendation for the audiobook so i started it while making dinner and dude it's so good i highly endorse this method of experiencing the book