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U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos

Posted by Zonk on from the u.s.-not-doing-so-hot-creatively dept.

gollum123 writes "The BBC reports that For the first time in its 63-year history, all the writers nominated for the prestigious Hugo award for the best novel are British." From the article: "Mr Stross says that what an author writes is a reflection of his society, and currently US genre writers are mirroring the 'deep trauma' that 9/11 wrought on America. 'What we write tends to reflect our perceptions of the world around us,' he says, 'and if it's an uncertain world full of shadows it's no surprise you get wish fulfilment or a bit downbeat.'"

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  1. Re:SF Writers Dominate Hugos by pnh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the Hugo Awards are explicitly for both fantasy and SF:

    Section 3.3: Categories.

    3.3.1: Best Novel. A science fiction or fantasy story of forty thousand (40,000) words or more.

    3.3.2: Best Novella. A science fiction or fantasy story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) words.

    Etc etc.

    I'm all for the World Fantasy Awards -- I won one in 1987 and I was a judge this year -- but they're not different from the Hugos in that they're for fantasy and the Hugos are "for SF". They're different in that they're a juried award and the Hugos are a popularly-voted one. You're mixing apples, oranges, prosciutto, and turpentine.