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The 2011 Hugo Awards
An anonymous reader writes "The Hugo Award is the leading prize for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy writing. Named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine, the awards have been given out since 1955. This year's winners were announced Saturday during the Hugo Awards Ceremony in Reno, Nevada."
I am supremely disapointed at Connie Willis, "To say nothing of the dog" was more of a feel-good fantasy novel until you got to the whole point of the bishop's birdstump then none of it made any sense. Still entertaining but not that good.
Then her next book, well, it ended on a cliffhanger (of sorts) and said "part 2 due out sometime next year". If this hugo is for Part 2, I think she should be disqualified as it's a continuation of the same novel published the previous year. The first part did not stand on it's own, it's like Harry Seldon discovering psychohistory then not doing anything with it.
She's a good author but that little stunt really turned me off.
I'm shocked, half the comments are nerds shitting on the winners. Never would have seen that coming.
I will say that historically, the Hugos go to more high quality books than the Nebulas, though overall quality is still lacking; the failure of Iain Banks or Alastair Reynolds to have won a single Hugo is kind of ridiculous.
Do I care?
About six years back I decided to always add the latest Hugo winners to my reading list. Four out of five times I started reading and went, "You're kidding, Hugos. You're kidding, right?"