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Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online (thehugoawards.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the science-fiction-in-San-Jose dept.

AmiMoJo quotes the Verge: The 2018 Hugo Awards were held Sunday night at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California. The Hugo award, voted on by members of the fan community, is considered the highest honour for science fiction and fantasy literature... N.K. Jemisin took home the top honor for The Stone Sky, the third installment of her Broken Earth trilogy. Other winners include Martha Wells for her first Murderbot novella All Systems Red, Suzanne Palmer for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots," and Rebecca Roanhorse for her short story "Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience." [Those last two links apparently let you read the entire story online!] Roanhorse also took home the John W. Campbell Jr. Award for Best New Writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin also posthumously won an award for "Best Related Work" for her collection of blog posts No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters.

And Zack Snyder finally won something, when Blade Runner 2049 lost in the "Best Dramatic Presentation -- Long Form" category to Wonder Woman ("screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuch.")

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  1. Diversity by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't good. All the winners were from the same gender. When with diversity come to science fiction? AmiMoJo please help us.

    1. Re:Diversity by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Men just aren't interested in reading/writing. They prefer visual arts like movies. It's biological or something. Dude wrote a memo about it, maybe you missed it because it didn't get much publicity.

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    2. Re: Diversity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why not the Nebulas? Anything wrong with those?

      My view of them is cloudy.

  2. Hugh Awards? by Kargan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hugh Jackman? Hugh Laurie? Hugh Grant?

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    1. Re:Hugh Awards? by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you read the two short stories you will realize it is more like "Hugh Mistake".

  3. Re:How diverse! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Men who read science fiction are betas. Shut your pie hole and like it, she stated matter-of-factly.

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