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Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online (thehugoawards.org)
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.")
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.")
Funny how that turned out: Hugo award winners are almost exclusively women. Peak diversity achieved.
This trilogy is indeed impressive and highly original, I can see how it got these awards.
Well I will be honest, I enjoyed the first two volumes and have only recently started the concluding book that won this yearâ(TM)s award, though I expect it to be on the same high level.
I actually thought that fantasy was not for me, and only started these books due to the recommendation of a friend whose taste is aligned to me, and it was a discovery.
Volume 1 has superb alterning stoylines that come terrifically well together. It is fantasy but not traditional. I prefer not to spoil anything.
The Hugo winners from the 1950s until a few years ago when SJWs hijacked the award were a good way of expanding your reading list. There definitely were a number of duds and books that did not hold up over the years. But overall the winners were quite worth of the praise even if it reflected popular consensus.
With the rise of every reader now being able to voice their opinions to the entire science fiction reading world the relevance of awards is greatly diminished.
In 2018 a Hugo Award is little more than the equivalent of the infamous Twitter Blue Checkmark that just signifies nothing more than your book has the right politics by the toxic SJW mobs.
Don't worry, you can always go look at the nominees for the Dragon Awards and find some actual decent Science Fiction. The "Hugh" awards are basically dead, more an indicator of what not to read now, at least if you're an SF fan, rather than a literary SJW.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
But the more important thing is that there isn't an obvious systemic problem here. If there was you know I'd be first to point it out. This year is exceptional.
No white men have won a Hugo in anything, save for the "dramatic presentation" category, in years.
So I guess 2017 was an exceptional year too.
http://www.thehugoawards.org/h...
And so was 2016.
http://www.thehugoawards.org/h...
And at last, we have ONE white guy in 2015 (for best novelette). And the only reason he won was because there was an open rebellion among the fans demanding it:
https://www.wired.com/2015/08/...
Of course, that didn't stop the Hugo committee from responding to the rebellion by refusing to issue awards for most of the other nominees:
http://www.thehugoawards.org/h...
Should I go on, or are you still going to pretend that white guys have a snowball's chance in hell of winning a Hugo anymore?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Just looking at the 2017 result I see:
Peter Newman
Michael Damian Thomas
Terry McDonough
Hawk Ostby
Mark Fergus
Denis Villeneuve
Eric Heisserer
And that's excluding Ted Chiang because of your arbitrary "white" clause.
Did you think I wouldn't check?
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Peter Newman for a fancast co-hosted by a woman
Michael Damian Thomas part of a group award for a magazine edited by a woman with other women writers
Terry McDonough Best Dramatic Presentation which, as I mentioned, is the only category men are still allowed to win
Hawk Ostby Best Dramatic Presentation which, as I mentioned, is the only category men are still allowed to win
Mark Fergus Best Dramatic Presentation which, as I mentioned, is the only category men are still allowed to win
Denis Villeneuve Best Dramatic Presentation and co-authored by an Asian
Eric Heisserer Best Dramatic Presentation and co-authored by an Asian
Did you really think *I* wouldn't check?
Tell me, AmiMoJo, do you even believe your own SJW bullshit anymore, or are you just in too deep now to change sides?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.