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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. Title typo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugo* Award Winners Online

  2. Re: Hugo award is worthless by rossz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, but I've read enough of the winning works in the past to know that the award has lost its influence on my reading habits. For example, Scalzi's "Redshirts" was mildly amusing, but was in no way deserving of best novel. It was, at best, good fan fiction.

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

    Okay I'll give you the real answer. You won't like it though.

    First, men did win this year, it even mentions some of them in the summary. Lots of nominations too.

    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.

    There needs to be a trend or evidence of some specific issue for there to be a problem.

    Told you that you wouldn't like it.

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  4. Re:Diversity by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I dunno, they gave best comic to The Mighty Thor. You know, the one that made Thor a woman.

    Seriously though, the Dragon Awards are kinda suspect. The first year the results matched the suggestions put forward by Vox Day, the guy who attacked the Hugo awards, perfectly. The voting system is easily rigged and the results seem more driven by opposition to the Hugo's than anything else.

    Also, Fortnight, really?

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