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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.")
Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugo* Award Winners Online
This isn't good. All the winners were from the same gender. When with diversity come to science fiction? AmiMoJo please help us.
Funny how that turned out: Hugo award winners are almost exclusively women. Peak diversity achieved.
Hugh Jackman? Hugh Laurie? Hugh Grant?
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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.
So now they are only awarding women with the Hugh award, whatever it is?
They think that will somehow push readers to read their shitty fan fiction.
Instead the Hugh award will become irrelevant as people learn that it doesn't mean anything and the books are just as shit with that little label on it.
The Hugo Award become irrelevant a few years ago when they chose to put virtue signaling above the quality of the stories.
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There is where you are wrong. Wonder Woman is clearly historical fiction, grounded in reality. It is neither science fiction nor fantasy, because everything in that movie is based well documented historical fact. Or are you calling Herodotus a liar?
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Well done sir.
Sad puppies , sjw, dragon, happy puppies whatever. I am an avid reader of sf, as in at my peak I was reading 8 books a week, now less due to work/friends. I only care whether the story is good. *some* of the Hugo from 2017 or 2018 I find so bad as to wonder why they were nominated. That bot story for example I rolled my eye.
Nomination should never be based on race,skin, gender but on SF quality of writing skills and on story content quality mostly. If that means no white man or no non white women win, so be it. It isn't about gender/race author equality but all about SF quality. And while some Hugo were in the last year of high quality, many were so poor like that bot story that I wondered WHY the fuck they were nominated.
No it could be a misguided attempt at equality outcome as some pretend, or it could be there were no author worth nominating, or simply that the Hugo are being mismanaged. Whichever , Hugo are simply not a good indicator of SF in the last years.
An alternative explanation by the way is that "us" of the older generation expect some type of content, and the hugo is geared toward a newer generation expecting other type of content. If that's the case, in a few year/a decade SF is going to suck and blow ass.
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New experiences and perspectives are what the genre's all about, so it's really depressing to see how resistant a lot of avowed sci-fi fans are to experience some difference in the actual human perspective behind the fiction.
Jemisin's books are good. They weren't entirely my cup of tea in some ways but not every book has to be exactly for me. I recognize that they were creative, well-written, and explored interesting concepts from angles I hadn't thought of before. Worthy of a Hugo for sure.
The three-in-a-row? Seemed a little much, but at the same time, if there was some small element of "hey, the author is a black woman" thrown into the reasoning process, so be it. For more than half of the Hugo's history, whether subconsciously or otherwise, I feel pretty sure there was at least a small element of "hey, the author is a white guy, like me and every one else handing out the awards." I'd love for everything to be perfectly objective too, but don't bullshit yourself that it ever will be or could be with humans at the wheel. The best we can hope to do is average our biases out over time.
Overall, if this sort of thing draws a more diverse set of people into the field of sci-fi/fantasy that's worth the small bias. Which again, was gonna be there anyway in one flavor or another. The best qualities of the genre involve exploring new concepts, and while part of that is hard science or exploring crazy made-up worlds and technologies or whatever else, one quality that is rare but that I've found very fascinating is when you can tell the author's experiences and worldview are significantly different than yours. Cixin Liu's work is a great example. The purely science-fictional elements of his stories are great, but seeing them drawing from a purely Chinese background and experience added a fascinating extra layer.
Jemisin's books have that same layer for me and I want more good non-white non-male authored books. And I am a white male. So stop crying that every god damn thing that doesn't fit your narrow worldview, taste, whatever, is a dire conspiracy. Has there ever been a point in recent history where the people bitching about how awful it is that is being treated too well ever ended up looking like anything but miserable pricks?