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.")

Comments

Diversity

[110010001000]

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

Re:Diversity

[AmiMoJo]

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.

Re:Diversity

[_Sharp'r_]

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.

Re:Diversity

[AmiMoJo]

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?

Re:Diversity

[elrous0]

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?

Re:Diversity

[elrous0]

Yep, Issac Asimov, Fredrik Pohl, Phillip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke...all secretly had vaginas. Best kept secret in the industry.

It's hard to believe that AmiMoJo believes even a fraction of his own bullshit anymore. Looking at the Hugos, you would think that white men just up and decided to stop writing science fiction in the 21st century. Of course, we all know that's not what really happened.

Re:Diversity

[elrous0]

They should try harder, then.

That's only going to work if by "try harder" you mean "get gender reassignment surgery."

Re:Diversity

[elrous0]

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?

Hugh Awards?

[Kargan]

Hugh Jackman? Hugh Laurie? Hugh Grant?

Re:Hugh Awards?

[110010001000]

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

Broken Earth Trilogy

[Camembert]

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.

Re:How diverse!

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

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

LOL diversity indeed

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:LOL diversity indeed

[elrous0]

So now they are only awarding women with the Hugh award, whatever it is?

It's been that way since the SJW's took over the Hugos and most of the big publications (like Asimov's Science Fiction) years ago. It's a warning of what can happen if you let the SJW cancer get even a foothold in your hobby. White males need not apply.

Hugo award is worthless

[rossz]

The Hugo Award become irrelevant a few years ago when they chose to put virtue signaling above the quality of the stories.

Re:Hugo award is worthless

[SuilAmhain]

Oh Christ this. That N.K. Jemisin book reads like a high school junior English essay. It's absolutely awful.

Rewind to 2016: If Seveneves, or Ancillary Mercy could not beat that author in 2016 there is something right wrong.

I tried Hugo awards finalists for the final time in 2017.
- Becky Chambers, reads like a teenage diary.
- N.K. Jemisin still reads like a high school junior English essay.
- The Liu books are pure waffle.

WTF is wrong with these aware ceremonies?

I have no side here

[aepervius]

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.