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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 _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

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    2. Re:Diversity by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Informative

      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?

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  2. LOL diversity indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Hugo award is worthless by rossz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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