I’ve never watched the stream of the Hugos ceremony, and that continued last night. Instead, I tend to skim twitter for announcements, look for the reactions related to winners I was rooting for, and check the full list the next day. So I didn’t see the verbal assault of GRRM’s hosting or racist presenters last … Thoughts the morning after the Hugos ceremony
I love nominating for the Hugos – it makes me feel like a part of the community, and gives me a chance to support the authors/storytellers whose work I love. The next month and change is going to be rather hectic (at least it looks that way on the calendar), so I put in my … My 2020 Hugo nominations are in
Excited to see several of my nominees on there (although I continue my streak of having completely different taste in short stories from the rest of the nominating population). Also excited that many books on my TBR list are finalists, so I’ll make some list progress that way as well. Special shoutout for Malka Older’s … Looking at the 2019 Hugo finalists
Hugo nominations close this week, so I thought I’d share what I nominated this year. This is absolutely not a slate; nominate what you like. This is a list of things I liked from 2018, and I think you’d like if you checked them out.
Results posted many places, including Locus. Aside from seeing the Sad Puppies’ piss-poor nominations roundly defeated (when they were piss-poor – as Tobias Buckell points out, Guardians‘ win in movies indicates that voting was as much about taste as ideology), what’s most exciting for me is the win for Orphan Black. It’s one of my … End of the 2015 Hugos arc
Between being frustrated that the Sad/Rabid Puppies folks have… contaminated my first time voting in the Hugos, binge reading Discworld, and some general life stress, I put off starting the Hugo voters packet longer than maybe I should have… but now I’m loving The Goblin Emperor so much, so that alone will have been worth … Hugos cram session