I said this week’s column would be a single-issue one, and it is, but that issue is the Hugo winners. WorldCon 79 was held last weekend in Washington D.C. and the winners were announced on December 18.
This will be short. Find all the winning works here.
Best Novel:
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Best Novella:
The Empress of Salt And Fortune by Nghi Vo
Best Novelette:
Two Truths and Lie by Sarah Pinsker
Best Short Story:
Metal like Blood in the Dark by T.
December 22nd, 2021. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
Winners of the 2021 Hugo Awards will be announced at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) which will be held December 15-19 in Washington DC (DisCon III). (Usually WorldCon is held in August but it was delayed this year due to COVID). The award ceremony takes place on Saturday December 18. The Hugo Award finalists, listed below, are chosen by a poll of readers.
There are no Retrospective Hugo Awards being presented this year because the 1946 Retros were presented in 1996. We’re covering only the categories you see below but there are lots more that you can find on the 2021 Hugo Award page.
December 9th, 2021. FanLit | Hugo Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14 comments |
We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
Often in magical realism, a writer takes one little bit of magic and plunks it into an otherwise entirely realistic story, like adding a single drop of blue food dye into a glass of water that remains water, but water newly, wholly colored by that one tiny drop. In Sarah Pinsker’s novel, We Are Satellites (2021), we have what one might class science-fictional realism; she eschews building the usual futuristic world full of advances and instead offers up a single drop in the form of the Pilot,
June 29th, 2021. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Sarah Pinsker | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Kat: I’m reading Machine by Elizabeth Bear. It’s slow-going so far. I’m more interested in the non-fiction book I’m reading: How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Dr. Michael Greger. It was recommended by two of my kids who are vegans. It’s very informative and full of scientific citations, though I suspect there’s a bit of cherry-picking going on (pun intended). But it’s clear that a whole-food plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat and I’ve been moving that way in the past few months for both health and ethical reasons.
June 27th, 2021. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | no comments |
On June 26, 2021 Connie Willis will host the Virtual 2021 Locus Awards Ceremony. The Locus Award finalists, listed below, are chosen by a poll of readers using an open public ballot. The Locus Award list is always fascinating because it’s a lot different from the Nebula and Hugo lists.
Click the title links below to read our reviews and on the author links to visit our page for the author. (Sorry we didn’t manage to read all of them this year!)
We’ve included the cover art for our favorites.
Which,
June 17th, 2021. FanLit | Locus Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 10 comments |
Ta-Nehisi Coates says farewell to Black Panther.
Another trove of previously-undiscovered writings of the Bronte siblings will go to auction in July. Now’s your chance.
LitHub has book recommendations based on your Zodiac sun sign.
Writers Digest University announces an online SFF conference.
Thanks to Zina for this link to a comprehensive look at SFF awards.
Thanks to File 770 for this link! The UK Guardian posted a compilation of images of the Milky Way.
June 2nd, 2021. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 56th Annual Nebula conference (June 4-6) will be held online this year (as it was last year) and the 2020 Nebula Awards will be announced on Saturday, June 5, 2021.
Today let’s talk about the finalists for Best Short Story and Best Novelette. We’ll talk about other categories in a future column.
Here are the finalists in these categories. Click the links to read our reviews and get the links to the stories. Most can be read for free online.
BEST SHORT STORY:
May 20th, 2021. FanLit | Nebula Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 13 comments |
This week’s SHORTS column features some of the 2020 Nebula and 2021 Locus and Hugo award finalists in the novella, novelette, and short story categories.
“A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2020, free at Tor.com, originally published in Made to Order: Robots and Revolution)
This is an absolutely delightful story! A grumpy robot, Constant Killer, who makes a living by engaging in robot deathmatch and assassination games, is obliged to mentor a chirpy, innocent new robot who is having problems with its life,
May 20th, 2021. Tadiana Jones, Kat Hooper, Kelly Lasiter, Bill Capossere and Terry Weyna | Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Sarah Pinsker | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
Winners of the 2020 Hugo Awards will be announced at the 78th World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) which will be in New Zealand (CoNZealand) this year, though events are virtual due to COVID. The final award ceremony takes place on Saturday August 1 and George R.R. Martin will be the toastmaster. The Hugo Award finalists, listed below, are chosen by a poll of readers.
Click the title links below to read our reviews and on the author links to visit our page for the author. We’ve included the cover art for our favorites.
July 23rd, 2020. FanLit | Hugo Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 13 comments |
On June 27, Connie Willis will host the Virtual 2020 Locus Awards Ceremony. The Locus Award finalists, listed below, are chosen by a poll of readers.
Click the title links below to read our reviews and on the author links to visit our page for the author. We’ve included the cover art for our favorites. The Locus Award list is always fascinating, almost always very different from the Nebula and Hugo lists.
Which, if any, of these finalists have you read? Who do you think will win the Locus Award in these categories?
June 18th, 2020. FanLit | Locus Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 17 comments |
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