Hugo Awards Recommendations: Which shorts / novelettes / novellas have I missed?
It’s almost that time again: time to nominate stuff for the Hugos. I usually miss a lot of stuff throughout the year, so I like to reach out to readers to see what they’d recommend so I can create a reading list for myself. Last time, you folks recommended so much that I ended up […]
The Hugos in “Turmoil” and the Glee Crowd
There seems to be a contingent of fandom that takes pleasure in any perceived disorder in the Hugo Awards. They themselves love sf/f, often because they write in the genre themselves, but when it comes to one of the most important awards, it’s almost as if they are excited for its fall from grace, perceived […]
(Updated!) 2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: The Full List + 1939 Retro-Hugo Nominees
I’ve decided to collapse everything into one post so I don’t have to drop a dozen things tonight. Due to time constraints, I have also left out a lot of the explanations and introductions for the various sections, as I wanted to do some more short fiction reading before I submitted my final ballot. Here’s […]
2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Related Work
(Update: I ‘m going to have to change my selections; it was pointed out to me by Mari Ness that this category is only for non-fiction, which means I can’t have any collections here. Right now, I am extremely frustrated about the absence of a category for anthologies and collections.) This remains one of the […]
2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Fanzine
Well, it’s that time again: nominating blogs instead of traditional zines, primarily because this is the medium I prefer to read in and which publishes the content I like reading. But enough of that. Here are my nominations: A Dribble of Ink Aidan Moher’s rather prolific blog also presented some truly awesome work in 2013, […]
2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Fan Writer
There are far too many amazing fan writers out there. This list began with 20-30 names, which I whittled down to 8. Then I flipped a bunch of 8-sided die to pick the final 5 (or something like that). So, here’s what I picked this year: Kameron Hurley One of the things I love about […]