SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.[1]
(Some might argue the Hugo Awards are the more prestigious awards in science fiction, as they are international awards. But, voting for a Hugo only requires membership in the World Science Fiction Society, which anyone can join. The 2017 Hugos will be presented at the 75th Worldcon, Worldcon 75, in Helsinki, Finland, on August 12, 2017.)
The SFWA just announced this year's Nebula awards, honoring works published in 2016. This year's winners are:
Best Novel: All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders
Best Novella: Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
Best Novelette: "The Long Fall Up", by William Ledbetter
Best Short Story: "Seasons of Glass and Iron", by Amal El-Mohtar
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Arrival, Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Screenplay by Eric Heisserer
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: Arabella of Mars, by David D. Levine
The nominees for these awards are listed at the above SFWA link.
[1] Wikipedia.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday May 27 2017, @01:25AM (1 child)
Yeah, that''s the ol' "95% of everything is crap" thing. The problem is, there is a such thing as a "heyday", or "golden era". So, for instance, let's look at "hair metal" or "glam metal", in case you like that sort of thing. It only really existed in the 1980s, with bands like Motley Crue, Poison, RATT, Bon Jovi, etc. It hadn't yet evolved before the early 80s (KISS was probably the forerunner, going back to the mid 70s), and it died out in the early 90s. There are no such bands any more, except maybe a few of those same bands trying to milk the nostalgia factor for a continued living. There's certainly no such new bands now.
For sci-fi books, maybe I'm out of touch but I don't think so based on these awards in the last decade or so: you just don't see stuff like Heinlein, Pohl, Clarke, Herbert, etc. any more. Sure, there was dreck back then too, I'm not disputing that, but there were some real shining stars too. Where's the shining stars today? They don't exist.
This isn't to say that everything is bad these days. Fantasy movies/TV are a lot better than the 80s and before, for instance. We have Game of Thrones now which is a huge hit, in the last decade we had LotR movies. What did we have like that decades ago? Probably the closest was Conan, and a few other rather silly movies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:24PM
> Where's the shining stars today? They don't exist.
China Miéville
Paolo Bacigalupi
Lois McMaster Bujold
Neal Stephenson
N. K. Jemisin
> So, for instance, let's look at "hair metal"
Its crazy funny that you would make an analogy to music. Literally the most stereotypical form of entertainment where old people bemoan the lack of quality in the new generation. If you don't watch yourself, pretty soon you'll be yelling at the kids to get off your lawn.