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The Hugo awards, being the favorite they are with SN readers, are out again!
As posted at The Vox.
The first-ever threepeat of the Hugo Awards — the prestigious, long-running fantasy awards handed out annually at WorldCon — just issued a giant rejection of right-wing gatekeeping in the struggle to diversify the world of science fiction and fantasy writing.
N.K. Jemisin's groundbreaking fantasy series the Broken Earth trilogy has won critical acclaim, been optioned for development as a TV series, and received numerous accolades from the sci-fi and fantasy community. And on August 19, it achieved yet another milestone when Jemisin became the first author in the Hugos' 65-year history to win back-to-back awards for every book in a trilogy. Jemisin won the award for Best Novel three years in a row, starting with The Fifth Season in 2016, The Obelisk Gate in 2017, and now The Stone Sky in 2018.
Meanwhile, The Verge reports:
The 2018 Hugo Awards were held last 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 honor for science fiction and fantasy literature.
Like the previous couple of years, women almost completely swept the awards. 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™.” (Roanhorse also took home the John W. Campbell Jr. Award for Best New Writer.)
Jemisin’s win gives her a history-making hat trick: she’s won the top award for each Broken Earth installment, the first two having been for The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate. It’s a significant achievement, earned for Jemisin’s groundbreaking writing, blending of genres, and outstanding storytelling.
The complete list of nominees can be found in The Verge's story. Additional reporting can be found at the Guardian, on TOR.com, and elsewhere.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:20AM (3 children)
I'm curious, what do you consider good SF? Heinlein? Maybe Asimov? Niven? What's the most recent work you rate highly?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @03:20AM (2 children)
can't speak for bradley13, but:
- anything by John Scalzi
- Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon series, also Black Man
- Charles Stross -- the Laundry and Merchant Princes series
all relatively recent, all pretty freakin' awesome, all "real sci-fi" in my book (grew up in the 80s reading Asimov, P.K.Dick, Heinlein, etc.).
Anything else out there in the "if you liked the above, you might also..." category?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Webweasel on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:58AM
Charles Stross is awesome, accellerando is one of my favorite books.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:17PM
I watched the new series called Altered Carbon on Netflix. I may have to take a look, if the books are even better.
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