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The 75th World Science Fiction Convention (commonly known as WorldCon) is being held this weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients.
This year, women almost completely swept the Hugo Awards, taking home the top prizes for literature in the science fiction community. That's particularly notable, given how the awards have been increasingly recognizing works from female and minority creators. The trend prompted a counter-movement from two group of fans, the self-described "Sad Puppies," and their alt-right equivalents, the "Rabid Puppies." These groups gamed the awards and forced a slate of nominees onto the Hugo ballot in 2015, prompting widespread backlash within the wider genre community. Another award, the Dragon, faced similar issues earlier this week when several authors asked to pull their nominations over concerns about Puppy interference and the award's integrity.
This year's sweep by female creators seems to be a strong repudiation of anti-diversity groups. 2017 also marked the year the ceremony earned its own award: a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records certified that the Hugos are the longest-running science fiction awards ever.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Sulla on Wednesday August 16 2017, @10:30PM
Hugo winners
The Obelisk Gate (Science Fantasy) - Magic girl and her mom investigate climate change on not-earth (wiki)
Every Heart a Doorway - Girl goes through magical portal (PBS article)
The Tomato Thief - Grandma tries to catch whoever is stealing fresh tomatoes from her garden, finds herself drawn into a complex magical plot involving shapechangers, space warps, and gods. (wiki)
Seasons of Glass and Iron - Can't get past all the shoes to figure out the plot from a long summary of the article
Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening (Epic Fantasy) - Wars involving magic, slavery, and racism
Arrival (First one to call itself SF) - Aliens attack earth including montana
The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes” (Show) - Not as good as the books, too much random character drama that didn't exist. Miller isn't played by the guy who plays Bullock in Gotham so it sucks.
The Vorkosigan Saga - Not going to look up a summary on a Saga, third paragraph of the wiki "The point of view characters include women (Cordelia in Shards of Honor and Barrayar; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign), a gay man (Ethan of Athos), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone (Miles and Mark Vorkosigan), their cousin (Ivan Vorpatril) together with some less well educated characters (e.g., the bodyguard Roic and the runaway lad Jin)."
From the 'about' on the Hugo Awards website, "The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”), which is also responsible for administering them". So I presume they should be judging SF.
The number one question I have is why are people submitting Fantasy to a SF award group and then bitching when SF people don't want to give awards to Fantasy?
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