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posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 22 2018, @04:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the she-done-good dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:35PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:35PM (#724876)

    Yeah, we can't hurt the feelings of the alt-right folks around here can we? Even though the articles are totally about that topic.

    BAD EDITOR BAD! Go sit in the corner and think about what you're doing.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:37PM (#724938)

    Does this mean you are okay with folks submitting stories in the form of editorials bashing the left? This simply isn't how discussion sites work, keep editorializing out of the submission and let people discuss it. It is not a difficult concept.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:55AM (9 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:55AM (#725031) Journal

    There are 4 sources identified in TFS, The story is about the Hugo Awards, which they all covered, rather than the alt-right taking a hit, which only one source concentrated on. The 'controversy' as you call it is only a side issue, and the submission wasn't submitted as a political topic, so I focused on the main theme.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @03:56AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @03:56AM (#725056)

      2 of the sources referenced the alt-right sad puppies, one was barely an article with maybe 2 paragraphs, and the last was just a full list.

      Anyway, it was a pseudo-serious joke comment and in another comment I said Aristarchus' personal comments were lame and unwarranted. They should be saved for the article comments. However you did screw with the paragraphs he quoted and dramatically changed the angle of the article to your own preferred interpretation.

      Trying to ignore the issues of racism and sexism is part of why it is such a big problem we can't seem to move past. It is much more than a "side issue".

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:39AM (3 children)

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:39AM (#725073) Journal

        The issue is a problem, but the story is either about the Hugo Awards or the alt-right. I elected to publish Aristarchus' submission based on his own quote that "The Hugo awards, being the favorite they are with SN readers, are out again!" and the title that he had chosen for his submission. It seemed to me that this was the main purpose of the submission and that is what I concentrated on. We have already covered the racism displayed by the alt-right repeatedly, we are not ignoring that fact at all.

        If someone wishes to make a submission which focuses on the racism and sexism angle they are encouraged to do so. However, I will state that, in accordance with our publicised submission guidelines, they should ensure that they provide a balanced and unbiased offering, and use the quotations from the quoted sources to make the more extreme arguments. Personal opinions belong in the discussion comments, not in the summary.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:58PM (2 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday August 23 2018, @04:58PM (#725266) Journal

      We covered the Sad Puppies a lot last year. Now that they're Sad Loser Puppies we're supposed to not talk about it?

      Seems like an appropriate follow up to me.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:34PM (#725391)

        SN is a safe space DM. They can't limit the comments without being total hypocrites, but making sure stories that don't trigger VLM don't make it through the queue is a lot easier to bullshit away. Even without Ari's lame insults the alt-righters still went batshit bigotry.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday August 24 2018, @08:52PM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday August 24 2018, @08:52PM (#726020) Homepage Journal

        Great question. You tweet a lot of dumb things but this is a great question. But, "DISCUSSION CLOSED"!!!!

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:43AM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:43AM (#728123) Homepage Journal

      Possibly you didn't see the Original Submission. Only 1 source in that one!!!!