SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
In Science Fiction, some awards have become almost meaningless as they came to be dominated by interests other than the pure enjoyment of a truly good story. The Hugo Awards, for example, have descended into a left/right catfight. They have become as meaningless as a Nobel Peace Prize.
Some, like yours truly, have entirely stopped reading about awards after getting burned once too many times and rely almost entirely on word of mouth or serendipity to find new authors and worthwhile books.
Our recent discussion of "The winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards" brought the idea (from bzipitidoo) that perhaps Soylent News could do a better job of pointing out new works of Science Fiction that could be of interest to soylentils and janrinok supported the idea, going so far as offering a kidney to the best author. (I think he's British, so he might have meant a kidney pie. [Not true, but funny])
Mind you, we would need to separate Science Fiction from Sci-Fi, Fantasy and other genres that have been mishmashed into one by most publishers and awards organizations.
So what do you think? What is the best new author/book in Science Fiction?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 24 2018, @02:05PM
Given your titles, it seems that like myself, you've read a heckuva lot of books that are dated now. Have you read Laumer's Bolo books? They are notable, in that, the aliens aren't exactly the evil aggressors. If I remember correctly, there are about a half dozen alien races. We kicked ass on a couple of them, we made peace with a couple - then we met an empire. They weren't bad guys, so much, as they were warriors, much as we are. They miscalculated, we miscalculated, each called the other's bluff, and it turned into lots and lots of shooting. The more shooting took place, the deeper the hatred. Eventually, each side goes for the "Armageddon option", and both civilizations are destroyed. The dark ages close in on both of us. Except - one set of refugees meets another set from the other side on one world, and come to an understanding. Another set of refugees ran long enough and far enough to escape the final collapse.
The story is actually pretty plausible, if you only accept interstellar travel. :^)
Of course, in the final analysis, we are both sides in the story . . .