#hugo award winner

[desdasiwrites]

I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. 

– Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

#book quote of the day #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #this is how you lose the time war #lgbtq literature #sapphic #sci-fi #time travel #epistolary novel #epistolary #hugo award winner #nebula award winner #BSFA award winning #book quotes

[incipientdreamer]

what are your thoughts on The Lady Astronaut series? I am wondering if I should read it but the first book has mixed review. On the other hand, it did win a Hugo and I generally like the books that get nominated/win the Hugo...

#lady astronaut universe #the calculating stars #Mary Robinette Kowal #hugo award winner #scifi #space opera #books #book recommendations #literature #authors

[smallgodseries]

[image description: A black pony with large rust-brown eyes and a smiling pumpkin on her hip stands on golden and orange fall leaves. Behind her, the dark sky is filled with stars and her flaming orange mane shines brightly against the blues of night. Text reads “24, The Small God, Pumpkin Spice”]

• • • • • 

People assume she’s a newcomer, a fad, a frivolous flash in the pan.  But she was there when the first pumpkin pies were being baked; she was there when the first colonist cookbook was published, in 1769.  She was there when the British raided the rest of the world for flavors they could steal, and while her appearance may be sweet and adorable, her hooves are soaked in the blood of empire, for without conquest, she could never have been born.

But people, unwilling to consider the structure beneath the surface, look at her and see only big eyes, a flowing mane, a coat as soft as silk and as dark as midnight, and they mock her adherents, call them “basic” as if anything could be considered truly basic when it had been built through so many crimes.

Every piece of her was stolen.  Every pinch and particle was the subject of a terrible war.  The price of cinnamon is slaughter.  The fee for nutmeg is subjugation.  And now we serve her sacraments with whipped cream and sugar sprinkles, as if both those things had not also been stolen at some point, as if a foamy cloud could somehow clean the blood from those long lashes.

In these modern days, her most common manifestation is blended with sweet cream and coffee—a drink that has many gods of its own, that has sparked even more wars than her cinnamon pungency.  But for most of her time, she has been carried in the pie.

Pumpkin pie.  The ultimate jewel in the crown of colonialism.  Cooking techniques from Europe, spices stolen from India, Asia, and the Middle East, and a vegetable crown taken from the Americas, sliced and mashed and mixed until its wildness is lost, subsumed into custardy blandness, become one with the melting pot.

She’s not a newcomer.  And she’s not nice, either, and so few of those who worship her understand, anymore, that she’s not a god of whimsy or basic delights.

She is, now and always, a god of war.

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#Small Gods #smallgodseries #Seanan McGuire #Lee Moyer #icons and stories #pumpkin spice #thanksgiving #God of War #Icon #Hugo Winners #Hugo Awards #tiny divinities #colonialism

[rocicrew]

THE EXPANSE (2015-2022)

HUGO AWARD WINS (& 3 NOMINATIONS)

#the expanse #theexpanseedit #syfysource #scifiedit #i was going to do the nominations too but i was too tired #anyway three times hugo award winner !! #a one time for the books as a series i think #my belovedss

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert / Hugo Weaving as Anthony "Tick" Belrose (Mitzi Del Bra)

Year: 1994

Designer: Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner

In a movie full of flamboyant costumes, this minidress adorned with pink and orange flip-flops definitely stands out for its original materials. It's got a definite 1960s vibe, between the length, the colors, and the "pop art" feel to it. Accessories include matching earrings, knee-high "gladiator" sandals, a cotton-candy-pink wig, and many large rings.

This was the first movie I ever saw Hugo Weaving in, so he wasn't cemented as "Agent Smith" in my mind, as he seems to have been for those who first encountered him in The Matrix. Consequently, I had no trouble shifting to viewing him as Elrond in the LOTR movies.

#the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert #oscar winners #hugo weaving #movie costumes #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #1990s fashion #1990s style #1994 movies #1994 films #australian movies #australian film #australian cinema #priscilla queen of the desert #tim chappel #lizzy gardiner #multicolor #academy award winner

[booksandchainmail]

My Hugo Award thoughts:

Best Novel: Nettle and Bone

this makes sense to me! It was my second choice (and my first choice, Nona the Ninth, is a controversial entry in controverial series) (controversial in that people tend to either love or hate them). I think I've made it clear that I think this year's Novel nominees were weak: while this was at the top of the nominees it is nowhere near the best sff novel of last year.

Best Novella: Where the Drowned Girls Go

this one confuses me. I very much like Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, but I don't think this was one of the best of that series, and it is heavily context dependent. It's a good novella! But the novella category was so strong this year that I don't know why it won. This was actually my lowest ranked novella. My first choice was Ogres, with Into the Riverlands as a close second.

Best Novelette: The Space-Time Painter

Confession time: I did not read this or include it in my rankings. There was no English translation provided, and I was running low on time and energy and didn't machine-translate it myself. Sorry. That said, I've heard good things about it elsewhere, and it is of course nice to have a work from the host country/language win. My vote was for Murder by Pixel, and in general I thought this was a good category.

Best Short Story: Rabbit Test

yeah this was always going to win. Excellent short story, well written and topical, it was my top vote. I'm interested to see how the voting metrics break down: this category was a mix of chinese and english entries, and I'm curious as to how that impacted results.

Best Series: Children of Time

YES! YESSSSS! This category was incredible this year, six well-deserving nominees, very hard for me to choose between them. But this was my top vote (a hard decision), and I'm delighted it won. Three hefty volumes of the best kind of drawn out philosophical science fiction, deeply moving, with incredible worldbuilding and alien minds. This was absolutely the highlight of works I read because they were nominated.

Best Related Work: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

No surprise here, Terry Pratchett is beloved and this book was well written. This was in my top three, which I had a very hard time choosing between and all I would have been happy to see win. My own top vote ended up going to Chinese Science Fiction, an Oral History, which was also the only work I couldn't read, aside from the translated introduction and table of contents. I voted for it on the grounds that what was translated made an excellent case for it being an important work, not just a good one, digging into the history of science fiction in China in a way that had never been done before, and I felt that nonfiction about a specific person or movie, no matter how well-written or informative, couldn't compete with that scope.

Professional Artist: Enzhe Zhao and Fan Artist: Richard Man

this is fine! Neither was my top pick, but both were near the top, and I will freely admit I know little about art.

Lodestar (Not a Hugo): Akata Woman

Not my top pick, but a perfectly good winner. I suspect my ranking of it suffered from a) being in a reading slump that made me have to push to get through it and b) this being the conclusion of a trilogy I last read six years ago, and remember very little of. There were a lot of moments of resolving emotional conflicts that I had no context for, which left the book a little flat. My top vote was for The Golden Enclaves, which I think was by far the best nominee, but also dubiously qualified (while the books, especially the earlier ones, certainly feel like YA, and center around teenagers in a magical high school, they are published as adult fantasy). My runner up was Into the Serpent's Wake, the sequel to Tess of the Road, a book I am still bitter did not win in the first year of the Lodestars.

Astounding (Not a Hugo): Travis Baldree

... ok. I do not get the hype for Legends & Lattes, and by extension Travis Baldree. The book was delightful! But it was also fluff, not something that provoked any strong thought or emotion, not any great work of prose, not innovative or creative in any new way that would mark a rising new author. This was my lowest ranked nominee (leaving out Weimu Xin, whose work did not have an english translation). This would be less disappointing, given I found most of the nominees so-so, were it not for Isabel J. Kim, whose short stories were miles above any of the other nominees.

Other Awards:

I didn't vote in the other categories, or read/watch/listen to their nominees. Nothing in their results jumps out at me, though I'm happy EEAAO won.

#fair warning this is pretty negative towards some winners in places #hugo awards #hugoes #hugos

[bansenshukai]

here is my recommended reading order of novik's work:

Spinning Silver

Uprooted

and then interchangeable between Temeraire series (9 books) or The Scholomance (3 books), depending on whether you like pride and prejudice but instead of romance it's the platonic perfection of a bond between man and dragon or YA fantasy where the magic school is trying to kill you (a series that restored my faith in a genre)

#naomi novik #book rec #actually author rec #all her books are very different imo #a rarity for an author #like seriously. so different. but spinning silver is the nebula winner and hugo nominee and a buncha other awards for a good reason #that being said i think temeraire might be my fav. practically a comfort series at this point. lawrence and temeraire got me in a chokehold #i honestly think you cannot judge that series until you've read all nine books #because its like. the best series ever. i've never felt the plot development and character development grow and expand so organically #and seamlessly across NINE FUCKING BOOKS and then WRAP UP AMAZINGLY SATISFYINGLY #like. oh my god. thinking about it has me on the floor

[aerithisms]

i own a physical copy of this is how you lose the time war and have owned it for years but after the whole bigolas dickolas twitter blow-up i saw a recommendation for the audiobook so i started it while making dinner and dude it's so good i highly endorse this method of experiencing the book

#blahs #if u don't know about the bigolas dickolas thing i'm sure it will be the first google result lmao #but tl;dr a twitter account with that display name posted a tweet recommending this book that went viral #and it shot back up the bestseller list! #(it was already a hugo award winner so not a rags to riches type story but still cool. and funny)

[rubyvroom]

Continuing enjoyment of the Tor-wave domination of the Hugos -- and once again, women dominate the awards. This is correct and deserved.

Best Novel: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor Books)

Best Novella: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Tordotcom Publishing)

Best Novelette “Bots of the Lost Ark” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, Jun 2021)

Best Short Story: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)

Best Series: Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom Publishing)

Best Graphic Story or Comic: Far Sector, written by N.K. Jemisin, art by Jamal Campbell (DC Comics)

Best Related Work:  Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders (Tordotcom Publishing)

#I would have given it to Catherynne M. Valente and Alix Harrow for Novelette and Short Story #but I have not read the winners #they might be fabulous #everything else is definitely wonderful and should be read by everyone #this is a good reading list if you have not visited Sci-Fi in awhile #Hugo Awards

[desdasiwrites]

– Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

#book quote of the day #arkady martine #a memory called empire #sci-fi #lgbtqia-mc #lgbtq #fantasy #hugo award winner #book recommendations #book quotes

[chantireviews]

2023 Winners CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other…

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[desertstarsbooks]

AND THEN I WAS A FAN

Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh, Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, 1982 There was a time when I made a point of reading Hugo Award winners as soon as a given year’s WorldCon results were announced. (Assuming I hadn’t already read that book – which was a rare thing.) That’s a habit I’ve lost over the past twenty or so years, and with a very few exceptions, I haven’t really been keeping…

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#Hugo Award #Hugo winners #novels #reading #sci-fi #science fiction #writing

[tweedsmuir-library]

Hugo and Nebula Winners

In the world of science fiction, the Hugo and the Nebula are the most prestigious awards that can be won by the author of a Sci-Fi novel. Here are those titles that achieved both distinctions and rank among the very best Sci-Fi works of all time.  All of these novels can be found in your School Library. Come down to check them out.

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#Award Winners #Hugo #Nebula #Sci-Fi #Science Fiction

[zonetrente-trois]

#Hugo Awards 2023 #winners #T Kingfisher #Hai Ya #Literary Hub

[joncronshawauthor]

The Five Best Fantasy Books to Win the Hugo Award: A Triumph Over Sci-Fi

Today, we delve into the fantastical world of the Hugo Awards. Though primarily a sci-fi playground, over the years we’ve seen a few notable gems from the fantasy genre that have managed to claim the best novel prize.   What are the Hugo Awards, and why do they matter? Established in 1953, the Hugo Awards recognise the best works in science fiction and fantasy literature. Named in honour of…

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#A Game of Thrones #alternate history #American Gods #best fantasy books #fantasy literature #Fantasy Novels #gods #Hugo Award winners #Hugo Awards #Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell #magic #science fiction #speculative fiction #The City & The City #The Stone Sky

[drchucktingle]

more on the hugos (not just 2023)

i am sorry buds but it has to be said: lots of talk about the 2023 hugo awards being fraudulent because of actions of leader dave mccarty. this is true. but if we are going to be REALLY honest there is a difficult truth to accept, ANY past hugos dave ran are likely fraudulent

i do not want to have to say this as it casts a lot of doubt and i honestly do not think there is any action that needs to be taken, we should keep trotting along and give credit to winners, but it should at least be addressed. THIS DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN ONCE, IT GETS NOTICED ONCE

just went back into old emails and dave was IN FACT in charge of both the years i was nominated. will i ever know if there is any legitimacy to those results? was it politically best for me to be nominated but MAKE SURE i dont win? who the heck knows.

of course i am not saying my trot is MORE DESERVING or BETTER than the winners these year (and like i said we should respect these results), but acting as though actions of dave and the committee only effect 2023 seems a little short sighted i am sorry to say. it is much much worse

heres the thing that really bothers me when scoundrels treat outsiders and marginalized buds like this (same feeling i got from texas library banning) CHUCK is suddenly the one who has to wrestle with 'should i speak on this? will i ever be nominated again for ANY award now?' THAT is insidious part

#chuck tingle #buckaroo lifestyle #queer #love is real #hugo awards #hugos