MetaFilter posts tagged with hugoawards

Best Science Fiction Related Metafilter Post

Artw — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:47:36 -0800

The finalists for the 2012 Nebula Awards have been announced (list with free fiction links here), but there's still another two weeks to get in nominations for the 2013 Hugo Awards. However, for those works not fiting the regular award categories Tim Pratt and other science fiction writers, fans and interested parties on Twitter have been suggesting #FakeHugoAwardCategories . io9 collects some of the best.

Guilty until proven innocent

tonyx3 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:23:19 -0800

How copyright enforcement robots killed the hugo awards Ustream's automated copyright takedown bots killed the legitimate coverage from the Hugo Awards ceremony.

2012 Hugo Award Nominees announced

rmd1023 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:05:23 -0800

The nominees for the 2012 Hugo Award were announced over the weekend. Nominees include Metafilter's own jscalzi (who will also be the host for this year's Hugo Awards ceremony) for the beginning of his ~~epic fantasy trilogy~~ April Fool's joke The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Prologue). One record being set this year is Mira Grant's - aka Seanan McGuire's - nominations: she is the first woman to have four Hugo nominations in a single year. The award winners will be announced and the awards presented at the Chicon, the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention. Anyone with a supporting or attending membership can vote for the Hugo awards until voting closes on July 31, 2012. The voter packet includes generally electronic copies of (most of) the nominees in the fiction categories and often other nominated works as well, which makes the $50 Worldcon supporting membership a pretty good deal.

The Island

Artw — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:07:16 -0800

The Island by Peter Watts (previously), winner of this years Hugo Award for Best Novelette. An audio version is available over at StarShipSofa (previously), itself a Hugo recipient.

Excelsior

Artw — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:33:04 -0800

The recently announced 2010 Hugo awards nominations include a semi-regular mefite appearance, a fanzine nomination for a podcast (previously) and, under Best Graphic Story, a nomination for Captain Britain And MI13 by occasional Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell - a title which, um, Marvel have already canceled. Oops. Still, you can read the first two issues of the nominated story online for free.

Back to the Hugos

Kattullus — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:42:52 -0800

Back to the Hugos is a series by Sam Jordison of the Guardian Books blog where he reads and reviews old Hugo Award winners. He was once skeptical of the literary quality of science fiction but then started to examine the validity of the critical orthodoxy and is now a firm convert, as this review of The Man in the High Casle demonstrates, and now even goes to science fiction events. Among the other books he's covered so far are A Case of Conscience by James Blish, Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner and the latest review is of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. It's not all sunshine and roses though, The Big Time and The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber don't appeal to him and the dreadfulness of They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley makes Jordison doubt the value of democracy, at least when it comes to selecting litearary award winners.

Starships, sofas, Hugo awards, podcasts, gambles and wind-ups

Artw — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:49:27 -0800

Due to a rewording of the rules Science Fiction podcast StarShipSofa (previously, previously, previously) could be eligible for a Hugo award. Meanwhile the current episode features The Gambler (text version here), a story by Paolo Bacigalupi - best known as the author of The Windup Girl, one of TIME Magazine's ten books of the year ("Not just science fiction, mind, but fiction, generally") and almost certainly a favorite for the Hugo's best novel category.

m.polo — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:52:09 -0800

OK, this whole Harry Potter thing - while completely out of proportion to any real value in the books - has up till now been pointless but essentially harmless. But wasting a Hugo Award on this crap?! To quote (oh, I don't know, some Clinton-hating Republican): "Where's the outrage?!"