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2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced (thehugoawards.org) 69

Slashdot reader Dave Knott writes: After once again being plagued by controversy, this time due to a thwarted ballot-stuffing campaign, the 2024 Hugo Awards have been awarded at the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention.

This year's winners are:

* Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
* Best Novella: Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
* Best Novelette: "The Year Without Sunshine", by Naomi Kritzer
* Best Short Story: "Better Living Through Algorithms", by Naomi Kritzer
* Best Series: Imperial Radch, by Ann Leckie
* Best Graphic Story or Comic: Saga, Vol. 11, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples
* Best Related Work: A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?, by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Last of Us: "Long, Long Time", written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar
* Best Game or Interactive Work: Baldur's Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios
* Best Editor Short Form: Neil Clarke
* Best Editor Long Form: Ruoxi Chen
* Best Professional Artist: Rovina Cai
* Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
* Best Fanzine: Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G. Brown, Vance Kotrla
* Best Fancast: Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
* Best Fan Writer: Paul Weimer
* Best Fan Artist: Laya Rose
* Lodestar Award for Best YA Book: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
* Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Xiran Jay Zhao

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2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced

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  • What if I'm in the mood for a Novelette Pro Ultra? Or a Novel Mini?

    • Is there a category for best scifi men's room graffiti? Here's my entry:

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  • by cats-paw ( 34890 ) on Saturday August 17, 2024 @04:09PM (#64714206) Homepage

    Can we skip the wokeism and voting commentary and just go straight to the meaningful comments about the actual books by people who have actually read them ?

    I know it's asking a lot, but you know ... that'd be great !

  • Too late for the awards but The book of elsewhere by China Mieville and Keane Reeves was pretty good for me. Definitely meets Mieville's literacy, but follows Reeve's comic book storyline. Cat you scotty was funny - if poorly pronounced.
    • Definitely meets Mieville's literacy,

      Impenetrable and confusing? I kid but only sort of. I read and rather enjoyed "the city and the city" bu it's definitely the kind of book you need to work at.

      • well - there's a thing where some authors like to patronise by explaining everything, which I find hard to enjoy (being patronised at)- then others who expand my vocabulary but expect me to use a dictionary or the net to learn some new words. Mieville is definitely in the latter camp. His rich literary re style demands a careful read also - but these features he shared with such masters as JL Borges - and I won't fault him for that. - moreover one doesn't *need* to look up all the words but I do, and I fee
  • Remember with the "sad puppies", where some right winger organized some fans to put some good stories up, and they REFUSED TO VOTE AT ALL?

    It's been pure politics for years. Disregard anything they output, it's just never gonna be relevant again.

    • >some right winger organized some fans to put some good stories up,

      Typically, right-wing stuff is about selling the ideology and the stories are absolute shit. Like Christian movies, books, and whatever else, it's about the self-wank and propping up the tribe's beliefs and that doesn't sell at all outside the tribe. Lefties do it too sometimes. A political nutjob is a political nutjob.

      By contrast, Heinlein was pretty right-wing libertarian towards the latter part of his career, but he wrote good stuff

      • "Time Enough for Love"? As an example. Silly old man's sex fantasies would be a better title.

        • by caseih ( 160668 )

          Yes the Sci Fi genre has been pretty spotty over the many decades. I really enjoyed the first Ringworld book. Each subsequent book was a little worse. I remember something about sex vampires? Was pretty bad. I think he even had some species that use sex as a form of hello. The overall plot was interesting, but it was tiring with all these old man sex fantasies scattered through it all.

          A similar pattern happened to Clarke's Rama series. Rendezvous with Rama was great hard sci fi. After that it went d

          • by XXongo ( 3986865 )

            A similar pattern happened to Clarke's Rama series. Rendezvous with Rama was great hard sci fi. After that it went downhill. I can't even remember what happened in the subsequent books. Contrived conflict, politics, and sex took over from the exploration theme.

            Only the original, Rendezvous with Rama, was actually by Clarke. The sequels were by Gentry Lee.

  • by Revek ( 133289 ) on Saturday August 17, 2024 @06:23PM (#64714434)
    There is no chance they were chosen on quality and every chance they were picked to serve some personal agendas.
    • When the Sad Puppies thing blew up I deliberately went out to read the short list of novels for every year for the last 10 years. I generally found the short list was a pretty good collection of books, although there were a few I couldn't stand, mostly from Tor.

      • Which shows the Sad Puppies were right. Tor was the leader of the selection process going wonky.
    • by arctor ( 411306 )

      "There is no chance they were chosen on quality and every chance they were picked to serve some personal agendas."

      The Hugos became irrelevant when the 5th Season won over Seveneves.

  • By my count that makes 9 years in a row that the best novel has been won by a woman. Since 3 Body Problem?

    What AMAZING odds!

  • They're selecting a lot of mediocrities due to features that are either artistically irrelevant or flat-out commercially driven. Hugo is no longer an interesting indicator of quality for the fan of the relevant genres.

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