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Hugo Awards 2023
Jul. 6th, 2023 09:54 amWell.... the Hugo Awards nominees are out, and I am once again shown to have rather different tastes than the majority of hugos fandom. From the novel, novella, and novelette categories, exactly one thing that I nominated made it onto the ballot for each category! ZERO of the short stories and the lodestars that I nominated made it on the list. The only category where I matched two entries is the astounding award.
I'm a bit heartbroken at some of the works that didn't make it on the ballot that I thought were so deserving of attention tbh - Siren Queen (Vo), Radcliffe Hall (Pinckard), To Embody A Wildfire Starting (Sharma), Sestu Hunts the Last Deer in Heaven (Cheung), and When the Angels Left the Old Country (Lamb).....all of them were SO good and they didn't make it on?!
There ARE amazing things on the list though so the news isn't all downers! Delighted by Kingfisher getting a number of spots on the list, Muir of course, and more opportunities to read Tchaikovsky after my surprisingly delightful intro to him in last year's hugos. Even if this does mean I'm finally going to have to read one of Kingfisher's horror works (oh noooooo I am going to perish). And the John Chu short story!!!
Plus others on the list I've been meaning to try but haven't yet gotten round to yet (like Hartman) - I now have a more pressing reason to, which is always great.
And although it makes life harder for me since I don't read Chinese, I do like to see more finalists from the country that the year's worldcon is being hosted in. A good sign that people local to the worldcon are invested in it and interested in attending. Though it does make it challenging for me to start by reading everything in the short story category like I usually do - a number of these stories have only been published in Chinese!
At any rate my spreadsheet is created, my library holds are being placed, let's do this!
I'm a bit heartbroken at some of the works that didn't make it on the ballot that I thought were so deserving of attention tbh - Siren Queen (Vo), Radcliffe Hall (Pinckard), To Embody A Wildfire Starting (Sharma), Sestu Hunts the Last Deer in Heaven (Cheung), and When the Angels Left the Old Country (Lamb).....all of them were SO good and they didn't make it on?!
There ARE amazing things on the list though so the news isn't all downers! Delighted by Kingfisher getting a number of spots on the list, Muir of course, and more opportunities to read Tchaikovsky after my surprisingly delightful intro to him in last year's hugos. Even if this does mean I'm finally going to have to read one of Kingfisher's horror works (oh noooooo I am going to perish). And the John Chu short story!!!
Plus others on the list I've been meaning to try but haven't yet gotten round to yet (like Hartman) - I now have a more pressing reason to, which is always great.
And although it makes life harder for me since I don't read Chinese, I do like to see more finalists from the country that the year's worldcon is being hosted in. A good sign that people local to the worldcon are invested in it and interested in attending. Though it does make it challenging for me to start by reading everything in the short story category like I usually do - a number of these stories have only been published in Chinese!
At any rate my spreadsheet is created, my library holds are being placed, let's do this!
