Congratulations to all of the Hugo Award winners and nominees! Check the list below for the winning entries and links to all the reviews 2026 Hugo Award Finalists (and Winners!) Best Novel Best Novella Best Novelette Best Short Story Best Series Best Graphic Story or Comic Best Related Work Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Best
“Mr. Lux, is everyone safe now?”“There’s six people with Superpowers on the planet. Of course not.” When I heard that volume one of Kieron Gillen’s The Power Fantasy had been nominated for a Hugo award, I picked it up. After reading it, I immediately picked up volumes two and three. And then I put off
Really good short stories, or at least the ones I like the most, hold up a mirror to something going on now, and either act as a cautionary tale, or an inspirational one. This year’s Hugo-nominated short stories cover the range from dystopian, to near-dystopian, to utterly weird futuristic situations that everyone except the protagonist
Two of the remaining three novelettes this year could be considered dystopian (depending on how negatively you view the universe of Martha Wells’s Murderbot series), and the third takes place in America in what could be called the Golden Age, just not for everyone. “Never Eaten Vegetables” – H.H. Pak She glides through the night
It’s Hugo nomination time! (Actually the nominees for 2026 were announced almost three weeks ago, but y’know, vacation…) I’ve read one novel and two of the novellas already this year. Check out the full list below with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get around
We watched the series finale of Station Eleven this week, only three and a half years late, that’s a record for us! (Except for when we watched Mayor of Kingstown season three the same month it was released. Or Love Death and Robots the same week it came out. We’re bad at TV except when
Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards! Check out the list below for the results and links to the reviews. 2025 Hugo Award Finalists Best Novel Best Novella Best Novelette Best Short Story Best Series Best Graphic Story or Comic Best Related Work Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Best
I’m not sure if it’s the effect of (gestures vaguely) everything that’s going on in the world lately, but the short story finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards are all kinda dark. The six entries feature death, monsters, murder, bloody revolution, not one but two examples of state-sanctioned torture, and a reading lesson from an
It’s that time of year! The nominees for the 2025 Hugo Awards have been announced, and this year I’ve actually read and reviewed three of the Hugo nominees, plus one of the Lodestar nominees for best YA novel! Check out the full list below (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get