This year, the first two of the Hugo Novelettes I read consisted of cozy and light-hearted ways of looking at how society can treat its vulnerable members versus how it actually does. I followed those up with a story in the form of a scientific treatise that illustrates how one piece of technology can change
WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in
In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely is one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation used to be, not sure who). That was episode 264, and the theme of 265 can be summed up even more briefly:
You’re not going to believe this, but we said we were going to watch the third David Tennant Doctor Who episode this week AND WE DID. Next thing you know we’ll be watching movies the weekend they come out. (Hahahah, kidding, obviously.) Anyway, our hearts are still intact after the episode, which was for the
Congratulations to this year’s Hugo Award winners! Here’s an updated list with links to all the Pixelated Geek reviews. 2023 Hugo Award Finalists Best Novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) PG ReviewThe Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (Tor Books) PG ReviewLegends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (Tor Books) PG
It’s an interesting situation with this year’s fiction nominations. We’ve already seen that one of the nominated novelettes isn’t available in English. It turns out that four of the nominated short stories are also only available in Chinese. I haven’t been able to find a reason why these either weren’t released in English or weren’t
The last three Hugo-nominated novelettes for 2023 are something of a mixed bag. You’ve got a real-life problem that’s almost guaranteed to get worse, a future technology that highlights the very best that humanity has to offer to its descendants, and one more that I can’t actually describe because no one knows how to find
I’m actually ahead of the game this year as far as the Hugo-nominated novelettes. By which I mean I’ve read one of them already (it’s the Catherynne Valente one, which I’m sure is no surprise). For the first three Best Novelette nominees, we have stories which all include the theme of needing to be seen,
Just as I was toying with posting a review of several random short stories (in hopes of getting one that might be nominated for a Hugo Award), the Chengdu Worldcon committee today posted the full list of finalists. I didn’t manage to guess more than one nominated work of short fiction (Catherynne Valente’s excellent novelette),