The Hugo Awards for 2021 have been announced! Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists! Check out the full list of the finalists, with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews.
“The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds.” Nino Cipri’s story Finna is the last novella that was left for me to read in the Hugo nominations for 2021. At 92 pages it’s also the shortest novella, and the most weirdly lighthearted.
…when people joke and call me Riot Baby for being born when I was, it ain’t with any kind of affection, but something more complicated… Tochi Anyebuchi’s Hugo-nominated novella starts in Los Angeles just before the Rodney King riots. Kev is born in a Los Angeles hospital in the middle of the riot, almost dying
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun Rebecca Roanhorse’s previous Hugo-nominated novel (and debut book) was set in a dystopian future of climate disaster and Navajo legends come to life. Her latest book has also been nominated for Best Novel, and this one is set in the distant
She belonged with the Librarians, and she would prove it. My first experience with Sarah Gailey’s Wild West novellas was the Hugo-nominated hippo-themed caper, River of Teeth. Gailey’s latest Hugo-nominated novella, Upright Women Wanted, is also set in the Wild West, although a lot further removed from 1890’s Louisiana than you may at first realize.
“Overse added, “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” Martha Wells has already received a Hugo Award for two of the novellas in her Murderbot Diaries series, so it’s no surprise
The last three Hugo-nominated novelettes are stories by Sarah Pinsker, A.T. Greenblatt, and Isabel Fall. These ones are slightly more…challenging? Thought-provoking? Whatever you want to call it, we’ve got a story about memory, a story about trying to fit in with a group of super-powered heroes, and a very controversial story that I’m not sure
Next up for the Hugo awards, three of the stories nominated for Best Novelette. For this group we’ve got a dystopian commentary on body image (and how society’s treatment of it is so much more poisonous than “don’t you want to be healthy?”), a tale of high school friendship mixed with genetic tampering and revenge,
The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Lady Astronaut” series is up for a Hugo award this year, and it’s an absolute cracker. Book One told the story of a world-ending disaster and humanity reaching for the stars from the point of view of the women fighting for their place aboard the spaceships. Book