“What better time to listen to a story than when the world is about to end?” It’s the last of the main Hugo-nominated fiction entries – just in time for the award ceremony on August 30 – and what a nominee to finish up with! Nnedi Okorafor’s novel is an Afrofuturist, robot apocalypse, wild family
Just in time to start choosing my summer reading list, the Hugo Awards finalists for 2019 have been announced! This year I’ve already read two of the novels, two of the novellas, and one short story; if I can catch up on the rest of them before August then I might actually read some of
When elephants fight, the grass suffers. The treaty that Binti created in the first novella of this trilogy is now over. The tensions between the Khoush and the Meduse erupted into violence again, this time on planet Earth, and her tribe is caught in the middle. Binti hasn’t even had time to process all the
The Hugo Award ceremony is this Sunday, August 19! Click the jump for an updated list of the finalists, including links to reviews, where you can find the stories (for free or for purchase) and my guesses for who might win the award.
This is actually the second novella in Nnedi Okorafor’s “Binti” series, but it’s worth it to pick up the first one too in order to get the whole story. (Binti won the Hugo for Best Novella in 2015, and it’s only about a hundred pages. Go on, I’ll wait…) All done? Okay, in the first book, Binti
It’s that time again, the finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards have been announced! I’ve only read four of the 114 nominees this year so far, so I have quite a bit of catching up to do… This will be the same format as last year: between now and when the winners are announced on