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
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
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),
The winners of the 2020 Hugo Awards were announced this weekend, and while the award ceremony needs a lot of improvement (mispronouncing names in a live ceremony would be careless; doing it repeatedly in a prerecorded video is just bizarre), there were some amazing stories in all the categories, and the wins were well-deserved. Click
If there are two words that can describe this year’s nominees for Best Short Story, it would be “triumphant” and “bleak”. Every one of them features someone overcoming a trial, whether it’s living life on their own terms, or making the hard decision to sacrifice their life for others. These are all lyrical and fierce,
The Hugo Award finalists for 2020 have been announced! The convention (July 29 – August 2) will be online only, for obvious reasons. So there’s less than three months before the award ceremony, and between this year and the retro 1945 awards there are 186 separate finalists and I’ve read…two of the novellas, and a