Musings on the Hugo Awards
This is a queued post - and the picture is from Pittsburgh.
I’m ALMOST done with my reading for the Hugos at the time of writing. I only have Astounding to do and am trying to do it before I leave in case there are internet issues (I’m old. I don’t assume I’ll have reliable internet when out of town and I know my in-laws don’t have the best).
So, here are my random thoughts and musings:
Someone You Can Build A Nest In was not my first choice for Best Novel, but it’s going to win.
What’s with the queer YA mecha? This isn’t a bad thing, of course, but there seems to be a trend for queer YA mecha. That said, it’s a good power/control fantasy for queer youth who need one right now.
Calypso belonged in novella not poetry. But I suspect it wasn’t seen as eligible for the former. Something to think about if we move forward with poetry.
Not really noticing any trends in short fiction, except the choice was as hard to make as it always is.
But the works that have stood out to me this year:
Novel: Someone You Can Build A Nest In (John Wiswell)
Novel: A Sorceress Comes To Call (T. Kingfisher)
Novella: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (Sofia Samatar)
Novelette: The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea (Naomi Kritzer)
Novelette: Loneliness Universe (Eugenia Triantafyllou)
Short Story: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus (Rachael K. Jones)
Short Story: We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read (Caroline M. Yoachim)
Poem: Ever Noir (Mari Ness)
Young Adult: So Let Them Burn (Kamilah Cole).