[EveningStar]

Women and authors of color won big at this year's Hugo Awards

Andrew Liptak
The Verge
August 21, 2016

This year’s Hugo Awards were awarded last night at MidAmeriCon II in Kansas City, with works such as N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti walking away with the top prizes. You can read the entire list of winners here, but this year’s awards require a careful look.

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[EveningStar]

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[denydenydeny]

They No Awarded Jerry Pournelle and Larry Elmore. F them.

[SES1066]

Like many oldsters, I ache for the stars of yesteryear. Also, like the seniors of my youth, I'd probably be wrong.

Still, the only winner I'd endorse is the Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form - The Martian screenplay by Drew Goddard, directed by Ridley Scott (Scott Free Productions; Winberg Genre; TSG Entertainment; 20th Century Fox)

I did root for Baen's Toni Weisskopf for Best Editor - Long Form. Ah well, maybe next year!

[TxGrandMom]

Thanks for posting this.

I have not noticed if you do this every year. I probably only see evening posts, but thank you again.

[coydog]

No matter what actually wins, the 2016 Hugos will still be remembered mostly for “Space Raptor Butt Invasion”, and they will wince at it for years to come.

[WMarshal]

Whenever I answer a poll I say that I am Hispanic and Democrat and I answer questions like I post on this forum.

[P.O.E.]

Have spent the last few weeks reading Asimov’s compilation of the best sci-fi of 1941

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[Kickass Conservative]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZzKUt4OtE8

[Tailback]

Who won the contra hugo awards? There’s a group that has been protesting the hugos and was banned because they said PC had taken over.

Basically the “gamer gate” of science fiction/fantasy...

[minnesota_bound]

Anything new from Isaac Asimov?

[depressed in 06]

NOAA
Any State Department briefing.
Any WH briefing.

[Durus]

Butcher got robbed (again). I guess he's too white, male, and heterosexual for them.

“Binti” is nothing more than thinly veiled political commentary, ignorant political commentary at that. It would be better categorized as agitprop than as science fiction.