Thanks NPR! As you say, this month is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a new genre—"collecting previously diffuse bits of literature ruminating on scientific discovery or technological advancement in one place." Hugo Gernsback devoted an entire new magazine, "Amazing Stories," to it. Thus we call the SF world's popularity prize a Hugo Award.
So let's raise a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster to...SCIENCE FICTION!
Thanks NPR!
As you remind us, this month is the 100th anniversary of the birth of what became a new genre—"collecting previously diffuse bits of literature ruminating on scientific discovery or technological advancement in one place." Hugo Gernsback devoted an entire new magazine, "Amazing Stories," to it. Which is why we call the SF world's premier popularity prize a Hugo Award.
So let's raise a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster to...SCIENCE FICTION!
2026 Hugo Awards Reading Challenge
Now that I'm finishing my Martha Wells reading marathon, I'm ready for some new books to check out.
2026 Hugo Awards Reading Challenge
Now that I'm finishing my Martha Wells reading marathon, I'm ready for some new books to check out.https://medi-nerd.com/2026/04/22/2026-hugo-awards-reading-challenge/
2026 Hugo Awards Reading Challenge
Now that I'm finishing my Martha Wells reading marathon, I'm ready for some new books to check out.
Hugo Award finalists announced!
https://www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/
Fun to see "Automatic Noodle" make all three lists this year (Hugo + Nebula + Locus Awards). Biang biang! Now I want a hot piping bowl of hand-pulled, spicy noodles 🍜🤖
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I put The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow, on hold a while back but I didn't have the time to read it right then so I suspended the hold till the end of April and forgot about it.
Now that it's a #HugoAwards finalist, I went to put a hold on it and the system told me I already had a hold. I've just reactivated it and I am now in position number 1. (Because you climb up the hold list even while suspended.) I feel both guilty and smug.
The Hugo nomination list is out: https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2026-hugo-awards/
I already read two of the novels, and a third one is already on my e-reader: that's a better score than last uear. It may also be the first time that I've watched all the "best dramatic presentation, short form" (that won't make the vote easier tho :) )
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