Good lord! Brisbane has a very good chance of hosting the Hugos in 2028!
https://locusmag.com/2026/06/nuremberg-worldcon-bid-withdraws/

#hugos #2028hugos #brisbanein28

A Great Strange Monster

Fair warning, I’m about to recommend a story I have not yet read. Why? Because it’s a finalist for the Hugo Awards. Because it’s by Scott Lynch, author of The Lies of Locke Lamora and many more excellent works. And because it has a great title.

Kaiju Agonistes

[Time Reference Unavailable]—August, 1946

The watchseed is planted in a watery hemisphere of a watery world. The place spins around a yellow star, wearing its magnetic field like a proud little hat. It’s ridiculous with life.

Hence, a watchseed, with the best of intentions. Let’s give the seed-planters that much. They mean well. Crawling from star to star at not-quite-c, they make their surveys, consult their charts, launch a seed now and then. Old thinkers, they make an endless circuit of the galaxy on behalf of young thinkers. Young thinkers are rare and precious and must be protected, particularly from themselves, because young thinkers are stupid as hell and prone to misadventures with anything they can dig out of their planetary crusts. Hydrocarbons, radioactives, anything.

This planet is rich in ingredients for misadventure.

A terrific opener. Also, it’s free at Uncanny Magazine, one of the best venues for short fiction out there today. 

So yes, I expect this story to be a fun read. Perhaps you’d like it too?

Note from the future: I was right, the story was a great read!

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«LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon), has announced the finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards. Members of the 2025 and 2026 WorldCons cast 1,488 nominating ballots for this year’s awards; organizers note that in total, “nominators made 23,543 nominations for 4,299 works and individuals across 21 categories.”

The awards will be presented in Anaheim, California, on August 30, 2026.»

#Hugos #livros

https://reactormag.com/2026-hugo-awards-finalists/

Lord & Taylor, business in Westchester. General view at entrance 1948 Feb. 29.
Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc.
1 negative : safety ; 5x7 in.

#Westchester #Gottscho-Schleisner #Hugos #Lord&Taylors #Departmentstores #NewYork(State) #UnitedStates #Westchester #architecture #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018747469/

#Hugos in Deutschland?

Nuremberg, Germany Bids for 2028 Worldcon
https://file770.com/nuremberg-germany-bids-for-2028-worldcon/

#Scifi

Och, das "#Hugos" in #BadOeYnhausen macht zu? Ich durfte ja eh nicht rein, weil ich zu alt bin. Aber auch wir haben am Wahlinfostand massive Beschwerden über Randale vor dem Lokal, zerbrochenes Glas in der Fußgängerzone und völlig unregulierte Öffnungszeiten herangetragen bekommen.

Der Betreiber hat augenscheinlich nicht entsprechend auf seine Gäste eingewirkt. Und Einsicht wird in dem Artikel auch nicht gezeigt. Nunja, im anderen Imbiss hängt ein großes Portrait von Trump ...

Nun ist Schluss: https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/owl/kreis-minden-luebbecke/bad-oeynhausen/hugos-bar-lenne-karree-stadt-laerm-ordnungsamt-3412490

So what will you be in for when you log on for Writing the Occult: Belief TOMORROW, Saturday 6 September? A whole bunch of fascinating discussions about belief and speculative fiction, including this one with Jordan S Carroll

His book on science fiction and the alt-right—looking at who gets to control narratives about the future—may have just won a Hugo, but we’ve got Dr Jordan S. Carroll closing up our event giving us a primer on conspiracy theories. 🧵⬇️

#scifi #altright #conspiracy #hugos

We're super lucky to have some amazing and talented humans joining us for Writing the Occult: Belief - including Jordan S. Carroll, who won the Hugo for Best Related Work last weekend!

#sciencefiction #scifi #speculativewhiteness #jordanscarroll #academicchatter #academicwriting #fantasy #horror #occult #hugos

Meant to post this earlier, sorry.

The Hugo Awards start in 5 minutes ago! You can watch the livestream at

https://www.youtube.com/live/py7MeV31ln4

#HugoAwards #Hugos #seattleworldcon #SFFH #SciFi #sciencefictioncommunity
#Nerds