Tag Archives: 2015 Hugos

Hugo Awards Post-Mortem

Posted on August 23, 2015 by H.P.

The Post I Hoped I Wouldn’t Write. George R.R. Martin argued on his Not a Blog before the awards that if the Puppy nominees did not win, then they would have lost (you can tell he’s a sports fan). And … Continue reading →

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On the Hugo Awards Controversy

Posted on July 29, 2015 by H.P.

I don’t care. I thought about making that my entire post, but it’s not quite true so I will say a few things. I also considered writing a very long post touching on any number of facets of the controversy. … Continue reading →

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2015 Campbell Award for Best New Writer Ballot

Posted on July 27, 2015 by H.P.

The Campbell Award for Best New Writer is the Hugo, which isn’t a Hugo, which doesn’t make sense, so I’m going to call it a Hugo anyway. Voting closes on Friday, and as they say in post-apocalyptic Harlan, it’s not … Continue reading →

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2015 Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form Ballot

Posted on July 17, 2015 by H.P.

There isn’t a bad movie in the lot this year, although I don’t know if I would rank any of the nominees over Mad Max: Fury Road or Ex Machina. Jurassic World would probably slide in just under Captain America: … Continue reading →

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2015 Hugo Best Short Story Ballot

Posted on July 15, 2015 by H.P.

The Parliament of Beasts and Birds by John C. Wright There is a reason why speculative fiction magazines encourage writers not to submit stories with talking animals. What a wretched story this is. It is another deeply religious from Wright, … Continue reading →

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2015 Hugo Best Novelette Ballot

Posted on July 14, 2015 by H.P.

Can we please let the best novelette category die?  Of the five nominees, three are or appear to be part of a serialized story.  Of the other two, one or both is really just a slightly longer short story.  The … Continue reading →

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Review of The Journeyman: In the Stone House by Michael F. Flynn

Posted on July 13, 2015 by H.P.

The Journeyman: In the Stone House commits the same sin as Flow and Championship B’tok by telling only a piece of a larger story. But I give it a pass. Why? I could say that it sticks to one POV, … Continue reading →

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Review of Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium by Gray Rinehart

Posted on July 10, 2015 by H.P.

I thought Ashes was going to be a different type of story. The way it begins suggests a mediation on death. It ends up though, being a more traditional sort of story. The human colony on Alluvium suffers under the … Continue reading →

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Review of Championship B’tok by Edward M. Lerner

Posted on July 9, 2015 by H.P.

There isn’t really a problem with Championship B’tok as a story. The problem is that it isn’t a story—it’s just part of one. That larger story is likely a good one but this piece of it doesn’t work on its … Continue reading →

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Review of The Day the World Turned Upside Down by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Lia Belt

Posted on July 8, 2015 by H.P.

Sorrow is a bottomless well. Why then, must so much art engage with it on only the most superficial level, returning time and again to that most shallow and ubiquitous form, immature heartbreak (see: country music)? It’s not that it’s … Continue reading →

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