Tag Archives: 2016 Hugos

Inaugural Dragon Award Winners Announced

Posted on September 5, 2016 by H.P.

Congrats to the winners of the inaugural Dragon Awards.  I won’t do a long post on the awards.  Mainly because I still don’t have internet at home post-Hermine and would prefer to spend my precious bar-with-wifi time otherwise.  But partly … Continue reading →

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Hugo Awards Postmortem – 2016 Edition

Posted on August 21, 2016 by H.P.

Signs indicated that things were going to get ugly well before last night’s Hugo Awards ceremony.  The Worldcon business meeting passed resolutions moving the deadline to register and nominate from January 31 to December 31 and limiting the eligibility to … Continue reading →

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2016 Hugo Awards Ballot

Posted on July 27, 2016 by H.P.

I didn’t wind up reading a lot of the nominees and blogged about even fewer, but I at least wanted to get my votes up.  To be honest, I’ve lost a certain amount of interest in the Hugos.  And despite … Continue reading →

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Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Posted on July 26, 2016 by H.P.

Uprooted may be the most perfect fantasy novel I have read since A Game of Thrones.  Or maybe The Lord of the Rings. Uprooted is a finalist for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and it has my vote.

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Review of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Posted on July 25, 2016 by H.P.

The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. That’s a killer opening line.  And not one that Stephenson ever explains.  This isn’t a book about why the Moon blew up; it’s a book about what humanity decides … Continue reading →

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Review of Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Posted on June 28, 2016 by H.P.

A frequent complaint regarding today’s short speculative fiction is that it is too frequently only nominally speculative or not really speculative at all.  I’m leery of going that far, if only because I like non-speculative fiction just fine and I … Continue reading →

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Review of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Posted on June 22, 2016 by H.P.

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth, and master of all. The Fifth Season is a beautifully written apocalyptic fantasy featuring an intricate and inventive magic system and world.  It’s also very ambitious from a literary standpoint, but those … Continue reading →

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Review of Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds

Posted on June 20, 2016 by H.P.

Slow Bullets, like Perfect State, has a premise that didn’t grab me and would have kept me from reading it but for being a Hugo finalist.  In this case it wasn’t the copy but the plot descriptions from some of … Continue reading →

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Review of The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher

Posted on June 2, 2016 by H.P.

I finally picked up a Dresden Files book when Skin Game was nominated for a Hugo Award last year and wound up greatly enjoying it—putting it #2 on my ballot behind The Three-Body Problem.  Butcher is back with another Hugo … Continue reading →

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Review of Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on May 25, 2016 by H.P.

God-Emperor Kairominas is lord of all he surveys. He has defeated all foes, has united the entire world beneath his rule, and has mastered the arcane arts. He spends his time sparring with his nemesis, who keeps trying to invade … Continue reading →

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