I have been researching this year's Hugo Award nominees and making a list of stuff to read. I am a newbie and kind of using the Hugos to get my feet wet. I'm also planning to attend DisCon since I live near D.C. so I may end up voting.
Most of the awards seem rather straightforward, except the aforementioned best long-form editor category. How is one supposed to tell what the nominees edited? Furthermore, how does one judge how a work has been edited in general? For short-form, it would seem that the selection of the works in the magazine or anthology is the primary criterion. But I have no idea how one would judge editorial skill in a novel, other than to compare a nominee's edited works to the others' ... which brings me back to my first question.
Any and all feedback is appreciated.
The Expanse has won the 2020 Hugo for best series. This award has been offered since 2017 for SF or fantasy series consisting of at least 3 published works and at least 240,000 words, at least one of which was released or translated into English in the previous year. Previous winners include The Vorkosigan Saga and World of the Five Gods (both by Louis McMaster Bujold) and Wayfarers (Becky Chambers).
"Cibola Burn" (Season 4, episode 10) was a finalist for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (i.e., the best episode award) but came in fourth.
The Hugo Awards, science fiction and fantasy's most prestigious awards, will be giving out a Best Video Game award this upcoming year.
https://scifi-hugo.herokuapp.com/
I decided to take a stab at reading all of the Hugo and Nebula award winners for Best Short Story since short stories are a great medium and they fit perfectly into my commute. These stories are AWESOME, however, I couldn't find a single resource for links to these stores so I built one!
For the technically curious - I build the platform using NodeJS and React. Any feedback is welcome!
No other sci fi TV show of the 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s has won this award, except the Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation (Inner Light). No award for DS9 or Voyager or Earth Final Conflict
That is all ;-)
Oh one more thing: Jeff Bezos CEO is a huge science fiction fan, which is why he keeps adding scifi shows to his Prime service, and recently "saved" The Expanse from cancellation (so we can see the end of the story). Amazon is a better Sci-Fi Channel than Syfy.
They're up against the Black Mirror episode "San Junipero," the season 1 finale of The Expanse "Leviathan Wakes," the Doctor Who episode "The Return of Doctor Mysterio," and the album "Splendor & Misery."
Although the two nominations shows a lot of enthusiasm by the voting public, it may well cost GOT the award due to vote-splitting, especially with some other extremely strong contenders like San Junipero and Leviathan Wakes.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/here-are-the-2017-hugo-awards-finalists-1793991378
