The seventh annual Dragon Awards was held at Atlanta’s Dragon Con on Sunday, with another 15 winners being chosen from the ranks of science fiction and fantasy novels, films, TV series, comics, and games. According to official statistics, more than 7,000 fans cast their ballots in the awards, which are decided via an online poll.
2022 Hugo Award Winners Take Us To Other Worlds
Chicago became the host of the 80th World Science Fiction Convention at the start of this month, with the annual Hugo Awards handed out on Sunday. A new round of recipients, voted for by the convention membership, went home with the iconic rocket-shaped trophies to honour their contributions to the previous year’s science fiction and…
2022 Hugo Awards: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The sequel to Arkady Martine’s earlier Hugo-winner A Memory Called Empire, this novel returns to the realm of the interplanetary Teixcalaan Empire. A Desolation Called Peace takes place early in the reign of Her Brilliance Nineteen Adze, an emperor, faced with an encroaching threat: humanity is making first contact with aliens – and those aliens…
Con Diaries: Fan Expo Canada 2022 Is All About Those Queues
Following a cancelled con in 2020 and a limited edition in 2021, Fan Expo Canada 2022 returned in full force with a four-day event. I attended two of the days, Friday and Saturday, and had an eventful time.
2022 Hugo Awards: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
In Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, Katrina Nguyen is a young transgender woman who fled her abusive parents and hopes to pursue her passion as a violinist. She meets a woman named Shizuka Satomi, who previously coached six would-be musicians to stardom – only for each one to due young, thereby earning Shizuka…