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Detail of an illustration by Allen Williams, for Ruthann Emrys' short story "The Litany of Earth".

2014 Hugos Versus 2015 Sad Puppies: What Could Have Been, Part 1

The finalists for the 2016 Hugo Awards were announced on 26 April, and what a sight they are. The ballot is dominated almost entirely by Vox Day’s picks for his Rabid Puppies slate, and so honours the likes of “If You Were an Award, My Love,” Space Raptor Butt Invasion and the (NSFW) art of Kukuruyo….

Detail from Colleen Coover's cover illustration for Queers Dig Time Lords, published by Mad Norwegian Press.

2014 Hugos Versus 2015 Sad Puppies: Related Works

In my previous articles comparing the 2015 Sad Puppies slate with the Hugo nominees of the year before, I covered the short fiction categories of Best Short Story, Best Novelette, and Best Novella. We now come to Best Related Work, a section that is a bit of a mish-mash. Broadly speaking, it is the category for nonfiction—although it once…

“Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer,” by Megan Grey, Fireside Fiction, 2014

2014 Hugos Versus 2015 Sad Puppies: Short Stories

In 2002, the Hugo Award for Best Novel went to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Science fiction author Gregory Benford was not impressed, and he gave his views on the situation in 2005: “Fantasy has very, very cleverly managed to capture the apparatus erected by science fiction fandom and pro-dom, and fantasy writers now…

Dividing the Fandom: The Real Problem with the Sad Puppies

On April 4, the 2015 Hugo Award nominees were announced at Norwescon. (Read here for the full list and links). Immediately afterwards, it became apparent to the Sci-Fi/Fantasy world that two affiliated groups, the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies, had organized a bloc vote for their own respective slates of nominees. This isn’t anything…

Detail from the cover of Timothy Zahn''s novel The Icarus Plot, showing a gang of tough-looking sci-fi characters.

Timothy Zahn and Martha Wells Among Winners of 2023’s Rejigged Dragon Awards

The Atlanta convention Dragon Con handed out its eighth set of Dragon Awards on Sunday. Voted for by the public via an online poll, the awards have been a fixture of the annual convention since 2016 and celebrate science fiction and fantasy storytelling across a variety of media. The Best Science Fiction Novel category was…

The Mighty Thor

2018 Dragon Awards: Big-Name Winners and Little Controversy

One of the attractions at this year’s Dragon Con was the third iteration of the annual Dragon Awards, presented on Sunday to another fifteen works of science fiction and fantasy across a range of media. Unlike Worldcon’s Hugo Awards—where voters require a paid membership—or juried prizes such as the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Dragons…

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