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2017 Dragon Awards Are No Longer Puppy Awards

September 4, 2017

This weekend saw the second iteration of the Dragon Awards, a cross-media celebration of science fiction and fantasy held by Dragon Con in Atlanta. Decided through a free online poll, the awards purport to represent the tastes of SF/F fandom as a whole. Despite their recent vintage, the Dragon ...

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Winners Announced for Inaugural Dragon Awards – Or Should that be Puppy Awards?

September 5, 2016

The inaugural Dragon Awards have taken place at DragonCon, with fifteen works of science fiction and fantasy across the fields of literature, comics, film, television, and gaming being honored with fiery-red trophies.

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2016 Without Rabid Puppies: The Hugos that Could Have Been

August 25, 2016

Following the Hugo Awards ceremony that was held on Saturday, the awards’ administrators released a PDF file with thorough breakdowns of the voting data. This means that we can get some idea of what the ballot would have looked like without interference from the Rabid Puppies campaign. Before ...

Reviews

2016 Hugo Reviews: Novels

August 2, 2016

I have already covered the Hugos’ short fiction categories: Best Short Story, Best Novelette, and Best Novella. Now it is time to wrap up the prose fiction nominees by looking at the contenders for Best Novel…

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2016 Hugo Reviews: Novellas

July 21, 2016

With Best Short Story and Best Novelette covered, I now turn my attention to the last short fiction category at the Hugo Awards: Best Novella… Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Mankind has spread to the stars and encountered alien races, but not all of humanity is eager to explore space. The Himba of ...

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Comics and Controversy at the 2016 Hugo Awards

July 18, 2016

As anyone who follows the Hugo Awards will already be aware, the 2016 ballot was decided in large part by one man: Vox Day. As part of his Rabid Puppies campaign, the self-styled “national libertarian” provocateur sent his followers to vote for a slate that he himself assembled. The Rabid ...

Reviews

2016 Hugo Reviews: Novelettes

July 7, 2016

Having covered the Hugo Awards’ Best Short Story finalists in my previous post, I shall now take a look at the five stories that are contending for the title of Best Novelette.

Reviews

2016 Hugo Reviews: Short Stories

June 9, 2016

Having looked back on the works that contended in 2014 and 2015, I will now be casting an eye over the 2016 finalists in the four prose fiction categories. First up, we have the nominees for Best Short Story, four out of five of which arrived via Vox Day’s Rabid Puppies campaign.

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2017 Dragon Awards Are No Longer Puppy Awards

Winners Announced for Inaugural Dragon Awards – Or Should that be Puppy Awards?

2016 Without Rabid Puppies: The Hugos that Could Have Been

2016 Hugo Reviews: Novels

2016 Hugo Reviews: Novellas

Comics and Controversy at the 2016 Hugo Awards

2016 Hugo Reviews: Novelettes

2016 Hugo Reviews: Short Stories

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