Hugo Awards

[rogin]

Pretty decent list of winners this year, as it looks like. I have not read a lot this year, but I'll certainly look out for some of this stuff.

A memory called Empire - sounds cool.

This is how you loose the time war - has been recommended to me more times than I can count. I'll get it out now.

Poppy war books - sound amazing, bought them right away

LaGuardia - looks somewhat fun, has anybody here read it?

Apparently now that the puppies are no longer around, GRRM is the new big Hugo bad? Idk, I think he is a decent writer and he really is into Hugo history. But then I only listened to part of his presentation and I have not read up on the recent discourse. I'd rather just enjoy the winners.

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[shadowkat]

The RITA thing - was the big Romance Writer's Association meltdown in December, mostly on Twitter as well. Actually all of these genre related meltdowns are on Twitter - apparently all the professional genre novelists are camped out on Twitter, along with their genre associations, fans, publishers, and the media. One of the many reasons Twitter gives me a headache - there's nothing worse than a bored out of their minds writer. ;-)

[rogin]

Ah, ok. I follow a few writers on twitter, such as Ellen Kushner or NK Jemisin, but I think the romance bubble passes me by.

Twitter is way to dramatic for my liking. And I do not like the way the left tears each other apart there.

[shadowkat]

It was Courtney Milan (Chinese-American) - who instigated the Romance War on Twitter - I was following Courtney (a progressive romance novelist) and shipperx (who used to be on DW and was from the Buffy fandom), which is how I found out about it. Also Cat Sebastian, who is another progressive romance novelist. Kind of similar to Kushner, but more vocal and far more social justice activist.

I dislike Twitter. But, if you are into social justice or social activism - it's an excellent platform for it. I'll give it that.