Or: Inside baseball, the podcast! Today, I welcome Adrian of the Spectology podcast to talk about this year’s Hugo Awards, which were, in technical terms, a shitshow. Before we begin, here’s a link full of links about what happened at the ceremony, in case you are curious. You can also check out the full list of this year’s winners, who were terrific. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go!
Here’s a list of everything we talked about!
Robert Silverberg and his whole deal with NK Jemisin
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Jeannette Ng’s speech about John Campbell
Tade Thompson’s twitter thread about being done with WorldCon and the Hugos
NK Jemisin’s thread about being done with WorldCon
CoNZFringe
“The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” by Jo Freeman
what happened at the National Book Critics Circle
what happened at RWA
Spectology episode about The Raven Tower
Deal with the Devil, Kit Rocha
Small Beer Press
Hugos Spreadsheet for 2021 voting!
“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger,” Rivers Solomon
“As the Last I May Know,” by SL Huang (the story that won!)
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (link is to the Spectology pod about it!)
The Deep, Rivers Solomon
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
my post about prose and This Is How You Lose the Time War
Claire’s YouTube channel!
Claire’s appearance on my podcast
Spectology episode on how to become a Hugo voter
The Lesson, Cadwell Turnbull
You can find Adrian at the Spectology podcast (as well as some links to specific episode, above!) or on Twitter @spectologypod.
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is coming soon!