I don't get the hype about Everything Everywhere All at Once .. quite a letdown. Nowhere close to Rick and Morty it had been compared to.
Severance however was pretty good.
Children of time - amazing.
2023 Hugo Awards
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#22I don't get the hype about Everything Everywhere All at Once .. quite a letdown. Nowhere close to Rick and Morty it had been compared to. Severance however was pretty good. Children of time - amazing.
Please tell me your first paragraph was satirical, else please elaborate
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://gizmodo.com/the-hugo-awards-were-always-political-no... https://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434644645/how-the-sad-puppies...
2015 was almost a decade ago, and the word "feminism" doesn't even appear in those articles. Seems the salience was more about race/diversity.
I think that's the context, though. Going back as far as a decade ago, the Hugo Awards were leaning "inclusive". There were some reactionary campaigns. Regardless, the trend has continued. Not everybody is happy about it, and not everybody sees a Hugo Award as a reliable indicator of quality these days.
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#24Barely recognize any of the books or authors there, especially the winners. I've listened to Travis Baldree narrate Cradle, so I'm probably gonna check out his Legends & Lattes book. It didn't win, but I read The Scholomance which is listed in the series section. If you're interested in unconventional magic systems then I'd recommend it. Nettle & Bone was the big winner. Reading the blurb doesn't immediately call out…
Legends & Latte's is one of my favorite books of the past year. It falls into that Cozy Fantasy genre.
It's very different than the Monk & Robot series but makes me feel a very similar way to those books. Highly recommend. There's a sequel coming out in November called Bookshops & Bonedust. I think it's technically a prequel.
Travis Baldree did amazing with Cradle as well. Going to miss getting new books in that series.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does this even mean, "not written by women"?
Or like “where women are correctly shown to be subservient and secondary to men” or something? What a strange way to look at books.
An absence of preaching X does not necessitate preaching Y. We can also do without any preaching at all.
Scifi is large. That other stuff is small.
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#26I don't get the hype about Everything Everywhere All at Once .. quite a letdown. Nowhere close to Rick and Morty it had been compared to. Severance however was pretty good. Children of time - amazing.
It was 1) fun, and 2) humane
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#27The Scholomance series by Naomi Novak is quite good, her best and I've liked all her books. Yes it's a Potter derivative, but doesn't feel derivative but inventive and de-disneyfied.
I loved her previous books but just couldn’t do Scholomance. I don’t mind the Harry Potter derivation, but she tripled down in the life is so unfair vibe that annoyed me in Potter. Still, glad to see her recognized, Spun Silver and Uprooted are amazing books.
Novik doesn't just copy the teen-angst-life-is-so-unfair vibe, but efficiently includes it in her world building. She justifies it. By the end of the series it's clear that the her universe is indeed impressively unfair ... which is core to her protagonists' motivation to do something about it and drives the plot.
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#28The Children of Time series is fantastic! I'm glad that Adrian Tchaikovsky is getting more well deserved recognition.
I enjoyed it too, but I enjoyed the Rivers of London series even more. Great audiobooks both
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#29I don't get the hype about Everything Everywhere All at Once .. quite a letdown. Nowhere close to Rick and Morty it had been compared to. Severance however was pretty good. Children of time - amazing.
Rick and Morty was the rare quasar in a mess of warm gas.
And I say "was" because it fell off a cliff after season 2.
As for "everything everywhere all at once". Quite meh. Turned it off halfway.
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#30I didn't know the Hugo Awards has so many award. I naively though it was just best sci-fi book because I would see lists of Hugo award winners by year and see only one book per year and they were all sci-fi.