Hugos 2019: Related Works
Oct. 3rd, 2019 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseSince it's October and I am showing no plans to clean up my Hugo reading comments, it's "post and run" time. I will leave my comments from, er, July, as the historical relics they are.
- Jo Walton's An Informal History of the Hugos is the nominee to beat, in my mind. A collection of columns about previous Hugo nominees and winners, with comments extracted from the original online discussions? It's also Jo Walton talking about SF/F; Walton talks about the genre in a way that's one of my standards for How To Talk About Genre. Slam dunk. [October annotation: ...well, it's a good thing I don't bet for money.]
- Hobbit documentary: I most liked the parts which discuss the movies' artistic / narrative / etc failings, and some of the behind-the-scenes studio notes. The parts about the narrator trying to reconnect with her personal joy in the canon and fandom wasn't as compelling to me.
- Astounding (Alec Nevala-Lee): going down to the Walton. Sorry, author.
- Mexicanx Initiative: it's unclear to me how "we had a great time at Worldcon" is a related work. The bilingual fiction collection might be, maybe.
- Le Guin: a meh Le Guin is still worth reading, but Related Works has a lot of strong nominees this year!
- AO3 will live to be nominated again. Sorry, AO3; your proponents will get my vote in a year with a weaker field.
- Jo Walton's An Informal History of the Hugos is the nominee to beat, in my mind. A collection of columns about previous Hugo nominees and winners, with comments extracted from the original online discussions? It's also Jo Walton talking about SF/F; Walton talks about the genre in a way that's one of my standards for How To Talk About Genre. Slam dunk. [October annotation: ...well, it's a good thing I don't bet for money.]
- Hobbit documentary: I most liked the parts which discuss the movies' artistic / narrative / etc failings, and some of the behind-the-scenes studio notes. The parts about the narrator trying to reconnect with her personal joy in the canon and fandom wasn't as compelling to me.
- Astounding (Alec Nevala-Lee): going down to the Walton. Sorry, author.
- Mexicanx Initiative: it's unclear to me how "we had a great time at Worldcon" is a related work. The bilingual fiction collection might be, maybe.
- Le Guin: a meh Le Guin is still worth reading, but Related Works has a lot of strong nominees this year!
- AO3 will live to be nominated again. Sorry, AO3; your proponents will get my vote in a year with a weaker field.