Hugo ShortsList (episode 35 of the podcast)

In this episode, we review the short stories nominated for the 2023 Hugo Awards - the awards voted on by the members and attendeeds of the World Science Fiction Convention. Since the Worldcon is in China this year, the shortlist includes a number of Chinese stories.

We recorded this episode shortly before the Hugo Winners were announced, so cut us some slack s we speculate on what the outcome of the voting might be!

Normally, we would post links to all the stories, but not all of the stories have an online version. We hope that the Chinese stories will be properly published in English at some point, but we may have to wait for the "year's best" anthologies to pick them up.

Here are links to the two English-language stories:

"D.I.Y." by John Wiswell

"Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills

 You can see the full list of Hugo Award winners (in all categories) here.

Other items mentioned in this episode:

• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database and the Chinese SF Database
• George Pal's The War of the Worlds (1953)
• Experience being on a rotating space station in Erik Wernquist's short film "One Revolution Per Minute"
• Fahrenheit 451 is seventy years old
• Michael Crichton's Runaway (1984)
• Find out what (might have) happened to Dr Frank Poole in this very short sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Brandon Sanderson - full list of books
• Non-fiction article on how communicating with whales might be a good rehearsal for communicating with extraterrestrials

 

Here's the episode. Take a listen, and let us know what you think! 

 

 

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