Hugo awards organisers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win
The science fiction and fantasy prize says it has culled 377 votes mostly for ‘Finalist A’, who will not be disqualified as there is no proof they were aware
February 2024
Authors ‘excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns’
Leaked emails reveal organisers of leading science fiction and fantasy awards flagged works of a ‘sensitive political nature’
January 2024
Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors
Concerns raised about interference or censorship after documents showed writers were barred despite receiving enough nominations
December 2021
Martha Wells continues run of female Hugo award winners
Wells’s novel Network Effect takes top science fiction award, the sixth successive win for a woman in what was once an almost exclusively male honour roll
August 2020
Arkady Martine wins Hugo for best novel, as George RR Martin hosts online ceremony
Debut novelist wins world’s top prize in science fiction for A Memory Called Empire, with Jeannette Ng and Neil Gaiman landing other categories
May 2020
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The City We Became by NK Jemisin review – a fizzing New York fantasy
Hideous apparitions attack NYC, as Jemisin has ‘a little monstrous fun’ after the Broken Earth saga
August 2018
The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo
Hugo awards: women clean up as NK Jemisin wins best novel again
August 2017
Hugo awards 2017: NK Jemisin wins best novel for second year in a row
The Obelisk is headline winner in a year marked by diminished presence of conservative Sad Puppy lobby and strong showing from women
August 2016
Hugo awards see off rightwing protests to celebrate diverse authors
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Hugo awards: reading the Sad Puppies' pets
May 2016
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Dinosaur porn or Rabid Puppy pastiche? The strange story of Chuck Tingle
The explicit erotica parody arrived on a Hugo award shortlist after Vox Day’s endorsement – but who the author is and how he got nominated remains mysterious
April 2016
George RR Martin: Rabid Puppies are 'big winners' in Hugo shortlists
Writer urges popular SF authors nominated by rightwing campaign not to withdraw from the prize race and says he will hold alternative awards again
Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign
For the second year running, the biggest prize in science fiction and fantasy writing has been monopolised by nominations from Sad and Rabid Puppies groups, who campaign against works ‘overtly to the left’
The Hugo Awards: George RR Martin, Vox Day and Alastair Reynolds on the prize's future
As the shortlists for the 2016 prizes are announced, writers consider how the genre’s leading prizes can survive the bitter Sad and Rabid Puppies debacle
December 2015
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2015 in books news: tragedies and triumphs
Harper Lee returned, Marlon James took the Booker and Terry Pratchett made his final bow. The year also saw literature drawn into shocking violence in Paris, fierce arguments over diversity … and a colouring-book frenzy
August 2015
George RR Martin 'relieved' after Sad Puppies' Hugo awards defeat
Song of Ice and Fire author writes that he is glad to see reactionary lobby ‘routed’, but regrets the number of ‘No Award’ decisions this entailed
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Diversity wins as the Sad Puppies lose at the Hugo awards
The drubbing received by the reactionary lobby’s preferred nominees shows that sci-fi’s future has to be a diverse one
'No award' sweeps the Hugo Awards following controversy
Liu Cixin won for Best Novel, but the controversial Puppy slate of nominees led to an unprecedented number of categories in which no award was given
July 2015
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The Puppies are taking science fiction's Hugo awards back in time
Rightwing infiltrators unhappy at the liberal direction of modern science fiction have gamed the polling for the Hugo awards with vociferous and hateful online campaigns. But if they win, science fiction as a genre loses
