Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are facing a controversy of intergalactic proportions. According to emails leaked on February 14, the volunteer body that administered the 2023 Hugo Awards appeared to have directly engaged in self-censoring the nominees over political concerns about the host country, China.

A group of more than 80 science fiction and fantasy authors are protesting at the possibility of one of the genres' biggest conventions being held in Saudi Arabia in 2022, saying that "the Saudi regime is antithetical to everything SFF stands for".  Read more

A year after NK Jemisin became the first black person to win the Hugo award for best novel, the African American author has landed the prestigious science fiction prize for the second year running.

You might think handing out awards for the best science fiction writing of the year would not be, ahem, rocket science. But you'd be wrong.  Read more

George R R Martin has waded into the "nasty, nasty fight" surrounding this year's Hugo awards, laying out why he believes that a group of rightwing science fiction writers have "broken" the prestigious prize beyond repair.  Read more