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Hugo Awards Host DisCon III Apologizes for Taking Money From Defence Company
The 79th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as DisCon III and the site of this year’s Hugo Awards, has issued a public statement apologizing for its sponsorship with Raytheon, one of the largest defence manufacturers in the world. The news broke over the weekend when fans noticed Raytheon Intelligence and Space was sponsoring red carpet…
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N.K Jemisin Makes Hugo Awards History With Latest Best Novel Win
The winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards are here. It might have been the first year for Worldcon’s new rules, designed to curb voting slates that haunted previous years, but it didn’t change the actual results. That’s because, for the third year in a row, women dominated the awards — including another Best Novel win…
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Here Are The Finalists For The 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Each year, the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction awards one worthy science fiction novel the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, one of the genre’s major awards for novels.