I found it pretty easy to rank these.

6) Tenet, written and directed by Christopher Nolan

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Nasty violence, incomprehensible time-travel plot and Kenneth Branagh does a very silly Eastern European accent.

5) The Old Guard, written by Greg Rucka, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

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Charlize Theron and her co-stars are very cute immortal fighters in ( Read more... )

6) Harrow The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Second paragraph of third chapter:Her birth had been expensive. Eighteen years ago, in order to wrench a final bud from this terminal axil, her mother and father had slaughtered all the children of their House in order to secure a necromantic heir. Harrow had been created in that hour of pallor mortis, while the ( Read more... )

The Best Related Work category has been on the Hugo ballot every year since 1980. In 28 of those 41 years, it went to a published monograph or essay collection about science fiction and/or fantasy or related themes. The exceptions were as follows:

• Popular science books won twice, in 1981 (Carl Sagan: Cosmos) and 1986 (Tom Weller: Science Made Stupid ( Read more... )

A couple of people have asked me if I will return to the staff of DisCon III now that the Chair has resigned. Whoever the new Chair is, I will decline any such invitation. My former position as WSFS Division Head was filled within twenty-four hours of my own resignation, by someone who (unlike me) has actually done that job before, and who does not ( Read more... )

The 2021 Hugo Administration team came on board, at short notice, at the start of this year. We were committed to the words in the 12 January statement by the DisCon III chair, Bill Lawhorn: “The Hugo Awards exist to celebrate and honor all of the creators chosen by the Worldcon membership. We should have considered those creators’ needs and ( Read more... )

As usual, I'm looking at the Hugo finalists as owned on Goodreads and LibraryThing - LibraryThing is my first love, but Goodreads seems to have about 30 times as many users, so I am including stats for both. (I prepared this a couple of days ago so it may not be 100% up to date.) The tables below give the number of people who have reviewed each ( Read more... )

This year's Worldcon, DisCon III, to be held in Washington DC, has had a difficult few days, with a number of people leaving the team ( Read more... )