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Daklem, objavljene su nominacije za ovogodišnjeg Huga. VIdećete ih u daljem tekstu.

Najpre, ne mogu a da ne budem iznenađen nominacijama za romane. Ancillary Sword i The Goblin Emperor svakako su očekivani u ovoj kategoriji i nema sumnje da će jedan od ova dva romana da odnese nagradu. Ali je zato ostatak liste zanimljiv. Kevin Dž. Anderson, Džim Bučer, Marko Klus. WtF? Kada se malo pročeprka po ostalim kategorijama, dolazi se i do pisaca poput Tom Kratmana i urednika kakav je Voks Dej (Vox Dei, ako niste uakapirali igru reči.)

Evo šta se, zapravo desilo:

Last August, the Hugo Awards were swept by a younger group of women and people of color. At the time, we said "This was really a year that underscored that a younger generation of diverse writers are becoming central to the genre." So maybe it's not surprising that there was an organized backlash.

The new slate of Hugo Awards nominees were just announced, and you can read the list at the link. Suffice to say, the nominees in pretty much every category (other than Best Novel) come pretty much exclusively from a fan campaign called Sad Puppies, organized by Brad R. Torgersen and Larry Correia. Last year, Correia organized a campaign which successfully placed one item in each category on the Hugo slate — so this year, they decided to go further.

To Torgersen and Correia, this meant that a "rarefied, insular" group of writers were promoting their agenda by nominating works by women and people of color. To the rest of us, it looked as though science fiction and fantasy were finally catching up to reality — the best stories aren't only the ones told by straight white men.

I kjučna stvar, sa kojom bih donekle i mogao da se složim:

Torgersen has argued that the real problem isn't just a trend towards nomination of diverse works, but also nominees that reflect literary, rather than popular, tastes. He's tended to paint "fandom" (meaning Worldcon attendees) as being out of touch with pop culture, and elitist. As he wrote in January, "while the big consumer world is at the theater gobbling up the latest Avengers movie, 'fandom' is giving 'science fiction's most prestigious award' to stories and books that bore the crap out of the people at the theater: books and stories long on 'literary' elements... while being entirely too short on the very elements that made Science Fiction and Fantasy exciting and fun in the first place." Which is a legitimate point of view, although it ignores the many Hugo winners that were essentially popular fiction. And plenty of people have criticized the Hugos from the opposite direction — for ignoring challenging literary works in favor of pop fiction.

Iako se ovo može doživeti kao legitiman stav organizatora... ovaj, organizovanog nominovanja (a možda i glasanja)... ne može se izbeći utisak da je sve ovo u nekakvoj vezi s američkom dnevnom politikom, pa je tako SFWA postalo bojište za dve zavađene strane. Doduše, desničarski autori kao da nikada nisu bili popularniji još od zlatnog doba. Kao da je na delu nekakav kontra-novi talas.

Tu dolazimo do pokreta belih listića, odnosno do poziva da učesnici glasaju sa NO AWARD kako nagrade ne bi ni bile dodeljene. Nisam siguran kolika će vajda biti od toga, makar sudeći po našem iskustvu.

No, Hugo svakako više nije ni izbliza značajan kako je bio pre i 20 godina. Na stranu kvazielitizam, ali na spisku nominacija nedostaje bar pet izvanrednih prošlogodišnjih naslova, koji zadovoljavaju sve visokoknjiževne standarde.

BEST NOVEL (1827 ballots)

   
• Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson (Tor Books)
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette) (Tor Books)
• Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos (47North)
• Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Roc Books)

BEST NOVELLA (1083 ballots)

   
• Big Boys Don't Cry by Tom Kratman (Castalia House)
• "Flow" by Arlan Andrews, Sr. (Analog, Nov 2014)
• One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright (Castalia House)
• "Pale Realms of Shade" by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House)
• "The Plural of Helen of Troy" by John C. Wright (City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis, Castalia House)

BEST NOVELETTE (1031 ballots)

   
• "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium" by Gray Rinehart (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, May 2014)
• "Championship B'tok" by Edward M Lerner (Analog, Sept 2014)
• "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" by Michael F. Flynn (Analog, June 2014)
• "The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" by Rajnar Vajra (Analog, Jul/Aug 2014)
• "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House)

SHORT STORY (1174 ballots)

   
• "Goodnight Stars" by Annie Bellet (The End is Now (Apocalypse Triptych Book 2), Broad Reach Publishing)
• "On A Spiritual Plain" by Lou Antonelli (Sci Phi Journal #2, Nov 2014)
• "The Parliament of Beasts and Birds" by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House)
• "Totaled" by Kary English (Galaxy's Edge magazine, July 2014)
• "Turncoat" by Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House)

BEST RELATED WORK (1150 ballots)

   
• "The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF" by Ken Burnside (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House)
• Letters from Gardner by Lou Antonelli (The Merry Blacksmith Press)
• Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by John C. Wright (Castalia House)
• "Why Science is Never Settled" by Tedd Roberts (Baen.com)
• Wisdom from my Internet by Michael Z. Williamson (Patriarchy Press)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY (785 ballots)

   
• Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt, (Marvel Comics)
• Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery written by Kurtis J. Weibe, art by Roc Upchurch (Image Comics)
• Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate by Carter Reid (The Zombie Nation)
• Saga, Volume 3 written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick written by Matt Fraction, art by Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM) (1285 ballots)

   
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, concept and story by Ed Brubaker, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo ((Marvel Entertainment, Perception, Sony Pictures Imageworks)
• Edge of Tomorrow screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, directed by Doug Liman (Village Roadshow; RatPac-Dune Entertainment; 3 Arts Entertainment; Viz Productions)
• Guardians of the Galaxy written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman, directed by James Gunn (Marvel Studios, Moving Picture Company)
• Interstellar screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, directed by Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures, as Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Lynda Obst Productions, Syncopy)
• The Lego Movie written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, story by Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, LEGO System A/S, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation (as Warner Animation Group))

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM) (938 ballots)

   
• Doctor Who: "Listen" written by Steven Moffat directed by Douglas Mackinnon (BBC Television)
• The Flash: "Pilot" teleplay by Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns, story by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns, directed by David Nutter (The CW; Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television)
• Game of Thrones: "The Mountain and the Viper" written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, directed by Alex Graves ((HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions)
• Grimm: "Once We Were Gods" written by Alan DiFiore, directed by Steven DePaul (NBC; GK Productions, Hazy Mills Productions, Universal TV)
• Orphan Black: "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried"written by Graham Manson, directed by John Fawcett (Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America)

BEST EDITOR (SHORT FORM) (870 ballots)

   
• Jennifer Brozek
• Vox Day
• Mike Resnick
• Edmund R. Schubert
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt

BEST EDITOR (LONG FORM) (712 ballots)

   
• Vox Day
• Sheila Gilbert
• Jim Minz
• Anne Sowards
• Toni Weisskopf

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (753 ballots)

   
• Julie Dillon
• Jon Eno
• Nick Greenwood
• Alan Pollack
• Carter Reid

BEST SEMIPROZINE (660 ballots)

   
• Abyss & Apex, Wendy Delmater editor and publisher
• Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Association Incorporated, 2014 editors David Kernot and Sue Bursztynski
• Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, edited by Scott H. Andrews
• Strange Horizons, Niall Harrison Editor-in-Chief

BEST FANZINE (576 ballots)

   
• Black Gate edited by John O'Neill
• Elitist Book Reviews edited by Steve Diamond
• Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Alissa McKersie, Colin Harris and Helen Montgomery
• The Revenge of Hump Day edited by Tim Bolgeo
• Tangent SF Online edited by Dave Truesdale

BEST FANCAST (668 ballots)

   
• Adventures in SF Publishing Brent Bower (Executive Producer), Kristi Charish, Timothy C. Ward & Moses Siregar III (Co-Hosts, Interviewers and Producers)
• Dungeon Crawlers Radio Daniel Swenson (Producer/Host), Travis Alexander & Scott Tomlin (Hosts), Dale Newton (Host/Tech), Damien Swenson (Audio/Video Tech)
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)
• The Sci Phi Show Jason Rennie
• Tea and Jeopardy Emma Newman & Peter Newman

BEST FAN WRITER (777 ballots)

   
• Dave Freer
• Amanda S. Green
• Jeffro Johnson
• Laura J. Mixon
• Cedar Sanderson

BEST FAN ARTIST (296 ballots)

   
• Ninni Aalto
• Brad Foster
• Elizabeth Leggett
• Spring Schoenhuth
• Steve Stiles

CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (851 ballots)
Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2013 or 2014, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).

   
• Wesley Chu *
• Jason Cordova
• Kary English *
• Rolf Nelson
• Eric. S. Raymond

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

Evo ekstremno desnog gledišta na celu stvar: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/04/hugo-awards-nominations-swept-by-anti-sjw-anti-authoritarian-authors/

Mora se priznati da ima nekih osnovanih primedbi.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121554/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-science-fiction-culture-wars

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1376743/-Freeping-the-Hugo-Awards

U svemu ovome nagrabusiće kraće forme. Huga za roman uzeće Leki ili Monet - bez obzira na sve žive kampanje.

A da je krajnje vreme da se Hugo izmesti iz okvira onih koji su voljni da keširaju kintu za WC, vreme je.

hm... mislim da ako polovina učesnika odabere da ništa ne dobije nagradu, onda ništa i neće dobiti.
Čini mi se da se to jednom i desilo ili bilo blizu da se desi.
Ali sistem je takav, a broj prisutnih suviše raznovrstan da bi bilo kakvo lobiranje u cilju bojkota dalo željeni rezultat.

Meni je besmislen koncept da nagradu u ime svetskog fandoma, koja se dodeljuje na WorldConu, određuje približno 2k ljudi. Teorijski, da je neki WorldCon održan u Beogradu, Hugo bi se dodelio za dva sastavljena stola u kafani.

U vreme kada je SF deo svakodnevnog života kao nikada ranije, imbecilno je insistirati na takvom modelu dodeljivanja i Huga i Kembela.

Sve to rekavši, deo primedbi koje su Sad Puppies izneli sasvim stoji. Pri tome mislim na bojkot nekih autora samo zbog toga što ih objavljuju određeni izdavači. Recimo, Ven Spenser - veoma levi i progresivni pisac - dobila je Kembela i nakon toga su je ignorisali sve u šesnaest samo zbog toga što objavljuje za Baen.

Hugo je lokalna američka nagrada i treba je posmatrati na takav način.
Tradicija je u pitanju, ovog puta stara preko 60 godina.
Kada je Hugo ustanovljen bila je velika stvar otići na konvenciju i to su radili samo zagriženi fanovi pa je i bilo logično da oni odlučuju.
Nisam siguran da će se u skoroj budućnosti to menjati jer i jeste zamisao da nagradu dodeljuju zagriženi fanovi spremni da izdvoje stotine dolara da bi učestvovali, ne pojedinci, u svojim domovima koji misle da im jedan klik na send rešava sve.

Nije lokalna amerska, posto se WorldCon odavno seta po svetu No, bumo videl kako ce sve ovo da prodje.

šeta se, kako da ne, od 74 worldcona samo tri nisu bila u Americi/Canadi/Australiji/Britaniji. A 60 ih je bilo u USA, 5 u poslednjih 6 godina... ne vidim ja tu nikakvu promenu; van engleskog govornog područja 1970, 1990 i 2007...

Eto, mi smo prestali da dodeljujemo Lazara Komarčića, pa nikom ništa...

@Boban

Dobro, jeste da je engleski jezik dominantni jezik fantastike i da su Amerika i Engleska glavni proizvođači, ali Hugo se uvek doživljavao kao planetarni oskar za fantastiku, a tako je i danas.

@Mića

Svojevremeno sam, čak relativno skoro, u kafani pričao sa Zakom i Melkorom o toj nagradi i ponovnom dodeljivanju. Izneo sam niz predloga, koji su jednoglasno odbijeni. Držim da su svi predlozi bili na mestu i da bi i danas bili odlična rešenja za revitalizaciju nagrade koju dodeljuje društvo. Ali nije da društvo nije u svojoj krizi, koju bi valjalo da reši ako hoće da dodeljuje nešto.

Šta si predložio? 

Ne mogu da se setim baš svega.

1) Svakako sam predložio žiri koji bi se sastojao od najuglednijih članova zajednice, pri čemu bi se ugled definisao kao opšta poznatost i prihvaćenost među čitaocima/konzumentima fantastike, sa ogradom da osoba X ne može da bude član žirija ako ima svoje delo u razmatranju.

2) Rebrendiranje nagrade. Hugo se ne zove "Hugo Gernsbek", a Kembel se ne zove "Džozef Kembel". Predložio sam da se dodeljuje godišnja nagrada naziva "Emitor" ili "Lazar", ali da se obavezno dodeljuje za najbolje delo fantastike objavljeno u prevodu sa stranog jezika i najbolje delo fantastike izvorno objavljeno (i/ili priređeno) na srpskom ili srpsko-hrvatskim jezicima na teritoriji Srbije. Dalje, da se uvede posebna nagrada, ne za životno delo već za izuzetan doprinos razvoju fantastike u Srbiji (ili tako nešto), koja se ne bi nužno dodeljivala redovno, već po potrebi. Ta nagrada bi onda morala da se zove "Lazar Komarčić".

3) Usput sam predložio da se nekom dizajneru poveri izrada vizuelnog identiteta statua i povelja koje bi se dobijale. To bi morao da bude neko od ugleda - Bob, Pahek, Stevanović, a viuzelna predstava nagrade morala bi da oslikava fantastiku u najširim pojavnim oblicima, te da bude odraz podneblja & mentaliteta zemlje u kojoj se dodeljuje.

Bilo je još svačeg nečeg što sam se natrtljao, ali predlozi (očito) nisu prihvaćeni

Koliko se ja sećam, tačka jedan je manje-više očigledna i nije bilo načelnog* spora oko nje, tačka tri je okarakterisana kao sjajna ideja, i onda ste se sve vreme prepirali oko tačke dva, koja je što se mene tiče sasvim sporedna.

Nije baš bilo tri Srbina četiri mišljenja, ali je divno ilustrovalo potpuno odsustvo sposobnosti za kompromis. (Šifra: ako nije po mome, e onda neću više da se igram).


*Mada verujem da bi bilo/da je bilo spora oko detalja — neki bi bili od svih prihvaćeni kao "ugledni", a neki ne.

Zaista je nestvarna sramota što je nagrada Lazar Komarčić ugušena...

Quote from: Father Jape on 19-04-2015, 13:49:43

Nije baš bilo tri Srbina četiri mišljenja, ali je divno ilustrovalo potpuno odsustvo sposobnosti za kompromis. (Šifra: ako nije po mome, e onda neću više da se igram).

Koliko se sećam, a pošto sam potpuno zaboravio da si bio nazočan, očito se mojem pamćenju više ne može verovati kao ranije, jedino sam ja bio u fazonu "ako nije po mome, onda neću više da se igram". Doduše, ne "više" nego "neću ni da počinjem". Samo što ja to ne doživljavam odsustvom sposobnosti za kompromis. To shvatam kao pravila igre u privatnom sektoru, kako se to danas popularno kaže. Hoću da radim na tom i tom projektu, ali pod tim i tim uslovima. Ako ne mogu da dobijem uslove koje tražim, neću ni da radim. Obaška što je ovde po sredi bilo moje duboko ubeđenje i tvrda vera da je taj stav koji sam izneo (a moguće da se razlikuje u ponečemu od ovoga napisanog) ispravan i ni na koji način nisam želeo da kompromitujem svoju veru i strast. Fun fact, meni je od neke desete-jedanaeste godine životni cilj bio članstvo u LK. Nisam ja tu zalutao tek onako. Aktivno sam radio na tome. Upravo stoga nisam ni želeo da pristanem da radim na nečemu na način koji sam smatrao nesvrsihodnim.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/18/hugo-award-hijack-just-proves-progressives-right

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Marko Filipović Da li postajem zatucaniji sto sam matoriji, ali pocinje da mi nedostaje strpljenja da budem tolerantan prema konzervativcima ovog tipa. Kad vidim neke od izjava na Monster hunter nation blogu, nije mi jasno koja trauma mora da ti se desi u detinjstvu da bi postao toliki debil.


Ivan Nightflier Jovanovich Vidi, strašno je to što neke njihove primedbe zaista stoje. Žanrovski pisci su pod ogromnim pritiskom da pišu "umetničkije"; popularni i čitani autori, koji pri tome čak i pišu odlično (na primer, Rotfas), marginalizuju se prilikom dodela nagrada ne zbog političkih stavova, već zato što pišu "nižerazrednu eskapističku fantaziju". Neki autori se forsiraju, na primer Džejmisonka, a ne vidim kod njih ama baš ništa vredno tolikog hajpovanja, osim činjenice da pripadaju nekoj manjini (u njenom slučaju, crne puti i ženskog roda). I tako dalje.

Quote from: Boban on 19-04-2015, 16:54:15
Zaista je nestvarna sramota što je nagrada Lazar Komarčić ugušena...

Hm, zar se nagrada dodeljivala za tvog poslednjeg predsednikovanja klubom? Nijesam tada bio u Beogradu, pa ne znam...

Naravno da se dodeljivala. I Emitor je izlazio redovno. Bili smo ozbiljno udruženje građana.

I kada je dodeljena poslednja nagrada?

http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%9B

jebo sajtove ćirilicom...

Hm, eto prilike da se naredne godine obnovi nagrada i dodele posebna priznanja za čitavu deceniju od poslednje dodeljene...

to pričamo od 2009...

Evo komentara Erika Flinta, za koga se priča da ima proglema sa SF establišmentom zbog toga što je Baenov autor, iako je čovek tvrdokorni socijalista, a možda i marksista.

http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2015/04/16/some-comments-on-the-hugos-and-other-sf-awards/

Edit:

First, on the Hugo and Nebula (and all other) awards given out in science fiction. Do they have problems? Yes, they all do. For a variety of reasons, the awards no longer have much connection to the Big Wide World of science fiction and fantasy readers. Thirty and forty years ago, they did. Today, they don't.

Potpisujem citat.

Quote from: Boban on 19-04-2015, 22:56:41
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%9B

jebo sajtove ćirilicom...

Pitam se da li će sledeći link biti jednako funkcionalan: http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Награда_Лазар_Комарчић

Edit: Ne, jer forumski softver ne radi kako ja želim. Ali ručno montiranje linka bi trebalo da radi: http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Награда_Лазар_Комарчић

http://jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-231-ian-mond-james-bradley-and-the-2015-hugo-novel-shortlist/

The NEW YORKER has run a major profile of Gene Wolfe. Good reading, for the Wolfe fans out there... and an intriguing introduction to one of the field's greatest writers, for those who have yet to sample his work.

You can check it out yourself at http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius

The article becomes especially apt in light of the ongoing Hugo Wars.

One of the claims of the Sad Puppies has been that certain writers in our field have been wrongly overlooked when the rockets were being handed out. There is a certain amount of truth to that (please note, that unlike many on the other side, I am capable of conceding a point from time to time). We all know the names of the "overlooked writers" that the Puppies chose to champion.

I have my own list, very different from theirs. At the top of it is the name GENE WOLFE.

Gene Wolfe has never won a Hugo.

Nebulas, yes. World Fantasy Awards, yes. Locus Awards, BSFA Awards, Campbell Memorial Award (not to be confused with the Campbell New Writer award). Even the Rhysling Award for poetry, and something called the August Derleth Award. But never a Hugo. Eight nominations, zero wins.

I would rank Wolfe as one of the greatest SF and fantasy writers of the past half-century, right up there with Roger Zelazny and Ursula K. Le Guin. Yet he remains without a rocket.

The Hugo Awards are not perfect, no. No more than any other award. Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar. That did not mean that the Oscars were in the hands of some secret cabal. Hitchcock, by all reports, would have liked to have won, but he never let it bother him. He just kept on making movies, and Gene Wolfe just keeps on writing great books.

Will he get a Hugo some day? Maybe. Maybe not. It doesn't matter. His books will still be being read a hundred years from now. That's the "award" that matters most.

Gene Wolfe: one of the great ones. And a class act.

Rasplaka me tekst. Lepo i tačno napisano.


Moraću da pejstujem ovo na DW.

Hugo ima gomilu problema kao nagrada. Između ostalog, tačno je da su neki pisci zanemareni - i tačno je da je tvrdo jezgro fanova krajnje elitističko. Zadržaću se na percepciji da fantazija ne zaslužuje Huga. Ko bi ga znao, možda je to zbog toga što im je nagrada u vidu rakete. No, činjenica je da ni Erikson ni Rotfas (na primer) nijednom nisu nominovani za Huga. To je besmisleno. Martin (sa čijeg je bloga tekst o Vulfu) je pomenuo da nije ni King. Hugo oslikava tragičnu okamenjenost fandoma, koja je dovela i do teške fragmentacije, ali i do toga da mlađi fanovi jednostavno ne znaju za neke starije institucije. Uostalom, tako je i kod nas.

Nisam mnogo razmišljao o ovome do sada, ali neka značajna nagrada za roman/novelu/priču godine u domenu epske fantastike ne postoji, jel tako? Ovako na prvu, mogu da se setim samo Gemelove nagrade, ali nisam stekao utisak da je ona posebno relevantna.

Lokus dodeljuje odvojene nagrade za SF i Fantasy kategorije i inače u glasanju učestvuje više ljudi nego u glasanju za Nebulu i Huga zajedno.

Za mene je Lokus trenutno najreferentnija nagrada in the field, mada će se na primer Melkor založiti za neke nagrade o kojima odlučuje žiri.

Moje poštovanje za Locus award. Mislio sam da je i ta nagrada fokusirana na sf, poput Nebule i Huga.


Svejedno, mislim da je vreme da pripremamo neku JRRT ili REH Award. 

Pa, valjda bi to trebalo da bude World Fantasy Award, sa sve Lavkraftovom bistom.

Međutim, poslednjih godina ta nagrada je previše, za moj ukus, profilisana ka "umetničkoj" fantastici (po cenu da zvučim kao Sad Puppies). Na primer, za WFA 2014 nominovana je Meri Brenan za A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, što je izrazito dosadan roman. Istina, omaž sestrama Bronte i Džej Ostin, i lepo napisan, ali opet ekstremno dosadan - dok nije nominovan Mark Lorens za odličan Emperor of Thorns (koji je, istina, zapravo prepakovan SF).

Takođe u proteklih nekoliko godina nije nominovan Entoni Rajan, Danijel Polanski pa ni več rečeni Stiven Erikson - koji je tokom dobrog dela dve'iljaditih bio najbolji i najinteligentniji pisac vaskolikog žanra (sve do prilično nečitljivog Toll the Hounds).

A evo i nominacija za Lokus:

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/05/2015-locus-awards-finalists/

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

   
• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
• Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
• Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

FANTASY NOVEL

   
• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)
• The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

   
• Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)
• The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom)
• Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr)
• Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)

FIRST NOVEL

   
• Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)
• A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
• The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
• The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Emperor's Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)

NOVELLA

   
• "The Man Who Sold the Moon", Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• "The Regular", Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• "The Lightning Tree", Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues)

NOVELETTE

   
• "Tough Times All Over", Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)
• "The Hand Is Quicker", Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
• "Memorials", Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's 1/14)
• "The Jar of Water", Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
• "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane", Scott Lynch (Rogues)

SHORT STORY

   
• "Covenant", Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
• "The Dust Queen", Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)
• "The Truth About Owls", Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)
• "In Babelsberg", Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
• "Ogres of East Africa", Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden)

ANTHOLOGY

   
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Press)
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
• Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)
• Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Time Traveler's Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor)

COLLECTION

   
• Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
• The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)
• Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)
• Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/06/arthur-c-clarke-award-station-eleven-emily-st-john-mandel?CMP=share_btn_fb

"If you write literary fiction that's set partly in the future, you're apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives."... uvek se oduševim kada neki nežanrovski pisac dobije žanrovsku nagradu, pa mu bude neprijatno, a opet - nagradama se u zube ne gleda