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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · Mar 15
Is it too early to start talking about what we're going to nominate at NEXT YEAR's Hugos? The ones in 2026?

#HugoAwards @laworldcon.bsky.social

The beginnings of our annual list: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...
Poster for Mickey 17 Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey Uncanny April 2025 - has the story 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days Cover of The Artistry of Magic by Helen De Cruz
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 12h
I mean, if you want to go for the *COMPLETE* saga, it's right after Wreck It Ralph, and before The 13th Floor.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 12h
Do you mean TR0N: L3G0?
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Citizen Shane (spooky) @shanesheehy.bsky.social · 14h
RIP to Drew Struzan, creator of some of the best poster art that film has ever seen.
Poster for The Thing (1982) by Drew Struzan
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 14h
RIP Drew Struzan
A master.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 17h
The correct order to watch the Tron movies is:

Start with Tron and Tron Legacy.

Then watch the prequels, Hackers and Sneakers.

Then watch the side stories Wreck It Ralph and Free Guy.

And finish with the epic conclusion of Matrix and Matrix Resurrection.
a man in a futuristic helmet says nice
Alt: a man in a futuristic helmet says nice
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d
Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d
@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
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2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 1d
People will respond more positively to a book that is by an author who is nice to people, and are more willing to be critical when the author is an irredeemable jerk.

And that’s actually fair and OK. Literature doesn’t exist in a vaccum.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d
Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

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Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 1d
I have this odd rule: if Hollywood casts a known sex pest in the lead role of a movie, they don’t get my money.
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d
Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 1d
Tainted Love as recorded by Soft Cell.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d
People have no idea how many homeless people in this area are serving their fast food or checking them out at the grocery store lane.

Want to solve homelessness? Build a lot more affordable housing and pay living wages.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · Jul 20
Me, the DM: “An ent has been through the area having illegitimate children. Now there’s a small group of evil trees causing chaos for the villagers.”

The players: “is this a stupid pun-based adventure again?”

Me: “All copse are bastards…”
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 1d
Tron: Ares is that rare beast: a science fiction movie that I’m not interested in watching.

And I watched Moonfall.
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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d
Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.
“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 1d
Had a few hours to process this, and wanted to say thank you to the jurors and voters of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social for seeing - and honouring - this little anarchist-inflected SF novel, from the list of a fiercely progressive & independent Indian publisher ( @westlandbooks.bsky.social). (1/2)
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2d
Massive congratulations!
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 2d
Immense congratulations to every finalist and winner and OH MY GOD TEAM @podcastle.org ! Amazing work!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d
Oh, hello
"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 2d
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a wonderful lovely game one that I love so much and I’m so glad that it came out when it did and was received so well ——— but let’s not forget the wonderful lovely JRPG games that came before it and deeply inspired the developers to craft this game.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2d
The best kind of review helps you find new ways to appreciate art.

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A ★★★★ review of TRON: Legacy (2010)
“A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a w...
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 11d
For @strangehorizons.bsky.social 25th anniversary, I spoke about my (almost) decade at the magazine, its anarchic nature, changes in the genre space, editing SFF non-fiction, and how the extractivism special issue came to be imagined (starts at 1 hr 24 mins):

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Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
In this special episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Senior Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Editor Michael Ireland welcome current members of the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective for a series of…
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2d
Gonna be blunt. If The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social had been a Hugo finalist, it would have been the top of my ballot.

It’s really fantastic to see @theignyteawards.bsky.social honour this truly superb novel.

I hope this gets it in front of more readers.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2d
Oh yeah, I have a short story about this very scenario (well, trying to prevent it from happening). The research was both fun and horrifying?? Mostly horrifying actually. Less fun.
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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 4d
Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2d
IIRC there’s a US edition in spring 2026?
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