Tag Archives: awards geekery

The eight-hour Hugo host

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Cora

It’s certainly hard to be an SFF fan these days, since the genre can’t seem to go two weeks without a major uproar. This latest go-around started around noon on Saturday. I’d just had lunch and went onto the Internet … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the 2013 Nebula Nominees

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Cora

The nominees for the 2013 Nebula Awards have been announced. Once again, it looks like a good and pleasantly diverse shortlist with lots of women and writers of colour included. But then, the Nebulas have generally been better with regards … Continue reading →

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On Internet Debates and the Tone Argument

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Cora

You may remember the debate sparked last month by Paul S. Kemp’s explanation why he writes masculine stories (link round-up here and here). Well, now Paul S. Kemp has seen it fit to respond to the debate caused by his … Continue reading →

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The Latest on the current Genre Debates

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Cora

Two debates are currently raging across the online SFF sphere, namely the debate about the appropriateness of awards eligibility posts (see my previous posts here and here) as well as the debate about “masculine stories” initiated by Paul S. Kemp … Continue reading →

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More on the 2014 Hugo nomination dust-up

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Cora

The debate about awards eligibility lists and whether they are good practice or incredibly tacky (see my link round-up here) continues. Amal El-Mohtar responds to both John Scalzi and Adam Roberts and points out that the debate about the appropriateness … Continue reading →

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Hugo dust-up 2014 – earlier every year

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Cora

Do you know how Christmas cookies, sweets and decorations seem to pop up earlier in the stores every year? Case in point: The weekly special offers flyer from the discount supermarket chain Aldi included an embroider-it-yourself Easter tablecloth – two … Continue reading →

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Of Star Wars and its Influences

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Cora

Kitbashed has a great essay tracing Akira Kurosawa’s influence on George Lucas and Star Wars. As a huge Star Wars fan and budding cineast in my teens (for more on my teenage cineasm, go here), I made a point of … Continue reading →

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A Good Cause, Women in SF, the Nobel Prize for Literature and Lost Doctor Who Found

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Cora

I’m a bit tired today, because a quick excursion to pick up a WiFi repeater and some other stuff turned into an extended odyssey thanks to a traffic jam on the highway that forced me into the East Bremen area … Continue reading →

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More German Book Award Reactions and German SF

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Cora

Denis Scheck, probably Germany’s most outspoken and snarkiest literary critic now Marcel Reich-Ranicki has left us, is even less happy about the German Book Prize than me. At any rate, he called awarding the Prize to Terézia Mora an “incredibly … Continue reading →

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The German Book Prize does it again and other literary news from Germany

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Cora

The German Book Prize 2013 has been awarded to Hungarian-German writer Terészia Mora for her novel Das Ungeheuer (The Monster). Spiegel Online, Tagesspiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung have more. Finally, here is a video interview with Ms. Mora about her … Continue reading →

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