Exploring the Hugo Awards: The 2020 Finalists for Best Fancast

The Best Fancast category is relatively new to the Hugos, having been awarded first in 2012. It’s awarded for “any non-professional audio- or video-casting with at least four episodes that had at least one episode released in the previous calendar year.” Having just launched a podcast myself, I was fascinated to survey the state of …

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Exploring the Hugo Awards: The 2020 Finalists for Best Graphic Novel

Graphic novels. Sequential Art. Comic books. Arguably one of the oldest communication formats in the world, modern comics have always had a powerful connection with science-fiction. Many graphic novels that are now regarded as corner-stones of the medium are some sort of science fiction story. For example, Alan Moore’s seminal work, Watchmen, has a Hugo. …

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