2026 Hugo Awards

b473a•36 minutes ago

Clair Obscur is going to be game of the year every year for the next decade.

sdenton4•22 minutes ago

Which is too bad, because Blue Prince is the better game. :)

I'm playing through Clair Obscur now. It's above average for aaa stuff. But there are way too many cut scenes, and dodge/parry mechanics continue to be tedious. And the story is fine, but isn't really grabbing me. Sigh.

Blue Prince, on the other hand, is quite probably the best puzzle game I have ever played. My partner and I worked on it for months, and have a 50+ page Google doc of notes.

fsloth•about 1 hour ago

Sinners was very cool but I'm surprised to find it as Hugo winner.

bbor•about 1 hour ago

Sinners was a scifi movie...? About vampires in the past...?! Wild. Ditto for Claire Oscura: Expedition 33, which I thought was high fantasy / steampunk at most.

*EDIT:* It appears I'm just being silly, and the Hugos include fantasy. Ironically, the biggest fantasy series of our time by far has won 3 times in Novella form and once in TV form, but never the novels!

mapontosevenths•about 1 hour ago

The difference between science fiction and fantasy was always only a tenuous distinction imposed by the few nerds who cared a little too much.

As we age out of being culturally relevant, and newer (likely less literate) generations take over the definitions will change, and perhaps should.

To me only hard science fiction will ever count, but I recognize that I'm in the minority there and also don't want to scare away the three remaining readers through gatekeeping.

ycombinete•about 1 hour ago

What is the biggest fantasy series of our time?

stevenwoo•20 minutes ago

A Song of Ice and Fire (contemporary writing I assume), it lost to Harry Potter book against one of GRRM’s best books/chance for win in novel category one year.

SamBam•about 1 hour ago

You're not the only one to be taken aback by that. Yes, the Hugos do fantasy, but I'm not sure I would have even thought to categorize Sinners as fantasy.

I mean, yes, it has vampires. Was From Dusk till Dawn fantasy?

But as a sister comment suggests, categorization is never easy, and probably just reinforced personal biases. (See Old Town Road being reminded from Billboard's country music list.)

neaden•43 minutes ago

I think by definition any vampire story is a fantasy story yes. Since vampires are not real and thus a fantasy creature.

SamBam•30 minutes ago

There's more to Fantasy than a single boolean "does it contain something that is not real?"

Fantasy gets applied to the work as a whole, to its dominant tone and structure, not to one element. A work of fantasy usually has other elements that show it to be such. Is there world-building? Is it a quest or a hero story? Is there some kind of lore that grounds the whole universe? Not all of those are necessary, but usually you can clearly define the whole work holistically as Fantasy.

From Dusk till Dawn in particular is a straight crime thriller that turns into a horror movie.

Ok, I got nerd-sniped into trying to define Fantasy after saying I wouldn't.

BigTTYGothGF•19 minutes ago

Vampires aren't any more fantastical than FTL travel, and yet we're perfectly happy to have that in SF.

welferkj•37 minutes ago

I'd say that line can be blurred somewhat by "Blindsight". "Not real" isn't where I'd put the line, it's "not plausibly and consistently explained (or at least explained away) within the laws of nature.

krapp•38 minutes ago

I'm comfortable considering horror as a subgenre of fantasy. Vampires and folklore and magic are staples of fantasy after all.

plisken•19 minutes ago

Snakes on a plane fantasy?

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