Be Vewwy Quiet, We're Hunting Hugos

About this episode

Colin and Phil discuss the Hugo nominees for this year's awards season and share recommendations.

It's awards season again, so Colin and Phil hunt out this years short story Hugo nominees: the six best stories from the science fiction and fantasy field in the running for the prestigious award from the World Science Fiction Convention. We also have a Hugo quiz, courtesy of friend of the show, Emmanuel, and our usual run through of recommendations of past, present and future SF. For more information on the things in today's episode, check out the show notes at 101sf.blogspot.com - and while you're there, consider buying us a coffee!

People in this episode

Host: Phil Nichols

Guest: Colin

Topics covered

• Hugo nominees
• science fiction
• fantasy
• awards season
• short stories
• recommendations

Keywords

• Hugo nominees
• science fiction
• fantasy
• short stories
• awards season

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: World Science Fiction Convention

Books & works: Hugo

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