Every Hugo Ever is the show exploring the history and legacy of the science fiction genre through the illustrious Hugo Awards! Each week co-hosts Jack Alexander and Samael Johnson will read and discuss the winner of the Hugo Short Story Award, ranking them one by one to discover the best of the best. With over 50 years of history, there's plenty to discover. Join us to read fascinating stories, find your new favorite author, get a fun recommendation, and figure out if we can find the through line across decades of robots, rockets, and ringworlds.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Every Hugo Ever
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Every Hugo Ever is the show exploring the history and legacy of the science fiction genre through the illustrious Hugo Awards! Each week co-hosts Jack Alexander and Samael Johnson will read and discuss the winner of the Hugo Short Story Award, ranking them one by one to discover the best of the best. With over 50 years of history, there's plenty to discover. Join us to read fascinating stories, find your new favorite author, get a fun recommendation, and figure out if we can find the through line across decades of robots, rockets, and ringworlds.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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March 7, 2025
20 - "Allamagoosa (1955)
<p>In 1955, the first ever Hugo for a Short Story was awarded to Eric Frank Russell. Now at the end of Season 2, Jack and Sam read this inaugural winner. A military spaceship's crew is preparing for a routine inspection, when one item on the list is unknown to everyone. Captain McNaught is not losing his chance of getting a promotion over this and devises a plan. A fun story on how it feels both of its time. but pokes fun at some bureaucratic nonsense you can find in any large organization.</p><br><p>Recommendations:</p><p>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</p><p>M*A*S*H</p><br><p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/everyhugoever" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support Us on Ko-fi</a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/everyhugoever.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Follow us on Bluesky!</a></p><br><p>This podcast is not affiliated with the Hugo Awards or Worldcon. Music provided by HookSounds.com, Pixabay.com, and Joel Steudler</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
February 20, 2025
20 - The 2023 Chengdu Worldcon
<p>In 2023, Worldcon took place in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the first time the event had been hosted in the country. The announcement was already met</p><p>with criticism from writers and sci-fi fans, but the event seemed to go smoothly and the Hugos were awarded as they had been for decades. Then a few months later it was discovered that the Chengdu committee has disqualified and flagged works they preemptively deemed anti-People's Republic of China, leading to botched nominees and winners. The author of Short Story Award publicly rejected her status as a winner, and so Jack and Sam discuss what happened, how easily one can be mislead into authoritarianism, and how many people had to keep making the wrong choices for this to happen at all.</p><p> </p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><a href="https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills</a></p><p><a href="https://corabuhlert.com/2024/02/15/the-2023-hugo-nomination-scandal-gets-worse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Breakdown of the Chengdu Scandal</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_QqmsxQkACoYcxSx2LVqbxD39-DJI_gS/view" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emails Related to 2023 Hugo Awards Censorship</a></p><p><a href="https://samtasticbooks.com/2024/02/17/rabbit-test-unwins-the-hugo/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Rabbit Test” unwins the Hugo</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Next Episode: 1955's "Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell</strong></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/everyhugoever" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support Us on Ko-fi</a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/everyhugoever.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Follow us on Bluesky!</a></p><p> </p><p>This podcast is not affiliated with the Hugo Awards or Worldcon. Music provided by HookSounds.com, Pixabay.com, and Joel Steudler</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
February 5, 2025
19 - "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (1999)
<p>Michael Swanwick successfully used his strategy of taking over the nominee slates to win the 1999 Hugo Short Story Award (where Michael Jordan was the Toastmaster?). After discussions on puppets and the necessary need to fund the arts and, you know, the government, Sam and Jack read into the story of a pair of astronauts, one very dead and the other close to being so. Stranded on the sulfuric moon of Io around Jupiter, Martha walks, hikes, and crawls to her space shuttle and safety as her air supply drains. Luckily, she has some company when her dead partner's corpse starts speaking through the radio.</p><br><p>Not mentioned but this story was adapted into a episode of Netflix's animated anthology, Death, Sex, and Robots</p><br><p>Recommendations:</p><br><p>Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuaron</p><p>Death Stranding developed by Kojima Productions</p><p>The Martian by Andy Weir</p><p>World War Z- Christina Eliopolis chapter by Max Brooks</p><p><a href="https://www.philosophyexperiments.com/stayingalive/Default.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Staying Alive</a></p><br><p><strong>Next Episode: 2023's Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/everyhugoever" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support Us on Ko-fi</a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/everyhugoever.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Follow us on Bluesky!</a></p><br><p>This podcast is not affiliated with the Hugo Awards or Worldcon. Music provided by HookSounds.com, Pixabay.com, and Joel Steudler</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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