Episode 29: Omphalistic Hugosity

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Brian Robert Middlemiss (20 July 1930 - 5 June 2020). David and Perry talk about the shorter fiction nominees for the 2020 Hugo Awards, and then take the Hugo Time Machine back to 1962, when Stranger in a Strange Land won Best Novel. Dedication to Brian Middlemiss (03:26) Awards season (00:46) Nebula Awards (01:40) Locus Awards (02:10) Hugos 2020 Short Fiction (00:41) Hugo Voting Package (01:16) Novelettes (14:56) Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey (01:23) For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll (01:35) Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (02:09) The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye by Sarah Pinsker (01:58) The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim (02:49) Omphalos by Ted Chiang (04:42) Short Stories (11:24) Blood Is Another Word for Hunger by Rivers Solomon (01:02) And Now His Lordship Is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas (01:49) As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang (01:21) A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde (01:31) Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen (02:06) Do Not Look Back, My Lion by Alix E. Harrow (03:24) The Hugo Time Machine~1962 (01:01) Special awards (02:26) Handbook of Science Fiction and Fantasy~Donald Tuck (01:31) Novels (29:28) Second Ending by James White (03:32) Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye (04:06) Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison (03:10) Time Is the Simplest Thing by Clifford D. Simak (05:16) Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (13:03) Short Fiction (12:06) Status Quo by Mack Reynolds (01:49) Lion Loose by James H. Schmitz (01:24) Scylla’s Daughter by Fritz Leiber (01:31) Monument by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (02:32) Hothouse series by Brian W. Aldiss (04:26) Other categories (02:12) Windup (01:20) Photo by Bill Kasman on Flickr