Hugo thoughts?

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Since I attended last year's worldcon I'm eligible to nominate for this year's Hugo awards, but won't be voting since I haven't joined the 2015 worldcon.

Any particularly worthy SF published last year I should be considering nominating? Also movies, TV, etc.?

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Raising Steam, but it feels more valedictory than groundbreaking.

I thought My Real Children was skillfully written, as almost everything from Walton is, but I found it so unrelievedly grim that I took little pleasure in reading it; it was like reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jane Eyre.

So no, no novels to recommend as "it just totally jumps out at me."

In films, I was very impressed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier, not merely as an action film but for its moral themes, which I find stronger on repeated viewings.

What are the rules for film year of eligibility? Predestination impressed me quite a lot, as the truest film adaptation of Heinlein I've seen or heard of. It was released in the United States in 2015 (and not at all in San Diego; we had to buy it for download to see it!), but I see in Wikipedia that it was released 2014 in Australia and perhaps elsewhere.

I enjoyed Lucy's vision of emergent superhumanity, but its scientific rationale was utterly flimsy; that business of 90% of brain power being unused wasn't good science even when people first started putting it forward.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier indeed had a refreshing political self-awareness, an element I also noticed intensifying in the first instalment of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.

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It's already on my list, probably my first choice.