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>"Author NK Jemisin has scooped her third Hugo award for best science-fiction novel and, in doing so, has become the standard-bearer for a sea change in the genre’s diversity, as women – especially women of colour – swept the boards at last night’s ceremony.

>"On making it a hat-trick with The Stone Sky, the third book in her Broken Earth series, Jemisin said: “As this genre finally, however grudgingly, acknowledges that the dreams of the marginalised matter, and that all of us have a future, so will the world.”"

>"The diversity of this year’s Hugo awards signals an end to influence of the Sad and Rabid Puppies, two groups of rightwing and conservative science-fiction and fantasy fans and authors that attempted to nominate authors who they felt were not “overtly to the left”"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/20/hugo-awards-women-nk-jemisin-wins-best-novel

How many Jemisin novels have you read, /sffg/?

>"Author NK Jemisin has scooped her third Hugo award for best science-fiction novel and, in doing so, has become the standard-bearer for a sea change in the genre’s diversity, as women – especially women of colour – swept the boards at last night’s ceremony.

>"On making it a hat-trick with The Stone Sky, the third book in her Broken Earth series, Jemisin said: “As this genre finally, however grudgingly, acknowledges that the dreams of the marginalised matter, and that all of us have a future, so will the world.”"

>"The diversity of this year’s Hugo awards signals an end to influence of the Sad and Rabid Puppies, two groups of rightwing and conservative science-fiction and fantasy fans and authors that attempted to nominate authors who they felt were not “overtly to the left”"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/20/hugo-awards-women-nk-jemisin-wins-best-novel


Can I get a HELL YAAAAAAAS!?