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