Nominations for the Hugo Awards were announced over the weekend, with the winners to be named at Worldcon later this year. This year's roster comes with no small amount of controversy, io9 reports, as "the nominees in pretty much every category (other than Best Novel) come pretty much exclusively from a fan campaign called Sad Puppies."
The James Tiptree Award was shared by Monica Byrne for THE GIRL IN THE ROAD (Crown) and Jo Walton for MY REAL CHILDREN (Tor).
And from Shelf Awareness:
Awards: Hugo Nominations; Ted Hughes Winner
Nominations for the 2015 Hugo Awards in 17 categories have been announced and can be seen here. Winners will be celebrated on August 22 at Sasquan in Spokane, Wash.---
Andrew Motion's Coming Home won the Poetry Society's £5,000 (about $7,460) Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, which "seeks to recognize excellence in new poetry and highlight exciting and outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life in 2014."
Judge Julia Copus praised Coming Home as a "deserving winner. We loved the way in which the listener is invited in to the writing process: first we eavesdrop on conversations with the soldiers, and then we witness the poems hatching from those conversations."
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