Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Author: N. K. Jemisin

The final book of the Broken Earth trilogy, ridiculously winning the treble: Hugo Award, Nebula Award and Locus Award. Each of the books in the trilogy has won a Hugo. Amazing achievement. Coming from such massive anticipation, however, I can only be immensely disappointed in this book.

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Author: N. K. Jemisin

I’ve heard this book for a very long time. It pretty much appears on every single book recommendation thread on Reddit, and the 3-Hugo-in-a-row phenomenon is also very intriguing. However, there is no Chinese translation, and after the misery of Oathbringer, I just lost all of my faith in reading long novels in English (I still read novellas and short stories from time to time tho).

I’ve read some Hugo Award for Best Short Story winners, and only like 1 is good, others are either mediocre or just straight-up trash.

To be fair, I didn’t really read the winners of Hugo Award for longer stories, because most of them don’t have Chinese translations, and reading them raw would just take me so much time. Short stories, on the other hand, are really really short, like I could finish most of them in 30-40 minutes, sometimes less, and book publishers often just post them for free on their websites, like a blog post, so reading them is really a fast and convenient way to absorb some Hugo Awardees.

Unfortunately, although reading short stories in a quiet room with some chill music on really gives me some precious peaceful time, most of the stories are very bad, or at least don’t deserve the award. The following is what I’ve read:

Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2014) LMFAO

You can read this piece of absolute garbage here.

author: John Chu