Chapter 722 Hugo Awards (Thanks to the Resurrected Leader 1/3)

"I think "Happy Hunting" is fully worthy of the Hugo Award, and this work should definitely win the Best Short Novella Award." The judges of the World Science Fiction Association are arguing endlessly about the winner of the Hugo Award.

Since 1953, the World Science Fiction Association has awarded the Hugo Award every year at the World Science Fiction Convention. The official name of this award is the "Science Fiction Achievement Award", in memory of Hugo Gens, the founder of modern science fiction from Luxembourg. Barker, so named the Hugo Awards.

Hugo Gernsback is not a science fiction writer. He founded the first real science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories" in 1926 and became a pioneer in creating modern science fiction literature. In order to thank him for his contribution to science fiction literature, 1960 The annual Pittsburgh Science Fiction Annual Conference awarded him a special science fiction award, and awarded him the title of "Father of Science Fiction Magazine". The Ryan Cup makes sense.

The Hugo Award and the Nebula Award established by the American Fantasy and Science Fiction Association have become the Nobel Prize of science fiction literature. Since the Nebula Award is only awarded to works published or published in the United States, the influence of the Hugo Award is even greater Some.

The Hugo Award is selected by the World Science Fiction Association every year, and the process is relatively complicated. First, a special annual conference affairs meeting decides on the selection items and selection methods, and then notifies members to nominate; the five most nominated works in each item will be used as a shortlist. Successful ballots will be issued to members, and the final decision will be made based on the ballots received.

Although it is limited to voting by members, since you can become a member of the conference by paying a small fee, this award usually receives a considerable number of votes, which can be said to faithfully reflect the preferences and opinions of readers; Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" It is because of the love of the readers that it won this award.

The Hugo Awards are awarded in August every year. This year’s World Science Fiction Convention and the Hugo Awards Ceremony are coming soon. The votes mailed by members have been counted, but the judges still have doubts about the final result.

The three awards of Best Novelette, Best Novelette, and Best Short Story are undisputed, and the works of Paul Anderson and others are indeed worthy of this honor, but they disagree on the best short novelette.

Happy Hunting received the most votes, according to reader polls, but awarding the award to a Chinese sci-fi author? They are still unable to make up their minds, and the supporters and opponents have been unable to reach an agreement for a long time.

"Gentlemen and ladies, we do not have the right to decide the award. This award is decided by the readers. Since the reader chose "Happy Hunting", then we should award him the award for the best short novelette, er , this Mr. Sun Shaoping from China." Someone reminded.

"I don't want to question the reader's choice, but none of us can be sure that this work is really written by that Mr. Sun, right? After all, we don't know much about that country and this author." Someone tried to look at it from another angle excuse.

"The translator of this novel is a member of the US embassy in China, and I believe he has verified the author's identity before translating; we are not the American Fantasy and Science Fiction Society, and our awards are for writers around the world Yes, Chinese writers are also eligible to win awards.” Some people began to mock the Nebula Award, which is not surprising, such things will happen to any two awards or institutions with a high degree of overlap.

"I also think this novel deserves an award. He created a new genre of science fiction. Since the publication of "Happy Hunting", many science fiction writers have become interested in steampunk and have created many novel works. a little,

It deserves a Hugo Award! "Some people support it purely from a groundbreaking perspective.

"Then why didn't the award be given to that set piece? Instead, it was given to "Happy Hunting"?" Someone still wanted to find fault.

But in the end, the supporters accounted for the majority. After all, this award is selected by readers, and those opponents lack sufficient reasons to deny the readers' choice. The current chairman of the World Science Fiction Association finally announced, "Then, this year's Hugo Award is the most Best Short Novella goes to "Happy Hunting!"

"Then we have to inform the winners as soon as possible. It is not so easy to come to the United States from China." The opponent shrugged, and now he can only complain about this.

They didn't have Shen Long's contact information, but they quickly found Ken Lewis' phone number, "Hello, is this Mr. Ken Lewis, the translator of "Happy Hunting"?"

"Yeah, that's me." Ken was very proud of the title now.

"Hi, Mr. Louis, I'm Bruce Kent, Secretary of the World Science Fiction Association, and I'm very honored to inform you that "Happy Hunting" has won this year's Hugo Award for Best Short Novella..."

"What? You mean the Hugo Awards!" Before the other party finished speaking, Ken jumped up. For a veteran science fiction fan, this news is really exciting!

"Yes, please come to the auditorium of the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA with Mr. Sun Shaoping, the author of "Happy Hunting", to attend the award ceremony on August 21...Since we cannot find the contact information of Mr. Sun Shaoping, please On my behalf, the invitation letter will be mailed to you later, please pass it on at that time." The secretary said.

"No problem, I will definitely bring this guy to the United States!" Ken Louis repeatedly promised, and when he hung up the phone, he rushed out of the office, greeted everyone with warm hugs, and shouted, "Haha , My translated work has won the Hugo Award! I’m going to Los Angeles to attend the award ceremony!” It’s even more exciting than the national football team entering the World Cup.

"Okay, Mr. Louis, we have shared your joy, now can you go back to the office and give us a little space to work?" It wasn't until the superior came out to stop him that Ken's mood calmed down a little.

When he returned to the office, he was not in the mood for work, so he directly called the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles where Shen Long was located, "This is Ken Lewis from the American embassy, ​​is Mr. Sun Shaoping there?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Sun didn't come today, what's the matter?" Upon hearing the other party's background, the staff of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles immediately became nervous. What's the matter?

"It's like this. Mr. Sun's work won the Hugo Award, the highest award in the world of science fiction literature. The World Science Fiction Association invited him to Los Angeles, USA to attend the awards ceremony! Hello... hello... anyone else?" Ken said halfway , but there was no sound on the other side.