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!bookworms do you remember growing up and enjoying books that were Hugo winners or nominees? Cos I do
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For other fun !Catholics sci-fi, both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have given papal endorsement to Lord of the World which is a 1907 dystopian novel about the rise of the antichrist and the end of days, complete with planes, weapons of mass destruction and fairly prophetic depictions of modern mass communication technology. It's pretty lit. !bookworms
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Neat recs
gonna look into em
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Also in that space
are Hyperion, The Sparrow and the later 
Ender's Game books 
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The Hugo sci fi winners used to be amazing. A sign that it was a book I should read that would likely change my perception of the universe. Now it's just whichever book has more alien lesbians smh
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Why is there always some bullshit going on with the Hugo Awards? Sci-fi nerds are messy bitches.
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So much drama for a genre that hasn't written any original stories in over 20 years
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Any actually good sci fi since 1990 has come from Manga and Anime
There was a beautiful brief moment in cinema where Hollywood went whole hog on muscleman sci fi and it was amazing, Terminator, Predator, Running Man, Demolition Man, Total Recall, Judge Dredd and to a lesser extent Fifth Element. All awful but at least sincere, no sequels and no tie ins
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You mentioned no sequels but Terminator 2 came out in the 90's and it rocked.
Same with Predator 2.
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Terminator gets an exemption
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As a big fan of the T2 I can only say that I do not appreciate being called an awful bish.
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Scifi nerds of today were the bullied nerds of yesteryear. This actually ALL makes perfect sense
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They are all p-dophiles, that's why
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The main 3 Sci-fi book awards are ironically some of the oldest and most dumb culture war battlegrounds and historic as far as attention goes.
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STOP THE COUNT!
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Snapshots:
https://locusmag.com/2024/07/hugo-awards-disqualification-statement/:
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