An Analysis of the Hugo Novels, 2020

Jennifer R. Povey
4 min readAug 7, 2020
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash

This year’s slate of Hugo nominated novels was high on variety, and distinctly low on, well. Men. All six of the nominated novels were written by women (yes, including the one with a male sounding name). Of course, certain people who like to compare themselves to young dogs probably think this is some kind of backlash against male authors.

--

--

Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.