Hugo, Girl

01/04/2024

It's time for a new episode of Hugo Girls Gone Wild: Twilight - OnlyFangs!

We discuss the hottest film romance in genre fiction: Twilight! We love it. Lori is DM.

https://hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-67-hugo-girls-gone-wild-twilight-onlyfangs

10/03/2024

Our statement on the 2023 Hugo Awards and an update on future eligibility.

Following the Chengdu Hugo Awards, we believed in good faith that we were the legitimate winners of the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Fancast. We subsequently announced Hugo, Girl’s permanent recusal from the Best Fancast category. We were honored and delighted by the win, and we wanted to make room fo...

06/03/2024

Here's our episode on The Wind Whales of Ishmael, a book that contains the word "bladder" 57 times!

This episode has a LOT of intro chitchat. Check the show notes for time stamps or just skip to 15:30 to start at the book discussion.

Listen here: https://hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-66-the-wind-whales-of-ishmael-notmyishmael

03/03/2024

If you have space on your Hugo nominating ballot in BDP (long form), Kevin and Lori suggest Polite Society! It features two very funny misfit sisters whose love for each other is the central theme. It's got humor, action, AND a sfnal/horror twist that very much took us by surprise. Polite Society is also recommended by our friends at the Octothorpe Podcast. It's that good!

16/02/2024

"The short version is that eligible people and works were kept off the Hugo ballot, not because the Chinese government or the Chinese principals of the Chengdu Worldcon overtly demanded it, but because American and Canadian Hugo administrators made the censorship decisions themselves, often on grounds that were (to put it politely) misinformed. People and works who should have been finalists were denied their rightful place on the ballot. A fraud was perpetrated by the Hugo administrators: on the Hugo Award voters, on the Chengdu Worldcon membership, and on the science fiction and fantasy community at large."

There’s an investigative report out on the administration of the 2023 Hugo Awards, by Chris Barkley and Jason Sanford, and make no mistake about it, it is grim. The short version is that elig…

15/02/2024

A 2023 Hugo administrator has come forward with answers. To say this whole thing makes us angry and sad would be an understatement.

This report is being released simultaneously on File770 and Genre Grapevine and is also available to download as an e-book epub file and as a PDF. By Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford “You acquire information and you convey the information. That’s the job.” ++ National Public Radio News Direc...

07/02/2024

Check your feeds for a new episode! This month we read Mary Doria Russell's divisive novel The Sparrow. It's got a bit of everything - Jesuits, space travel, food, friendship, sexual assault, victim-blaming, and child murder. Amy is DM.

Did we mention trigger warning? Yikes!

CW/TW: see description above, and it's really serious so skip this one if you need to! We like you!

By the way, we chatted for a whopping 12 minutes so if you don't want to listen to nonsense just skip ahead to the book discussion, which starts around 12:10.

Listen: https://hugogirl.libsyn.com/episode-65-the-sparrow-trigger-warning

02/02/2024

UPDATED: Following the 2023 Hugo Awards scandal, we have withdrawn our recusal. Please read our full statement here: https://www.hugogirlpodcast.com/occasional-blog/statement-on-the-2023-hugo-awards

Please continue to nominate and support the shows you love! Some of our favorites are:
Hugos There Podcast
Octothorpe
Hugonauts: The Best Sci Fi Books of All Time
Narrated
If This Goes On, Don't Panic
Desi Geek Girls
Take Me to Your Reader
The Middle Geeks

Following the Chengdu Hugo Awards, we believed in good faith that we were the legitimate winners of the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Fancast. We subsequently announced Hugo, Girl’s permanent recusal from the Best Fancast category. We were honored and delighted by the win, and we wanted to make room fo...

31/01/2024

If you want to nominate in this year's Hugos, today is the last day to purchase a membership!

If you already have a Glasgow 2024 membership, find out how to book your hotel room,

21/01/2024

Remember when we photoshopped cozy Bernie Sanders onto everything? 🤣 Happy Sunday!

How could we not??

16/01/2024

Meet Anne, your Hugo Quiz Show quizzmaster!

15/01/2024

It's our first Anne-ual Hugo Quiz Show! How well do we know our own show? Special guest Anne quizzed us to find out!

https://hugogirl.libsyn.com/first-anne-ual-hugo-quiz-show

03/01/2024

It's time for episode 64! We read Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. We liked it!

29/12/2023

Here's Lori's 2023 Story Graph summary. How was your year?

28/12/2023

In this episode, Alan and guest host Amy Salley, of Hugo Girl!, talk to author Suzan Palumbo about hope in horror, identityin horror, gothic fun, Frankestien, and much more. If you'd like to support us you can give us a one time donation at  or you can subscribe to our .

25/12/2023

25/12/2023

Merry Bookmas! The TBR pile remains undefeated. What are you looking forward to reading in 2024?

23/12/2023

Got some free time and want to fill it with Star Wars content? Try this great news documentary about the 1978 holiday special. Thanks to the folks who recommended it! It's great fun. More fun stuff in the comments below.

Documentary about the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special

06/12/2023

Episode 63 is here! Please enjoy Lord of Light: We Get Slizzard.

Your long-suffering DM is Haley.

Listening link in comments.

04/12/2023

Lord of Light drops Wednesday (fair warning, we didn't like it) and our next 3 are -

January: Spin
February: The Sparrow
March: The Wind Whales of Ishmael

26/11/2023

We have a winner - Megan! 🎉

Thanks to everybody who signed up!

As promised, we hit 40,000 downloads so we're doing a giveaway to celebrate the support of our wonderful listeners! Enter by 11/24/2023.

We'll use a random number generator to select one winner to receive a logo hoodie. We will ship internationally. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/3sQsUMhT5ABrYx6f9

24/11/2023

And a buncha pink stuff on Redbubble! Don't buy the tall mugs though. They look weird and we can't remove them from the shop.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/155312472?ref=studio-promote

24/11/2023

And speaking of the new logo, we've added new shirts to our bonfire shop!

https://www.bonfire.com/store/hugo-girl/

24/11/2023

New stickers are here! 😍

22/11/2023

Remember our cozy Zoom chats?! Maybe we need to do another one. 🤔 Open to suggestions for some lighter reading we could do together!

Remember when we did that Coraline book club over Zoom? Any interest in doing another in December? We could discuss this popular supernatural/time travel novella! Send us your info so we can follow up about a date: https://forms.gle/yMN72jcQmshEb6jU9