![]() ![]() VanderMeer was referring to what the author George RR Martin has called “the controversy that has plunged all fandom into war” over this year’s Hugo awards. For which fact I am eternally grateful, however.” “Also, given that the Southern Reach trilogy as a whole is an examination of the dysfunction and absurdity found in human-created systems, it’s astonishing to me that I was up for a Nebula rather than this year’s Hugo. “Which is funny because I wrote this novel while I had severe bronchitis, and for a long time thought maybe I’d just written something aimless about four women wandering a wilderness landscape that happened to resemble the 14-mile trail I hike in north Florida,” he said. The novelist was not present at the ceremony, but in a speech read by his friend and fellow author Usman Tanveer Malik, he said it was the first time he had won a literary prize, despite being nominated for many. ![]()
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