2024 Hugos There Best Fancast Voter Packet!
If you’re interested in checking out this year’s voter packet, you can download it below. The rest of this page is the text from the packet contents document included with the zip.
Hugos There has been around since 2017 and has, as of July 2023, produced episodes covering all of the winners of the Hugo (and Retro Hugo) Award for Best Novel. The podcast has now transitioned into Hugos There 2.0 with some new episode types, and also features one-off interview episodes and panel discussions on a variety of topics (mostly what’s interesting to the host, Seth Heasley.)
Seth is the one-man show behind the scenes, doing all the scheduling, recording, editing, and producing. (And doing a very poor job on social media.)
You can find the podcast at https://hugospodcast.com or the social media sites below:
https://twitter.com/hugospodcast
https://bsky.app/profile/sheasley.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@sethheasley
2024 Hugo Packet Contents:
In the 2024 Hugo Packet you will find the following episodes (MP3s and transcripts included in the packet):
- Zoomed Out: Pandemic Fiction, with guest Bob Morrell (new episode format)
- Zoomed Out: Isaac Asimov, with guest Alec Nevala-Lee (new episode format)
- Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold, with guest Sarah Elkins (normal episode)
- Spectology “Underrated SFF Movies” Reunion (bonus episode)
- Planet of the Apes, by Pierre Boulle, with guest Emmanuel Dubois (normal episode)
2023 State of the Podcast:
In 2023, the podcast produced 23 episodes, broken down into these categories:
- Normal Episodes (9): Seth + One Guest + One Book. Some of the books were the remaining titles on the list of Best Novel Hugo Winners, others were winners of different awards or just books Seth wanted to cover.
- Farmer in the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein, with guest Rick Childs
- Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold, with guest Sarah Elkins
- Beyond This Horizon, by Robert A. Heinlein, with guest David Brin
- A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine, with guest Cora Buhlert
- Shadow Over Mars, by Leigh Brackett, with guest Dr. Sue Vazakas
- The Wanderer, by Fritz Leiber, with guest Brian Collins
- The Snow Queen, by Joan Vinge, with Ann and Alice from The Hugo and Nebula Readership Podcast (this was the last Hugo winner I hadn’t yet covered)
- Planet of the Apes, by Pierre Boulle, with guest Emmanuel Dubois (first normal-ish episode in the next phase of the podcast)
- The Moon and the Sun, by Vonda McIntyre, with guest Sarah Elkins (Nebula winner)
- “Zoomed Out” episodes (2): Talking more broadly about authors or genres
- Isaac Asimov Zoomed Out, with guest Alec Nevala-Lee
- Pandemic Fiction Zoomed Out, with guest Bob Morrell
- Interviews (5): Seth interviewing an author or creator about their work, usually touching on science fiction.
- “Terraforming Ganymede”: a conversation with Dr. Jim Woosley
- “We seem to not want a utopia”: a conversation with S. Daniel Smith
- “Common Errors in English Usage”: a conversation with Dr. Paul Brians (former professor of Science Fiction Literature at Washington State University)
- “Sci-Fi Around the World”: a conversation with Andy Parry
- “I think of them as cartoon documentaries”: a conversation with graphic nonfiction author Darryl Cunningham
- Other Bonus Episodes (7):
- Spectology “Underrated SFF Movies” Reunion
- Oscars 2023 discussion with Seth, his son and nephew
- Midnight Mass discussion panel
- “Shortlisted!” a quick reaction to being a 2023 Hugo finalist
- Retrospective and What’s Next, in which Seth discussed the next phase of the podcast
- Ask Me Anything!
- 2023 Fiction Nominees panel discussion