Sure, the Hugo Awards have a prize for everything from Best Novel to Best Semiprozine to Best Fanartist. But what about an award for oddest use of steampunk? Or one that acknowledges how much we dig Doctor Who? Hugo Award-winning author Tim Pratt devised the #FakeHugoAwardCategories hashtag on Twitter, and it’s a riot seeing what folks are coming up with.
If you follow the Hugos and other genre awards, many of these categories will jump out at you as all too true. Others are just goofy and fun, with plenty of skewering of science fiction writers and writing.
Best SF Novel By Author Who Insists They Don't Write SF #FakeHugoAwardCategories
— Tim Pratt (@timpratt) February 27, 2013
Best Short Story About A Robot Learning What It Means To Be Human And Also There's A Cat #FakeHugoAwardCategories
— Tim Pratt (@timpratt) February 27, 2013
https://twitter.com/embed/status/306824894417600513
#FakeHugoAwardCategories Best Award For Critically Acclaimed Work That Doesn’t Fit Into Any Other Category But Won’t Ever Be Awarded Again.
— Lee 'Budgie' Barnett (@budgie) February 27, 2013
#FakeHugoAwardCategories Best Novel By An Author Who Holds Dodgy Views We Don't Want To Give An Actual Prize To
— Adrian Ogden💙 (@Ade_on_drums) February 27, 2013
https://twitter.com/embed/status/306832895073480704
Best Dr. Who Episode, Script, Character or Anything Else Dr.Who-Related #FakeHugoAwardCategories
— Miquel Codony (@Qdony) February 27, 2013
The Bacigalupi Award For Best Mispronunciation Of An Author Name During The Awards Ceremony #FakeHugoAwardCategories
— Tim Pratt (@timpratt) February 27, 2013
Best Novel By A Writer Who Really Should Have Won For That Other Novel They Published Twenty Years Ago So Here #FakeHugoAwardCategories
— Tim Pratt (@timpratt) February 27, 2013
https://twitter.com/embed/status/306835389761609728
https://twitter.com/embed/status/306835539787665410
Best Heartwarming Account Of An SF&F Community Fundraiser #FakeHugoAwardCategories
— CarolC (@carolconnollyie) February 27, 2013
