Least Favorite Hugo Winners (the Worst & Least Deserving)

This one is the sequel rule. It really didn't do anything bigger or more special than the first book, which I do think it deserved an award, but the second book, I don't think deserves a Hugo. And I don't think it did anything big or special to be able to stand alone the way that the first book did.

Another story that had a really interesting idea but just couldn't follow through the execution. I mean, very interesting ideas, but we're talking about a science fiction award, and this is fantasy.

But the story itself wasn't science fiction. It's barely fantasy and it definitely doesn't deserve a Hugo. I feel like this book is the most pandering winner of all of the science fiction winners because it seems like they were just like, "We appreciate what you do, Joe Walton, so we feel sorry for you, so we'll give you an award."

Again, as I've said before in other videos, this one confused me because of the pronoun usage in this story. I couldn't tell who was saying what, and beyond that, I didn't like the story. It should be one that on paper I would like, but I just can't bring myself to pick up any of the sequels or anything else by this author.

I have to say I just didn't like any of the Verosigan saga prequels and in order for me to really enjoy the story, Miles really has to be the main character. So, this one was a strong dislike and also might appear on the other list as well.

If I had to read one more Mars book, I was going to quit YouTube. I honestly wanted to rip this book in half. I didn't get past 50 pages.

Again, one on paper that I should have absolutely loved, but I just couldn't get into it. I couldn't wait for the story to be done. I just there's something about the execution of the story that just didn't work for me.

Yet again, another sequel that is drastically lower than its original installation. I mean, Forever War was on my best my top three best Hugos of all time. And Forever Peace is like a laughingstock.

And yeah, I don't think I have to go into it anymore than saying Kim Stanley Robinson taught me to hate his own work with this particular story.

This book isn't my number one because it did do something special for all literary readers, and I appreciate what Harry Potter series did, but it's fantasy and it's a children's book, and this is a science fiction adult award in my opinion.

This one is one that was interesting. It had some cool ideas and a lot of potential, but I personally could not get over the fact that we had to go through a graphic rape scene to understand a character and why she wouldn't have sex with somebody later in the story. And it just it was so gratuitously unnecessary.

However, I didn't like it. It wasn't a fun book to read. It didn't have a payoff in the end.

Again, another very technically beautiful writer that I just couldn't get into. And I feel like he overco complicated the story in a way that was just a little bit overly confusing and I just didn't care enough to figure out the plot threads and didn't love the story. I just think Zelasny is not for me.

And specifically, Mirror Dance, which was a fun book, but really it's just about identity and clone of Miles. So, she's kind of like rehashing Miles, but from a different perspective. I don't know.

I'm sorry, this isn't even special for fantasy. It's barely an actual novel and it doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before. It's a fairy tale retelling.

Again, I love the Murderbot series and I'm really happy that a lot of the novellas have won for best series and they've won the best novella awards. However, the book Network effect as a standalone piece next to Heinland and Clark and Asimoth and Hyperion. It's shameful.

I'm talking about something like Neurommancer, where I really didn't like the main character case, and I really didn't enjoy the story and all of the way that this was put together. But I can also recognize that it was very foundational for the genre.

This was a fun, enjoyable read. I mean, it's about Star Trek and the conspiracy against the Redshirted Friends. However, how can Red Shirts, a silly, satirical book, sit on the same shelf with the same award as some of the greats of science fiction?

I felt kind of a little bit a middle ground, kind of a meh for this one. So, this one doesn't appear on either my best or my worst list.

And I don't know what's wrong with me, but I just didn't connect with it. I didn't like it. I barely got through it.

This one is also a book that I didn't necessarily hate, but I just felt incredible pity and sadness for the author for writing this very embarrassing story. I feel like it is again a little bit of a nothing to me. I expected so much more from Robert Heinland.

Although I do have to say if you're going to be upset with Fifth Season, I would have rather put up there one of the middle books or the end books rather than the first one.

I mean, this is a children's book. I mean, it's like middle grade. Like, I would give this to a second or a third grader and it's winning an adult Hugo award.

There's something about Leguin's writing that doesn't do it for me. I know it's beautiful. I know that she is technically a phenomenal writer and I know that some of her other stories have truly touched me, but a lot of her novels seem to be very clinical.

And for Philip K. Dick to utterly drop the ball on the execution of this, not answer any of the important or pertinent stories or answers, not even go into any curiosity of this, and to just talk about antiquities is just one of the greatest science fiction sins of all time, and I just can't get over it.

This book just frankly should not have won. It's a middle book in a series and it can't stand by itself and it didn't do anything different and it definitely just should not have won.

While this book really did wrap up the Fifth Season trilogy fantastically, I really think that this was a well done trilogy, did it deserve to stand alone on the Hugo shelf? No, it did not.

This is a fun and fantastical mis murder mystery story that I had a great time with. But did it deserve to be on the Hugo shelf? No, it certainly did not.

I liked the Miles Verosigan saga stories and of all of the winners, the VO game was probably one of my favorites. But does it deserve to be on the Hugo shelf with the masters? No.

I don't know if you checked out my other video, but this story starts out really interesting and then just kind of degrades into furry porn in a way that I'm just so lost and incredulous that this was ever published and somehow won this award that I am very confused. It's just it was just awful.

It has beautiful pros, but it should probably go win one of those literary awards because it was a big nothing burger in my opinion. It didn't really go anywhere. It didn't do anything.

I kind of see why this book is on the list, but I also personally liked it, so I don't know.

And if British sense of humor is not your jam, then this book is going to be a really hard pill to swallow. And that's what happened to me. I didn't think it was funny.