{"id":17252,"date":"2018-06-22T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17252"},"modified":"2018-06-22T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:45:30","slug":"patterns-in-this-years-hugo-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/06\/22\/patterns-in-this-years-hugo-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterns in this year\u2019s Hugo fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Here are some recurring themes and tropes that seem to me to be a lot more prominent than usual in this year\u2019s Hugo-nominated fiction. (For some of these items, by \u201ca lot more prominent\u201d I just mean featured in two of the nominated works; but in those cases, I feel like even two is more than usual.)<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>A mix of fantasy and science fiction within one work.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Characters with nonbinary gender.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Trans characters.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Multi-person relationships, and\/or people who have multiple parents.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Same-gender sexual attraction and interaction.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Fraught interactions between twins, especially having to do with life choices and gender-related expectations.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Resistance against cruel and powerful governments, including resistance from people closely connected to those governments.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sentient machines (or cyborgs) that are enslaved by humans.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sentient machines that enjoy popular culture.<\/li>\r\n  <li>East Asian-influenced cultures.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Metaphors for disability and for the way society treats people with disabilities.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-books","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17257,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions\/17257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}