N. K. Jemisin, the only author to ever win the Best Novel Hugo Award three years running.
Jemisin first won a Hugo in 2016 for her novel The Fifth Season, the first book in her The Broke Earth trilogy.
She would go on to win the best novel in 2017 for The Obelisk Gate and again in 2018 for The Stone Sky.
Her wins were met with much acclaim by the Science Fiction Fan community, and with much bitter complaint, misogyny, racism and stupidity by a certain previously and still marginalized very minor (microscopic? Nay! Sub-microscopic) group of terribly, sadly misguided individuals (believing as they seem to do that Star Trek and Robert A. Heinlein advocated viewpoints that would require that show’s creators and that author to have taken copious amounts of mind-altering substances while being subject to cultural-revolution levels of re-education) who believe themselves entitled to be entitled. But the less said on that subject, the better. 🙂
Jemisin’s elevation to the top rank of Science Fiction authors is a fitting capstone on a fantastic career. Congratulations!
Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
