The Hugo Awards Just Killed Genre. Thank God.
The Hugo Awards just put a vampire movie, a steampunk RPG, a dystopian TV show, and a Renaissance history book on the same list. Cue the genre pedants. But the confusion reveals something liberating: genre categories are dying, and the future of storytelling is just ‘stories that move people.’ The Hugos aren’t classifying your obsessions anymore — they’re validating them.