2025 SFWA Grand Master
Apr. 1st, 2025 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocoptera... goes to Nicola Griffith! Her blog post here.
I did not have Griffith on my list of likelies, but sure! I like that! Especially if the goal is to move toward awarding people who are current "masters" as in their career is still going strong/they are still producing interesting work.
Don't know who the Infinity is yet.
(My list of likely or potential recipients, edited for 2025: [John Crowley (1942)], John Varley (1947), Nancy Kress (1948), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Greg Egan (1961), Martha Wells (1964), Ted Chiang (1967), John Scalzi (1969), NK Jemisin (1972), Ursula Vernon (1977), Seanan McGuire (1978). Griffith was born in 1960 and is thus plausibly "ahead" of many of these people (and also has MS which might be a factor in trying to guess how close we are to losing her vs anyone else, which I know is morbid, but I think will always be a consideration after the Butler failure.))
(My Infinity list, while we're here: Diana Wynne Jones (still and always my #1 guess until they finally pick her), Terry Pratchett, Zelazny, Joanna Russ, Philip K Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, Iain M Banks, Vernor Vinge. [ETA: last time I made this list some friends made some good suggestions in the comments, of whom CL Moore, Frank Herbert, James Tiptree, and Zenna Henderson fit my (suspected) criterion of having died after they started giving out the Grand Master award. And I added Crowley above who is still alive.] Plus people who are still alive but could be Grand Master candidates on the basis of their careers, but maybe not their personalities, and thus might be Infinity candidates once they're not around in person, although honestly I think nobody is going to bother when there are other candidates who would be more exciting to current SFWA membership: Orson Scott Card, David Brin.)
I did not have Griffith on my list of likelies, but sure! I like that! Especially if the goal is to move toward awarding people who are current "masters" as in their career is still going strong/they are still producing interesting work.
Don't know who the Infinity is yet.
(My list of likely or potential recipients, edited for 2025: [John Crowley (1942)], John Varley (1947), Nancy Kress (1948), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Greg Egan (1961), Martha Wells (1964), Ted Chiang (1967), John Scalzi (1969), NK Jemisin (1972), Ursula Vernon (1977), Seanan McGuire (1978). Griffith was born in 1960 and is thus plausibly "ahead" of many of these people (and also has MS which might be a factor in trying to guess how close we are to losing her vs anyone else, which I know is morbid, but I think will always be a consideration after the Butler failure.))
(My Infinity list, while we're here: Diana Wynne Jones (still and always my #1 guess until they finally pick her), Terry Pratchett, Zelazny, Joanna Russ, Philip K Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, Iain M Banks, Vernor Vinge. [ETA: last time I made this list some friends made some good suggestions in the comments, of whom CL Moore, Frank Herbert, James Tiptree, and Zenna Henderson fit my (suspected) criterion of having died after they started giving out the Grand Master award. And I added Crowley above who is still alive.] Plus people who are still alive but could be Grand Master candidates on the basis of their careers, but maybe not their personalities, and thus might be Infinity candidates once they're not around in person, although honestly I think nobody is going to bother when there are other candidates who would be more exciting to current SFWA membership: Orson Scott Card, David Brin.)
