2026 SFWA Grand Master!
Nov. 16th, 2025 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraI swear we just got the last one of these in, like, April, (Nicola Griffith, #41) but today we get #42, NK Jemisin!
This 100% needed to happen at some point (unless they really fucked it up and she died first and they had to give her the Infinity, but, like, given the Butler parallel I assume everyone was really invested in not letting that happen). She's definitely jumping the queue a little age-wise but given current erasure of Black women out of journalism/media/government I feel like this is a good time for it, like, yeah, it does feel extra-important to recognize Black woman excellence right now. Huzzah for Jemisin!
(My list of likely or potential recipients going in to this round: 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).)
(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, CL Moore, Frank Herbert, James Tiptree, and Zenna Henderson.)
This 100% needed to happen at some point (unless they really fucked it up and she died first and they had to give her the Infinity, but, like, given the Butler parallel I assume everyone was really invested in not letting that happen). She's definitely jumping the queue a little age-wise but given current erasure of Black women out of journalism/media/government I feel like this is a good time for it, like, yeah, it does feel extra-important to recognize Black woman excellence right now. Huzzah for Jemisin!
(My list of likely or potential recipients going in to this round: 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).)
(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, CL Moore, Frank Herbert, James Tiptree, and Zenna Henderson.)
