Eligibility for 2025 Hugo Awards!

This is an eligibility post for the 2025 Hugo Awards, which will be awarded at WorldCon in Seattle, Washington.

Take Me To Your Reader has been around since 2014 and has produced more than 150 episodes covering adapted science fiction movies (with occasional non-SF episodes).

2024 State of the Podcast / Eligibility for Hugo Award:

In 2024, the podcast produced 13 episodes on these topics:

  • The Shepherd, a 2023 Disney Plus short film based on the Frederick Forsyth short story “The Shepherd”
  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the 2010 movie based on the 2005 Rick Riordan YA novel The Lightning Thief
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season One, the 2024 Disney Plus series based on the 2005 novel.
  • Dune: Part Two, the 2024 film based on the 1965 novel Dune, by Frank Herbert
  • Spaceman, the 2024 Netflix film based on the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia, by Jaroslav Kalfar
  • A Wrinkle in Time, the 2003 Disney Channel movie and 2018 theatrical release, based on A Wrinkle in Time, the 1962 novel by Madeline L’Engle
  • Stalker, the 1979 film based on Roadside Picnic, the 1972 novel by the Strugatsky Brothers
  • The Absent-Minded Professor, the 1961 movie, and Flubber, the 1996 movie, based on “A Situation of Gravity,” by Samuel W. Taylor
  • Games Adapted to Film, a live recording at the 2024 WorldCon in Glasgow, Scotland
  • R.U.R., a new stage adaptation of R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robot, by Karel Capek
  • Jumanji, the 1995 movie, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the 2017 reboot, based on Jumanji, the 1981 children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg
  • No Escape (or Escape from Absalom), the 1994 movie based on The Penal Colony, by Richard Herley
  • The Hunt for Red October, the 1990 film based on Tom Clancy’s 1984 novel of the same name. (This episode was recorded onboard the USS Blueback, a diesel submarine permanently on exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.)