Archive for Awards
Disclaimer: I’m not involved with this year’s Hugo Awards or Packet, and I don’t know anything about what’s going on behind the scenes; I’m just a Worldcon member who wants to read the works in the Packet. Part of the Hugo Packet is now available, for members of this year’s Worldcon. (If you’re not a […]
(This post is about last week’s Robert Silverberg quote that criticized N. K. Jemisin. If you read about it last week, there’s nothing new here. Content warning for descriptions of racism and for referring to Vox Day.) Last week, Vox Day posted in his blog to the effect that the list of this year’s Hugo […]
More notes on the 2018 Hugo stats. This time I’m looking at categories where the gap between the top two items in a category was particularly big or particularly small at various points in the IRV process. (Not listing the ones where the first two swapped places; see previous post for those.) Note: When I […]
I hope to post more about stats from this year’s Hugo Awards soon. In this first such post, I’m looking only at the cases where Instant Runoff Voting led to a different result than first-past-the-post would have: Related Work: Rather to my surprise, Zoe Quinn’s Gamergate book got the most first-round first-place votes, but the […]
A friend asked when Strange Horizons became eligible for the Semiprozine category of the Hugo Awards. Here’s my response. Part 1: the early days For our first couple of years, we firmly declared ourselves to be not a semiprozine. We paid SFWA-qualifying professional rates for fiction, and we wanted to be taken seriously as a […]
At this morning’s WSFS Business Meeting, there turned out to be some strong opinions about how to revise (or not revise) the Fan Artist and Pro Artist Hugo Award categories. In the end, the Business Meeting decided to refer the issue to a committee, which will report back at next year’s Business Meeting in Dublin. […]
Here are some recurring themes and tropes that seem to me to be a lot more prominent than usual in this year’s Hugo-nominated fiction. (For some of these items, by “a lot more prominent” I just mean featured in two of the nominated works; but in those cases, I feel like even two is more […]
I spent today mostly hanging out with family, which was great. Saw one niece in a production of Lion King...
Nominations are now open for this year's Hugo awards. You can nominate if you are a member of last year's...
Dragon Con is running an award this year, the Dragon Award. They had a nominations phase that's now over; voting...
I just posted this as a comment on Scalzi's blog entry about the Hugos, and figured I ought to post...
Here's a detailed analysis of the effects that the E. Pluribus Hugo proposal would have had on the 2014 and...