Another last-minute Hugo scramble
I spent today mostly hanging out with family, which was great. Saw one niece in a production of Lion King...
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Please nominate for the Hugo awards
Nominations are now open for this year's Hugo awards. You can nominate if you are a member of last year's...
Dragon Award deadline impending
Dragon Con is running an award this year, the Dragon Award. They had a nominations phase that's now over; voting...
Who gets to pick what’s on the Hugo ballot?
I just posted this as a comment on Scalzi's blog entry about the Hugos, and figured I ought to post...
Belated update on E Pluribus Hugo
Here's a detailed analysis of the effects that the E. Pluribus Hugo proposal would have had on the 2014 and...
Hugo-nominee gender update
I just followed a link to Kalimac's 2015 LiveJournal post showing author gender for Hugo-nominated fiction. I compared it with...
Puppies and this year’s Hugo ballot
Mike Glyer notes, in a detailed comparison table, that the 64 of the Rabid Puppies' 81 slated items (works or...
Why I love the Hugos
I've been a fan of the Hugo Awards all my life. I recognize that the awards have problems. For example,...
Puppies: last year, this year, next year
(I thought about titling this “Puppies: Now and Forever,” which probably would've gotten more clicks, but it wasn't a very...
Long Worldcon day
Yesterday morning, I attended the second WSFS Business Meeting of the convention. Assorted instances of parliamentary procedure (someone made bingo...
Please attend today’s Business Meeting at Worldcon
If you're at Worldcon and you care about the Hugos, please come to the WSFS Business Meetings; the first one...
Life updates
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day...