{"id":11949,"date":"2009-03-20T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/03\/20\/11949.html"},"modified":"2009-03-20T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:36:11","slug":"hugo-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/03\/20\/hugo-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo nominees announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year's Hugo and Campbell nominees<\/a> have been announced.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Cory, Scalzi, Charlie, Ben, Bear, Mary, Ted, Farah, Cheryl, Nick, Sean, and Aliette! And anyone else I know and\/or who might be reading this. Well, and all the other nominees, too, of course.<\/p>\n

I'm especially pleased to see Weird Tales<\/cite> and Clarkesworld<\/cite> appear (for the first time for each of them) in the Semiprozine category, joining category stalwarts Locus<\/cite>, Interzone<\/cite>, and NYRSF<\/cite>, all three of which have been nominees<\/a> every year this decade. I'm always pleased to see more fiction-focused publications in that category, and to see online venues in that category. (Nothing wrong with nonfiction-focused and\/or print venues, of course.)<\/p>\n

I would, of course, have liked to see an SH<\/cite> story among the short story nominees, but that's happened only once in the past, so I'm not especially disappointed. I am<\/em> disappointed that, for only the second time since SH<\/cite> launched, none of our authors are on the Campbell ballot. (The other time was in 2003<\/a>; we did eventually publish Charlie F, but not until 2005.)<\/p>\n

I've read only two of the short-fiction nominees. Looking forward to reading the rest; some of them are already available free online (follow links from the nominees list above), and I imagine most or all of the rest will be eventually.<\/p>\n

Pleased to see both Girl Genius<\/cite> and Y: The Last Man<\/cite> in the special-this-year Graphic Story category. I also nominated Darths & Droids<\/cite>, but I'm not surprised not to see it there.<\/p>\n

Not at all surprised by three of the Dramatic Presentation: Long Form nominees; rather surprised by the other two. I didn't realize Hellboy II<\/cite> was that popular (and I'm going to skip watching it, something I don't think I've done for a DP:LF nominee before). Rather surprised to see METAtropolis<\/cite> there; not having heard it yet, I was thinking of it more as an audiobook than as a dramatic presentation per se. I had nominated a couple of movies that unsurprisingly didn't make it onto the list, most notably The Tale of Despereaux<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

In DP: Short Form, nothing terribly surprising, except the absence of Presto<\/cite>. Dr. Horrible<\/cite> will presumably win in a landslide, though I won't be voting for it. Only one of my nominees made it to the ballot; I had a hard time choosing among various episodes of various things, but ended up nominating three Sarah Connor<\/cite> episodes, plus Presto<\/cite>, plus \"Turn Left\" (the one that made it to the ballot).<\/p>\n

Both editor categories are identical to last year's nominees.<\/p>\n

Disappointed not to see Phil Foglio in Pro Artist this year, but I like the work of all the nominees.<\/p>\n

For some discussion of who on the ballot has had past nominations, see the Locus<\/cite> analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Added a little later: This year there are only three<\/strike> four [thanks for the correction, Aliette!] female writers nominated in the fiction categories. (Which is about normal<\/a> for recent years.) And only one woman on the Campbell ballot--this is only the second time since 1982 that there haven't been at least two women on the Campbell ballot (the first time being last year).<\/p>\n

Also added later: The total number of nominating ballots cast was 799. That doesn't seem like a lot until you compare it to previous years<\/a>. It is in fact the highest number of nominating ballots this decade, by quite a bit, and I think the highest since 1971<\/a>, which may mean it's the highest ever. The previous highest in recent years was 2003--which was also a Canadian WorldCon. Coincidence? (I don't have numbers for Boston in 2004, so I could be wrong about this year being the highest.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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