Hugo 2016 award nominees


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SmiloDan wrote:
Oh yeah? What were you nominated for? Congrats! :-D

Best Related Work (the shortlist which was completely locked out by the rabids, sadly, and thus got No Awarded) for my HISTORY OF FANTASY series.


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I liked Chiang's The story of your life, even though second person. Then again, it is written as a letter to someone, so it works.


The actual voting statistics were interesting - the Rabid Puppies group appears to be about 430 people (based on how many people voted for Vox Day as best editor), which is enough to muck up most of the nomination process but not enough to impact the actual voting.


Zhangar wrote:
The actual voting statistics were interesting - the Rabid Puppies group appears to be about 430 people (based on how many people voted for Vox Day as best editor), which is enough to muck up most of the nomination process but not enough to impact the actual voting.

A couple of analyses of the numbers.

The rough conclusion of both of those was somewhere around your 430 for nominations, but probably below 200 for final votes. The final vote was most obviously from the Vox Day for Best editor tally (165 had him listed first).

Traditionally nominations are far lower than actual votes. That this is reversed for the Rabid Puppies suggests that a lot of them didn't buy a new membership this year. You can nominate with a membership to either last year's or this year's con. Voting requires a membership for this year's. Is it possible the furor is dying?


thejeff wrote:
Is it possible the furor is dying?

Oh, I never thought it was a furor. Just a noisy minority.

After all, the Hugos have been recognizing women before most of the Sad Puppies could read. I've read LeGuin, McIntyre, and many of the others. They won because they wrote great books. Not due to politics or some other agenda.


Philo Pharynx wrote:
thejeff wrote:
Is it possible the furor is dying?

Oh, I never thought it was a furor. Just a noisy minority.

After all, the Hugos have been recognizing women before most of the Sad Puppies could read. I've read LeGuin, McIntyre, and many of the others. They won because they wrote great books. Not due to politics or some other agenda.

Well, it became a furor because the Puppies (mostly the Rabid variety) organized to wield more influence than they really should have had. Definitely a noisy minority, but one doing a decent amount of damage in the short run.

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Sissyl wrote:
I liked Chiang's The story of your life, even though second person. Then again, it is written as a letter to someone, so it works.

I read that story! It was pretty good.

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