August 23, 2015
Short Version:
I said a chunk of the Hugo voters are biased toward the left, and put the author’s politics far ahead of the quality of the work. Those openly on the right are sabotaged. This was denied.So I got some right wingers on the ballot.The biased voters immediately got all outraged and mobilized to do exactly what I said they’d do.Point made.
Best NovelThe Dark Between the Stars – Kevin J. Anderson – TOR (23 FEB 2015 interview)
Trial by Fire – Charles E. Gannon – BAEN (2 MAR 2015 interview)
Skin Game – Jim Butcher – ROC
Monster Hunter Nemesis – Larry Correia – BAEN
Lines of Departure – Marko Kloos – 47 North (Amazon)Best Novella
"Flow†– Arlan Andrews Sr. – Analog magazine November 2014
One Bright Star to Guide Them – John C. Wright – Castalia House
Big Boys Don’t Cry – Tom Kratman – Castalia HouseBest Novelette
"The Journeyman: In the Stone House†– Michael F. Flynn – Analog magazine June 2014
"The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale†– Rajnar Vajra – Analog magazine July/Aug 2014
"Championship B’tok†– Edward M. Lerner – Analog magazine Sept 2014
"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium†– Gray Rinehart – Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine ShowBest Short Story
"Goodnight Stars†– Annie Bellet – The Apocalypse Triptych
"Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer†– Megan Grey – Fireside Fiction
"Totaled†– Kary English – Galaxy’s Edge magazine, July 2014
"On A Spiritual Plain†– Lou Antonelli – Sci Phi Journal #2
"A Single Samurai†– Steve Diamond – Baen Big Book of MonstersBest Related Work
Letters from Gardner – Lou Antonelli – Merry Blacksmith Press
Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth – John C. Wright – Castalia House
"THE HOT EQUATIONS: THERMODYNAMICS AND MILITARY SF†– Ken Burnside –Riding the Red Horse
Wisdom From My Internet – Michael Z. Williamson
"Why Science is Never Settled†Part 1, Part 2 – Tedd Roberts – BAENBest Graphic Story
Reduce Reuse Reanimate (Zombie Nation book #2) – Carter Reid – (independent)Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
"The Lego Movie†– Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
"Guardians of the Galaxy†– James Gunn
"Interstellar†– Christopher Nolan
"The Maze Runner†– Wes BallBest Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Grimm – †Once We Were Gods†– NBC
The Flash – "The Flash (pilot)†– The CW
Adventure Time – "The Prince Who Wanted Everything†– Cartoon Network
Regular Show – "Saving Time†– Cartoon NetworkBest Editor (Long Form)
Toni Weisskopf – BAEN
Jim Minz – BAEN
Anne Sowards – ACE/ROC
Sheila Gilbert – DAWBest Editor (Short Form)
Mike Resnick – Galaxy’s Edge magazine
Edmund R. Schubert – Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
Jennifer Brozek (for Shattered Shields)
Bryan Thomas Schmidt (for Shattered Shields)Best Professional Artist
Carter Reid
Jon Eno
Alan Pollack
Nick GreenwoodBest Semiprozine
Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
Abyss & Apex
Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight MagazineBest Fanzine
Tangent SF On-line – Dave Truesdale
Elitist Book Reviews – Steve Diamond
The Revenge of Hump Day – Tim BolgeoBest Fancast
"The Sci Phi Show†– Jason Rennie
Dungeon Crawlers Radio
Adventures in SF PublishingBest Fan Writer
Matthew David Surridge (Black Gate)
Jeffro Johnson
Amanda Green
Cedar Sanderson
Dave FreerThe John W. Campbell Award
Eric S. Raymond
Jason Cordova
Kary English
The members of the World Science Fiction Society rejected the slate of finalists in five categories, giving No Award in Best Novella, Short Story, Related Work, Editor Short Form, and Editor Long Form. This equals the total number of times that WSFS members have presented No Award in the entire history of the Hugo Awards, most recently in 1977.
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I'm even more amused that the opposition ended up earning the label Puppy Kickers, abbreviated PK, which evokes their similarity to the Player Killers of online gaming, whose only fun is actively preventing others from enjoying the game.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Aug 24 00:57:34 2015 (ZlYZd)
I don't know if there was a novel I would have voted for this year. I liked Skin Game well enough, but it's just another solid entry in the Dresden Files, not Hugo material. (Or not Hugo-as-I'd-like-to-think-of-them material.)
Honestly, the last Best Novel I think really earned the title was 2011's Blackout / All Clear, which is / are outstanding (it's one story, but about 1200 pages long, so it was broken into two volumes). Before that, all the way back to 2004's Paladin of Souls.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Mon Aug 24 01:38:11 2015 (PiXy!)
Yeah, the difference between Hugo material and Hugo-as-I'd-like-to-think-of-them material is sad. I've still got Brad Templeton's CD containing the 1993 Hugo and Nebula nominees, and there's just no comparison. There are good years and bad years, but there have been an awful lot of bad years lately, and it isn't a coincidence that this is the year people decided that "nothing is good enough for an award". The in-group liked the bad years just fine.
Sadly, Templeton himself was a reflexive Puppy Kicker, so you can't just buff the rocket (not a euphemism) and call it a day; there may be nothing under the rust but more rust.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Aug 24 11:35:23 2015 (ZlYZd)
There's plenty of room for an Oscar-type award, where it's voted on by people who are in the industry and understood to be as such. (Nebula, basically.) There's room for a "fan favorite" where everyone gets to vote (Golden Globes basically?)
There's -room- for "favorite of people who attend a certain annual event" too, really. Cannes might be the proper parallel here. However, there's definitely a difference between "they loved it at Cannes", and "it won an Oscar", and "I thought it was pretty good"; these categories are not necessarily mutually overlapping.
Not necessary mutually exclusive either, of course, there's plenty of good stuff that wins a Hugo. But at the end of the day, it's become a fairly poor predictor of things which I might enjoy reading.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Mon Aug 24 13:13:45 2015 (qxzj1)
From what I've been reading, the lefties who have been dominating the Hugos have been insisting that they were not, in fact, this, but actually the Golden Globes equivalent.
Then when the Sad Puppies slate got on the ballot, they started spinning in anticipation of a possible loss and claiming it actually is just the the results of some random con, one of the bigger incoherencies in the "them right-wingers can't be allowed to win" movement.
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Aug 24 13:41:30 2015 (FvJAK)
About 30 years ago I fell in with a group of SMOFs and spent a few years embedded in fan culture, including attending several WorldCons.
You wouldn't believe how seriously they take the Hugo voting. It's like they're saving the world. My group sometimes would debate certain choices to try to decide which one they should vote for.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Mon Aug 24 14:46:42 2015 (+rSRq)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Aug 24 17:02:52 2015 (ZlYZd)
I hate to say it, but I'm glad so many of First Fandom had died before they had to see this happen to what they made for us.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Aug 24 20:10:10 2015 (ZJVQ5)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Aug 24 21:43:23 2015 (ZlYZd)
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