{"id":20197,"date":"2015-08-23T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20197"},"modified":"2015-09-03T03:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:12:24","slug":"hugo-awards-are-in-puppies-lose-big-the-alternative-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20197","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards Are In; Puppies Lose Big; The Alternative Nominees; E Pluribus Hugo Proposal Passes Its First Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Best Novel<\/strong> \u2013 The Three Body Problem<\/strong> by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor Books)
\nBest Novella <\/strong>– No Award
\nBest Novelette<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe Day the World Turned Upside Down\u201d by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Lightspeed<\/em>, April 2014)
\nBest Short Story<\/strong> \u2013 No Award
\nBest Related Work<\/strong> \u2013 No Award
\nBest Graphic Story<\/strong> \u2013 Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal<\/em> (Marvel Comics)
\nBest Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)<\/strong> \u2013 Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>
\nBest Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)<\/strong> \u2013 Orphan Black<\/em>: \u201cBy Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Best Professional Editor (Short Form)<\/strong> \u2013 No Award
\nBest Professional Editor (Long Form)<\/strong> \u2013 No Award
\nBest Professional Artist<\/strong> \u2013 Julie Dillon
\nBest Semiprozine<\/strong> \u2013 Lightspeed Magazine<\/em>, edited by John Joseph Adams
\nBest Fanzine<\/strong> \u2013 Journey Planet<\/em>, edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Colin Harris, Alissa McKersie, and Helen J. Montgomery
\nBest Fancast<\/strong> \u2013 Galactic Suburbia Podcast<\/em>
\nBest Fan Writer<\/strong> \u2013 Laura J. Mixon
\nBest Fan Artist<\/strong> \u2013 Elizabeth Leggett
\nThe John W. Campbell Award<\/strong> \u2013 Wesley Chu<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is about as good a result as we could have hoped for, after the Rabid Puppies (and their sidekick the Sad Puppies) successfully gamed the nominations. Apart from Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> – which, looking at the numbers, could have been nominated and won without any Puppy help – not a single Puppy-nominated work won. <\/p>\n

Because Worldcon has released voting numbers, we now know who would have been nominated if the puppies hadn’t gamed the system. Tobias Buckell<\/a> has compiled the results in the fiction categories:<\/p>\n

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Best Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
\nThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
\nThe Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
\nLock In by John Scalzi
\nCity of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennet<\/p>\n

Best Novella<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Pat Rothfuss
\nThe Regular by Ken Liu
\nYesterday\u2019s Kin by Nancy Kress
\nGrand Jete by Rachel Swirsky
\nThe Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert<\/p>\n

Best Novelette<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Day the World Turned Upside Down by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
\nEach to Each by Seanan McGuire
\nThe Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson
\nThe Litany of Earth by Ruthann Emrys
\nThe Magician and Laplace\u2019s Demon by Tom Crosshill<\/p>\n

Best Short Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goodnight Stars by Annie Bellet
\nThe Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
\nThe Breath of War by Aliette de Bodard
\nThe Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar
\nWhen It Ends, He Catches Her by Eugie Foster*<\/p>\n

JWC Award for Best New Writer<\/strong>
\nWesley Chu
\nAndy Weir
\nAlyssa Wong
\nCarmen Marchado
\nDjango Wexler<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note that Mandolin’s wonderful novella “Grand Jete” would have been nominated for a Hugo (as it was nominated for both the Nebula and for the World Fantasy Award). Congratulations to Mandolin, and to all the other alternative Hugo nominees.<\/p>\n

I did modify this list in one way. Tobias left Annie Bellet’s “Goodnight Stars<\/a>” off the list of short-story nominations. Bellet’s story was on the Puppy slate, and was nominated, but Bellet withdrew her nomination<\/a>, for entirely admirable reasons.<\/p>\n

However, the statistics Worldcon has released (pdf link<\/a>) the nomination numbers, we know that “Goodnight Stars” got the most nominating votes of any nominee, with 230. In a puppy-free vote, “Goodnight Stars” would have needed 42 nominating votes to make the ballot (to beat Max Gladstone’s “A Kiss With Teeth”), giving Bellet a margin of 188 votes. Puppy favorite story “On A Spiritual Plain,” by Lou Antonelli, received 184 nominating votes; another Puppy favorite, “The Parliament of Birds and Bees,” received 151. It thus seems certain that even if the Puppies hadn’t gamed the system, “Goodnight Stars” would have been nominated for best short story. And without Puppies, Bellet would not have withdrawn her nomination.<\/p>\n

I’ve got guests coming over soon, so even though I have lots more to say, that’ll have to wait until later. <\/p>\n

A couple of recommended links:<\/p>\n

Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters | WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n

Even if you don’t read the whole thing, scroll down to the end and read about George Martin’s loser party, featuring the Alfie Awards.<\/p>\n

2015 Hugo Stats: Initial Analysis | Chaos Horizon<\/a>
\nChaos Horizon attempts to estimate how many Rabid and Sad voters there were.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Folks at File 770 are reporting<\/a> that E Pluribus Hugo has passed by a margin of 186 to 62. Under Worldcon rules, a change to the rules like that needs to pass two years in a row before it can be implemented, but that healthy margin of passage speaks well for E Pluribus Hugo’s chances next year.<\/p>\n

In an earlier post, here’s how I described the E Pluribus Hugo proposal:<\/p>\n

The proposal I favor is \u201cLeast Popular Elimination,<\/strong>\u201d in which voters could still nominate up to five works per category, but the votes are counted in a way that mathematically favors works that appear on the broadest number of voters\u2019 ballots while diluting (but not completely eliminating) the power of slate voting. A detailed explanation of \u201cLeast Popular Elimination\u201d voting is available here<\/a>. While LPE voting is not as intuitive as the other two proposals, I believe it would be more effective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If E Pluribus Hugo passes next year, then the year after that Puppies can return to being what they always were – a bunch of grumpy SF\/F fans who have no power out of proportion to their numbers, and who most people will happily ignore.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2<\/strong>: After reading Kevin P’s comment, I’m not sure if “Goodnight Stars” would have made it sans pups; maybe the fifth nominee would have been Max Gladstone’s “A Kiss With Teeth” after all. Maybe a week of smarter people than me crunching the numbers will bring more clarity to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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