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[james_davis_nicoll]

How do the premier fan-run SF awards compare to the premier pro-run SF awards?



(and because someone will ask)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

My casual impression is that Nebula winners have slightly more staying power than Hugo winners, but that would presumably be a harder question to research.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

James, what the hell do these graphs mean? I can tell that you're measuring something across time, and that it has to do with awards, and that whatever it is, it isn't very large, but beyond that, bafflement.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

From the relevant page:

What's all this do?

When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

How about the Lambda Awards ("Lammies")? It has a SF/Fantasy/Horror category.

[(Anonymous)]

You do realize of course, don't you James, that the Gods of Tagging are mightily displeased at how you have spurned them. Only the prompt and pious offering of a suitable tag for you Google Ngram posts will appease them.

Were you not to properly express your reverence by doing this, in Their wrath, the Gods of Tagging might well afflict you with unforseeably random physical accidents of various arcane and improbable sorts, -- or even smite you with multiple felinomas of the sofa -- ...

> ... never mind. ;^)

TSM_in_Toronto