The 2016 Hugo Finalists

[james_davis_nicoll]

Once again, I am a mere background figure, not even a red shirt. But there are some interesting works up for Hugo, as well as puppy crap destined to place below no award.

Comments

[matgb]

Next year, in Finland ;-)

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Is the Moira Greyland essay a Puppy nomination, do you know?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Wow, 3 things I nominated made it on the ballot (Uprooted, Ex Machina, & Jessica Jones) - I'm pleased.

I know nothing about the Butcher, but the other novel entries look like the typical (from my PoV) Hugo mix of a novel (or in this case 2, with Uprooted and Ancillary Mercy) I liked, at least one piece of trash (Seveneves, bad even for Stephenson), and something I won't read because of excessive grimness, and looking further down, I see a few indications of puppy droppings, but thankfully not very many.

Edit: looking further, it seems they dominated best short story and best related work :(

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

My favorite bit of Pup spinnery so far:

A casual look reveals items in several categories that I would vote for, whereas in previous years it was a snobfes. Uprooted, Seveneves and Jim Butcher in Best Novel?

Note that this is Novik's second nomination, and Stephenson's fourth, and the Novik novel wasn't even on the slate.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

If it's any consolation, it seems like the wrong time to be getting non-pro Hugo nominations. Those are the categories the RPs easily dominate.

we need e pluribus hugo

[solarbird]

I want this to put to rest the canard that a bigger fandom turnout would solve everything.

We got that bigger turnout, and it was from fandom in general. It was huge. Twice as many nominators as last year, and it does not matter because one party vs. unorganised candidates always produces overwhelming party victory. And it just did, again.

I have a proposal for how to respond this year, of course. And, as I said above, this demonstrates how much we need e pluribus hugo, because an exploit, once public, will be repeatedly exploited until patched. If not by the Rabids, by others, and then you end up with an assortment of competing slates and a Red Queen's Race that destroys any value the award might ever have. That's just reality.

Goddamn I hope e pluribus hugo passes second reading.

[glaurung-quena.livejournal.com]

So this year, we have legit nominations who got on the ballot through their own merit, puppy crap (vox day as best editor, give me a break), and then we have good quality works that got on due to puppies nominating them in an effort to spoil things.

I guess the last category should be called "puppy pee-on" nominees.

[raycun.livejournal.com]

Four of the five fan writers were from the slate :(

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I laugh at it now, but I also hope to be around in future years when fans see the title Space Raptor Butt Invasion by Chuck Tingle on the nominations list.