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mariness

Proposed changes to Hugo Awards

Jun 21, 2015 09:42

Quite a lot of people just directed my attention to The Sasquan business meeting agenda, which will be discussing some proposed changes to the Hugo Awards. As a short fiction writer and a novel reader, I'm an interested party, sorta, I guess, but budget limitations mean that I won't be making it to Sasquan this year. So here are some initial, not ( Read more... )

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swan_tower June 21 2015, 17:47:05 UTC

I actually quite like E Pluribus Hugo, and while the technical explanation of how it works is complicated, I think the non-technical version of "nominate as many things as you want, and then we'll run them all through a system like the one that gets used for voting until we have five left" isn't too bad (presuming, of course, that one is already familiar with the voting system ( ... )

mariness June 21 2015, 21:15:18 UTC

Yeah, I only responded to this after seeing specific proposals, apparently put forward now so people can parse them before showing up to the business meeting.

The E Pluribus Hugo made my eyes glaze over, but people seem to be enthusiastic, so, vote away, business meeting!

Regarding the length of the ballot - I only filled up maybe half of the nomination slots, possibly less. And I was still grumbling about how long it took. So my guess is that this Saga recommendation was bundled in with the novelette recommendation in order to avoid the "Oh, no, not ANOTHER category that we have to fill out," response. That's exactly how I will respond if a Saga category gets added but another category isn't removed.

swan_tower June 22 2015, 20:16:19 UTC

I think it's fine not to fill out every category. Next year when I nominate for the first time, I'll skip the entire Fancast section, because I don't listen to fancasts. I'll probably skip Fan Artist for the same reason: not well enough educated in the area to render an opinion. If I don't remember very many good novellas, I'll only nominate a couple. I don't feel obliged to do the whole thing.

ext_2943885 June 22 2015, 04:40:58 UTC

In fact the Dresden Files had from the beginning a defined length and structure - twenty books followed by a concluding trilogy. As of this year's eastercon Jim was still saying he was pretty much on track within the original plan at book 15.

It's the overall structure of the series that makes it much better than the sum of its parts.

mariness June 22 2015, 05:12:08 UTC

I didn't know that. But even if he told his publishers this upfront, I'm going to guess that some room for flexibility was left in there - maybe dividing one book into two or something like that.

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