Final Hugo Ballot 2015

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Less then a week to go to Hugo voting closes, so here’s my final ballot. First, to recap, the categories I’ll be no awarding for Puppy-related reasons:

  • Best Novella
  • Best Novelette
  • Best Short Story
  • Best Related Work
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
  • Best Editor, Short Form
  • Best Editor, Long Form
  • Best Professional Artist
  • Best Fanzine
  • Best Fancast
  • Best Fan Writer
  • John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo)

Which leaves Best Novel:

  1. The Goblin Emperor — Katherine Addison.
  2. The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
  3. Ancillary Sword — Ann Leckie

Best Graphic Story:

  1. Ms. Marvel, v1 — Adrian Alphona, G. Willow Wilson
  2. Saga, v3 — Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
  3. Sex Criminals, v1 — Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
  4. Rat Queens, v1 — Kurtis J. Wiebe, Roc Upchurch

Best Semiprozine:

  1. Strange Horizons — Niall Harrison
  2. Lightspeed Magazine — John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant
  3. Beneath Ceaseless Skies — Scott H. Andrews

Best Fan Artist (the only category with no Puppy infestation):

  1. Ninni Aalto: cute cartooning, in a mix of Finnish and English
  2. Elizabeth Leggett: gorgeous paintings
  3. Spring Schoenhuth: also nominated last year for her jewelry, a reminder that fan art doesn’t need to be two-dimensional
  4. Steve Stiles: a regular nominee, decent enough but nothing special
  5. Brad Foster: another Fan Artist regular, with the most nominations and wins of everybody. He doesn’t need any more, does he?

And that’s the Hugo Awards dealt with for another year. Thanks to the Pups, it cost less time than last year, but I’m still filling my ballot in at the last possible moment.

3 Comments

  • Cat

    July 26, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    Well, it’s not the last *possible* moment, but I’m worried the site will collapse under the traffic so I’ve done almost all my final voting too. (I’m going to check out the semi prozine category still.)

    Last year this took a lot longer. :-(

  • Phil

    July 30, 2015 at 6:37 am

    I confess I’ve never voted before, & signed up this year primarily in the expectation of No-Awarding the puppies. But I’d be a dick to vote for – or against – something I haven’t even looked at, so I’ve downloaded the packet & am working my way through it.

    So that’s a No Award for novella, novelette, short story (my single favourite literary genre) and related work. So far.

    Basically I’m seeing three types of work in the puppy-swamped categories:
    – half-way decent writers who wish it was 1975 and they were Larry Niven, or Heinlein at a pinch
    – terrible writers who, etc
    – terrible writers who appear to think it is 1975 and they *are* RAH
    The first group might deserve an Honourable Mention or something, in a bad year. As for the other two, screw them and the slate they rode in on.

  • Phil

    July 30, 2015 at 9:26 am

    Done. I cast votes in a few more categories than you, but still NA’d the Editors, Prof Artist, Fancast & Campbell. No votes for any Puppies, needless(?) to say.

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