{"id":5613,"date":"2014-08-23T03:32:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T08:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:25:20","slug":"loncon3-hugo-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/08\/23\/loncon3-hugo-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"LonCon3: Hugo Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo it was fun being at my very first Hugo Awards evening and great to see so many people who I wanted to win, actually win (and where they didn&#8217;t, people I liked just as much did). Especially since none of the wingnut brigade did. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loncon3.org\/hugos\/2014%20Hugo%20awards%20full%20details.pdf\">detailed breakdown of the votes<\/a> (PDF) only confirmed this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAwards I got right: the Campbell, Fan Artist, Fan Writer, Fanzine, Best Related Work, Best novel. Of the other awards, the only one I was really disappointed in was the Best Fancast award, as that just seemed to trade on familiarity rather than quality; personally I saw SF Signal Podcast as the worst of the nominees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut apart from that it was a brilliant night, with the people winning firmly part of the future of science fiction, rather than the dead past dragging us down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was fun being at my very first Hugo Awards evening and great to see so many people who I wanted to win, actually win (and where they didn&#8217;t, people I liked just as much did). Especially since none of the wingnut brigade did. The detailed breakdown of the votes (PDF) only confirmed this. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[824,1993],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-hugo-awards","tag-loncon3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}