{"id":6757,"date":"2015-09-15T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:13:28","slug":"discworld-for-the-best-novel-hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/09\/15\/discworld-for-the-best-novel-hugo\/","title":{"rendered":"Discworld for the Best Novel Hugo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCharlie Stross has an interesting idea:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the 2016 Hugos: the ENTIRE DISCWORLD SERIES is eligible, as a completed work, under Best Novel. &#8230; I think I&#39;m going to nominate it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Stross (@cstross) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cstross\/status\/643500270161391616\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nTo clarify, novel series are currently eligible for the Best Hugo Award, as seen by the inclusion of <cite>The Wheel of Time<\/cite> last year, though it&#8217;s of course arguable whether or not the <cite>Discworld<\/cite> series could be seen as a single story under its rules. If not, one could also argue that with the last Tiffany Aching novel having been released, that particular sub-series should be nominated instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShould this be done? That&#8217;s a harder question to argue. Terry Pratchett himself declined at least one Hugo nomination some years ago and while a nice gesture, he himself is of course not around anymore to see it. Quality wise the <cite>Discworld<\/cite> series in parts is as good as anything that ever won a Hugo, while even its worst parts are nowhere near as bad as the worst novels to have won the Hugo. But still, should the Best Novel Hugo go to a sentimental gesture? Or would it be better to just nominate the last Discworld novel ever on its own merits?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t think I would include the series on my ballot, as a) I don&#8217;t like the idea of having proper novels compete with series anyway and b) I&#8217;d rather see a living author get the recognition. Pterry really doesn&#8217;t need a Hugo, even if it is a nice gesture. However, I reserve the right to change my mind if I can&#8217;t find five worthy novels to nominate this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Stross has an interesting idea: For the 2016 Hugos: the ENTIRE DISCWORLD SERIES is eligible, as a completed work, under Best Novel. &#8230; I think I&#39;m going to nominate it. &mdash; Charlie Stross (@cstross) September 14, 2015 To clarify, novel series are currently eligible for the Best Hugo Award, as seen by the inclusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,137],"tags":[1683,824,318],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-fantasy","tag-discworld","tag-hugo-awards","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","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=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6758,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}