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No, I have more to say than I did a few months ago when the finalists were announced. I haven't really had much to say on those awards (or pretty much, any awards longlist or shortlist these past few months) because I have spent much of the year not reading. It is interesting how one's perspective on things can change when removed from the immediacy of almost any situation. I didn't care much for the way the shortlists were decided, but I just didn't have much of any real interest because there were some non-slate nominees (at least the initial list before an author withdrew from Best Novel consideration) that I thought were also mediocre to poor works.
Since much of my Twitter feed is comprised of SF/F fans and authors (although I have several squirrel and sports feeds I follow there as well), I quickly grew bored with the same sentiments being reiterated over and over again. Had nothing really to say; I have never really put much stock into the Hugo Awards because their finalists/winners rarely overlap with what I considered to be recent years' best fictions. So I decided to wait until around the time the awards were announced (here's a link that shows the votes/nominations) before I would say anything really about this year's slate/winners.
I am very pleased to see that Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem won Best Novel. Before it was added to the shortlist after Marko Kloos withdrew his novel from consideration, I thought every single one of the Best Novel nominees were not worthy of award consideration. Needless to say, when it was added, I thought it was by far the best of the bunch and a deserving winner.
As for the other categories and No Award winning over all of the slate nominees, nothing much to say other than people exercised their voting rights and that (like the slates did in nominating them) was that. Nothing controversial about it in terms of procedures being followed, but I suppose there'll be months of factional arguments over next year's nomination/voting process and then maybe, eventually (right?) this will die down into the usual internecine sniping about age, group voting identities, and all the picayune things that can make SF fandom so tedious for outsiders.
But then again, I'm probably not the person to turn to these days for scintillating coverage of SF fandom awards. I was too busy either getting in a late night 5.5 mile walk/jog or watching a replay of NXT Takeover: Brooklyn (by the way, the Women's Championship Match was one of the best matches I've seen this year) to pay any attention to Twitter until hours after the winners were announced. Priorities and all. With that being said, time to rest, as I have another 10 miles I'd like to walk/jog before work Monday.
No, I have more to say than I did a few months ago when the finalists were announced. I haven't really had much to say on those awards (or pretty much, any awards longlist or shortlist these past few months) because I have spent much of the year not reading. It is interesting how one's perspective on things can change when removed from the immediacy of almost any situation. I didn't care much for the way the shortlists were decided, but I just didn't have much of any real interest because there were some non-slate nominees (at least the initial list before an author withdrew from Best Novel consideration) that I thought were also mediocre to poor works.
Since much of my Twitter feed is comprised of SF/F fans and authors (although I have several squirrel and sports feeds I follow there as well), I quickly grew bored with the same sentiments being reiterated over and over again. Had nothing really to say; I have never really put much stock into the Hugo Awards because their finalists/winners rarely overlap with what I considered to be recent years' best fictions. So I decided to wait until around the time the awards were announced (here's a link that shows the votes/nominations) before I would say anything really about this year's slate/winners.
I am very pleased to see that Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem won Best Novel. Before it was added to the shortlist after Marko Kloos withdrew his novel from consideration, I thought every single one of the Best Novel nominees were not worthy of award consideration. Needless to say, when it was added, I thought it was by far the best of the bunch and a deserving winner.
As for the other categories and No Award winning over all of the slate nominees, nothing much to say other than people exercised their voting rights and that (like the slates did in nominating them) was that. Nothing controversial about it in terms of procedures being followed, but I suppose there'll be months of factional arguments over next year's nomination/voting process and then maybe, eventually (right?) this will die down into the usual internecine sniping about age, group voting identities, and all the picayune things that can make SF fandom so tedious for outsiders.
But then again, I'm probably not the person to turn to these days for scintillating coverage of SF fandom awards. I was too busy either getting in a late night 5.5 mile walk/jog or watching a replay of NXT Takeover: Brooklyn (by the way, the Women's Championship Match was one of the best matches I've seen this year) to pay any attention to Twitter until hours after the winners were announced. Priorities and all. With that being said, time to rest, as I have another 10 miles I'd like to walk/jog before work Monday.
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