[Ribald]

Loncon 3 announced the Hugo Awards over the weekend.

Tor.com has a handy breakdown of nominations and winners.

http://www.tor.com/b...o-award-winners

[Abyss]

Ribald, on 18 August 2014 - 03:58 PM, said:

Loncon 3 announced the Hugo Awards over the weekend.

Tor.com has a handy breakdown of nominations and winners.

http://www.tor.com/b...o-award-winners

I love the fact that the web cartoonist who does XKCD couldn't make it, so he got Cory frikkin Doctorow to accept the award for him.

[Andorion]

Stross won with the Lovecraftian Unicorns!!!!

[QuickTidal]

Agree with all the wins. Glad Aidan won for A Dribble Of Ink. He very much deserves the win.

Also though I loved DAY OF THE DOCTOR, I can fully understand why THE RAINS OF CASTERMERE beat it soundly. That is going to be a watershed moment in TV "Holy shit" history for years to come, mark my words.

My ONLY issue is with Hurley's proxy-read speech for her one win in which she basically used it as a soapboax for her "Angry Rant" blog post format (which is what she does in nearly every blog post sadly) to rail against some phantom establishment of SFF that she seems bent on thinking imply that "blogs don't count"....when any author worth their salt in 2014 not only embraces blogs, but social media as well. They are well aware of the power of the masses to make things fly and stick. So her implication that blogs are ignored is more than passing strange) Her speech is an example of the attitude of "Woe is me, the genre fiction world is awful and nothing is getting better."...when in fact the opposite is very slowly becoming true. Blogs are obviously being taken notice of (most "blurbs" inside of book covers and on the back of them these days are from book review blogs) on a wide scale. It just felt like a REALLY petty thing to do when accepting an award. "Hi, thanks for this award, but I'm still so angry for some reason, so you're going to hear about it!"

I get that the Hugo's have historically ignored bloggers (till this year)...but sweet merciful crap, it's the HUGO's...we are all aware at what kind of exclusivity club it is. It's MUCH less important in the grand scheme of things than is made out to be...and I find it even more puzzling that after kind of slapping the Hugo's in the face with her speech...she goes on to gush about her win. I love this award, but it stands for an organization I just got done complaining about.

Man, I guess I just really don't like Hurley as a person.

But yeah, a pretty darn good year. I'm really excited to give Ann Leckie's series a try as it sounds bizarre, but fun.

I'm sad that SAGA was beaten though. I'm not sure I agree...but I DID love TIME. So...I dunno.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 19 August 2014 - 04:48 PM

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 19 August 2014 - 01:21 PM, said:

Stross won with the Lovecraftian Unicorns!!!!

YES HE DID.

Have to love the fact that he won for a short story in his 'less successful' series.

[Andorion]

Abyss, on 19 August 2014 - 06:18 PM, said:

Andorion, on 19 August 2014 - 01:21 PM, said:

Stross won with the Lovecraftian Unicorns!!!!

YES HE DID.

Have to love the fact that he won for a short story in his 'less successful' series.

Less Successful? Come on!!! You have a nice core of Hard SF writers now but good urban fantasy is vanishingly rare!!!

[worry]

Did we win best fantasy board?

[amphibian]

We should win best fantasy board.

I'm kind of bummed that I basically haven't read any of the stories nominated here. It's a tough battle with the TRP already and there are these supposedly really good ones still out there and coming in.

Durn it.

I'm also kind of happy XKCD won over Girl Genius, which I have an irrational dislike for.

[Illuyankas]

*rational

I don't like XKCD much but I'm not gonna condemn people for it, I am however glad Ancillary Justice won as I liked it a lot.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 20 August 2014 - 03:47 AM, said:

Abyss, on 19 August 2014 - 06:18 PM, said:

Andorion, on 19 August 2014 - 01:21 PM, said:

Stross won with the Lovecraftian Unicorns!!!!

YES HE DID.

Have to love the fact that he won for a short story in his 'less successful' series.

Less Successful? Come on!!! You have a nice core of Hard SF writers now but good urban fantasy is vanishingly rare!!!

I can't remember the actual numbers, but i believe sales for his sf stuff are generally way higher than the Laundry books, albeit better than sales for any number of lesser authors' urban fantasy books.

[Andorion]

Abyss, on 20 August 2014 - 02:22 PM, said:

Andorion, on 20 August 2014 - 03:47 AM, said:

Abyss, on 19 August 2014 - 06:18 PM, said:

Andorion, on 19 August 2014 - 01:21 PM, said:

Stross won with the Lovecraftian Unicorns!!!!

YES HE DID.

Have to love the fact that he won for a short story in his 'less successful' series.

Less Successful? Come on!!! You have a nice core of Hard SF writers now but good urban fantasy is vanishingly rare!!!

I can't remember the actual numbers, but i believe sales for his sf stuff are generally way higher than the Laundry books, albeit better than sales for any number of lesser authors' urban fantasy books.

That might be because the hard SF crowd isn't into urban fantasy that much maybe? Maybe Stross will do a fusion with Cthulhu in space later

[worry]

http://io9.com/the-h...only-1695721604