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Actually, he said brightly, I quite liked them.
That's not entirely true. The Wheel of Time thing does confuse me, and I'm not starting on a 1000 volume epic fantasy before the Worldcon. Likewise, good for Mr. Correia for getting himself on the ballot, but I'm not going to be reading Book III in a fantasy series I suspect, mostly because I can't be arsed to read the other two first. I'll probably read Parasite, but I've still got a strong feeling of antipathy towards Ms. Grant over her behavior a few months back and that, to my surprise, isn't going away, so most likely it'll be Ancillary Justice which was my first nomination too.
Dramatic Presentations - somebody on Facebook said they felt 'meh' about them all, I couldn't agree more. I was SHOCKED that they overlooked Sharknado... I mean really? How could they. I did like the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who and will be voting for that, and Gravity is the only Long Form on there that I could bring myself to vote for. I do feel that Col. Chris Hadfield was robbed though.
The other categories, given I barely read short fiction these days it's always interesting to see what comes up and I'll have a read. Which brings us to Vox Day and his nomination. Yay! We've proved the Hugo's aren't some vast Left Wing Conspiracy. Super. So we get to read some of his prose, which I'm assured is as excellent as his navel gazing in his blog. At least we can lance the boil surrounding the question of whether or not the man can write fiction that's readable. I do hope he's coming to London though.
Finally, I have already had people complaining that there are no Fanzines in the Fanzine category and no fan writers in the fan writing category. I suspect that definitions might be changing as the world gets more and more online and as more people get involved in the nomination process, then things which have an online footprint will get more traction than things that don't. That would seem to be the reality of the teens, and arguably, just the trend since 1999... frankly, there will be teenagers drinking LEGALLY in the bar at Loncon who certainly hadn't started secondary school the first time this was complained about, and I suspect if we looked hard enough at 1999-2001, we could argue that there will be teenagers drinking in the bar who hadn't started school the first time this complaint was made.
That's not entirely true. The Wheel of Time thing does confuse me, and I'm not starting on a 1000 volume epic fantasy before the Worldcon. Likewise, good for Mr. Correia for getting himself on the ballot, but I'm not going to be reading Book III in a fantasy series I suspect, mostly because I can't be arsed to read the other two first. I'll probably read Parasite, but I've still got a strong feeling of antipathy towards Ms. Grant over her behavior a few months back and that, to my surprise, isn't going away, so most likely it'll be Ancillary Justice which was my first nomination too.
Dramatic Presentations - somebody on Facebook said they felt 'meh' about them all, I couldn't agree more. I was SHOCKED that they overlooked Sharknado... I mean really? How could they. I did like the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who and will be voting for that, and Gravity is the only Long Form on there that I could bring myself to vote for. I do feel that Col. Chris Hadfield was robbed though.
The other categories, given I barely read short fiction these days it's always interesting to see what comes up and I'll have a read. Which brings us to Vox Day and his nomination. Yay! We've proved the Hugo's aren't some vast Left Wing Conspiracy. Super. So we get to read some of his prose, which I'm assured is as excellent as his navel gazing in his blog. At least we can lance the boil surrounding the question of whether or not the man can write fiction that's readable. I do hope he's coming to London though.
Finally, I have already had people complaining that there are no Fanzines in the Fanzine category and no fan writers in the fan writing category. I suspect that definitions might be changing as the world gets more and more online and as more people get involved in the nomination process, then things which have an online footprint will get more traction than things that don't. That would seem to be the reality of the teens, and arguably, just the trend since 1999... frankly, there will be teenagers drinking LEGALLY in the bar at Loncon who certainly hadn't started secondary school the first time this was complained about, and I suspect if we looked hard enough at 1999-2001, we could argue that there will be teenagers drinking in the bar who hadn't started school the first time this complaint was made.
