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Category: Hugo2023

  • Why I Trust the Hugo Awards

    I needed to take a break from writing about the Hugo Awards after the time spent on the enormous mess of the 2023 Hugo Award statistics. I believe that the many fans who came together to pull apart what went wrong with the 2023 awards have shown definitively that the was a huge breach of…

  • The Federalist Attempts to Revise Sad Puppy History

    The last time I talked about an article in The Federalist, it was written by Jon Del Arroz and if you think that might be a low point in the history of a political commentary website then you would be very wrong. A 2017 article defending conservative Roy Moore’s behaviour is far, far worse: “Here…

  • Hugo 2023: How many voters?

    So the first level answer to this is the published stats are a work of fiction and you may as well ask how many socks did Sherlock Holmes own. We shouldn’t be afraid of the world of fiction though and I keep ending up doing back of the envelope calculations because people keep asking…and the…

  • Larry is cross that I’m not writing about him

    Over on Facebook, it appears that Larry is cross that I’m not writing about him or his reactions to the 2023 Hugo Awards. Sadly, even here Larry can’t get his facts right. I covered Puppy reactions to the Hugo 2023 issues way back on January 28 https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/ok-one-last-post-on-the-topic-for-completeness/ they just haven’t said anything interesting since then.…

  • Hugo 2023: I don’t think we got a slate-name swap

    Both JJ on File 770 and Jameson Quinn on Bluesky (smart people both) have suggested an attractive theory that has gained a lot of traction about the Hugo 2023 stats and what happened. In Diane Lacey’s apology letter she says: “It happened gradually. We vetted entries, as always, checking length, publication dates, etc. Then things…

  • Hugo 2023: Validation list rankings

    Like many people I read a Google translation of this post looking at the implied rankings from the leaked validation sheet https://zionius.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/2023-hugo-awards-censorship-analysis/ I was a bit sceptical initially because I wasn’t sure those lists were intended to be ordered lists of finalists. In some cases, they looked just like slightly scrambled versions, so maybe people…

  • Hugo 2023: One little mystery solved.

    This is relatively drama free. In the Lodestar stats the book In the Serpent’s Wake appears twice. Looking at the leaked Validation sheet the likely second entry should be Unraveller by Frances Hardinge, The leaked sheet has a note saying “published 2023” but as far as I can tell it was published 2022. So I…

  • Worldcon 2036: Timothy Saves The Day

    [Scene: Dresden Airport – time, the near future!] [Enter two men, one large one small known as [Readacted] and [Redacted]] [D◼︎◼︎e M◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎y] At last we are here![B◼︎◼︎ Y◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎] I’m still not sure this is a good idea.[D◼︎◼︎e M◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎y] Have some faith! We are so back! All our efforts have paid off.[B◼︎◼︎ Y◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎] I’m worried people…

  • Hugo 2023: Here is what I think happened

    My non-fiction novelette-with-graphs is still going and slowed down by some additional data in Jason and Chris’s report. However, looking at that extra stuff and the cliff and several cases where it looks like the stats must be for a Chinese work but they have a Western name/work on them, there is a broad conclusion…

  • !!!!!!!!!!!!

    If you haven’t read Jason and Chris’s report yet go do that first (https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-1606144 ) Then scream for a bit. Not to make all of this about me but here’s my political vetting dossier courtesy of the 2023 Hugo Awards. “Camestros Felapton A three-part blog post that may be really quite if problematic if writing…

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