2017 Hugo Winners!
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psocopteraSee the winners and links to detailed results here.
Overall, I think it was a strong ballot and I'm pretty happy with most of the results. Disappointed about Splendor&Misery, but as we'll see in the detailed results, I think the answer to "can an album compete with series television" is "I guess not".
So, yeah! Analysis and reactions, behind this cut for length!
Novel: very surprised Jemisin got the repeat, I was predicting Birds and would have guessed that voters would weight against Jemisin for having gotten it last year. Birds was in fact the leader in the voting until the final elimination though. Interesting runners-up in the long list: Mary Robinette Kowal's Ghost Talkers, Everfair, Core of the Sun (Finnish, and one of my nominees).
Novella: yeah, this was obviously going to happen. Pleased to see Vellitt Boe come in second. Looks like they did count Last Days as a novella, I kind of wish we could get rulings on that stuff pre-nominations. I'm glad to see Runtime on the long list, and selfishly glad it didn't, like, miss by one vote or I would have to feel really bad. :)
Novelette: so many sources of joy: that one of my nominees won, that my first-place vote won, that we got Vernon a Hugo after the dogcrap people displaced "Toad Words" that one time. I thought "Surely Drown Here" was going to take it and it in fact came in second, so I'm not totally off in my predictions! Oh dang some of my other nominees are so clooooose, two more votes to get "Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" on the ballot? Three more votes for "Foxfire, Foxfire"? Anyways obviously I can't complain but dude.
Short story: I clapped in my living room when this won. :) Not one of my nominees but was my first-place vote. :) And hey, "Things With Beards" was really close to getting on, although it would have displaced my second-favorite of what did get on, hm.
Graphic: wow, Monstress had a lock on this.
Dramatic long: wow, Arrival *really* had a lock on this, boy did I not have my finger on the pulse of that one.
Dramatic short: waaaah. I thought Splendor&Misery was innovative and brilliant and it was a solid last both in the voting and in the nominations, only making it on under the "we can't have three Game of Throneses" rule. I don't want to be "my guy didn't win so let's burn it down" guy but the fact that the Hugos almost failed to even recognize it honestly gives a lot of credence to the proposal that the dramatic categories need to be reorganized to separate episodic and standalone works. I already didn't want to see series like Stranger Things start edging out movies. I'm not sure long/short/series/episode are the right categories, but I look forward to reading more analysis about this. Nice showing for San Junipero though, small yay.
Editor: okay there was this great picture of Gorinsky being like a foot taller than the other nominees and I am so proud of myself for not making an inappropriate "hey, she *is* a long form editor" joke on twitter.
Pro artist: Dillon is hard to beat.
Semiprozine: I'm really definitely going to have to start reading Uncanny, eh.
Fan artist: interesting that Leggett lagged in nominations and won in votes.
Series: I am pleased by how not even remotely close this was. Fascinating long list which I want to hear other people's thoughts about... it feels weirdly random to me what happens to get a new installment in the year of eligibility or not? Like, I don't know, I guess that's not any more random than anything else, I'm just still not sure what I think of this category.
Campbell: I'm not surprised at all that Palmer crushed this, and I was pretty moved by listening to her acceptance speech. Am now totally having the thing where I like her more as a person and so I'm more willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that her series will pay off in a way I like, when I had been borderline about keeping reading it before, so this is an outcome that has some impact on my actual future reading choices, by giving her that platform to speak.
And we get a YA award next year!
Overall, I think it was a strong ballot and I'm pretty happy with most of the results. Disappointed about Splendor&Misery, but as we'll see in the detailed results, I think the answer to "can an album compete with series television" is "I guess not".
So, yeah! Analysis and reactions, behind this cut for length!
Novel: very surprised Jemisin got the repeat, I was predicting Birds and would have guessed that voters would weight against Jemisin for having gotten it last year. Birds was in fact the leader in the voting until the final elimination though. Interesting runners-up in the long list: Mary Robinette Kowal's Ghost Talkers, Everfair, Core of the Sun (Finnish, and one of my nominees).
Novella: yeah, this was obviously going to happen. Pleased to see Vellitt Boe come in second. Looks like they did count Last Days as a novella, I kind of wish we could get rulings on that stuff pre-nominations. I'm glad to see Runtime on the long list, and selfishly glad it didn't, like, miss by one vote or I would have to feel really bad. :)
Novelette: so many sources of joy: that one of my nominees won, that my first-place vote won, that we got Vernon a Hugo after the dogcrap people displaced "Toad Words" that one time. I thought "Surely Drown Here" was going to take it and it in fact came in second, so I'm not totally off in my predictions! Oh dang some of my other nominees are so clooooose, two more votes to get "Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" on the ballot? Three more votes for "Foxfire, Foxfire"? Anyways obviously I can't complain but dude.
Short story: I clapped in my living room when this won. :) Not one of my nominees but was my first-place vote. :) And hey, "Things With Beards" was really close to getting on, although it would have displaced my second-favorite of what did get on, hm.
Graphic: wow, Monstress had a lock on this.
Dramatic long: wow, Arrival *really* had a lock on this, boy did I not have my finger on the pulse of that one.
Dramatic short: waaaah. I thought Splendor&Misery was innovative and brilliant and it was a solid last both in the voting and in the nominations, only making it on under the "we can't have three Game of Throneses" rule. I don't want to be "my guy didn't win so let's burn it down" guy but the fact that the Hugos almost failed to even recognize it honestly gives a lot of credence to the proposal that the dramatic categories need to be reorganized to separate episodic and standalone works. I already didn't want to see series like Stranger Things start edging out movies. I'm not sure long/short/series/episode are the right categories, but I look forward to reading more analysis about this. Nice showing for San Junipero though, small yay.
Editor: okay there was this great picture of Gorinsky being like a foot taller than the other nominees and I am so proud of myself for not making an inappropriate "hey, she *is* a long form editor" joke on twitter.
Pro artist: Dillon is hard to beat.
Semiprozine: I'm really definitely going to have to start reading Uncanny, eh.
Fan artist: interesting that Leggett lagged in nominations and won in votes.
Series: I am pleased by how not even remotely close this was. Fascinating long list which I want to hear other people's thoughts about... it feels weirdly random to me what happens to get a new installment in the year of eligibility or not? Like, I don't know, I guess that's not any more random than anything else, I'm just still not sure what I think of this category.
Campbell: I'm not surprised at all that Palmer crushed this, and I was pretty moved by listening to her acceptance speech. Am now totally having the thing where I like her more as a person and so I'm more willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that her series will pay off in a way I like, when I had been borderline about keeping reading it before, so this is an outcome that has some impact on my actual future reading choices, by giving her that platform to speak.
And we get a YA award next year!
