2018 Hugo awards!!

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Winners (and also my first-place votes and predictions and commentary) behind the cut.

Best Novel
Prediction: Stone Sky
My first-place vote: Stone Sky

Winner: Stone Sky (N.K. Jemisin gave a magnificent speech, speech of the night. A giant shiny heavy metal middle finger, I think it was? And that *shawl*. Anyways, this was the thing on the ballot I cared most about and I'm really, really pleased to see her get the HISTORIC THREEPEAT SHE DESERVED, WOOO.)

Best Novella
Prediction: All Systems Red
My first-place vote: And Then There Were (N-One)

Winner: All Systems Red

Best Novelette
Prediction: Secret Life of Bots
My first-place vote: Small Changes

Winner: Secret Life of Bots

Best Short Story
Prediction: Authentic Indian Experience
My first-place vote: Authentic Indian Experience

Winner: Authentic Indian Experience (I would have been shocked if it hadn't.)

Best Series
Prediction: ??
My first-place vote: Books of the Raksura

Winner: World of the Five Gods, Lois McMaster Bujold
(I'm not excited about this outcome, I would have liked to see it go to any of Wells or Brennan or Bennett, but Curse of Chalion really is a beautiful book, so, I guess I can't be surprised it's a favorite of a lot of people.)

Best Related Work
Prediction: Either No Time To Spare or Lit Fuse.
My first-place vote: No Time to Spare.

Winner: No Time to Spare (Well, I'm clearly pleased with which way that went.)

Best Graphic Story
Prediction: Monstress Vol 2
My first-place vote: My Favorite Thing is Monsters

Winner: Monstress (My second favorite, and definitely deserved.)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Prediction: Shape of Water
My first-place vote: Get Out

Wonder Woman (I am v. surprised by this result, although it was my own second-place vote. Really, really did not see that happening.)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Prediction: ??
My first-place vote: "USS Callister"

The Good Place, "The Trolley Problem" (Well, I haven't seen it, so no opinion.)

Best Professional Editor (Long Form)
My first-place vote: Joe Monti

Winner: Sheila Gilbert

Best Professional Editor (Short Form)
My first-place vote: Thomases

Winner: Thomases

Best Professional Artist
Prediction: ??
My first-place vote: Sana Takeda

Winner: Sana Takeda (Wooo!)

Best Semiprozine
My first-place vote: Uncanny

Winner: Uncanny
(There were a ton of people on this stage and we really could have used some captions as to who was speaking.)

Best Fanzine
My first-place vote: Galactic Journey

Winner: File 770
(Ok, v. classy of Glyer to withdraw from future years.)

Best Fancast

I think it was Ditchdiggers?

Best Fan Writer
My first-place vote: Bogi Takács

Winner: Sarah Gailey

Best Fan Artist
My first-place vote: Geneva Benton

Winner: Geneva Benton (Yay, richly deserved.)

The Best Young Adult Book Not A Hugo
Prediction: Summer in Orcus
My first-place vote: In Other Lands

Winner: Akata Warrior
(Well, I really didn't want it to be Pullman, and I figured it would be one of the three known names. Still couldn't help getting a little keyed up hoping for Brennan there though.)

The John W. Campbell Not A Hugo
Prediction: Rivers Solomon
My first-place vote: Vina Jie-Min Prasad

Winner: Rebecca Roanhorse

So, I correctly predicted the four traditional fiction categories, graphic story, and sort of related (although I had only narrowed it down to two so that doesn't really count as a prediction.) Made wrong predictions for Dramatic Long, YA, and the Campbell. I had seven of my first place votes win, although two of those were Semipro and Short Editors which are not categories I care very much about. But I will count them for the purposes of comparing the success of my votes vs predictions. (Clearly what I need to do is predict in more of the minor categories...)