Good points about numbers of Anglophone and Sinophone voters and such.
(Number of voters being way down is especially interesting in light of the fact that by total attendance this was (if I understand right) the largest Worldcon ever. Suggests that many attendees didn’t know about, or decided not to vote in, the Hugos? Or bought their memberships after the voting deadline? Dunno.)
Locked Tomb: Yeah, I get the impression from what I see online that it’s universally adored, and I can’t tell how much that’s just the social bubble that I’m in. But at least the first book does seem to have been quite popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth#Reception
…More generally, I’m never sure how representative Hugo nominators and voters are of fandom in general.
(I was just thinking about that this morning—I think of myself as having a reasonably good sense of what’s going on in the sf field, but then every so often I come across mentions of apparently hugely popular series where I’ve never before heard of the books nor the author. So I suspect that there’s a lot that I don’t know that I don’t know.)
Re Semipro: More than briefly! SH was in the lead all the way up to the last round of the instant runoff, which I think is much better than it has ever done on a Hugo ballot before, but I haven’t gone back and checked.
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Date: 2023-12-04 12:53 am (UTC)(Number of voters being way down is especially interesting in light of the fact that by total attendance this was (if I understand right) the largest Worldcon ever. Suggests that many attendees didn’t know about, or decided not to vote in, the Hugos? Or bought their memberships after the voting deadline? Dunno.)
Locked Tomb: Yeah, I get the impression from what I see online that it’s universally adored, and I can’t tell how much that’s just the social bubble that I’m in. But at least the first book does seem to have been quite popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth#Reception
…More generally, I’m never sure how representative Hugo nominators and voters are of fandom in general.
(I was just thinking about that this morning—I think of myself as having a reasonably good sense of what’s going on in the sf field, but then every so often I come across mentions of apparently hugely popular series where I’ve never before heard of the books nor the author. So I suspect that there’s a lot that I don’t know that I don’t know.)
Re Semipro: More than briefly! SH was in the lead all the way up to the last round of the instant runoff, which I think is much better than it has ever done on a Hugo ballot before, but I haven’t gone back and checked.