If you care about the Hugos, you already know that winners have been announced. All I know is that it looks like neither my votes nor my predictions went very far.
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Meh.
Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress
Feh.
Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
Eh?
Best Short Story: “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
Heh!
I got exactly one right. Better luck next time.
Hugo 2009 scorecard
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On the bright side, if they were using instant run-off balloting, you actually didn’t do too badly…
It is instant run-off. One nice aspect of the Hugos is how open the records of the nominations and voting are after the applause is over. If you go here:
http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/08/2009-hugo-award-winners/
and scroll down to the voting and nomination breakdowns, you can see all the gritty details.
I definitely needed to put my ‘active intellect’ hat on for that. Interesting, though.
One somewhat disturbing thing, in glancing over the complete list of nominees, is to realize how the whole awards process is really just a slave to marketing. There is so much on here that no one (sane, normal) person could read it all in a single year. So it will probably always boil down to the uppermost nominees (a short enough list that people can actually get through them) being those with publishing and marketing muscle behind them.
On a much less disturbing note, I only just now found out that David Anthony Durham won the Campbell. I had no idea when I talked to him at Readercon that he was up for it. I actually know David slightly (he taught in my grad program, though we never worked together), and by a strange coincidence I’m reading my signed, personalized copy of one of his older books (Walk Through Darkness) this week.
I heard Durham interviewed a couple years ago, and Acacia sounded really cool, but I still haven’t read it. I’ll fix that eventually.