Dragon Award Winners Responses

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What did the winners of Dragon Con’s new Dragon Award have to say about winning? Here are some statements they posted.

Larry Correia: “Son of the Black Sword Wins the 1st Annual Dragon Award for Best Fantasy” on Monster Hunter Nation

Son of the Black Sword won the inaugural Dragon Award for best fantasy. I want to congratulate all of the other nominees and winners. There were some truly fantastic stories to choose from. There were a lot of talented creators up for awards, and it is an honor just to be considered.

I want to thank my fans for voting, because they are absolutely amazing. I have the best fans ever. I wouldn’t trade my fanbase for anyone’s (and my fans are better armed too).  I love you guys. Seriously. You are a bunch of bad asses.

I want to thank Toni and the good folks at Baen for putting together one hell of a book, and being awesome to work with.

And thank you, DragonCon. You guys rock. You saw the need for an award that represented all of fandom, and you stepped up. Thank you for all of the hard work this must have been. You did a great job.

John C. Wright: “The Voice of the Dragon”

The Dragon Awards were given out today. Guess who won for best science fiction novel? Yup, it surprised me, too.

This makes me the Frank Herbert of the Dragon. If you recall, he won the first ever Nebula award for best SF novel….

If and when they make Sad Puppies into a movie, the first scene will be Larry Correia being spurned and scorned by the Dursleys from HARRY POTTER and the Morlocks from the TIME MACHINE and all the villains from Ayn Rand and Charles Dickens put together. They will insult him due to his politics, lie and say it is not due to his politics, lie and call Brad Togersen a racist (even though he is married to a black woman) lie and have their lies repeated in the press, and lie, and lie and lie.

And this, this will be the last scene. Sarah Hoyt, dressed as Princess Leia, will give Larry a medal, and Tom Kratman, dressed as a wookie, will roar, the space soldiers will all salute, and the John William’s music will soar into a triumphant crescendo of horns and drums.

Brian Niemeier: How I Predicted that Souldancer Would Win a Dragon Award

Yesterday I announced that my SF/Horror book Souldancer has won the first annual Dragon Award in the Best Horror Novel category. Winning the Dragon, which  truly reflects SF fans’ preferences, has been a great honor and a tremendous pleasure. But it wasn’t a surprise. Two weeks ago I predicted that the fans would choose Souldancer as this year’s best horror novel. Making a call like that is risky. The public eye is on SFF, and the internet is forever, so if you want to pull a Babe Ruth you’d better know what you’re doing. Fortunately there were plenty of signs pointing toward a Souldancer win. Not only that, my friends can tell you that I predicted a blowout in favor of Somewhither, Son of the Black Sword, and Ctrl-Alt-Revolt! If you knew where to look, you could see the writing on the wall in the weeks leading up to Dragon Con. Here are a few of the omens that indicated how the awards would turn out….

Michael O’Brien: “Call of Cthulhu Wins at Inaugural Dragon Awards” at Chaosium Inc.

We’re delighted that Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition won the inaugural award in the Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Miniatures/Collectible Card/Role Playing Game category at Dragon Con in Atlanta last weekend.

Many thanks to the Dragon Con attendees and Call of Cthulhu fans worldwide who supported the nomination!

Plus bonus statements from a couple of nominees about not winning.

Declan Finn: The First Annual Dragon Awards on The Catholic Geeks

Best Horror Novel Souldancer by Brian Niemeier

I wasn’t shocked. It was such an obvious win that even the publisher Vox Day, when commenting paragraphs on other choices, only said, “Sorry Declan, you’re screwed.”

Marko Kloos: “the dragon awards have been dragon-awarded”

NEWSFLASH: I did not win the Dragon Award for Best Military SF Novel. David Weber did, and congratulations to him. Congratulations also to Larry Correia, whose SON OF THE BLACK SWORD won the award for Best Fantasy Novel.

(I didn’t expect to beat David on votes because he has a lot more fans and a lot more books out than I do, and I am but an egg in the genre.)

 

91 thoughts on “Dragon Award Winners Responses

  1. I see Wright not at all bitter that he hasn’t won a Hugo.

    Well given the winners here, I doubt I’ll see them referenced in the press releases I get from publishers as somehow these publishers don’t do much in the way of keeping me informed about their offering.

    In contrast, Saga Press just sent the two volumes of writing by Le Guon, some fifteen hundred pages of squee introducing deliciousness in spectacular hardcovers.

  2. Yay, a round-up! How I’ve missed thee

    Frenemy of File770 Dave Freer also had some nice words about his nominations and the eventual victors

    Well I didn’t win either category of Dragon Award I was in, and I’m still smiling…
    There’s certainly no dishonor in losing that race, and that’s how I feel about losing to Sir Terry Pratchett. I’m just so pleased to have had the honor of being on the same short-list. I could hardly lose to a better man or be gladder to see him win, as that last token of respect to one of the greatest writers our field has ever seen. Someone comforted me with the fact that he would never be eligible again. Well hell… If Sir Terry could come back and write for us, I’d happily volunteer to not win for just as long as he could write for….
    I’m delighted Larry Correia beat me in Fantasy award too. Son of the Black Sword is a great read, and very deserving winner. Just being short-listed in that category with Correia AND Butcher was enough to make me big-headed.

    Beyond that, trigger warning on the comments and the whole thing for….well, it’s MGC.

  3. I imagine that the grapes in JCW’s mouth must be pretty damn sour. Even when he wins he can’t help but wail about how mistreated he is.

  4. Brian Niemeier’s blog may be my favorite. For a self-published author he has a complete lack of understanding how Amazon rankings work (he had free days and beat The Fifth Season in ranking, which means his work is more popular and thus deserving of an award), manages to make his win all about how he was below No Award for a Campbell because he was slated, CHORFs ahoy, that DragonCon has 60,000 attendees so how could it possibly be gamed by a small faction, and my favorite, how after all that he didn’t really want to be up for the award but he had to listen to the dozen of fans who insisted.

    As if it wasn’t enough that DragonCon and the people running the award went about the PR as if it was an afterthought the winners using it as a platform to insult the Hugo Award moreso than to build up the Dragon Award really doesn’t add to the prestige.

    Also odd that a Fantasy book won horror and the author is taking potshots at Worldcon instead of the HWA and the Stokers.

  5. And this, this will be the last scene. Sarah Hoyt, dressed as Princess Leia, will give Larry a medal, and Tom Kratman, dressed as a wookie, will roar, the space soldiers will all salute, and the John William’s music will soar into a triumphant crescendo of horns and drums.

    Except that none of the above-mentioned, including Larry himself, bothered to show up for it.
    Let alone horns, drums, or cosplay.

  6. It should be pointed out that in the original version of his post, Puppy-historian extraordinaire JCW incorrectly said that Dune had won the first Hugo.

  7. Gracious words from Larry Correia.

    Also:

    Aaron on September 7, 2016 at 5:48 pm said:
    It should be pointed out that in the original version of his post, Puppy-historian extraordinaire JCW incorrectly said that Dune had won the first Hugo.

    Yes, I recalled that…

  8. Some of us have been saying for a long time that if the Pups didn’t like the Hugos, then they should go out and create their own awards. Looks like they’ve finally gone and done exactly that. May they have much joy of the Dragons, now that they’ve found a cozy little niche where they actually have a chance to dictate their desired outcomes.

  9. I gaze into my magic crystal ball and predict: assorted Sad Puppies will take some sort of umbrage at the existence of this round-up for reason that will be poorly expressed but heartfully asserted.

  10. Somewhere in the twitterstream John Scalzi said nice things about the Dragons, and congratulated the winners. At the rate he tweets, it’s probably about 150 tweets ago.

    JCWrong really is a total ass.

  11. Props to Michael O’Brian and Chaosium for the new Call of Cthulhu, brickbats for LC and JCWrong and Freer and all the other haters. What a bunch of graceless slobs.

  12. On the plus side, Phantom has claimed that he’ll no longer bother with us here at ‘Vile 666’, so we all kind of won our own award thanks to the Dragons.

  13. @Camestros Felapton on September 7, 2016 at 6:04 pm said:
    I read your blog of the history of the Sad/Rabid puppies.
    It was well done.

    Suggestion – if you want it to be “eternal” you will probably have to make pdfs or similar of the key elements. Things will disappear from the net over time.

  14. @ lauowolf
    Larry Correia was at his local Con in Utah during DragonCon. Well known to anyone who ever reads his social media posts or ever looks at the Baen schedule of author signings.

  15. airboy on September 7, 2016 at 6:54 pm said:

    I read your blog of the history of the Sad/Rabid puppies.
    It was well done.

    Suggestion – if you want it to be “eternal” you will probably have to make pdfs or similar of the key elements. Things will disappear from the net over time.

    Thanks. I’m working on a final stage for the timeline – with the Dragon Awards as a kind of postscript. Then I’m calling it done 🙂

  16. DexFarkin: On the plus side, Phantom has claimed that he’ll no longer bother with us here at ‘Vile 666’, so we all kind of won our own award thanks to the Dragons.

    Hahaha… that’s not generosity on his part; he’s been banned from File770. 😆

  17. @JJ

    Hahaha… that’s not generosity on his part; he’s been banned from File770. ?

    So his principled disgust leading to him writing us off was actually because he was banned first? I would never have thought that from those outstanding Puppies.

  18. Also, maybe someone should tell JCW that its John Williams. Not John William. And I doubt either Lucas or Williams would agree with the Pups on much of anything.

  19. Phantom’s presence actually ruins Camestros’ blog for me. Well, not the blog, but the comment sections.As soon as he shows up, the thread is done. It becomes nothing but Phantom being unpleasant and eccentric and everybody else rushing to make sure he knows what they think of him. Phantom’s own behavior is only part of the ruinous dynamic there, clearly, but he’s still the one bringing crank to tweakers.

  20. @Aaron:

    Also, maybe someone should tell JCW that its John Williams. Not John William. And I doubt either Lucas or Williams would agree with the Pups on much of anything.

    Nor would Lucinda Williams. Or Lucas Cage.

    Maybe John Lukacs though.

  21. Congrats to all winners! It’s a nifty award and will look good on the mantle, and I really do hope they take pride in their achievements.

  22. I hope that the winners and finalists are thrilled with their awards, and I wish DragonCon all the best with their awards program going forward.

    Those trophies are indeed gorgeous. It looks as though they came from Monarch Custom Glass.

  23. Congratulations to the winners.

    Hopefully they can understand that the field of thermodynamics does not apply to literary awards.

  24. “Those trophies are indeed gorgeous. It looks as though they came from Monarch Custom Glass.”

    Looking through that website, I guess we can see where the Jovians came from. Which makes it very likely that the Jovians and the Dragon Awards have the same creator.

  25. Judging from the prose and content of his victory speech, John C. Wright is a worthy winner of this award.

  26. Hampus Eckerman on September 7, 2016 at 10:50 pm said:
    “Those trophies are indeed gorgeous. It looks as though they came from Monarch Custom Glass.”
    Looking through that website, I guess we can see where the Jovians came from. Which makes it very likely that the Jovians and the Dragon Awards have the same creator.

    You are not the first to comment on that.

  27. Soon Lee: Thanks! I am more informed.

    Haha… don’t get me started. I can wax on enthusiastically about paperweights and art glass looooooooong past the point where you will get bored and fall asleep. 😉

  28. Here’s Nick Cole’s statement

    Thank you God! I praise You!
    And thank you to David Gatewood for the hands down best editing. To Mike Corley for an epic cover. To Kevin G. Summers for master crafting the formatting for both print and book. To Michael Bunker who told me it was going to get banned before anyone ever read it. To Jeff Gerecke for believing in me and representing me. To John C and L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright and Charles Tingle for being the first to wade into the fray. To Matt Margolis who is absolutely brave. To Larry Correia for book bombing this because he hates bullies. To Brad Torgersen and Sarah A. Hoyt and so many others for fighting for the right for fans to tell us what their favorite books are. To every reader who gave me a fair shake. Thank you. I am humbled.

  29. @nickpheas

    For some reason that’s VDs current FB screen name. Cole is graciously thanking his dead-tree publisher.

  30. The Dragon award does look pretty. I could wish that Puppies dominating the award means that this will be the bailiwick they focus on, but I haven’t had enough caffeine to be that optimistic. I’d need a fifth of coffee for that.

  31. Mark: For some reason that’s VDs current FB screen name.

    VD is trying desperately to pretend that he is actually the author behind the Chuck Tingle books, because he can’t stand admitting that he and his Dead Elk got totally pwnd by Tingle’s epic-level trolling.

  32. JJ on September 7, 2016 at 11:44 pm said:

    Hampus Eckerman: Looking through that website, I guess we can see where the Jovians came from.

    Actually, no, art glass awards are quite common, and there are a number of companies which supply them. (I have a substantial art glass collection going back many years, and have acquired some small knowledge about paperweights and the well-known artisans.)

    JJ wins best inadvertent Sherlock Holmes impression.

  33. Soon Lee on September 7, 2016 at 5:56 pm said:
    Gracious words from Larry Correia.

    there was an earlier blog post where he crowed about how there was no virture signalling from anyone who won (ignoring that nobody picke dup their own award, of course) and that there were no mean jokes like giving out wooden assholes (proving that he’s still – dare I say it – butthurt after he went out of his way to take offense last year)

  34. I gotta say that NIck COle’s marketing for Ctrl-Alt-Revolt is sorta genius.

    He took a prequel to a book that probably didn’t sell that well by a traditional publisher, and get an NYT Times bestselling author with a very large fan base to do the majority of his advertising for him, which blew up in the various right wing circles it was designed to do so in, pushing a lot of copies. Plus, he self-published it, which means that he gets a much larger percentage of the take.

    Then he continues to ride the train into the alt-right section of the internet, convinces Beale to slap the CH label on it and upload it to the PoD service. Now he’s got Correia and his BAEN mates, and he’s got Beale and the Alt-Right willing to shill for him with every subsequent release.

    He took his book not being accepted by a Trad Publisher, and used that to catapult his status in a very select fan group. I don’t know the efficacy of it long term, but that was an impressive pitcher of Lemonade he turned those lemons into.

  35. @alexvdl

    Yup, there’s definitely a niche there for those prepared to make the ritual sacrifice. Similar to Brad’s alleged plan to be the anti-Scalzi.
    I wonder how big that niche is though, considering that VD is already trying to shuffle Baen out of it to make space for himself.

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