174 thoughts on “2021 Hugo Awards”

1. Congrats to all! What a fantastic ceremony!

2. Excellent winners!

3. Reposting from the earlier Scroll …

   oh great they’re stopping for a stupid bit. Don’t make the nominees wait to find out; that’s just cruel

   I enjoyed the bit there. The ceremony sailed along at such a nice pace that I could accept a short and silly life-in-the-Beltway joke told twice.

   The awards tonight were nicely done and put the focus on the winners and nominees where it belonged. When things got rolling with that epic drumline I was fired up and ready to go.

   I loved the voiceover describing facts about the winners and their number of past nominations just like Peter Coyote did for years at the Oscars. There was a lot of professionalism in this production and I was impressed.

   We had a chance to not hear John W. Campbell’s name during the Hugo Awards ceremony for the first time in 48 years. I know why the hosts said it, but I must sad trombone.

   The only things I didn’t like were the vertigo-inducing presentation of the In Memoriam and the choice to read aloud the title of one Best Related Work.

   But overall the night was about joy and adding more seats to the table of SFF for marginalized pros and fans. I’ll take it.

4. And we learned fascinating facts about slime molds to boot! 😃

5. Congrats to all the winners!

6. I thought Oor Wombat was joking in her second acceptance speech when she said she’d resort to telling us more about slime molds.

   She is quite hilarious but an offer to dish on eukaryotes is serious business.

7. Congrats to all the winners and in particular to Oor Wombat and Martha Wells!!

8. The In Memoriam list can be found at https://discon3.org/publications/in-memoriam-list/

9. No stats yet

10. congratulations!

11. Congratulations to all the winners. What excellent choices!

12. Congrats to all the winners!

13. Voting stats: http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2021HugoStatistics.pdf (no nomination stats yet)

14. Congrats to the winners – overall, it’s been a pretty good year, lots of strong contenders.

15. Stats are up but not nomination stats

16. Nom stats tomorrow. I’m looking forward to seeing them!

17. The first three Best Novel finishers match my ballot, but I didn’t do well in the short fiction categories (or most categories, really). The first and second Best Series finishers were my second and third choices, but big bummer: my first choice, “The Daevabad Trilogy,” was last! My top choice in Best Fanzine and Lodestar won, though. 🙂

18. Congratulations to all the winners!

19. Congratulations to all winners! Let me be the first (*) to say: “Murderbot is killing it!

    (*) this minute

20. Thanks Steve Silver. The In Memorium went way to fast by the time it started. I did not know Ogre had died. 🙁

21. Congratulations to the winners!

22. Congratulations to all the winners!

23. I think the first year none of my picks have got a rocket.

24. NickPheas: I think the first year none of my picks have got a rocket.

    I’m just the opposite. Normally, I’m not happy with a lot of the winners, but this year there’s only one that I’m not okay with; the rest I’m enthused for, or am at least fine with them winning.

25. Congratulations to all the winners!

    I’m pretty chuffed that two of my favorite authors won twice!

26. Congrats to all the winners, exspecially our Wombat and Martha Wells who won 2 awards. I have not seen the cerenomy, because 2 was a bit to late or early for me.

27. That is not meant to sound like I’m cross about the winners, congratulations to them a. I got lots of second places.

28. Congratulations to all – I had a lot of difficult choices for 1st place this year so can have no real complaints that the photo finish ended up slightly differently than I saw it.

29. Congrats to all the winners!!

30. Three of my picks got first, which I think is a record for me.

    C’mon, c’mon, give me those nomination stats…

31. Congrats & condolences!

    Vector recently published an academic article on the Parable of the Sower graphic novel adaptation, if that’s your thing:
    https://vector-bsfa.com/2021/02/05/broadcasting-change-in-empathic-dialogue-with-duffy-and-jenningss-graphic-novel-adaptation-of-octavia-butlers-parable-of-the-sower/

32. rcade:

    We had a chance to not hear John W. Campbell’s name during the Hugo Awards ceremony for the first time in 48 years. I know why the hosts said it, but I must sad trombone.

    When they introduced Nancy Kress and mentioned her Campbell Memorial Award (amongst others), I thought, “There ya go, people-who-complain-about-erasing-history!” So I was a little “sad trombone” too about stopping to discuss the Astounding name change, but it was well done nonetheless.

33. I decided to swing by here for a better discussion after visiting a couple of Reddit discussions of the Hugos. There were good points made there — interspersed with the usual people who were upset that so many women won again.

    Because apparently that means people are voting for women on purpose to make up for previous years were mostly men won. And women used to win sometimes back then, too, so it’s not fair.

    Riiight. People are just voting for women writers because they don’t want men to win. Not because they like the writers. It because of biases against men. Says a Reddit guy with biases.

    Not to mention that it’s very unlikely some of those posters are aware of C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Katherine MacLean, etc. (Leigh’ Brackett, wasn’t that the sheriff in the first Halloween movie?)

    Also, there were people who thought the Murderbot stories were fun but just one-dimensional “fluff” SF or something. How!? You don’t have to like the stories, but to think they’re just fun and fluff nothing else makes me wonder about the way you approach reading…

34. With all the issues leading up to the convention, and the current COVID spike, one had to second guess the notion of having a live convention…that ceremony validated the decision to move forward. Three cheers for Bill Lawhorn, without whom this wouldn’t have happened.

35. Hearty congratulations to the winners and sincere condolences to the losers.

    Oor Wombat, any chance you’ll publish your acceptance speech(es) anywhere, as you did with Whalefall?

36. Nomination data is up: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/

37. Steve Mollmann: Nomination data is up

    I see that someone prevailed upon a bunch of family and friends to buy memberships and nominate their novel. 😀

38. @Steve Mollmann: Thanks for the link!

39. Also thank you @Steve Mollmann.
    Along the case in Novel we have also a case in Short Story were we have a pattern.
    One of my nomination got in on not much, so nominating is definitly worth it.
    I am a bit suprised how far down Sandersons Stormlight Archive was in Best Series. From the buss and the questions I suspected a near miss.
    Congrats to all fillers who were on the Longlist.

40. Toni Weisskopf declined a Best Editor, Long Form, nomination.

41. Congratulations to all the winners!

    StefanB: I am a bit suprised how far down Sandersons Stormlight Archive was in Best Series. From the buss and the questions I suspected a near miss.
    I get the impression that a lot of people in Sanderson fandom didn’t like RoW as much as the previous books in the series. Not that it was bad, but that it didn’t quite live up to the heights of the previous books. Of course, Best Series is meant to cover all books released in the series so far, but a lot of people’s impression of a series may be based on the most recent book they’ve read.

42. @rcade: Perhaps to avoid being No Awarded, or maybe because she’s ticked off at being dropped as a GoH, or both. Or something else entirely; obviously I’m just speculating wildly.

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44. Alright, did I just win a Hugo of sorts now that I was a nerds of a feather contributor in 2020? 😀

    Great shortlist, congrats to all winners and losers!

    It seems like some works that really blew me away (Riot Baby, Helicopter Story, Open House on Haunted Hill, Invisible Kingdom, Kalanadi etc.) didn’t excite the majority of the voters in the same way. Many of them finished last, but I’m grateful I got to read and enjoy them.

45. Alright, did I just win a Hugo of sorts now that I was a nerds of a feather contributor in 2020?

    Yes, but we’re going to need an acceptance speech.

    Or some facts about slime molds.

    Congratulations!

46. StefanB: Personally, I’m waiting for book 5, which is supposed to wrap up the current story arc to nominate Stormlight Archives. It would feel strange to nominate it in the middle of the story as it is now.
    Of course, Murderbot and October Daye are also mid series, so I don’t know if many other nominators think the way I do.

47. Congrats to spacefaringkitten. 🙂
    Enjoing the works is imho the most importend thing. Some of the works you mentioned I enjoyed, too, others were not really my cup of tea, but taste allways differ that makes it interesting.

48. Congrats to all the winners!
    Not all of my picks won, but I wasn’t disappointed by any of the winners.

49. @bookworm1398:
    I understand the situation. I mostly was suprised because we allready had theories that the series was disqualified because some corners of the internet were sure that it had the votes.
    There is one difference between series like Murderbot and the Stormlight Archive on the other hand. Murderbots story is not told but (at last with the novel) it doesn’t feal like midstory but a good ending point. (which doesn’t mean I don’t want more Murderbot) The same after most October Dayebooks (I am not sure if that is currently the case I am not completly up to date but for me reading more of it than of any other series was enough for the voting)

50. @Shrike58 — Though the final question of whether a live convention was a good idea won’t be answered until we see how much of a virus spike this induced. On one hand, the vaccination check seemed thorough, and people were being pretty conscientious about masking. On the other hand, people weren’t keeping their distance much.

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