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. @JJ- 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.

    You’re a kind person and the first half of this sentence is a kind and generous reading of VD’s motives. But no. Remember how Chuck Tingle sewed up a Rabid Puppies domain name? Remember how VD has never, ever had an original thought in his not at all pretty head? Yeah, that. Hurr, hurr, hurr, I’m using “Charles Tingle” as my FB name.

    I’m right there with you on your second clause, though. 😉

  2. 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.

    Beale is riding a fickle horse and he knows it. Despite all their assertions about how the weakness of the “SJWs” is that we supposedly turn on our own, the Alt-Right has a proven track record of infighting, and someone who is on top of the current wave can easily be sucked under in short order – just look at what happened to the guy behind “The Ralph Retort”. Or look at the falling out between Owen and Aurini when they tried to make The Sarkeesian Effect and the resulting fracas among the GG community.

    Beale knows that if his status as the wise-man-who-can-predict-what-will-happen falters, his supporters are likely to abandon him quickly. That is one reason he so desperately tries to claim every outcome is a “win” for him, because if he is seen as losing, even once, his base of support will start to drift away from him. His support for Tingle was a mistake, and it is now widely known to have been a mistake, so Beale has to go into damage control mode.

  3. Wright’s piece is really quite remarkable. He compares himself to Bester Herbert, paints Worldcon fandom as subhuman, gets in a “best friend is black” defence for Torgerson (while misspelling his name), and finally imagines the Dragon award ceremony as something inspired by Leni Riefenstahl.

    Just wow.

  4. gets in a “best friend is black” defence for Torgerson (while misspelling his name),

    To be fair, you did too.

    and finally imagines the Dragon award ceremony as something inspired by Leni Riefenstahl.

    Considering the actual ceremony was a perfunctory affair at which no winners (and precious few nominees) actually showed up, he’s got delusions of grandeur.

  5. “On the subject of the Ralph Retort guy, I just read that he’s currently cooling his heels in jail.”

    Hurray!

  6. @Jim Henley

    So JCW is the Frank Herbert of the Dragon Awards

    I prefer to think of him as a Shai-Hulud of ultramontanism.

  7. @Mark, @Aaron

    On the subject of the Ralph Retort guy, I just read that he’s currently cooling his heels in jail.

    I saw that the other day. Being someone that likes to peer into the Abyss at times, I ventured over to The Ralph Retort to see how the webpage was handling this. Wow, what an unpleasant and mean-spirited place.

    An article detailing the arrest, titled Jailhouse Ralph*, contains this choice comment:

    Obviously, there’s some vindictive people out there who are taking pleasure in watching him suffer, so this isn’t really going to quell any of the goofy conspiracy theories being circulated.

    The complete and utter lack of self-awareness in this crowd is mind-boggling.

    *I was tempted to create a link to the article, for source verification, but figured that would do two things: give The Ralph Retort more traffic and invite unpleasantness to File770. Not at all comfortable with either.

  8. On the subject of the Ralph Retort guy, I just read that he’s currently cooling his heels in jail.

    Yep. In the same county that I live in to boot. From work I did years ago in the county legal system, I’m pretty sure I know the facility he is being held in.

  9. @microtherion

    I prefer to think of him as a Shai-Hulud of ultramontanism.

    Unlike eating melange, reading his works will not make you live forever, but it will definitely feel that way.

  10. Similar to Brad’s alleged plan to be the anti-Scalzi.

    I thought it was Correia’s declared plan to be the anti-Scalzi, back when he was oversharing about his machinations — committing one of the cardinal sins of an evil overlord.

  11. Similar to Brad’s alleged plan to be the anti-Scalzi.

    I thought it was Correia’s declared plan to be the anti-Scalzi, back when he was oversharing about his machinations — committing one of the cardinal sins of an evil overlord.

    The problem with these plans was, that they would cease to exist when they collide with the real Scalzi.

  12. Yep, those comments are about par for the course. It is obvious to all concerned that they would trade this award for a Hugo any day no matter what they say in public, and equally obvious that no Hugo winner would make the switch.

    I’m also vaguely amused that they simultaneously trumpet this as “the fan’s choice” while thanking Correia for “book-bombing” them to a win. Oh, Puppies. When will you ever make sense?

  13. @Eric Franklin

    Well, the name I use on Facebook (it’s the same one as here) is a plausible Real Name, but it’s not the actual name on my birth certificate and driver’s license.

  14. @Bonnie McDaniel: Yes, but VD using “Charles Tingle” as his name in a (crazy-lame) failed attempt at counter-trolling is much more likely to draw attention (and get his account suspended).

  15. @ JJ:

    I can wax on enthusiastically about paperweights and art glass looooooooong past the point where you will get bored and fall asleep.

    What are you wearing?

  16. I’m wearing a gather of deep indigo molten glass with a core bubble, surrounded by a intertwined spiral of tiny bubbles and rainbow dichroic glass giving the impression of a swirling galaxy, encased in a layer of opaque black glass with a large front facet ground into the face, giving a geode-like view of the crystal interior. 😉

  17. Apropos of nothing in particular, I was looking at a JCW post about the Hugos (while writing up a Hugo post-mortem with notes about Puppish reactions to the results and how they varied from reality) and noticed that he was outraged that Jerry Pournelle lost to Sheila Gilbert.

    Um . . .

  18. Aaron: noticed that [JCW} was outraged that Jerry Pournelle lost to Sheila Gilbert.

    There’s a reason why he writes fiction, and it no doubt has a great deal to do with his inability to research fact. After all, he’s the Alfred Bester of the Dragon Awards.

  19. I used to, in my youth, wish ill on people who were so relentlessly nasty.

    Now I just wish they’d find happiness, or at least peace. Not because I’m any nicer a human being, but just because people happy with themselves and their achievements are so much less tiresome to deal with.

    I hope JCW and crew are happy with their awards. I hope it gives them some kind of peace. It is a fine award and many good people will undoubtedly win it over the years, and it would be nice if they could just…be happy.

  20. I hope JCW and crew are happy with their awards.

    I don’t think they will be, and it isn’t because they should not be. I think they realize at some level that without the outrage, they are marginal figures in the genre fiction world. I think that JCW knows that were it not for his constant bloviating and general grumpy anger, very few people would even know he exists, let alone pay attention to him. Most of the other Puppy authors are in the same boat. They erupt in anger because if they don’t, then they would receive far less attention than they do, and they would have to face the fact that they are on the fringes rather than at the center.

  21. @Soon Lee: yeah, but you’re a foreigner (of two different types) so you don’t count to Puppies.

    It’s such a beautiful award, how could you not be happy to win it? I’ve won cheap plastic strictly local awards that I was much happier/grateful/etc. to get and display. Even some paper certificates.

  22. “In the opinion of this book buyer & reader, this is not a strategy that would encourage more readers to buy their books.”

    Don’t have to be readers as long as they buy.

  23. It’s a technical issue, but JCW does not seem to grasp the difference between the Nebulas, a peer-group award, and the fan awarded Dragons and Hugos.

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

    Anyone know which size they used for the Dragon Awards? I see that they range from $153 to $422 each.

  25. I’m surprised that John is that clueless about the Nebulas, since he was nominated for one back in 2006 (and lost to Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage). He did go to the Nebulas Weekend and didn’t exhibit any of the characteristics he now does. that I can remember. Although, as chair, I didn’t really deal with him much since I was focused on wrangling Harlan Ellison.

  26. Does anyone know if the Dragon Awards are going to publish voting/nomination statistics, like the Hugo Awards?

    _IG_

  27. lost to Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage

    If I lost an award to that piece of garbage (the book, not the writer) I’d want to forget about it, too.

  28. @Ian Gilmore

    That is the five or six dollar question. I don’t think it’s been officially confirmed in any way, so I wouldn’t count on it until we see it.

  29. @Lee Whiteside: Wrangling HE is a job to be pitied, not envied — go you.
    Was 2006 before or after JCW was born again? Finding Jesus seems to have made him a worse person, which isn’t how it’s supposed to work.

  30. Does anyone know if the Dragon Awards are going to publish voting/nomination statistics, like the Hugo Awards?

    I asked in an email four days ago. If I get a response I’ll post it on File 770.

  31. How many awards do publish voting statistics? I’ve noticed that Goodreads do, for the final vote, even though the nominees are determined by a secret algorithm. But I don’t think the Nebulas do. What about others?

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