Top 10 Posts For August 2017

Relatively few fans would have looked at last month’s number one post, “Livestream Hugo Ceremony on YouTube,” if the livestream broadcast had actually happened as planned. When it didn’t, thousands of fans wanting realtime Hugo results began combing the internet for them. Quite unexpectedly, Hampus Eckerman’s comments about the winners made here while he was sitting in the Hugo audience turned into one of those traffic centers. (And, boy, did the blog ever creak and moan!)

The antics of the Dragon Awards administrators helped fill the rest of the Top 10, garnering a lot of ugly publicity by refusing to let any nominees bow out, then changing their minds, and finally, sending some of their cronies into shock by talking the writer they poormouth the most into staying on the ballot.

  1. Livestream Hugo Ceremony on YouTube
  2. 2017 Hugo Award Winners
  3. Dragon Con Refuses To Let Authors Withdraw from Dragon Awards
  4. Scalzi Withdraws from Dragon Awards
  5. Dragons, and Puppies, and Innocent Bystanders, Oh My!
  6. Pixel Scroll 8/11/17 “Scrollpathy for the Pixel” By The Scrolling Stones
  7. Pixel Scroll 8/20/17 A Pithy Pixel Portion Produced Promptly
  8. Pixel Scroll 8/13/17 The Filers On The Hill See The Scroll Going Down, And The Eyes In Their Heads See The Pixels Spinning Round
  9. Pixel Scroll 8/12/17 Of Shoes, And Scrolls, And Sealing Wax, And Pixelated Kings
  10. Pixel Scroll 8/8/17 Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Scrolls Of Summer

And here is the Scroll-free Top 10, though this was one of the rare months when it’s almost unnecessary.

  1. Livestream Hugo Ceremony on YouTube
  2. 2017 Hugo Award Winners
  3. Dragon Con Refuses To Let Authors Withdraw from Dragon Awards
  4. Scalzi Withdraws from Dragon Awards
  5. Dragons, and Puppies, and Innocent Bystanders, Oh My!
  6. Barkley — So Glad You (Didn’t) Ask: A Column of Unsolicited Opinions — #13
  7. Dragon Awards Reverse Decision: Littlewood Withdraws, But Scalzi Stays
  8. Worldcon 75 Ends With Some Interesting Numbers
  9. Dragon Con Safety Advice From Delilah S. Dawson
  10. What The Dragon Awards Will Never Be