Diane Lacey shared 2023 Hugo administration team emails with Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford for use in “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”. And she sent them the following letter, written to “sincerely apologize to … Continue reading
By Kat Jones: This has been provided to File 770 in response to a request for information from Jason Sanford about the 2023 Hugo Award process and any point at which I interacted with it. I have extreme concerns for … Continue reading
This report is being released simultaneously on File770 and Genre Grapevine and is also available to download as an e-book epub file and as a PDF. By Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford “You acquire information and you convey the … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION: Zimozi Natsuco is an ordinary sf fan from China. He is studying at a Chinese University majoring in literature. Zimozi Natsuco attended 2023 Worldcon and the business meeting. Several of his non-fiction works are submitted in WeChat account SSSZJU2009, … Continue reading
Glasgow 2024 today opened nominations for the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. The nomination period will close on Saturday, March 9, at 4.00 p.m. Glasgow time. Glasgow 2024 will administer the … Continue reading
TL;DR SUMMARY: The differences between the redacted and the final 2023 Hugo ballots involved three items and were due to rules applications as explained in the 2023 Hugo Award Stats Final report. The “ineligibles” were not on the redacted ballot, … Continue reading
By Ersatz Culture. IN THE GUARDIAN.The Guardian’s report “Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors” includes quotes from Xiran Jay Zhao and Paul Weimer. …No reason was given for the exclusions, which were only revealed on … Continue reading
Dave McCarty’s Facebook page is where some are trying – without success – to get full explanations for the ineligibility rulings in the 2023 Hugo Nomination Report released on January 20. McCarty, a Chengdu Worldcon vice-chair and co-head of the … Continue reading
The 2023 Hugo Award Stats Final report posted today on the official Hugo Awards website revealed that the Chengdu Worldcon’s Hugo award subcommittee made many startling and sometimes unexplained rulings. R. F. Kuang’s novel Babel, winner of the 2023 Nebula and … Continue reading
The official Hugo Awards website posted the 2023 Hugo nomination voting statistics today. Detailed statistics for the nominating and final ballots are available in the 2023 Hugo Award Stats Final PDF file. The document includes several unexplained rulings by the … Continue reading