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July 18th, 2015 10:42 am - More Hugo voting thoughts!
I'm trying to squeeze these in because I leave for Pennsic War in a week and thus have to vote by then, so expect a post a day or so, and me maybe not leaving long comments as much as I'd like. Also I should have disclaimered this on my previous post: these aren't reviews; I'm aiming them at an audience of other people who know the works, so assume there are spoilers, possible triggers, and things that aren't explained well if you don't know the works in question. Also I am being much harsher than I would in a review, because I'm judging them against not just "was it something I'd recommend" but "does it stack up against My Platonic Ideal Hugo Winner" (which is probably something like what you'd get if you averaged the '67-'71 winners but then add in all the ways the genre & society have improved since then.) Which is a patently unfair standard but that's what you're here for, right.

Anyway let's knock out a few more categories:

Best Novella - All puppy, no award

Best Novelette: 1 nominee
The Day The World Turned Upside Down )

Best Short Story
All puppy, no award.

Best Related Work
All puppy, No Award

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
These are all episodes from shows I am either not watching or Emphatically Not Watching, so I don't think it's fair for me to even try to vote this category. (I'm tempted to vote for the Orphan Black one sight unseen because that seems like a great show and it would be an anti-vote for Moffat, but that would probably be a misuse of my vote. Alternatively if someone can point me to an easy free way to watch it online I could watch it while folding laundry tonight and at least have a vague idea even if not really enough context to judge.)

Does anyone know if there's a good way to put certain works under No Award but others under No Vote? Like, I would like to be able to say "Vote for Work A, no opinion on Work B, no award in preference to anything else." I don't think that's doable, though? If you're using No Award, everything that doesn't get a positive vote is counted as under No Award whether you list it or not, right? Which means for this category I'm going to have to decide whether to leave it blank or vote Orphan Black just so I can get in the No Awards for the puppies. (I'm leaning toward blank.)

Fandom, we need to nom some stuff for this category that isn't Episodes Of TV Dramas. There are plenty of glorious animated shorts out there, to start with, plus fanfilms and fanvids: stuff where it would really matter if someone won a Hugo for it. not to mention Homestuck flashes and Steven Universe

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