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That sure was a month in which many things happened!
Some of them I'm even legally allowed to talk about!
So, if it weren't such a really really terrible idea for so many many reasons (it is such a terrible idea for so many many reasons) and you were going to nominate an AO3 fanfic for the Best Novel Hugo award next year, what would you nominate?
It would have to be, by the rules:
-50000 words or more
-Published (or, if published serially, finished) in 2019
-Science fiction or fantasy
There are approximately 15,000* stories on the archive that meet those qualifications!
And, preferably, really really good, both if read without knowing the canon or fandom (so it has a chance of winning) and as fanfic (because you don't want to nominate bad fanfic right?)
(nooo, this is totally not me just begging for longfic recs. Nope.)
(I finally read ,Freeport! It took me a week. And I made a spotify playlist of the songs. It is just as good as reputed! And it works for someone who doesn't know the fandom. And it works well as SF (the SF worldbuilding is AMAZING) and as fanfic (the worldbuilding works best if read as a wish-fulfillment fantasy within the context of slash fic.) But it is not published in 2019.)
*Which is really mind-boggling in context of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
elf's post comparing the ~250 *total* works eligible for the Best Novel Hugo in 1965 to today's nomination pools, and what that means about how the meaning of the award has to change.
Some of them I'm even legally allowed to talk about!
So, if it weren't such a really really terrible idea for so many many reasons (it is such a terrible idea for so many many reasons) and you were going to nominate an AO3 fanfic for the Best Novel Hugo award next year, what would you nominate?
It would have to be, by the rules:
-50000 words or more
-Published (or, if published serially, finished) in 2019
-Science fiction or fantasy
There are approximately 15,000* stories on the archive that meet those qualifications!
And, preferably, really really good, both if read without knowing the canon or fandom (so it has a chance of winning) and as fanfic (because you don't want to nominate bad fanfic right?)
(nooo, this is totally not me just begging for longfic recs. Nope.)
(I finally read ,Freeport! It took me a week. And I made a spotify playlist of the songs. It is just as good as reputed! And it works for someone who doesn't know the fandom. And it works well as SF (the SF worldbuilding is AMAZING) and as fanfic (the worldbuilding works best if read as a wish-fulfillment fantasy within the context of slash fic.) But it is not published in 2019.)
*Which is really mind-boggling in context of
elf's post comparing the ~250 *total* works eligible for the Best Novel Hugo in 1965 to today's nomination pools, and what that means about how the meaning of the award has to change.