{"id":766,"date":"2011-07-29T18:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=766"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:14:17","slug":"hugo-awards-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/hugo-awards-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have voted on them. This is the first year I’ve managed to read a lot of the works up for the awards and thus felt good about judging the categories.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to detail some of the categories. Some I will.<\/p>\n

I put “Feed” by Mira Grant in the number one slot for Best Novel and I felt her vision, clarity, and sheer pizzazz carried it by a wide margin.\u00a0\u00a0The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin came in second. Not much to say about the others. They were all good books.<\/p>\n

I wanted to punch Connie Willis in the face when I got to the end of Blackout, or rather, the non-ending that tailed off that side of the book. But I understand that’s her publisher’s fault for splitting the book at the last minute rather than her own. That’s the rumor I heard anyway. I’ll go with it because punching old ladies in the face isn’t really an option.<\/p>\n

For Best Novella I tapped\u00a0“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen\u2019s Window” by Rachel Swirsky because it was awesome, sweeping, and painted so concretely for me that I feel like I was there. Again, all the entries were fine, fine stories, a few nearly as good as Red Flowers.<\/p>\n

Best Novelette, went to\u00a0“That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone because it struck so close to home for me. I can’t truly occupy any viewpoint but my own and Eric sits right next door. The story spoke to me and he’s a brave man for bringing religion into it. Bravo, sir.<\/p>\n

Short Story totted up in favor of\u00a0“For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal \u00a0very closely followed by\u00a0“Ponies” by Kij Johnson. Nail stands on its own, Ponies may take a bit of explaining. It’s one of those stories that could be brushed aside as merely shocking for shock’s sake if it wasn’t so horribly resonant with my own experience of the world. Let us not be the bully ponies in our own lives…<\/p>\n

Big fan of Writing Excuses and Schlock Mercenary, no surprise there.<\/p>\n

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form I gave to Inception, followed by Toy Story 3. I put Scott Pilgrim at the bottom because I wasn’t equipped to appreciate it. I’ve never lived the shallow bachelor life, sometimes to my regret but not very often, and the characters all fell flat for me for, probably, that reason.<\/p>\n

I voted on a couple other categories \u00a0but my reasons are shady and kind of blurry so we’ll leave those alone.<\/p>\n

Best new Writer? I’m friends with two of the nominees so I’m not saying who took 1 and who took 2. One of them is liable to shoot me from more than 300 yards out and the other just might bury me alive in his backyard. I don’t need that kind of pressure.<\/p>\n

Next stop Worldcon! Kind of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have voted on them. This is the first year I’ve managed to read a lot of the works up for the awards and thus felt good about judging the categories. I’m not going to detail some of the categories. Some I will. I put “Feed” by Mira Grant in the number one slot for … Continue reading Hugo Awards 2011<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,9,15,19,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-funny","category-hubris","category-movies","category-scientifiction","category-storytelling","category-web-comics","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}