https://www.ign.com/articles/hades-makes-history-as-the-first-video-game-to-win-a-hugo-award
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Hello! If anyone's interested, I put together some Sankey diagrams and bump charts from the 2021 Hugo voting results. The Sankey diagrams show how the ranked-choice instant runoffs played out to produce the winners, and the bump charts show how the 1st round ranking (how many first-place votes they got) compares to the final rankings (after the elimination rounds produced the final results).
Personally, I'm a little bit of a voting/election nerd as well as a big SF fan, so I love this aspect of the Hugos. Hope some of you enjoy the diagrams! Full article here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2022/01/08/arb-guide-to-the-21-hugos-results-diagrams/
(Also, if you note the asterisks on a few figures: these were areas where they were small typos in the final public data, but because of how they were presented it was fairly easy to figure out what they were supposed to be.)
Edit: realizing I should have clarified this--the grey votes that drop down to the bottom are not necessarily all "No Award"; they're a mix of "No Award" and "not ranked" (can't quite tell which from the data provided, but generally a lot less No Award than Not Ranked). So the size of those doesn't necessarily mean "hostility" so much as "didn't read/ no opinion".
I just discovered that for the first time ever the Hugo Award (literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works) included a category for Best Video Game and Hades got the prize. It made me happy to see the incredible game that I discovered on this subreddit win such a prize!
https://www.ign.com/articles/hades-makes-history-as-the-first-video-game-to-win-a-hugo-award
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM
The Good Place: Whenever You’re Ready, written and directed by Michael Schur (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group)
Congratulations!
It's been an exhausting and thrilling evening. There's just enough time left at the stroke of midnight to share with you all the feeling from the Hugo Awards tonight at the Washington DC DisCon. We had a large group watching live on the terrace just outside the main hall. We're all new and aspiring SciFi writers, and it was a thrill to be here to celebrate our fellow artists. Some of our reactions from tonight's winners:
- Martha Wells - Wow. well-deserved. Her murderbot series and Network Effect are funny, clever, and incredibly engaging. Not only that - she personally signed all her books available for purchase in the Dealer's Room of the conference!
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune. Nghi Vo's award for best Novella was cheered by our group for its depth of characters and its beautifully rich writing.
- Sarah Pinsker - Best Novelette Two Truths and a Lie was also celebrated by our group... Unsettling and brilliant!
- T. Kingfisher for best short story "Metal Like Blood in the Dark." Among our group, we were very happy to see this win.
- Emily Tesh - Best new writer. Dark queer space opera and other works. Congratulations1
- FIYAH magazine of black speculative fiction - Best Semiprozine. This was welcomed with a HUGE audience reaction! Congrats to this incredible team!
There were too many additional awards tonight to list, but the mood was jubilant and everyone seemed ready to celebrate our art in the face of the never-ending pandemic. It's also notable that Tor.com continues to lead the industry with their authors, and executive editor Lee Harris continues to show his mastery of the craft and domain.
It was a very fun evening, despite delays from an electrical fire in the ballroom several hours earlier. But all went well, and a special shout out to the drumline that performed on stage to kick off the ceremony.
Cheers from Discon III!
How come all the sci-fi novels that won the Hugo Award are amazingly uncreative? Now, I won't say I read any of them. I just read their Wikia and didn't find any original concept in them. Like it's the novelist community is like Hollywood, but at the same time it's a giant circlejerk where stupid ideas get recycled. There's more creativity in my nutsack. If you want me to prove it to you, come to my apartment. I will let you stroke my dick until I can ejaculate my creativity into your mouth so you can fully experience it.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/pdpohe/hugo_award_prediction_algorithm/Methodology explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/pfuf0f/hugo_prediction_model_methodology/
Here are the end-of-November predictions which include a few more data points. Reminder that this is not a list of books I think are deserving of the award, just a formula-based prediction based on a number of indicators.
Novels:
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
- Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Revelator by Daryl Gregory
Martine and Weir are pretty far out in front at this point. Sorrowland is a re-entry and Master of Djinn and Klara and the Sun are both new to the top 6. The most recent Wayfarers book, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within gets bumped off along with Tasha Suri's Jasmine Throne and S. B. Divya's Machinehood. Klara and the Sun is a "literary" novel that has genre cross-over appeal, and it will be interesting to see if it has staying power on the prediction model. One notable change in particular is the removal of TG,ATGW (by a very slim margin) mainly due to its exclusion from the Goodreads Choice Awards. Say what you will about them, they have a very strong correlation with the Hugos. Another interesting consideration is that there are currently three novels written by men on the list, whereas 90% of the finalists in the last 5 years have been written by women or transgender authors. The highest charting by a debut novelist is The Unbroken by C. L. Clark at 10. The database is now up to 195 novels.
Novellas:
- Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
- Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
- Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
- Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
- Paperclip by Seb Doubinsky
This group has a pretty established lead now. The only swap this month is A Spindle Splintered, entering the top 6 for the first time, taking the place of In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu. 52 novellas in the database.
Anything you want to know or would like to see in future posts?
GoF won in 2001. I should have known. It is the best book of the HP series and probably the best book JKR has written. This may have been noted here before and apologies if so.
Listed on Abe Books. I highly recommend this site if you want to buy books.
Hugo Awards site. Note that it beat out A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (book three of A Song of Ice and Fire series...think Game of Thrones).
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/
Just one more day! Even the show getting a nom in the final voting stage is privilege enough. Who else is excited?
She-Ra The Heart Part 1 and 2 are nominated in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. I dunno how Bojack Horseman S6 Ep 15 or any ep from Infinity Train (at most from S3/S4) aren't on the list. But hey, we're there! Huzzah!
(If She-Ra doesn't win in their category I'm rooting for The Good Place. Anyone but Disney, pls. Its already unfair Mando got nominated twice due a director technicality - the two Mando noms aren't directed by the same person)
I suggest we collectively do a rewatch of the finale tomorrow in tribute to the show, regardless of victory or not! We should get the awards ceremony livestreamed too, like the Game Awards 2021.
Stay safe everyone!
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Hello all, this might be a little OT, but I thought some of you might be interested. (Also, apologies if you're already familiar with the Hugo awards.)
The Hugos are awards for science fiction, arguably the most influential/prestigious awards, and voted on by members of WorldCon. They use IRV with a few bells and whistles. I made Sankey diagrams (and bump charts, which show how the nominees would have placed in FPTP vs. IRV) from the results. I'm a science fiction fan, but also a big fan of IRV & related election reform, and the Hugos are a nice, relatively low-stakes thought experiment to show people how IRV works. Anyways, hope you enjoy, full article with lots of infographics here (scroll to the bottom if you just want the charts): https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2022/01/08/arb-guide-to-the-21-hugos-results-diagrams/
celeste was robbed
What do you think could have been nominated?
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Hello! If anyone's interested, I put together some Sankey diagrams and bump charts from the 2021 Hugo voting results. The Sankey diagrams show how the ranked-choice instant runoffs played out to produce the winners, and the bump charts show how the 1st round ranking (how many first-place votes they got) compares to the final rankings (after the elimination rounds produced the final results).
Personally, I'm a little bit of a voting/election nerd as well as a big SF fan, so I love this aspect of the Hugos. Hope some of you enjoy the diagrams! Full article here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2022/01/08/arb-guide-to-the-21-hugos-results-diagrams/
(Also, if you note the asterisks on a few figures: these were areas where they were small typos in the final public data, but because of how they were presented it was fairly easy to figure out what they were supposed to be.)
GoF won in 2001. I should have known. It is the best book of the HP series and probably the best book JKR has written. This may have been noted here before and apologies if so.
Listed on Abe Books. I highly recommend this site if you want to buy books.
Hugo Awards site. Note that it beat out A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (book three of A Song of Ice and Fire series...think Game of Thrones).
