My weekend got away from me and I didn’t make my final post of how I voted for the remainder of the 2014 Hugo Award categories I hadn’t previously discussed. I did carve out two hours on Sunday afternoon to watch the live streaming of the Hugo Awards ceremony (which streaming went off with hardly a hitch, especially as compared to the Retro Hugo Awards ceremony from last Thursday night).
First, I’ll share the Tweets I retreated from @LonCom3 Twitter feed during the ceremony:
The #HugoAwards are starting any minute now, are you ready? #Loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The following are the retreated Tweets for the categories that matched up with my votes (except for two which I’ll explain later):
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Fan Artist is Sarah Webb. #Loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Fan Writer is Kameron Hurley. #Loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Fancast is SF Signal Podcast by Patrick Hester #loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Fanzine is A Dribble of Ink edited by Aidan Moher #loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The winner of the 2014 #Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine is Lightspeed Magazine – John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Editor – Short Form is @EllenDatlow #loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for BDP Long Form is Gravity #Loncon3 #Worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
The following two awards do not match my votes, but rather my second rank vote for each category:
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Related Work is We Have Always Fought by Kameron Hurley #loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
In the above category (Best Related Work), I voted first for the non-fiction book Wonderbook.
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Novelette is “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal #loncon3 #worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
I voted for Brad Tergerson’s novelette, but again, my second rank vote went to Kowal’s Lady Astronaut entry.
The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Novel is Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie #Loncon3 #Worldcon
— Loncon 3 (@loncon3) August 17, 2014
Final Thoughts
I had a blast voting in the Hugos this year. It was a lot of hard work, a lot of reading, but I love to read, so not that onerous of a task.
Will I attempt this again next year? Absolutely!
For a complete list, including the Final Ballot Details, follow this link to the 2014 Hugo Award Winners post.
I enjoyed reading your thoughts on the Hugo reading. I hope to see you again next year. Indeed, I’m thinking the nomination time might be even more important to me than the reading-the-finalists time, because I will be looking for good things to nominate.
Me too. I’m already making a list of nominations.
I’d be really interested in seeing what you liked, so I can check it out, if I missed it to that point.
Are you referring to what I liked for this year’s awards? Or what I will nominate for next year?