by Heather Rose Jones
(This is a serialized article exploring the history of the Best Related Work Hugo category in its various names and versions. If you’ve come in at the middle, start here.)
Contents
Part 2: Methodology
2.3 Data and Eligibility
2.3.1 Data Sources and Available Data
by Heather Rose Jones
(This is a serialized article exploring the history of the Best Related Work Hugo category in its various names and versions. If you’ve come in at the middle, start here.)
Contents
Part 2: Methodology
2.2 Overlapping Categories
2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Fancast
by Heather Rose Jones
(This is a serialized article exploring the history of the Best Related Work Hugo category in its various names and versions. If you’ve come in at the middle, start here.)
Contents
Part 2: Methodology
2.1 Administrative History
2.1.1 Introduction
2.1.2 Summary Timeline
by Heather Rose Jones
(This is a serialized article exploring the history of the Best Related Work Hugo category in its various names and versions.)
Contents
Part 1: Background
1.1 Author’s Preface
1.2 Introduction and Definitions
1.3 Prior Analyses
Part 1: Background
I have a hard time splitting my attention sufficiently to blog during a convention -- I often barely remember to post on social media. But now that it's Monday and I'm having breakfast in my hotel room with a couple hours before I need to be at the train station to go home, let's see if I can remember enough details.
Planning to be at Seattle Worldcon? Want to know what I'm doing there? Check out my schedule!
After the flurry of postings in the last month, I'm taking a brief break for the holiday weekend. In fact, the "On the Shelf" podcast episode will be delayed probably until Tuesday, since I'm not going to try to record it in a hotel room. (I'm currently at BayCon/Westercon.) If you're at the con, make sure to find me and say hi.
The Hugo Award finalists were just annouced, so I can finally go public. In the category of Best Related Work, the essay "Charting the Cliff: An Investigation Into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics" by Camestros Felapton and Heather Rose Jones received enough nominations to be on the final Hugo Awards ballot.
More details to come.
The recent announcement from the Glasgow Worldcon committee about some unexpected patterns in Hugo voting ballots, the conclusions made about those patterns, and the actions taken in response, have naturally raised interest in the nomination process for this year. As readers may remember, both the nomination process and voting process in 2023 had clear anomalies that cast severe doubt on the validity of the outcome and generated a great deal of concern among the SFF community.
