This Sunday Ben Wheeler discussed the execrable Hugo nominees while I joined in later to talk about the much more interesting subject of – you guessed it – anime. It was fun! Take a listen:
I only have two questions about this year’s Hugos. Will the Related Works category become a participation award for fanfiction writers and tradpub writers with fanfic? Will Gardner Dozois get a posthumous Hugo, or will the Hugos instead follow after the Nebulas and become a women only award?
A better question would be will the Hugo winners’ combined sales come close to any of the best selling indie SF/F authors? Or at what point will the Worldcon staff exceed the number of nonstaff Worldcon attendees?
I know none of you would ever stoop to doing fact checking, but some other people do it. See how many tens of thousands of owners of Hugo-nominated works there are among Goodreads members, for example — https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3181178.html