So, here are the Hugo finalists:
BEST NOVEL
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- RABID PUPPY PICK: The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik
BEST NOVELLA
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- RABID PUPPY PICK: The Builders by Daniel Polansky
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds
BEST NOVELETTE
- “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed)
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Flashpoint: Titan” by Cheah Kai Wai
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (Uncanny Magazine)
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Obits” by Stephen King
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “What Price Humanity?” by David VanDyke
BEST SHORT STORY
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Asymmetrical Warfare” by S. Algernon
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “The Commuter” by Thomas Mays (declined nomination)
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “If You Were an Award, My Love” by Juan Tabo and S. Harris
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Seven Kill Tiger” by Charles Shao
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” by Chuck Tingle
BEST RELATED WORK
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986 by Marc Aramini
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “The First Draft of My Appendix N Book” by Jeffro Johnson
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “Safe Space as Rape Room” by Daniel Eness
- RABID PUPPY PICK: SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police by Vox Day
- RABID PUPPY PICK: “The Story of Moira Greyland” by Moira Greyland
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
- RABID PUPPY PICK: The Divine by Boaz Lavie / Asaf Hanuka / Tomer Hanuka
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Erin Dies Alone by Grey Carter / Cory Rydell
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Invisible Republic Vol 1 by Corinna Bechko / Gabriel Hardman
- RABID PUPPY PICK: The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman / J.H. Williams III
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM)
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Ex Machina
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- RABID PUPPY PICK: The Martian
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)
- Doctor Who: “Heaven Sent”
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Grimm: “Headache”
- Jessica Jones: “AKA Smile”
- RABID PUPPY PICK: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: “The Cutie Map”
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Supernatural: “Just My Imagination”
BEST EDITOR ‐ SHORT FORM
- John Joseph Adams
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Jerry Pournelle
- Sheila Williams
BEST EDITOR ‐ LONG FORM
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Vox Day
- Sheila E. Gilbert
- Liz Gorinsky
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Jim Minz
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Toni Weisskopf
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Lars Braad Andersen
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Larry Elmore
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Abigail Larson
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Michal Karcz
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Larry Rostant
BEST SEMIPROZINE
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Daily Science Fiction
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Sci Phi Journal
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Strange Horizons
- Uncanny Magazine
BEST FANZINE
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Black Gate edited by John O’Neill
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Castalia House Blog edited by Jeffro Johnson
- RABID PUPPY PICK: File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Superversive SF edited by Jason Rennie
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Tangent Online edited by Dave Truesdale
BEST FANCAST
- RABID PUPPY PICK: 8‐4 Play
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Cane and Rinse
- RABID PUPPY PICK: HelloGreedo
- RABID PUPPY PICK: The Rageaholic
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Tales to Terrify
BEST FAN WRITER
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Douglas Ernst
- Mike Glyer
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Morgan Holmes
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Jeffro Johnson
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Shamus Young
BEST FAN ARTIST
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Matthew Callahan
- RABID PUPPY PICK: disse86
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Kukuruyo
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Christian Quinot
- Steve Stiles
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Pierce Brown
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Sebastien de Castell
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Brian Niemeier
- RABID PUPPY PICK: Andy Weir
- Alyssa Wong
As we see, the shortlist got taken over pretty badly by the Rabid Puppy campaign put together by the Hugo-nominated short story writer and editor Thedore Beala aka Vox Day — who also just became a Hugo-nominated Related Work author (I can sense him updating his CV right now).
In case you don’t want to support any finalists suggested by this sexist and white supremacist dick (and who would), you should fill your voting ballot so that you put those finalists in your preferred order below the No Award option. No Awarding all the puppy finalists was what everyone (not me, though) did last year, and all sorts of mean dudes were upset afterwards, so maybe it worked that time.
But — and here’s the problem — many things on the Rabid Puppies slate this year are quite good and have nothing whatsoever to do with Theodore Beale. There’s silly crap up there as well, but some are worthy finalists which might well have gotten on the shortlist also without Beale’s help.
Off the top of my head, I would say that this includes at least the new writer Andy Weir, the fan artist Matthew Callahan, the fanzine File 770, the semiprozines Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction and Strange Horizons, the graphic novel Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III, the novelettes “Obits” by Steven King and “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, the novellas Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds and Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold, and the novel Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
I nominated a couple of these myself, so I won’t be happy if everything goes below no award this time. So, how about just no awarding the shit and ignoring the troll’s trolling?
Also:
https://twitter.com/SFReviewsnet/status/725021813508444160
And, lastly:
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Missing a group of puppies, here’s the actual “Puppy free slate”
BEST NOVEL
SAD PUPPY PICK: Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
SAD PUPPY PICK: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
BEST NOVELLA
SAD PUPPY PICK: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: The Builders by Daniel Polansky
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds
BEST NOVELETTE
SAD PUPPY PICK: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed)
RABID PUPPY PICK: “Flashpoint: Titan” by Cheah Kai Wai
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (Uncanny Magazine)
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: “Obits” by Stephen King
RABID PUPPY PICK: “What Price Humanity?” by David VanDyke
BEST SHORT STORY
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: “Asymmetrical Warfare” by S. Algernon
RABID PUPPY PICK: “The Commuter” by Thomas Mays
RABID PUPPY PICK: “If You Were an Award, My Love” by Juan Tabo and S. Harris
RABID PUPPY PICK: “Seven Kill Tiger” by Charles Shao
RABID PUPPY PICK: “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” by Chuck Tingle
BEST RELATED WORK
RABID PUPPY PICK: Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986 by Marc Aramini
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: “The First Draft of My Appendix N Book” by Jeffro Johnson
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: “Safe Space as Rape Room” by Daniel Eness
RABID PUPPY PICK: SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police by Vox Day
RABID PUPPY PICK: “The Story of Moira Greyland” by Moira Greyland
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
RABID PUPPY PICK: The Divine by Boaz Lavie / Asaf Hanuka / Tomer Hanuka
RABID PUPPY PICK: Erin Dies Alone by Grey Carter / Cory Rydell
RABID PUPPY PICK: Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams
RABID PUPPY PICK: Invisible Republic Vol 1 by Corinna Bechko / Gabriel Hardman
RABID PUPPY PICK: The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman / J.H. Williams III
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM)
RABID PUPPY PICK: Avengers: Age of Ultron
SAD PUPPY PICK: Ex Machina
SAD PUPPY PICK: Mad Max: Fury Road
RABID PUPPY PICK: The Martian
SAD PUPPY PICK: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)
SAD PUPPY PICK: Doctor Who: “Heaven Sent”
RABID PUPPY PICK: Grimm: “Headache”
Jessica Jones: “AKA Smile”
RABID PUPPY PICK: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: “The Cutie Map”
RABID PUPPY PICK: Supernatural: “Just My Imagination”
BEST EDITOR ‐ SHORT FORM
SAD PUPPY PICK: John Joseph Adams
Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Jerry Pournelle
Sheila Williams
BEST EDITOR ‐ LONG FORM
RABID PUPPY PICK: Vox Day
Sheila E. Gilbert
Liz Gorinsky
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Jim Minz
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Toni Weisskopf
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
RABID PUPPY PICK: Lars Braad Andersen
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Larry Elmore
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Abigail Larson
RABID PUPPY PICK: Michal Karcz
RABID PUPPY PICK: Larry Rostant
BEST SEMIPROZINE
RABID PUPPY PICK: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
RABID PUPPY PICK: Daily Science Fiction
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Sci Phi Journal
RABID PUPPY PICK: Strange Horizons
Uncanny Magazine
BEST FANZINE
RABID PUPPY PICK: Black Gate edited by John O’Neill
RABID PUPPY PICK: Castalia House Blog edited by Jeffro Johnson
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Superversive SF edited by Jason Rennie
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Tangent Online edited by Dave Truesdale
BEST FANCAST
RABID PUPPY PICK: 8‐4 Play
RABID PUPPY PICK: Cane and Rinse
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: HelloGreedo
RABID PUPPY PICK: The Rageaholic
RABID PUPPY PICK: Tales to Terrify
BEST FAN WRITER
RABID PUPPY PICK: Douglas Ernst
SAD PUPPY PICK: Mike Glyer
RABID PUPPY PICK: Morgan Holmes
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Jeffro Johnson
RABID PUPPY PICK: Shamus Young
BEST FAN ARTIST
RABID PUPPY PICK: Matthew Callahan
RABID PUPPY PICK: disse86
RABID PUPPY PICK: Kukuruyo
RABID PUPPY PICK: Christian Quinot
Steve Stiles
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
RABID PUPPY PICK: Pierce Brown
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Sebastien de Castell
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Brian Niemeier
BOTH PUPPIES PICK: Andy Weir
SAD PUPPY PICK: Alyssa Wong
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Sad Puppied wasn’t a real slate this year, so I didn’t want to lump it together with the Rabids.
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By all means, keep up the “No Award” push. I was a Sad Puppy last year, this one I went solid Rabid, because “burn it down” is a game for the whole family.
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Congratulations, you managed to burn down the Best Related Work category. Gaiman is going to get his fifth Hugo and I’m fairly sure there aren’t as many No Awards as last year. Next year, the rule change is going to take care of the former disco musician’s silly antics.
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What makes these works/authors rabid puppies and still not associated with Beale? Doesn’t being involved with the campaign make them at least tangentially related to him? Not trying to be inflammatory here, I’m actually curious because I’m coming to this entire thing relatively late.
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As far as I know, Beale put these works on his slate without the finalists’ consent, so associating them with the dude is problematic. Or did I understand your question?
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Nope, you answered my question perfectly. I get it now.
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“The Commuter” by Thomas Mays has been withdrawn by the author who did not want his work be considered in a category that is only a hate slate.
I agree the Sad Puppies were not a slate and were open to all to nominate this year. I seemed to be the deciding vote in getting Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie as their tenth pick this year.
I also agree that only No Awarding the crap and not the whole process or a whole category with worthy nominees is the proper response.
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Yeah, Mays declined. I wonder what (if anything) is going to replace it.
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I’d like to say that I’m not a puppy, kitten or animal analogue of any sort. Writing a story for Jerry Pournelle’s There Will Be War anthology was an opportunity to contribute to that excellent body of work, not some kind of socio-political statement. I was pleasantly surprised to be nominated and have no illusions that I am likely to win a Hugo against such as Stephen King, but I hope everyone votes based on the merits of the stories rather than on who nominated them.
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Thanks for the comment, David! I’ll read your story to see if I like it. Military stuff is not really my cup of tea, but we’ll see.
Out of curiosity: What do you think of the Rabid Puppies campaign and the Hugo Wars yourself?
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I’ll take the fifth on all that.
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Last year it was mostly the Dramatic Presentation categories that had nominees that were mainstream but also Puppy picks. It didn’t get mentioned a lot, but one Puppy pick did get a Hugo last year: Guardians of the Galaxy. (It was also a wonderful movie that was a sure pick for the ballot with or without canine assistance.)
This year it spread more thoroughly to the Novel, Novella, and Editor categories, as well as continuing in the Dramatic Presentations. I hope the voters will reward the worthy things on the ballot, whether or not the Puppies mentioned them.
One of the nominees, My Little Pony, first came to my attention because it was a Rabid Puppy pick.. but I watched it and it’s very much dystopian speculative fiction and a worthy nominee. It’s also the only one of the five that was on my nominating ballot, so I might even vote for it. My nominees included the final season 3 episode of The 100, the pilot of iZOMBiE, and Sanjay’s Super Team; I don’t remember right now what the fifth one was.
And just like last year’s Guardians, The Martian was a sure thing for the ballot. (I nominated it.) It might even win; I suspect it’s between that and Star Wars VII. My nominating ballot included Sense8 and The Man In The High Castle, but those may not have been popular choice because some voters nominated individual episodes for Short Form instead, and because many non-US viewers have not yet had the opportunity to see them. I nominate traditional series episodes – shows where the episodes come out one a week or the like – as individuals, but shows where all the episodes drop at once as a single Long Form work because I expect most viewers to binge watch them in a short time period, and thus they are better considered as a whole.
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