Seli Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I assume the Rand, Day, Correia and presumably Torgersen nominations are all a result of the same group of voters. I hope they enjoy the mind-blowing fact it was never 'liberal publishing' that has kept them from awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edda van Heefmstra Ruston Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Warbound is one of the (no shit) Grimnoir Chronicles. I have a feeling that name isn't used satirically, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angalin Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Looking at the full list on Tor's site: I don't read nearly as much sff as most of you, but none of these speak to me in any way except Picacio's nomination (yay John!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seli Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 On a positive note, I love, love the fanwriter category. Love the new additions to fancast, although some more new blood would have been nice I don't know who should have been kicked out. Interesting developments in fanzine, with only one 'tradional' zine remaining if I see things correctly. Semi-pro is nice, artist has some variety, I like the editor lists as well (oh, likely add Toni Weisskopf (Baen) to the campaigned list, although perhaps more deservedly). And related work is nice as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I'm surprised Ocean at the End of the Lane was not nominated and, again, Wert is robbed for "Fanwriter". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I'm surprised Ocean at the End of the Lane was not nominated and, again, Wert is robbed for "Fanwriter". I believe that Gaiman turned down a nomination for Ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Wert is robbed for "Fanwriter". I don't think I talk enough about genre issues as opposed to doing reviews to get enough traction. Plus I gave Redshirts a medicore review, so the Scalzi crowd probably boycott me ;) And, more to the point, those fanwriters who got nominated are all pretty damn good. I'll probably go with ADoI but the rest are all pretty deserving, even the ones I disagree with half the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of Godsgrace Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I believe that Gaiman turned down a nomination for Ocean. A pity, since he would probably be a shoo-in. I wonder, was it because of Ross affair? Frankly, I also expected to see him in a novelette. category for The Sleeper and the Spindle. Still, five my nominees made it this year compared to only one previous year (and no, none of them was on Correia's list), so I am not going to complain too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edda van Heefmstra Ruston Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 It could be in part because of that. But he's also declined nomination before, so the reasons he gave then might still apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I expected more British nominees, BTW. But in the short fiction and novel categories there are only 2, unless I am missing someone. *edit* So it seems that some of the nominees got there mostly because Larry Correia and Vox Day asked on their blogs for people to vote for them - see here for details - http://radishreviews.com/2014/04/19/obligatory-hugo-nomination-reaction-post/ . I wondered how a novella by a horror writer I've never heard of, published by a published I've never head of, got there...This explains it. That's quite pathetic, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 You'd think this would be the year for Reynolds or Christopher Priest, though I guess Reynolds does only have a middle-book-of-trilogy out, but I expected The Adjacent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 You'd think this would be the year for Reynolds or Christopher Priest, though I guess Reynolds does only have a middle-book-of-trilogy out, but I expected The Adjacent. The Adjacent is way too "highbrow" and "experimental" for most of the voters in the Novel category. At least judging by the nominees in the last 5-6 years. Plus it was only published this month in the US, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgambino Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I actually like Larry Corriea's Monster Hunter books. They're like the summer, popcorn blockbuster version of Urban Fantasy. Totally fluff though, not that there isn't a place for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of Godsgrace Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I actually like Larry Corriea's Monster Hunter books. They're like the summer, popcorn blockbuster version of Urban Fantasy. Totally fluff though, not that there isn't a place for that. Yeah, I agree. Totally guilty pleasure type of reading, but still better than Mira Grant, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Mostly complete shit. Not suprised. Parasite? i mean...how...what... I don't even have words. Edit: I bet Parasite wins, too. Watch. The end times are come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I don't get Parasite either. I mean it wasn't even a reasonably entertaining guilty pleasure like the other Seanan/Mira books I've read (which I wouldn't nominate either, but don't regret reading), it was just boring and the plot was total nonsense with so many huge holes that my suspension of disbelief was totally destroyed. It also has a main character who completely lost her memory 6 years ago and had to learn everything from scratch, but still behaves exactly the same as a normal 20 year old. If the voters love Seanan/More so much, they should've nominated Midnight Blue-Light Special, not that it was all that good, but at least the plot mostly made sense and it was much funnier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdDrake Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I Read the Hugo Noms And I Must Scream The Hugos continue to disappoint. Saw about 10 movies last year and Iron Man 3 was easily the worst of them all. A noisy, childish mess of a film....nominated for a Hugo. Way to keep the genre in the gutter, people. Brandon Sanderson is a very nice man so it pains me to say this, but WoT being nominated is a bunch of hooey. It's the exploitation of a loophole. The fact that not a single one of the 14 individual novels in the series were strong enough to garner even a nomination should say it all. Are the Nebulas and other genre awards subject to similar silliness? On the bright side, no Scalzi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 All genre awards are pretty much crap. Hell, awards are crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Was The Hobbit actually not nominated? That's just....obscene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I don't get Parasite either. I mean it wasn't even a reasonably entertaining guilty pleasure like the other Seanan/Mira books I've read (which I wouldn't nominate either, but don't regret reading), it was just boring and the plot was total nonsense with so many huge holes that my suspension of disbelief was totally destroyed. It also has a main character who completely lost her memory 6 years ago and had to learn everything from scratch, but still behaves exactly the same as a normal 20 year old. If the voters love Seanan/More so much, they should've nominated Midnight Blue-Light Special, not that it was all that good, but at least the plot mostly made sense and it was much funnier.She has a huge lj following. Not sure how, but I'm am always disappointed that the award goes her way. Seems to cheapen the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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