{"id":8132,"date":"2023-04-02T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2023-04-01T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:48:25","slug":"hugo-nominations-open-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2023\/04\/02\/hugo-nominations-open-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Nominations Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s World Science Fiction Convention (the 81st) is happening in Chengdu, China, from October 18-22.<\/p>\n

That’s later than usual.\u00a0\u00a0 Nominations for the Hugo Awards opened later as well, but they DID<\/strong> open on March 1.\u00a0 They will close April 30, so you have a month and change left to nominate your favorite books, stories, fanzines, writers, TV shows, and movies from last year.\u00a0\u00a0 That is, assuming you hold a membership in the Chengdu worldcon.\u00a0\u00a0 Both attending and supporting members are eligible to nominate, so you don’t actually need to be planning on a trip to China to take part.<\/p>\n

If you are eligible to nominate, I urge you to do so.\u00a0\u00a0 The Hugo Awards are our field’s oldest and most prestigious awards… and they are a FAN<\/em> award, given by readers and viewers, not by a jury.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a huge honor to win one… and a proud and noble thing to lose one too.\u00a0\u00a0 I speak from experience.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve won a few, and lost a lot more, even helped found the Hugo Losers Party with the late great Gardner Dozois.<\/p>\n

It has been a few years since I last did one of these “eligibility posts” that have become so common in the past decade or so.\u00a0\u00a0 In large part, that’s because I did not put out anything that was eligible… aside from various Wild Cards stories and books, which qualified me in the “Editor – Short Form” category.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That’s true for 2022 as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FULL HOUSE, a hardcover collection of Wild Cards stories from Tor.com, came out in mid-year, and a number of older volumes in the series were reprinted in trade paperback and mass market.\u00a0\u00a0 We also released the American edition of THREE KINGS, a Wild Cards mosaic novel edited by Melinda M. Snodgrass, so she is eligible in Editor as well.<\/p>\n

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I might also mention that Tor.com featured two more Wild Cards originals during the year:<\/p>\n

GROW, by Carrie Vaughn https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2022\/07\/20\/grow-carrie-vaughn\/<\/a><\/p>\n

HEARTS OF STONE, by Emma Newman https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2022\/05\/18\/hearts-of-stone-emma-newman\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Lovely stories both, and they are also eligible for nomination.\u00a0 You can read them — for FREE — at the links above.<\/p>\n

Editing was not all I did in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0 I also did some work in television as an executive producer and co-creator of a new series on HBO.\u00a0\u00a0 You may have heard of it.\u00a0\u00a0 It was called HOUSE OF THE DRAGON.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The series debuted in August and ran until late October, making it eligible for nomination in either of the two Dramatic Presentation categories in the Hugo Awards.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Either… but not both.\u00a0\u00a0 The rules there are a little complex.\u00a0\u00a0 Fans can nominate the show in both Short Form and Long Form, but it won’t appear on the ballot in both categories; if a series gets enough votes in both categories, one has to make a choice.\u00a0\u00a0 (This happened to GAME OF THRONES<\/em> twice, as it happens).<\/p>\n

The entire first season — ten episodes, each approximately one hour long — can be nominated in Long Form, where it will compete against the year’s biggest movies (or possibly seasons of other TV shows).\u00a0\u00a0 The first season of GAME OF THRONES<\/em> was nominated in Long Form.<\/p>\n

The usual category for television shows is Short Form, however; there it is individual episodes<\/em> that are nominated, not entire seasons or the show as a whole.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It helps to know the titles of the episodes if you want to nominate your favorites.<\/p>\n

Here the first season episodes of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON<\/em>:<\/p>\n

101\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Heirs of the Dragon
\n102\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Rogue Prince
\n103\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Second of His Name
\n104\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 King of the Narrow Sea
\n105\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We Light the Way
\n106\u00a0\u00a0 The Princess and the Queen
\n107\u00a0\u00a0 Driftmark
\n108\u00a0 The Lord of the Tides
\n109\u00a0 The Green Council
\n110\u00a0 The Black Queen<\/p>\n

You can nominate as many episodes of a series as you like… but these days, only three will make the ballot.\u00a0\u00a0 (In decades past, there were years when a popular series would completely fill the ballot, but that’s not allowed any longer).\u00a0\u00a0 All the listed episodes were first televised in 2022, so they are all eligible.<\/p>\n

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON<\/em> was adapted from portions of FIRE & BLOOD<\/em>, Archmaester Gyldayn’s history of the Targaryen dynasty from Aegon’s Conquest to the regency of Aegon III. \u00a0\u00a0 Unlike the various volumes of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, FIRE & BLOOD\u00a0<\/em>was not a novel, but rather an imaginary history. \u00a0 Though it is still in print, it was first published in 2018, and is not eligible for a Hugo. \u00a0 However, in November 2022, my publishers on both sides of the Atlantic released RISE OF THE DRAGON.<\/em><\/p>\n

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RISE<\/em>, if anything, is even harder to categorize than FIRE & BLOOD<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Definitely not a novel, it covers the same period and the same events as Archmaester Glydayn’s history, but in far less detail.\u00a0 Elio M. Garcia Jr. and Linda Antonsson of the Westeros website did the abridgement.\u00a0\u00a0 The text is only a small part of the book, however.\u00a0\u00a0 RISE OF THE DRAGON<\/em> is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table sized volume featuring 150 original paintings by fantasy artists from all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Myself, I think it is gorgeous, but then, I am hardly objective.<\/p>\n

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The Hugo Awards have no category for art books, and RISE<\/em> does not fit in novel… so if you would like to nominate it, the appropriate category would be RELATED WORK<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That’s a bit of a grab bag category that in the past has included not only art books, but critical studies, biographies, speeches, memoirs, and… ah… other, stranger stuff.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, though, you should nominate\u00a0 what you love best.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s what gives the Hugo its meaning.<\/p>\n

Nominations close APRIL 30.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And remember, only worldcon members can cast a ballot.<\/p>\n

The rocket rules.<\/p>\n

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