DragonCon Awards
Aug. 11th, 2016 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribThe various factions of Puppies told us that Worldcon and the Hugo awards were "elitist" and "not what real fans read." We were assured that all sorts of stuff that "small f fans liked" weren't on the ballot. (Note, those are not scare quotes but actual, somebody-said-that quotes.) If only DragonCon or San Diego ComicCon would do an award, well, we'd see the real truth.
So, DragonCon just started an award. Anybody could vote, so I did. After a nomination period in which everybody could nominate one work per category, now we've got a final ballot. Here's part of the list:
Best Science Fiction Novel
The Life Engineered by J-F Dubeau
Agent of the Imperium by Marc Miller
Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon
Somewhither: A Tale of the Unwitheriing Realm by John C. Wright
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Two of the works (Gannon and Leckie) were on the Nebula final list. Leckie's on the Hugo list, and Kim Stanley Robinson's no stranger to either list. The list is not without Puppie-dom, however. The first two works listed are self-published, and Somewhither is Castilia House.
Skimming down the rest of the list, the fiction categories seem to be reasonably well-salted with the same sort of stuff that we see in Hugo and Nebula voting. Now, since we can only vote for one per category, we'll see what gets the final nod. So far, color me unimpressed.
So, DragonCon just started an award. Anybody could vote, so I did. After a nomination period in which everybody could nominate one work per category, now we've got a final ballot. Here's part of the list:
Best Science Fiction Novel
The Life Engineered by J-F Dubeau
Agent of the Imperium by Marc Miller
Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon
Somewhither: A Tale of the Unwitheriing Realm by John C. Wright
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Two of the works (Gannon and Leckie) were on the Nebula final list. Leckie's on the Hugo list, and Kim Stanley Robinson's no stranger to either list. The list is not without Puppie-dom, however. The first two works listed are self-published, and Somewhither is Castilia House.
Skimming down the rest of the list, the fiction categories seem to be reasonably well-salted with the same sort of stuff that we see in Hugo and Nebula voting. Now, since we can only vote for one per category, we'll see what gets the final nod. So far, color me unimpressed.
