Comments on: Hugo and Campbell Runnerupdom

By: Dave Hutchinson

Dave Hutchinson — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:48:22 +0000

35 nominations? *thinks furiously* I must know 35 people… *begins plotting…*
Dave Langford’s entire house is built of Hugo Awards now, you know? Word.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:27:06 +0000

hugh: Eh, Scalzi knows I’m just kiddin’ with him. The dude’s had an incredible year.

Well, I guess we’ll see if there was an omission from the nominees list. Not that it really makes a difference… Just curious, I suppose.

By: Matt Jarpe

Matt Jarpe — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:51:38 +0000

Those nomination details came out wicked fast compared to most years. I think Torcon is still working on them. A mistake may have slipped in due to the lightning fast response time.

By: Hugo-riffic! at Tobias Buckell Online

Hugo-riffic! at Tobias Buckell Online — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:38:57 +0000

[...] for Hugo Award for novel category. Wow, thank you everyone who nominated me. David Louis Edelman points out: Dude, you got more nominations for the Hugo this year than James Morrow, Robert Heinlein, Gene [...]

By: hugh57

hugh57 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:35:32 +0000

I’m not sure I’m reading the final vote tally grid correctly… but it appears that John Scalzi lost the vote for Best Fan Writer to Dave Langford by a single vote. Man, Scalzi, you can’t do anything right.

Especially since he received 38 nominations for Best Novel, 3 more than needed to get on the final ballot. Problem was, those 38 nominations were split between two books: The Ghost Brigades (23) and The Android’s Dream (15).
BTW, I wouldn’t be surprised if Infoquake and maybe others got dropped from the list by accident. There seems to be a curious drop from 13 nominations (A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario) to 4 nominations (for four different books).