4 Comments on “Last Chance: Hugo Voting”

1. I voted. But I generally didn’t vote in categories where I hadn’t read everything, because that doesn’t seem fair. That said, how are you supposed to vote for “Best Editor (long form)” if you don’t know what they edited? There are a couple other categories of general yearlong quality where I can’t imagine having read enough of them to feel right about voting.

   Maybe I’m being too particular and should just have voted for what I thought was good in every category.

   I did actually make one exception: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. I hadn’t seen the Community episode that was up. Maybe it was SFF, I don’t know. But the key for me was that the BDP-SF nominees weren’t in the Hugo packet, so I just voted based on what I’d seen…which was all the others, so I didn’t feel too bad about it.

2. Just a reminder that every vote does count. The lack of one vote could mean that a favorite author or artist or other nominee might just miss out on getting a nice rocket ship, having it go to someone else. Having not voted in 2007, there was one category that my one vote would have made the difference….

   http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2007%20Final%20Ballot.pdf

   Plus one other category had a two vote difference and another had nine votes.

3. In the category with a two vote difference I listed two nominees below no award. If I had put them in the other order it would have been a tie. So even your fifth choice can be important.

4. Clearly, we need some sort of scarf or tapestry to commemorate the occasion. Anyone into a little Hugo Weaving?