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Historical Hugo Award Analysis
Published on 31 May 2011 at 19:45.
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Over at Tor.com, René Walling has posted an in-depth analysis of the ages of Hugo Award nominees and winners over time. The summary: despite a common perception that the average nominees and winners have been getting older, the numbers seem to say that nominees and winners are about the same age when they win today [...]
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Phil Foglio on Winning a Hugo
Published on 5 Aug 2010 at 08:34.
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Comic creator Phil Foglio will shortly be issuing a compendium edition of volumes #1-#3 of Girl Genius (volume #8 of which won the first ever Best Graphic Novel Hugo Award last year). It is part of a new graphic novel line from specialist SF&F publisher, Tor. Interviewed at Robot 6, Foglio was asked whether winning [...]
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Oscars Copy Hugos
Published on 1 Sep 2009 at 15:32.
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The instant runoff voting system that the Hugo Awards use for their final ballot (often known as an Australian Ballot) has come in for a fair amount of criticism in its time. People complain that it is too complicated and they can’t understand it. However, we have stuck with it, because we believe that it [...]
Thank You, Mr. Ross
Published on 1 Mar 2009 at 07:22.
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Twitter has been buzzing with talk about the Hugo Awards today. No, don’t worry, you haven’t missed the announcement of nominees, we don’t count that quickly. It is because Jonathan Ross tweeted this:
Why is it I love sci-fi but my wife is the one who wins a HUGO Award !!!!
Mr. Ross is well known for [...]