2015 Hugo fiction: How bloggers are voting

[nwhyte]

For three of the last four years, I carried out a survey of how bloggers were planning to vote in the Hugos. Last year this proved a fairly effective methodology, calling Best Novel and Best Short Story correctly and pinging the actual winners as front-runners for Best Novella and Best Novelette. In 2013 two winners were clear and two were missed (

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[livejournal]

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[nwhyte]

Alas, I fear that the competition was not intense!

[nwhyte]

Cheers, Lisa - if you can send me a link (or links) I'll update the post.

[ljgoldstein]

Here it is -- the last paragraph of the post.

http://theinferior4.livejournal.com/985103.html

[ljgoldstein]

And somehow I managed to delete my first comment -- I have no idea how I did that. If you can un-delete it, that would be great.

[realtegan]

For Short Story you can count me as a "No Award" as well. It took me a couple more days to decide, but I posted the decision here: http://realtegan.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-did-i-do.html

[nwhyte]

OK, adding that!

[vik_thor]

Does anyone else find it interesting that Mr. Day voted one of the 2 from his slate as #4? (I finally gave up on finishing The Dark Between the Stars a couple days ago… after attempting to get it read for about a month, I didn't get quite halfway through. [Checked copy out of the library, renewed it once, finally returned it on the 2nd due date, and tried reading the Hugo Packet copy on my Kindle… still wasn't able to make it to the 50% point.]) I've moved on to Goblin Emperor, which is MUCH more enjoyable so far.

Personally, No Award and Dark are about tied in my mind, for 4th/5th. Still need to read Mr. Butcher's book, but can't see it being worse than Dark.

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[buddhistmind]

I've got a question: does how bloggers are voting have any importance?

[nwhyte]

I dunno, I just work here.