I've been busy, insanely busy.  Work is work, I'll update another time.  We lurch, like all small businesses from crisis to crisis but, assuming we can get through the next 3 weeks, we're looking to be in amazing shape ( Read more... )

http://www.scifiwright.com/2015/08/in-memoriam-of-the-hugo-awards/#more-14485

Please, pretty please.

Brad Torgersen deleted my comments.  I feel unreasonably delighted by this.

(happy dance)

I'll try and assemble my thoughts later.  A lot happened.

However, I would just like to say, Brad Torgersen has completely lost his shit :)

As I'm off to sunny Spokane tomorrow, I'm trying to get the entire week's worth of work done today.  So far so good.  I haven't got the task I set out to do done, but I've ticked off a bunch of other stuff ( Read more... )

I've been keeping an eye on this, as you do.  It does have that grim feeling that people may have had in 1913/14 while the wise heads agreed war was impossible, the events just kept unfurling ( Read more... )

Firstly, my original methodology was a bit wonky, I was working off the published nominations that got more than about 3% of the votes cast.  Unfortunately, not very many years have published details on the number of Unique Works nominated compared to the Ballots.  I have 3 relatively easy to look at ones though.  2009, 2013 and 2014 ( Read more... )

One of the claims the various puppies have made is they're getting more works into consideration for the Hugo Awards...  I thought this was an interesting claim, especially given the effectiveness of a strong slate, so I thought I'd look at the data.  I can only find details back to 2011, anybody who has links to the earlier nomination data, I'd ( Read more... )

Quote of yesterday, for me, was this on File770:

“I’m not a sociopath. As it happens, I’m actually unusually empathetic. I understand your pain. That’s why I gave you the opportunity to back down ( Read more... )

Larry Correia's thread on the Hugo withdrawals:

There's a complete gem in there from "Doug Wardell": http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/15/well-this-sucks-2/

Are you suggesting that you thought everyone who voted the Sad Puppies slate read every work ( Read more... )