More Hugo Business

In case you haven't already seen it, here's the full text of our Hugo acceptance speech and some pictures of spindizzy and justira on stage and at the party afterward.

Some other Hugo stuff I've been hearing buzz about:

• One of the big stories of the night was Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award win and powerful speech. The text of the speech as written is here, but it's well worth watching the video, both for her delivery and to see "the hat thing" in action. Naturally, there has been a great deal of virtual ink spilled on her description of John Campbell as a fascist; there are many good takes on this, but one of the most informative to me was this Twitter thread on how Campbell was viewed by his contemporaries.

• Another acceptance speech I liked a lot: Foz Meadows for Best Fan Writer -- and can I tell you how THRILLED I am that Foz has finally taken this rocket home?? So, so thrilled.

• Some more on the significance of the AO3 win.

• The Verge points out that women once again did very well in the awards. What they don't say, but I double-checked and confirmed this for myself, is that this is the third year in a row that women swept the prose fiction categories (Novel/Novella/Novelette/Short Story/Campbell/Series/Lodestar [which was first awarded in 2018]). The last time a man was awarded a prose fiction Hugo was 2016, when Andy Weir won the Campbell and Ken Liu won for translating the winning Novelette.

• The proposal for a new Hugo Award for Games -- a project that justira has been working on for awhile now -- was referred to a dedicated subcommittee, asked to report back next year. Although I have concerns about awards bloat (adding Hugo categories without taking any away), I think it's well past time that we start recognizing the importance of games to the SFF community, so on balance I support the proposed amendment, and I'm so glad the effort is moving forward!