Sat 1 Sep 2007
Hugo Predictions Revisited
Posted at 23:36 +1000
In an earlier post I reviewed the 2007 Hugo nominees for the Best Novel category. My semi-predictions, right at the end, were Blindsight, Eifelheim and His Majesty's Dragon / Temeraire, in that order.
Hopefully nobody put down any money based on those predictions. As usual, I was not exactly a weather vane for the popular opinion.
Actual results (announced earlier this evening in Japan):
- Rainbows End
- Glasshouse
- His Majesty's Dragon / Temeraire
- Eifelheim
- Blindsight
It would have been hard to be less correct.
Still, I'm very happy that Naomi Novik won the Campbell award for best new writer. The Temeraire series are great escapism and don't require lots of hard thinking. They're good entertainment.
Full results are available, along with the detailed vote counts. Looks like they were using something like the Condorcet system, from the way the results are laid out.
Topics: books