{"id":157,"date":"2011-07-09T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-07-11T20:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:09:18","slug":"hugos-part-1-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Hugos Part 1 – Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a voting membership for the Hugos this year<\/a>. Something I’ve meant to do for a while, but here I am, doing it finally. I’m going to Black Hat in a couple of weeks, and will be there at the deadline for voting. I’ve decided to put my choices up here not only for your, fair reader’s, edification, but also so I have somewhere to look up what I thought when I was actually reading the stuff.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never voted before, the Hugos use the same AV system that the British public soundly rejected this May: namely that you have to rank your preferences, and if your number one gets voted off, your number 2 gets counted. This has made me think long and hard about what I actually like, which in the end is a very good thing indeed. So, without further ado, here is my ranking for SS:<\/p>\n

1: The Things – Peter Watts<\/a>
\n2: Ponies – Kij Johnson<\/a>
\n3: For Want of a Nail – Mary Robinette Kowal<\/a>
\n4: Amaryllis – Carrie Vaughn<\/a><\/p>\n

I find this ranking almost arbitrary. The first three were fairly strong. Amaryllis, I actually had to reopen to see what it was about. In the end, I opted for Watts story first because I found that it really explored the idea of the mind space behind the monster, and I enjoyed how its thoughts juxtaposed against the backdrop of the original story. Ponies I liked because of its loss of innocence, its echoing of The Lottery, and its ability to say so much with so few words. Nail was also good, and I feel bad having it in third place, but it didn’t strike me as hard as the first two, so there you go.<\/p>\n

All links above lead to the stories, so you can make your own judgments.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a voting membership for the Hugos this year. Something I’ve meant to do for a while, but here I am, doing it finally. I’m going to Black Hat in a couple of weeks, and will be there at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hugos","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-berry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HpGK-2x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}