Rabid Puppies 2016: Best Fan Writer
The preliminary recommendations for the Best Fan Writer category.
Other 2016 Hugo categories
- Jeffro Johnson: The author of the massive, and magnificent, Appendix N series at Castalia House.
- Dave Freer: The most consistently reliable Mad Genius of the excellent SF/F bloggers at the Mad Genius Club.
- Morgan: One of the foremost literary historians of fantasy in general and Sword & Sorcery in particular.
- Shamus Young: If the name seems familiar to you, he's the author of the utterly hilarious DM of the Rings. He's now one of the more intelligent observers of the game industry, among other things.
- Zenopus: An RPG historian whose work is integral to the Old School Renaissance.
Other 2016 Hugo categories
Labels: Hugo Award, Puppies
20 Comments:
Does Jeffro have a brother Anferney?
Has any Sasquan member received their MidAmericonII PIN yet?
Dumb question, but isn't Dave Freer a published professional author? Doesn't that disqualify him from the "Fan Writer" category? Not meaning to be obstreperous, just genuinely confused.
@2 Still waiting...
Dumb question, but isn't Dave Freer a published professional author? Doesn't that disqualify him from the "Fan Writer" category?
Yes. No, you'd think so, but it doesn't. John Scalzi, Jim Hines, and Kameron Hurley all won their Hugos that way. Until now, it's recently been nothing more than an SJW popularity contest.
Off topic for the Hugos, but related to some of the definitely not a slate non-recommendations:
I assume our host and the Ilk are familiar with Doraleous and Associates? Episode names like "Tranny Hole" (used for transdimensional teleporation of course - get your mind out of the gutter) give you an idea of the humour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1B8DiIJI8
Are the updated Hugo nomination rules not in effect until next year?
Double kudos for Shamus Young here.
Are the updated Hugo nomination rules not in effect until next year?
They may or may not be in effect next year. They have to be ratified at this year's convention.
@3 Many pros have won Fan Writer. It's awarded for fannish writing, such as blogs and (old school) fanzines and such.
Mike Glyer and Dave Langford owned the category for about thirty years. Which cries out "Stagnation!" to me.
Hell yeah! The Zenopus Archives guy is amazing!
Does game writing count as FSF fan writing? Appendix N clearly fills the bill, since it's about D&D's fantasy influences, but I'm less confident of Zenopus: except for a couple of posts relating to the Pluto flyby, nothing from last year is connected to written fantasy or SF. (I don't know if Shamus Young's 2015 stuff has the same potential issue.)
As a poential replacement, I've been meaning to suggest Tom Simon for fan writer over at sadpuppies: some of his older essays are top-drawer (ask John C Wright -- I know he's also a fan). Last year was fairly lean for him in fan writing, but the ozmataz/legosity posts ought to count, and probably the superversive anniversary post.
Does game writing count as FSF fan writing?
Yes. Game writing will soon count for SFWA eligibility too.
As a poential replacement, I've been meaning to suggest Tom Simon
Tom Simon is a good writer and he has done some excellent pieces in the past, but he's done very little this year. I would not recommend him.
Re: Tom Simon, very good writer, but Vox is right that he's not done much fan writing in SFF this year. (His MASH series has been a delight to follow, but its not SFF.) However, his "Life, Carbon, and the Tao" is excellent, and hopefully worthy of consideration for Related Work.
Tom Simon's writing, especially on Tolkien is gobstoppingly brilliant. I second the motion.
Oh ho, Zenopus. That's a great call right there.
I also like Shamus Young. Among other things, he's on part 32 of his Mass Effect retrospective. That's certainly scifi enough.
@15
Where would I find this MASH series? Google was for naught.
And this is M*A*S*H, right?
Yes, Tom Simon has written 13 essays on M*A*S*H episodes.
http://bondwine.com/mash-a-writers-view/
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