Well! Congrats to those who won -- you know who you are

[lsanderson]

The Guardian (US Edition) seems to be one of the few newspapers that covered the trainwreck, err, ceremony. (OK, I only checked the Washington Post and the NY Times.)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/01/arkady-martine-wins-hugo-for-best-novel-as-george-rr-martin-hosts-online-ceremony

Two MN locals won awards:

Elise Matthesen won a Hugo Award as Best Fan Artist

LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK (NOT A HUGO)

Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)

Comments

[filkerdave]

I'm kind of glad, having read comments on Twitter, that I didn't watch it.

Hugos

[lsanderson]

I watched it on zoom with some East coasters, and had a pretty good time, especially after I gave up on ma laptop with the cam and retreated to ma desktop with multiple monitors so I could watch and browse Twitter at the same time.

[spiderplanet]

Me too. I'm incredibly happy for and proud of my fellow Minnesotans though, and because of the twitter fallout, I've got some new authors that I'm interested in checking out.