2023 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award, and Astounding Award Nominations Released
The official Hugo Awards website posted the 2023 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award, and Astounding Award Nominating and Final Ballot statistics from the Chengdu Worldcon. The statistics and voting progression for both the final ballots and the nominations are available here in a PDF.
There were several entries ruled ineligible by the Hugo Awards administrators, including R.F. Kuang’s Babel, fan writer nominee Paul Weimer, Astounding nominee Xiran Jay Zhao, and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, for reasons that are not explained on either the site or the document.
And I most definitely have emailed Chengdu for an explanation.
Is it because it shows the real reason for the Opium Wars. Perhaps a young Asian woman with a PhD in Chinese Studies and working on a post-doctorate too threatening?