"Congrats to everyone on the list, etc., etc., but as has been pointed out, the list (along with all the other major sf/fantasy award finalist lists this year) is very embarassing in one respect: there is only ONE woman's name on the list,"
Actually there are over a dozen women on the 2007 Hugo and John W. Cambell finalist list. Naomi Novik is the only one in the four fiction writing categories, and, yes, that's well worth discussing. But there are ten more Hugo categories plus the John W. Campbell Award, and women are among the nominees in all but four of them. (I'm also struck that there are no names I recognize as being female among the 25 people listed with the ten Best Dramatic Presentation nominees.)
Women make up 40% of the nominees listed in two Hugo categories as well as in the John. W. Campbell Award this year.
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Actually there are over a dozen women on the 2007 Hugo and John W. Cambell finalist list. Naomi Novik is the only one in the four fiction writing categories, and, yes, that's well worth discussing. But there are ten more Hugo categories plus the John W. Campbell Award, and women are among the nominees in all but four of them. (I'm also struck that there are no names I recognize as being female among the 25 people listed with the ten Best Dramatic Presentation nominees.)
Women make up 40% of the nominees listed in two Hugo categories as well as in the John. W. Campbell Award this year.