Hugo and John W. Campbell Nominations and Regender.com

[pegkerr]

I've been missing vast swathes of my friends list; it's a combination of busyness (all that dojo cleaning) and other life stuff that's been going on--please be aware that it's not personal, and I don't mean to snub anyone. Anyway, I just ran across the discussion over the 2007 Hugo and John W. Campbell finalist list. 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, naominovik, for His Majesty's Dragon (which is an excellent book, by the way, very deserving of the nomination, and you all should read it). Anyway, in all the discussion, sdn cleverly ran the 2006 Hugo nomination list through a website called Regender.com and came up with this. Interesting food for thought, no?

It's fun to run a lot of websites through Regender.com. Like the first chapter of Genesis, or Google News. Or this Livejournal. Apparently, in another life, I am Peter, married to Robin, and with two sons, Dennis and Frank. Who knew?

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

It's only the Hugo list that has that problem, all the other major lists are reasonably supplied with female nominees -- me and ellen_kushner for the Nebula and me and matociquala for the Locus SF. (You can see why I remember this!) Somebody had a list of books by women nominated for other awards, and I think I linked to it.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Have you seen perkinwarbeck2's posts on the short fiction and novels by women nominated for other arguably-major awards this year, and the Broad Universe statistics for the composition of the field since 2000 ?

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I am halfway through His Majesty's Dragon thanks to LJ recommendations from you and from my daughter. I am wondering whether to rush off to the library this afternoon and acquire the second one, in case someone might borrow it before I finish this one.

[rabican.livejournal.com]

Do it! Trust me, this is one of those series where you're going to want to launch straight into the next one as soon as you finish the first.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

The non-friends-listed bits of my livejournal are pretty boring and non-revealing, but Regender gives me ...

A crowd of young women military cadets singing ...

Now I'm a broken woman on a Halifax pier
The last of Barbara's Privateers.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lucy Barbara cried the town
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
For twenty brave women, all fisherfolk who
Would make for her the Artemis' crew....

Clarification

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

"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.