I have no problem with that, but as I said in my blogpost, it should have been mentioned. Perhaps like this: *Although this exceeds the 90 minutes allowed for short form the Hugo committee has decided to keep it in that category and count the votes instead of discarding them as ineligible.
As I have said before, I don't have a problem with it being moved, but >I do have a problem with the move being done in "secret". And if the Hugo committees were better at communicating it would mean most criticism of the award would be seen as opinions and not valid criticism.
So as you not think I'm totally "anti-Hugo" I would like to point out that I have defended Blackout/All Clear as being within the Hugo rules that states "A science fiction or fantasy story of forty thousand (40,000) words or more."
Although I must say that this seems to mean a part of a series would be ineligible, or that chapter 5 of novel X would be eligible. And my point being that these are things that could easily be defined in the category rules. As the rules stand it looks like Blackout/All Clear and Cryoburn cannot be said to belong to the same definition of story. (With the caveat that I have not read Cryoburn, and that it may be a standalone story.)
Mainly I just want the written rules to be in accordance with what is going on. As they stand know they are very loose in their definitions. And I think that that should be easily remedied without much disagreement.
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Re: Speaking For Fandom
Date: 2011-09-02 07:28 pm (UTC)As I have said before, I don't have a problem with it being moved, but >I do have a problem with the move being done in "secret". And if the Hugo committees were better at communicating it would mean most criticism of the award would be seen as opinions and not valid criticism.
So as you not think I'm totally "anti-Hugo" I would like to point out that I have defended Blackout/All Clear as being within the Hugo rules that states "A science fiction or fantasy story of forty thousand (40,000) words or more."
Although I must say that this seems to mean a part of a series would be ineligible, or that chapter 5 of novel X would be eligible. And my point being that these are things that could easily be defined in the category rules. As the rules stand it looks like Blackout/All Clear and Cryoburn cannot be said to belong to the same definition of story. (With the caveat that I have not read Cryoburn, and that it may be a standalone story.)
Mainly I just want the written rules to be in accordance with what is going on. As they stand know they are very loose in their definitions. And I think that that should be easily remedied without much disagreement.