"Related Work" seems to have started life off as "Best Related Non-Fiction Book"/"Best Book" and with some slightly odd blips ("The Sandman: The Dream Hunters" in 2000?) seems to have stayed in that category until 2016 and the horrible Puppies thing, and then it was mainly a lot of self-published vitriolic blog posts. According to the Hugo website itself, the separate non-fiction book award doesn't seem to have been a category at all until 1980 (nominees: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia by Peter Nicholls, In Memory Yet Green by Isaac Asimov, Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials, Wonderworks by Michael Whelan and The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Encylopedia won). (I'm just insomniac at the moment and I like digging back into archives to see how stuff like this evolves. I find it fascinating that now this category has a fanfic archive, a lovely commemorative anthology website, and a "work (that) has rightly blurred the lines between 'YouTube video essay' and traditional film documentary" ((Paste*)) and I should probably go back to bed.)
*Their article's wrong about Rachel Bloom, though, her Hugo nom was in 2011 for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for her music video of "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury." omg I need to go back to bed, now I will remember that forever
(I'm just insomniac at the moment and I like digging back into archives to see how stuff like this evolves. I find it fascinating that now this category has a fanfic archive, a lovely commemorative anthology website, and a "work (that) has rightly blurred the lines between 'YouTube video essay' and traditional film documentary" ((Paste*)) and I should probably go back to bed.)
I asked over at kate_nepveu's if an archive itself had ever been nominated for Best Related and the answer turned out to be "No, but it hasn't been Best Related Work as opposed to Book for that long and we are clearly still figuring out what that means."
I love AO3, but if the nom's on the basis of content, I don't even know how they'd do that (hugest book packet EVER??). If the nom's on the basis of "awesome fanfic archive that anyone can post to," maybe?
Best Related Work: Awarded to a work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, appearing for the first time during the previous calendar year or which has been substantially modified during the previous calendar year. The type of works eligible include, but are not limited to, collections of art, works of literary criticism, books about the making of a film or TV series, biographies and so on, provided that they do not qualify for another category. Specifically, the Constitution says that any work in this category must be “either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text, and which is not eligible in any other category.” Nonfiction collections are eligible here, but fiction anthologies generally are not because all of the individual works within the anthology are eligible in one of the “story” categories. There is no category for “Best Anthology.”
The general take seems to be "all the fanfic and writers on the site" but the people who were for the nom seem to be more about the AD&T team and the code? IDK. People have been referring to it as "all of fanfiction/Fanfiction getting nominated," too. And apparently AO3 will always be eligible because the software's always being developed and updated and people are always posting new fanfic. I was looking at the previous "related" nominees and most of them were nonfiction books, except for the writing podcasts. In 2006 it was "Best Related Non-Fiction Book" and that changed the next year to "Best Related Book" and then "Best Related Work" in 2010. So obviously the categories are shifting (I thought "Best Fan Writer" meant "best unpaid non-pro writer"? but one nominee in 2010 was FREDERIK POHL, so uh I guess not!).
(I mean, I'm seriously not going either "AO3 deserves it!/AO3 does not!" I'm more just sort of digressing aloud about what the award seems to be shifting into)
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Date: 2019-04-03 12:15 am (UTC)From:I find this simultaneously awesome and weird.
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Date: 2019-04-03 10:14 am (UTC)From:*Their article's wrong about Rachel Bloom, though, her Hugo nom was in 2011 for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for her music video of "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury." omg I need to go back to bed, now I will remember that forever
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Date: 2019-04-03 04:22 pm (UTC)From:I asked over at
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Date: 2019-04-03 12:20 am (UTC)From:Does this mean I can say that I'm technically a Hugo-nominated author?
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Date: 2019-04-03 09:43 am (UTC)From:I love AO3, but if the nom's on the basis of content, I don't even know how they'd do that (hugest book packet EVER??). If the nom's on the basis of "awesome fanfic archive that anyone can post to," maybe?
Best Related Work: Awarded to a work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, appearing for the first time during the previous calendar year or which has been substantially modified during the previous calendar year. The type of works eligible include, but are not limited to, collections of art, works of literary criticism, books about the making of a film or TV series, biographies and so on, provided that they do not qualify for another category. Specifically, the Constitution says that any work in this category must be “either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text, and which is not eligible in any other category.” Nonfiction collections are eligible here, but fiction anthologies generally are not because all of the individual works within the anthology are eligible in one of the “story” categories. There is no category for “Best Anthology.”
The general take seems to be "all the fanfic and writers on the site" but the people who were for the nom seem to be more about the AD&T team and the code? IDK. People have been referring to it as "all of fanfiction/Fanfiction getting nominated," too. And apparently AO3 will always be eligible because the software's always being developed and updated and people are always posting new fanfic. I was looking at the previous "related" nominees and most of them were nonfiction books, except for the writing podcasts. In 2006 it was "Best Related Non-Fiction Book" and that changed the next year to "Best Related Book" and then "Best Related Work" in 2010. So obviously the categories are shifting (I thought "Best Fan Writer" meant "best unpaid non-pro writer"? but one nominee in 2010 was FREDERIK POHL, so uh I guess not!).
(I mean, I'm seriously not going either "AO3 deserves it!/AO3 does not!" I'm more just sort of digressing aloud about what the award seems to be shifting into)
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