"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."
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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