Noise To Signal: 2006 Hugo Award Winners

Noise To Signal: 2006 Hugo Award Winners

Lots of good news in the Hugo Award Winners. Serenity took best dramatic presentation, long form, and Dr. Who took best for short form. Peter Beagle (long a favorite of mine) won his first Hugo. All are excellent and deserving, and in Peter Beagle's case, overdue.

And Connie Willis won her ninth Hugo. No one has ever won 9 Hugos, not even Harlan Ellison, frequently brilliant writer but always appalling egoist. Science Fiction has long had the reputation of being a boy's club, where writers like Andre Norton and James Tiptree Jr. had to pretend to be men to get a hearing. And yet Connie Willis has won 9 Hugo awards... it gives me hope that things are changing.

Which is probably why Harlan felt he had to cut her down to size by groping her. sigh No matter how accomplished a woman you are, a man can reduce you to a body part in an instant.

It does not reduce the value of her accomplishment, though. Go Connie! And Harlan, grow up, for cryin' out loud.