Hugo vacuum of 2006

The 2006 Hugo vacuum was the utter dearth (95% absence) of female writers among the four major fiction category short-lists for the Hugo Awards for works published in 2006. The incident erupted as a series of discussions on blogs etc. in March-April 2007.

Of novel, novella, novelette, and short story, only Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon aka Temeraire was nominated. There were few women in any of the other categories. (See Making Light, 3/28 for the list.)

See also FSFwiki list of 2006 Hugo Awards that weren't‎ - women writers who could have or should have been included, but weren't.

Links

• Making Light discussion
• FSF blog discussion of what should be done: liz henry 4/12 post plus thread
• Ellen Kushner blog, Geoff Ryman post
• Ellen Kushner post
• Adrienne Martini on Bookslut
• Adrienne Martini on martinimade, on how the Hugo process works
• Commentary at She's Such a Geek!
• FSFwiki list of 2006 Hugo Awards that weren't‎ - women writers who could have or should have been included, but weren't.
• Cofax7 LJ post
• The Noun that verbs your world on the sexism and racism of book lists