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. 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