Hugo finalists 2024

[dhampyresa]

Unless I'm miscounting, there are only 13 Chinese finalists in the 2024 Hugo shortlist. A bit over 11%. I thought there would be more.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Yeah. Possible reasons, in ascending order of sadness:

1) Less interest now the excitement of having it in Chengdu has passed, and/or forgetting they're eligible to nominate this year too.

2) Lower hopes of Chinese works winning, assuming they'll be drowned out by Western votes from Glasgow attendees.

3) Expectation that maybe Chinese votes will just get ditched this year too.

[dhampyresa]

2) Lower hopes of Chinese works winning, assuming they'll be drowned out by Western votes from Glasgow attendees.

Very fair! That's kind of where I'm at too. WorldCon feels as world as the World series.