It’s a voter base problem. There was lots of good SFF YA last year, but mostly it gets marketed to YA readers, not SFF readers (there’s lots more money in YA anyway) so it doesn’t hit on Locus readers’ radar. Notice that all of those authors up there are more famous for their adult works.

Everyone gets a vote!

Yeah, I gotta say, all the stories I hear about people being molested in public restrooms are about little boys being molested by men in the men’s room. But you know, let’s make a law that says parents are legally barred from accompanying an opposite-sex child over the age of 6 into the restroom.

I just read 5/6 stories and they are really, really good. It’s rare that I enjoy every story out of a magazine but so far I have here.

No, online only right now.

LOTS of people have criminal records at young ages and go on to have totally productive lives. And at that age, small time crime probably tells more about their home lives that it does about them. They’re kids. All kids deserve to grow up.

You know, if you don’t enjoy a media property, it’s okay to just not consume it.

And Lemberg! I was sad that story didn’t get off the longlist.

Yeah, the whole secret cabal thing was fucking ridiculous. Getting SFF fans to agree on anything is like herding cats—how would they establish a whole cabal?

You know, to be fair to the puppies, I don’t think most of them are bad writers (on the sad puppy side at least. The rabid puppies are nuts). But I also don’t think they write the sort of thing that pings Hugo voters’ radars.

I don’t understand this whole being upset about things that aren’t aimed at you attitude.

Yeah, my grandmother heard her fall, came in, and saw her seizing.

Seizures can be spontaneous too. My aunt had a seizure in the shower and got a concussion. Very scary. But it was the first and last time she ever had one, and no one could ever give her an explanation as to why it happened.

I wish. They’ve bought into the Fox News doomsdaying.

My parents are diehard Republicans and they’ve decided to vote Trump because, as my mother said, “Cruz is too creepy.” Unfortunately they’re constitutionally opposed to voting Democrat so they’ve talked themselves into believing that Trump isn’t just as nuts. Two months ago my dad would have died if he knew he’d be…

Yeah. Every Republican I talk to says “I’m voting Trump because I literally can’t stand Cruz.” or “I’m voting Cruz because I literally can’t stand Trump.”

Dude, reading comprehension.

Xena’s hardly butch.