Attending WorldCon for the first time has ended up being…MUCH different than I had anticipated when I registered, as is the case for literally everything that has happened in 2020. I was planning to attend with a friend who has gone to a couple of others, and cancelling highly anticipated travel plans is always a bummer. BUT I’m glad to have been able to distract myself from the general shittiness of the world by consuming all of the things for Hugo voting! (I’m also extremely grateful to the con organizers for making the decision to take the convention online super early on, so that it wasn’t a drawn out, excruciating process.) I’m going to get more into the actual experience of WorldCon as a convention following the actual thing next week, but first I wanted to talk about the Hugo Award voting.

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