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Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 1 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Novel 5,950 total voters. 25% cutoff = 1488 voters. 5,653 valid votes cast in category. Race for Position 1 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5 Runoff Three Body Problem 1691 1727 1758 2162 2649 4547 Goblin Emperor 1515 1544 1565 1814 2449 0 Ancillary Sword 1054 1082 1117 1240 0 0 Skin Game 874 1004 1013 0 0 0 No Award 268 271 0 0 0 671 Dark Between the Stars 251 0 0 0 0 0 Preference 5653 5628 5453 5216 5098 5218 No Preference 0 25 200 437 555 435 Total Votes 5653 5653 5653 5653 5653 5653 Race for Position 2 Race for Position 3 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Nominee Pass 1 Goblin Emperor 2051 2100 2139 2999 Ancillary Sword 3240 Ancillary Sword 1615 1667 1720 1946 Skin Game 1465 Skin Game 1264 1433 1448 0 No Award 428 No Award 339 346 0 0 Dark Between the Stars 388 Dark Between the Stars 314 0 0 0 Preference 5521 No Preference 132 Preference 5583 5546 5307 4945 No Preference 70 107 346 708 Total Votes 5653 Total Votes 5653 5653 5653 5653 Race for Position 4 Race for Position 5 Nominee Pass 1 Nominee Pass 1 No Award 2674 Skin Game 2416 Skin Game 2000 Dark Between the Stars 701 Dark Between the Stars 592 Preference 3117 Preference 5266 No Preference 2536 No Preference 387 Total Votes 5653 Total Votes 5653 Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 2 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Novella 5,950 total voters. 25% cutoff = 1488 voters. 5,337 valid votes cast in category. Race for Position 1 Race for Position 2 Nominee Pass 1 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 No Award 3495 "Flow" 900 914 944 1179 One Bright Star to Guide Them 556 One Bright Star to Guide Them 567 593 680 1005 "Flow" 540 Big Boys Don't Cry 562 588 653 0 Big Boys Don't Cry 504 "The Plural of Helen of Troy" 173 209 0 0 "The Plural of Helen of Troy" 147 "Pale Realms of Shade" 111 0 0 0 "Pale Realms of Shade" 95 Preference 2313 2304 2277 2184 Preference 5337 No Preference 3024 3033 3060 3153 No Preference 0 Total Votes 5337 5337 5337 5337 Total Votes 5337 Race for Position 3 Race for Position 4 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Nominee Pass 1 Big Boys Don't Cry 799 836 934 One Bright Star to Guide Them 1050 One Bright Star to Guide Them 647 678 810 "The Plural of Helen of Troy" 354 "The Plural of Helen of Troy" 216 266 0 "Pale Realms of Shade" 209 "Pale Realms of Shade" 134 0 0 Preference 1613 Preference 1796 1780 1744 No Preference 3724 No Preference 3541 3557 3593 Total Votes 5337 Total Votes 5337 5337 5337 Race for Position 5 Nominee Pass 1 "The Plural of Helen of Troy" 838 "Pale Realms of Shade" 638 Preference 1476 No Preference 3861 Total Votes 5337 Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 3 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Novelette 5,950 total voters. 25% cutoff = 1488 voters. 5,104 valid votes cast in category. Race for Position 1 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5 Runoff "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" 1700 1722 1755 1887 2618 2618 No Award 1732 1745 1782 1837 2078 2078 "The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" 672 719 871 1229 0 0 "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium" 461 547 640 0 0 0 "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" 297 347 0 0 0 0 "Championship B'tok" 242 0 0 0 0 0 Preference 5104 5080 5048 4953 4696 4696 No Preference 0 24 56 151 408 408 Total Votes 5104 5104 5104 5104 5104 5104 Race for Position 2 Race for Position 3 Nominee Pass 1 Pass Pass Pass No Award 3089 Nominee 1 2 3 "The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" 777 "The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" 903 988 1225 "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Earth to Alluvium" 539 Alluvium" 653 765 895 "The Journeyman: In the Stone "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" 384 453 0 House" 327 "Championship B'tok" 330 0 0 "Championship B'tok" 283 Preference 2270 2206 2120 Preference 5015 No Preference 2834 2898 2984 No Preference 89 Total Votes 5104 5104 5104 Total Votes 5104 Race for Position 4 Race for Position 5 Nominee Pass 1 Nominee Pass 1 "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, "The Journeyman: In the Earth to Alluvium" 1126 Stone House" 1057 "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" 543 "Championship B'tok" 824 "Championship B'tok" 455 Preference 1881 Preference 2124 No Preference 3223 No Preference 2980 Total Votes 5104 Total Votes 5104 Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 4 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Short Story 5,950 total voters. 25% cutoff = 1488 voters. 5,267 valid votes cast in category. Race for Position 1 Race for Position 2 Nominee Pass 1 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 No Award 3053 "Totaled" 1239 1316 1355 "Totaled" 874 "Turncoat" 546 566 685 "Turncoat" 525 "A Single Samurai" 452 517 589 "A Single Samurai" 396 "The Parliament of Beasts "The Parliament of Beasts and Birds" 247 275 0 and Birds" 235 "On A Spiritual Plain" 217 0 0 "On A Spiritual Plain" 184 Preference 2701 2674 2629 Preference 5267 No Preference 2566 2593 2638 No Preference 0 Total Votes 5267 5267 5267 Total Votes 5267 Race for Position 3 Race for Position 4 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 "A Single Samurai" 744 809 1111 "Turncoat" 848 1064 "Turncoat" 699 830 934 "On A Spiritual Plain" 767 858 "On A Spiritual Plain" 501 544 0 "The Parliament of Beasts "The Parliament of Beasts and Birds" 366 0 and Birds" 283 0 0 Preference 1981 1922 Preference 2227 2183 2045 No Preference 3286 3345 No Preference 3040 3084 3222 Total Votes 5267 5267 Total Votes 5267 5267 5267 Race for Position 5 Nominee Pass 1 "On A Spiritual Plain" 1041 "The Parliament of Beasts and Birds" 854 Preference 1895 No Preference 3372 Total Votes 5267 Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 5 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Related Work 5,950 total voters. 25% cutoff = 1488 voters. 4,901 valid votes cast in category Race for Position 1 Race for Position 2 Nominee Pass 1 Pass Pass Pass Pass No Award 3259 Nominee 1 2 3 4 "The Hot Equations: "The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF" 595 Thermodynamics and Military SF" 696 736 866 973 "Why Science is Never Settled" 406 "Why Science is Never Settled" 498 568 656 816 Transhuman and Subhuman: Letters from Gardner 354 368 394 0 Essays on Science Fiction and Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays Awful Truth 253 on Science Fiction and Awful Truth 260 275 0 0 Letters from Gardner 250 Wisdom from My Internet 161 0 0 0 Wisdom from My Internet 138 Preference 1969 1947 1916 1789 Preference 4901 No Preference 2932 2954 2985 3112 No Preference 0 Total Votes 4901 4901 4901 4901 Total Votes 4901 Race for Position 3 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 "Why Science is Never Settled" 656 751 996 Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth 606 635 718 Letters from Gardner 451 479 0 Wisdom from My Internet 188 0 0 Preference 1901 1865 1714 No Preference 3000 3036 3187 Total Votes 4901 4901 4901 Race for Position 4 Race for Position 5 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Nominee Pass 1 Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays Letters from Gardner 1133 on Science Fiction and Awful Truth 735 868 Wisdom from My Internet 491 Letters from Gardner 674 777 Wisdom from My Internet 323 0 Preference 1624 No Preference 3277 Preference 1732 1645 No Preference 3169 3256 Total Votes 4901 Total Votes 4901 4901 Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 6 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Graphic Story 5,950 total voters. 25% cutoff = 1488 voters. 4,412 valid votes cast in category Race for Position 1 Nominee Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Runoff Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal 1729 1764 1932 2280 3160 Saga Volume 3 718 745 872 1120 0 No Award 810 846 857 892 1006 Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery 540 564 662 0 0 Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick 408 423 0 0 0 The Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate 207 0 0 0 0 Preference 4412 4342 4323 4292 4166 No Preference 0 70 89 120 246 Total Votes 4412 4412 4412 4412 4412 Race for Position 2 Race for Position 3 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Nominee 1 2 3 4 Nominee 1 2 3 Saga Volume 3 1280 1327 1700 1754 Rat Queens Volume 1: Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass Sass and Sorcery 1623 1715 2646 and Sorcery 1056 1103 1385 1429 No Award 1080 1136 1246 No Award 941 985 1013 0 Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick 1100 1134 0 Weird Trick 706 723 0 0 The Zombie Nation Book #2: The Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate 286 0 0 Reduce Reuse Reanimate 245 0 0 0 Preference 4089 3985 3892 Preference 4228 4138 4098 3183 No Preference 323 427 520 No Preference 184 274 314 1229 Total Votes 4412 4412 4412 Total Votes 4412 4412 4412 4412 Race for Position 4 Race for Position 5 Nominee Pass 1 Nominee Pass 1 Sex Criminals Volume 1: One No Award 2911 Weird Trick 2270 The Zombie Nation Book #2: No Award 1293 Reduce Reuse Reanimate 690 The Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate 382 Preference 3601 No Preference 811 Preference 3945 No Preference 467 Total Votes 4412 Total Votes 4412 Sasquan 2015 Hugo Award Statistics Page 7 of 26 2015 Final Results for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form 5,950 total voters.
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