I’ll probably ask this multiple times in the next few months, until I get an answer.
So, as should be clear to all by now (or will never be clear to those with a political agenda), the Hugos are worth very little this year. They will be forever the asterisks Hugo. In a previous post I suggested only four categories should be voted on, and even those will be tainted. But, there is a partial path to redemption: An Alternative Hugo Award. An Alt Hugo Award can stand in for the Hugo for 2015 (and maybe 2016 since it takes two years to change the nominating rules) in history, so that when someone looks back at the awards in twenty years, they’ll get a real picture of the state of SF/F.
It’s tricky, but not that tricky. Since the good people of WorldCon release the nominating numbers (so you can see who came in 6th, 7th, etc.), it is easy to extract all of the Pups’ slate nominees and come up with a list of what the Hugo Ballot should have been. Yes, there will be a few less than perfect categories where a Pup nominee would have made the ballot without their help (the video categories come to mind), but those are few and James Gunn will get by. Figuring how to do the actual voting is harder, but not impossible (and WorldCon also lists its members, so there are some options there). Kickstarter or some such should be able to raise the funds for trophies.
So, who is doing this? Someone has to. It is screaming out to be done. One group said they would, under the title The Mulligan Awards, but they caved under pressure from unhappy Pups. That means someone else has to pick this up. For numerous reasons, I’m not the guy. So who is? Point me to the info if I just haven’t seen it yet. Otherwise, maybe the person to do this is you, you who are reading this. You and your friends, or you and your convention or track, or you and your writers’ group, or you and your corporation.
Get this done. Create the True Hugo Awards for 2015. And send me a note. I want to know.