As Promised, the 2026 Hugo Award Follow-up Post

I’m now back at home after a red-eye, and rather than go to bed in the early afternoon, I’m going to write a post about winning the Hugo Award for Best Series. To help me with this, allow me to haul from his dungeon my Fictional Interlocutor: (squinting) Why is it so bright? What month is it? In fact it is the first of September. Dude, you need to let me out of the dungeon more often. I have rickets now. We’ll see, pending this discussion. Ugh, fine. So you won another Hugo. How many is that now? This would be my fourth. Really? I would have thought you’d have won more by this point. I mean, four wins out of fourteen nominations over twenty years is not bad. Dude, you’re batting .286. Those are Mendoza Line numbers. It’s a little better than that. I’ll remind you that you said that after you’re traded to a A’s for a catching prospect in AA ball. Let’s get back on track, please. Fine. What’s the Hugo for again? Best Series. For the Old Man’s War books. But that series is so old now!…