“The first Black author to win a Hugo for Best Novel came in 2016, almost 50 years after Delany’s first nomination in the category.” – “By the Numbers #6”1 I am fascinated by genre awards. I think a lot about what they mean, what they don’t mean, and what we make them out to mean. I was even on a panel a few years ago, at a “very big event” with a “very famous person” who said that the Hugo Awards “represent what readers love.” I argued that the Hugo Awards did not, in fact, “represent what readers love.” More