This one seems serious:
The first ever Dragon Awards shortlist aims to be the next major award for science fiction fans
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/13/12461038/dragon-awards-shortlist-dragoncon-science-fiction-fantasy
This one seems serious:
The first ever Dragon Awards shortlist aims to be the next major award for science fiction fans
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/13/12461038/dragon-awards-shortlist-dragoncon-science-fiction-fantasy
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I do like that they break out fantasy from science fiction, but am not keen about the various sub-genre awards such as best military science fiction and best alternative history books. I also want to see awards for short fiction, but I guess having video game awards instead makes them more modern.
Only time will tell if this will have any legs or not. But based on the categories, it is clearly a more of a genre media award than SF oriented. The fact that short fiction is not included at all precludes it from being any viable successor/replacement to the Hugo.