Hugo/Campbell Nomination Deadlines (DeepGenre)

The deadline to submit nominations for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Best New Science Fiction Writer Award is not until March 3, 2007. Plenty of time. However… in order to nominate someone, you must have either been an attending or supporting member of last year’s WorldCon in Anaheim, CA or this year’s WorldCon in Yokohama, Japan by January 31, 2007.

In other words… if you didn’t attend WorldCon last year, and you don’t intend to trek out to Japan this year, you have until tomorrow, January 31, to pay for a $50 supporting membership if you want to submit nominations. The official nomination page says you must be a member “before January 31, 2007.” I assume that means “before the midnight Greenwich Mean Time that occurs between January 31, 2007 and February 1, 2007,” but like so many other things in science fiction fandom, that’s not clear.

Among the eligible candidates for the Campbell listed on the Writertopia Eligibility Page are my friends Cat Rambo, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maria V. Snyder, and Joel Shepherd. Other names of note on the list include Brandon Sanderson, Naomi Novik, Justine Larbalestier, Cherie Priest, and Alma Alexander. Also included are some folks who stop by to make comments on this website from time to time, like Elaine Isaak and Marie Brennan. And then, of course, there’s, um, me, [David Louis Edelman] and that’s all I’ll say about it.

Besides the coolness of actually being eligible for the Campbell, I’d like to point out that you can nominate Shimmer for a Hugo as best semiprozine.

ETA: Thanks to Kevin Standlee for correcting my misinterpretation of the Hugo definition of semiprozine.

We took a load of furniture down to our storage locker today. As we were packing, we decided to take the mirror off the vanity from Dr. Walker’s (my great-grandfather) bedroom suite. It seemed like it would be safer to move and pack. Then today, Rob noticed that it further disassembles; the shelf between the two sets of drawers pulls out, leaving us with two very small chests. The perfect, I say, the perfect size for bedside tables. So, we decided to store the rest of the vanity and take these two pieces with us. I’m delighted, because I really wanted part of Dr. Walker’s bedroom suit with me. The wardrobe is too big. We’ve got another bed, and the vanity was a throughly impractical piece for an apartment.

What’s interesting is that it’s easy to see that Dr. Walker did a repair on the vanity at some point, because there are glue marks where a crossbeam used to be. In its place are two small brackets. I wonder when it happened and if it collapsed when he had something on it, or if it just got loose and he decided to repair it.

I know that all the cool kids are doing this but… Locus Online just posted the Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading: 2006, which includes Twenty Epics, edited David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi. (Wheatland Press/All-Star Stories) Since one of my stories is in there, I feel almost as pleased as if my actual name was on the list.

I’m even more please by the number of folks that I know who were listed by their actual names. Neat!

I just took the Earth Day Footprint Quiz which is quite interesting.

HERE ARE YOUR FOOTPRINT RESULTS:

CATEGORY GLOBAL ACRES
FOOD 2.2
MOBILITY 1.5
SHELTER 3.7
GOODS/SERVICES 3.5
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 11

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 GLOBAL ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXISTS 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.4 PLANETS.

How many acres do you require?