The Hugo nomination period is winding to a close. Voters have until Saturday, March 26 to make their nominations. I’ve already posted my list of eligible fiction elsewhere. Right now I want to draw your attention to the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. More specifically, I want to draw your attention to some writers. […]
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Just a reminder, or a head’s up for those who don’t know, the official Campbell site is displaying all the eligible authors that they know about. The key here is the phrase “that they know about.” If your first pro-sale has appeared in print in 2008 or 2009, make sure you contact them to get
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My dear friend, the 2009 Campbell-winning, David Anthony Durham has ARCs of The Other Lands, his new book. And he’s giving one away! Okay. Here it is. My first The Other Lands giveaway. There may be more to come, but this one is purely from my own stash. I’m offering one of the three advanced
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I’m in Montreal where I will hand over the Campbell Tiara to the newest winner of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. I’m seriously looking forward to it. This year had a really strong field with David Anthony Durham, Aliette de Bodard, Tony Pi, Felix Gilman, and Gord Sellar. Any of them would look
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The concom at ConQuest 40 were looking for a bio of John Scalzi but wanted something a little more detailed and accurate than the standard wikipedia one. They asked me if I’d assist, given my long-standing friendship with him, and write one for them with some behind the scenes details for the program book. In
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Jay Lake sent me this link to the Guardian today, so you know, I clicked through out of curiosity. The headline was “The next generation of SF Writers” and then there’s a photo of a spiral arm galaxy, the caption of which is, “In a galaxy far, far away … Hill, Kowal or Scholes?” Um.Â
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Antiticaption, the 2009 Hugos held in Montreal, has opened the doors for Hugo nominations today, so I thought I’d mention which of my stories came out in 2008. [bfentry id=15 full] (“Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in both Rich Horton’s Science Fiction Best of the Year and Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science-Fiction) [bfentry
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Just a reminder, or a head’s up for those who don’t know, the official Campbell site will begin displaying the 2009 eligible authors in September. If your first pro-sale has appeared in print this year, make sure you contact them to get included on that list.
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Yes, I’m calling it that now. Ellen Datlow managed to take photos before the ceremony, so you can actually see the bodice of the dress. People ((You know who you are)) were asking about it. It’s from the early 1960s ((The dress is heavily boned through the bodice and comes with its own crinoline. I
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Alan Roberts came to the “Strolling with the Stars” event that Stu Segal had arranged and offered me this photo. It is my very favorite one. Let me tell you what is happening here. I’m standing between Jay Lake and John Scalzi, two men who are dear friends as well as being former Campbell winners.Â
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I truly, without false modesty, did not expect to win this. I’m still in a state of utter giddy shock that I have the Campbell tiara on my head right now. It is so beautiful and I am deeply, deeply honored. I would have been happy to see any of the other nominees win, and
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