Hugos 2013: Short fiction
A couple of very unusual things happened in this year's short fiction nominations. The most troubling thing to me is... (More...)
A couple of very unusual things happened in this year's short fiction nominations. The most troubling thing to me is... (More...)
I've updated my Hugo fiction-author gender page with the new nominees. I'm surprised and pleased to see that, for the... (More...)
This year's Hugo Award nominees have been announced, and I'm delighted that Strange Horizons is, for the first time, a... (More...)
It can be hard for people to figure out which stories at SH were novelettes (>7500 words) and which were... (More...)
This entry is partly about SH and partly about the new rules for the Best Semiprozine Hugo category, and the... (More...)
This is a recommendation to nominate the webcomic Darths & Droids for the Best Graphic Story Hugo award. I wrote... (More...)
I keep meaning to link to Tempest's post about her current awards eligibility. I'm sorry to say that I haven't... (More...)
I think it was during a post-WorldCon party last year that people were chatting about who should be nominated for... (More...)
This year's detailed Hugo voting results are now available. I have a bunch of comments and notes, but am too... (More...)
Have now belatedly updated my page on author gender for Hugo fiction nominees to cover 2012. For the first time... (More...)
Way back in January, I got email from the Hugo administrators saying that nominations would close on March 31. (It's... (More...)
It's Hugo nomination season again, and thus it's time for a reminder about how you, too, can help shape the... (More...)
The winners of the Hugo Awards were announced last night; congratulations to all! I think my favorite thing about the... (More...)
Suddenly it seems like there are many Things going on around here: This weekend in Vallejo: NorCal Pirate Festival. Entertainers,... (More...)
It's Hugo Award voting season again, and WorldCon (with the permission of the nominees and their publishers) has again provided... (More...)
This year's list of Hugo nominees was released in April (congratulations to all nominees!), but I didn't look at it... (More...)
Just a reminder to SFWA members that today is the last day you can nominate for the Nebula Award. You've... (More...)
If you're eligible for the Campbell Award, let the administrators know! (More...)
The other day, I mentioned that Strange Horizons editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi is on this year's World Fantasy Award ballot,... (More...)
Two months ago, the nominees for this year's World Fantasy Award were announced. (For works published in 2009.) Ever since... (More...)
I was looking at this year's Hugo voting report (PDF) just now, and was surprised at the number of nomination... (More...)
I really wasn't paying attention this year when the Hugo nominees were announced, and so I was completely oblivious to... (More...)
Two events starting in an hour and a half that I meant to post details about days ago: In Portland,... (More...)
A few things I'm looking forward to over the next couple weeks: Wednesday, June 16: Closing arguments in the Prop... (More...)
This year's Hugo and Campbell nominees have been announced. Congratulations to Cory, Scalzi, Charlie, Ben, Bear, Mary, Ted, Farah, Cheryl,... (More...)
This year, I had it all planned out. My to-do list is full of tasks like "post journal entry linking... (More...)
It's been entire minutes since the Hugo ceremony ended, and yet none of the usual suspects have full detailed results... (More...)
For those of you not at WorldCon, Cheryl is liveblogging the Hugos. I thought about trying to do that, but... (More...)
I'm still planning a post about author gender issues in general, but for now I just want to mention one... (More...)
I was walking to my car just now, in a kind of grumpy mood probably induced by low blood sugar,... (More...)
I've been so focused on being sick that I totally failed to notice that the list of Hugo nominees was... (More...)
Yikes--I was somehow thinking the Hugo nominating ballot wasn't due 'til the end of March, but in fact it's due... (More...)
The Hugo Awards ceremony took place not so many hours ago in Yokohama, Japan, and the results have been posted... (More...)
Cheryl and Kevin have a new website: Science Fiction Awards Watch. The site has an extensive list of sf awards... (More...)
Reminder to all supporting and attending members of this year's WorldCon: All Hugo ballots must be received by 23:59 Pacific... (More...)
storySouth magazine's list of top ten online stories of the year has been released; this is part of their Million... (More...)
All of this year's Hugo-nominated short fiction is now available for free online; just follow the links from that page.... (More...)
It's been pointed out to me that there's one reasonably high-profile speculative fiction award ballot that anyone in the world... (More...)
I spent a while earlier poking around online trying to find out who won the BSFA Awards; eventually I got... (More...)
I never did get around to writing here about the tall ships. I would still like to, but the chances... (More...)
As has been widely noted, on this year's Hugo ballot there's only one work by a woman among the twenty... (More...)
Every year, the Hugo award nominees are announced, and every year we get to have the additional enjoyment of reading... (More...)
I really haven't wanted to do much of anything other than write about sf all day today, apparently. It led... (More...)
So you know how I was all mysterious and stuff the other day? "Mysterious thing I can't talk about yet... (More...)
If you want to nominate for the 2007 Hugos (and if you're eligible to do so), better do it soon.... (More...)
This year's final Nebula Awards ballot has been released, and I'm very pleased to see that Dora Goss's SH story... (More...)
The moderators of the website for Campbell-eligible authors are trying to collect info about all authors who are eligible for... (More...)
A passel of sf-related news and tidbits (which seems to be all I post about these days--some day I'll have... (More...)
I've been planning to write a life-update entry for days now, but other stuff keeps intervening. Last night, for example,... (More...)
For those who haven't heard, the Hugo award for Best Editor has undergone a change. For quite some time, the... (More...)
More dedicated news providers than I have already posted the Hugo and Campbell winners. For example: Locus, Emerald City. So... (More...)
A couple of years ago, I wrote an entry about gender balance among authors of works nominated for the Sidewise... (More...)
The deadline for submitting a Hugo and Campbell Award ballot is Monday, 31 July. As always, I encourage those of... (More...)
Assorted Year's Best TOCs and news and such: Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year's Best SF... (More...)
Cheryl is the first person I've seen to publicly post the 2006 Hugo nominees. I saw them in email earlier... (More...)
Two notes about the SH Readers' Choice Awards: The voting period has been extended to this coming Wednesday, March 22.... (More...)
Today is the last day to nominate for the Carl Brandon Society awards. For anyone who missed earlier mentions, these... (More...)
Remember that tonight (less than twelve hours from now) is the deadline to nominate for the Hugo Awards. If you... (More...)
Under the new eligibility rules for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, Strange Horizons is a qualifying... (More...)
It's often hard for readers to tell how long a given story is, and various awards divide stories into categories... (More...)
Some news about various speculative fiction awards, including some upcoming deadlines: Hugo nominations are due next Friday night (California time),... (More...)
Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH. (More...)
News and info about various upcoming sf-related awards: The Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award is taking nominees. Editors, please send... (More...)
Just got a Hugo nominating ballot from the 2005 WorldCon, which surprises me because there's no Hugo nominating ballot available... (More...)