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Some people have assumed that the best novel list was the result of British voters giving a homefield advantage, however as Cheryl Morgan (last years winner for Best Fanzine) pointed out at Emerald City: "At the time this year’s Hugo nominations closed Interaction had around 500 British...

Ah, yes. That should have occurred to me.. The Faery Handbag Travels With My Cats I haven't gotten around to reading the Resnick yet, but the Link and Stross stories are certainly worth reading, and likely to stay up for awhile (the Stross story is under a Creative Commons license, so you...

From the Interaction (this years WorldCon) website, where they also have detailed voting statistics for the final ballot and nominations: http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/hugo.htm Best Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Best Novella: "The Concrete Jungle" by...

The term "all night Hootenanny" might be better applied to alsih2o in this case, even if it was only prospective.

I've found that I'm an integral part of half-assed attempts to disguise certain four letter words. It's nice to be part of something bigger than just me. It was odd to see the site listed as my homepage show up entirely by virtue of being linked to in my profile, as the term itself doesn't...

Perhaps it would be better to let people go on enjoying the weirdness before injecting a downer, but the baggage handler may also be involved in an incident with a much lower fun quotient. From Jonathan Strahan's blog: "I noticed that over on Neil Gaiman's journal he talks about a perfect news...

We just sang the chorus over and over and over and over when we played the game. I think I was only aware there were other lyrics from infrequently heard recordings. And we always sang it as "bridges", though perhaps the adults heard it as "Bridge is" and so didn't correct us. I remember...

Short Fiction nominees available online Most of the nominees in the shorter categories have been posted online by the authors and publishers to increase their exposure to voters. The stories from Asimov's will be soon, and I assume the other Analog story will as well. The official 2005 Hugo...

Ok, so he was talking about the nominations phase (as no B5 episode was on the final ballot). Nominees were and are determined just by the number of nominations they get, without all the complications of the final voting. However, his constituency were allowed to make 5 equally weighted...

Checking here it seems that in 1997 there were three Babylon 5 episodes that "received enough votes to be nominated but J. Michael Straczynski declined." But he doesn't seem to have received multiple nominations in previous years. I'm not quite Googly enough to find exactly when they started...

Not necessarily, as they use an optional preferential (or "Australian") ballot, where voters rank the nominees in order of preference, to the extent they have one. Here are the official rules from the WSFS constitution, and Charles Stross has a nice clear walkthrough of how this works out for...

Just announced this afternoon -- or evening, really, since it was at Eastercon in the UK. Note that all five novels are by British authors (though Iain M. Banks might prefer a more specific label), perhaps partially due to Worldcon being held in Glasgow -- though members of last year's...

Here's the official announcement from her family, on the Andre Norton message board: http://www.sf-fandom.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=17960 Her official website (nothing up yet): http://www.andre-norton.org/ She'd been in hospice care for a few weeks, so this wasn't really unexpected...

666 Steps to Financial Freedom Mr. Popper's Penanggalans

We had around 50; the tally was thrown off by a few large, darting groups. My mother got far less, which is a little odd as bunches of kids used to be trucked in, and it's just the next street east of us. The hill we're on, the path of the former railroad tracks, and the patchwork of very long...

Do you have a link to something that confirms this? I believe Google's paid placement service only puts you in the "Sponsored Links" column on the right hand side. According to Wired News: "Paid placement is a long-running issue with search engines. Google does not accept payment for ordering...

Actually, I keep encountering myself staring out from Ankh-Morpork Guard's avatar. To the extent that I always pick screen names and email addresses from terms in Cordwainer Smith stories, I suppose it must reflect something about me. I could deny that I'm the head of a millenia-old conspiracy...

I haven't read it, but there's the Book of Broken Dreams PDF. http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=157&

Dragon #204 (April 1994) had "Dance Steps For GW's Space Hulk Game" by Allen Varney, which did feature a Jim Holloway painting. It wasn't in the Ares section, though. Representative snippets: "The SPACE HULK Recreator squad combines the finest warrior skills with the sharp sense of rhythm and...

The official statement on the matter: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67195