Hugo Nominations Info

[Scott H. Andrews]

In case any BCS readers are interested in making nominations for the 2009 Hugo Awards, which cover fiction released during 2008, here are the details on how to nominate and a list of the Hugo categories that the stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies in 2008 are eligible for.

Are You Eligible to Nominate?

To be eligible to make nominations, you must be either have purchased a membership to the 2009 Worldcon, Anticipation, before Jan. 31, 2009, or you must have been a member of the 2008 Worldcon, Denvention 3.

Deadline to Nominate:

You must have your nominations in before March 1, 2009.

How to Nominate:

Anticipation's webpage About Hugo Nominating and Voting (http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos) has a PDF nomination form you can fill out and mail in. They have now also posted the online nomination form (http://www.anticipationsf.ca/pub/hugos/nominations.php).

Some Things I Hope You Will Consider Nominating, if you find them worthy:

BEST SHORT STORY:
David D. Levine, "Sun Magic, Earth Magic (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=9)" (from BCS #1)
Yoon Ha Lee, "Architectural Constants (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=3)" (from BCS #2)
Marie Brennan, "Kingspeaker (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=4)" (from BCS #3)
Sarah L. Edwards, "The Last Devil (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=10)" (from BCS #4)
Catherine S. Perdue, "Precious Meat (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=12)" (from BCS #5)
Rebecca Lyn Shelley, "Dunasby, Fire and Ice (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=11)" (from BCS #6)

BEST NOVELETTE:
Chris Willrich, "The Sword of Loving Kindness (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=5)" (from BCS #1-2)
Charles Coleman Finlay & Rae Carson Finlay, "The Crystal Stair (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=7)" (from BCS #3-4)
Tina Connolly, "The God-Death of Halla (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=13)" (from BCS #5)
J. Kathleen Cheney, "The Dragon's Child (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=14)" (from BCS #6)

BEST FANZINE:*
Beneath Ceaseless Skies

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (not a Hugo):**
Aliette de Bodard (http://www.writertopia.com/profiles/AlietteDeBodard) ("Beneath the Mask (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=17)," in BCS #8)
Tony Pi (http://www.writertopia.com/profiles/TonyPi) ("Silk and Shadow," forthcoming in BCS #11 (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/toc.php?s=11))

For more information on the Hugo categories, you can read the official guidelines on the Hugo Awards website (http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=3). For more information on the Campbell, you can visit their site (http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell).

Thanks very much for your support of Beneath Ceaseless Skies!

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*Even though BCS meets one of the criteria to be considered a Semiprozine, that we pay other than in contributors' copies, we do not yet meet any of the other criteria. But Locus has won the Hugo for Semiprozine something like twenty of the last twenty-five years, so maybe the Fanzine category is a better shot. :)

**I'm not perfectly clear on the rules for the Campbell--it's possible that a bunch of the writers in BCS are eligible. But I know that Aliette and Tony have impressive bodies of work, and they're both being nominated by other people, so I've listed them here.

[Scott H. Andrews]

Writer and editor Cat Rambo has an informative livejournal post about Hugo nominations (http://catrambo.livejournal.com/217834.html), including her support for BCS. Thanks very much, Cat!

She mentions BCS in the Semiprozine category, but I've left a comment correcting that--even though we pay pro rate, we are actually in the Best Fanzine category.

Thanks to everyone who finds us worthy.

[Grace Seybold]

I've been wandering about the internets trying to fill in my nomination form, and came across this website that might be useful to some:

http://www.canadiansf.com/node/24

It's a list of all the Canadian SF published in 2008 in English. I came across it while trying to verify that Edward Willett's "Marseguro" was eligible (it is) and thought there might be other Canucks out there who, like me, are trying to decide what to read before the nomination deadline. I feel like I ought to read more Canadian authors; I'd only even heard of seven of the names in the novels section (and hadn't realised one of them was Canadian). So this gives me a bit of a guideline for what to buy/get at the library in the next few weeks.