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Hugo Award Voting Open

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the choose-wisely dept.

FortKnox writes "This is from SciFi Storm: It's time for the Hugo Award (Best in Science Fiction) nominations and voting for 2001. You can vote if you get at least a Supporting Membership in The Millennium Philcon or ConJosé (location of worldcon). I haven't read much current SciFi (still working on some Heinlein works), but some of the /. readers might be interested in putting in their opinions."

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  1. Re:this was posted why? by Caduceus1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anybody can get a membership - you don't need to be a member before a certain time, other than the close of voting. You don't even have to actually attend to Con...

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  2. Re:Greg Egan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I thoroughly agree! Greg Egan is a Western Australian Science Fiction Author whose short stories touch on very ./ relevant issues such as the real world implications of advances in and nanotech/biotech.

    I encourage you all to read Axiomatic, his anthology of short stories. His stories haunt my imagination just like the works of Brunner and JG Ballard.

    l8r

    chOpper

  3. Re:Next Slashdot Poll by Gasconne · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just for the record... The Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo isn't just for movies. Single episodes of TV shows as well as TV miniseries are also eligible. "Dune" was up for the BDP Hugo last year. I'm planning on nominating at least one episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" myself (probably the musical ep). And on a related note, the category may be split up after this year so movies and TV are in separate categories. There are so many qualified movies and TV shows out there these days that the amount of material seems to merit the split, IMO.

  4. Best of 2001 according to others by Pikathulhu · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here are a few "Best SF of 2001" lists:

    Locus Magazine Best Novels of 2001
    Barnes and Noble Best SF of 2001
    January Magazine Best of 2001 (go down to the bottom for SF)
    Borders Best SF of 2001
    Amazon Best Science Fiction of 2001
    Amazon Best Fantasy of 2001
    Some guy's Best SF of 2001 list
    An Amazon Listmania Best SF of 2001 list

    It's a tiny sample, but it looks like these are clear favorites:

    1. The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll
    2. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
    3. American Gods, Neil Gaiman

    And all these do well, showing up on several lists and/or ranking high where they're mentioned:

    Cosmonaut Keep, Ken MacLeod
    Nekropolis, Maureen McHugh
    The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson
    Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
    Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey
    Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds

    Personally, I haven't read enough 2001 novels to make a decent list.

  5. Re:(OT) Does anyone know Jeff Noon? by plokta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I've taken him out to dinner... Oh, the books. 'Vurt' was great, also 'Nymphomation' and 'Needle In The Groove'. I thought 'Pollen' and 'Automated Alice' sucked ('Pollen' because it wrecks the up-in-the-air ending of 'Vurt'). 'Pixel Juice' was OK.

    Try 'Vurt', just don't expect anything like any SF you've ever read before. If you like everything rational, logical and carefully explained, don't even bother. If you like weird and psychoactive, give it a try.

    Unfortunately, as far as I know, Jeff hasn't anything eligible for this year's Hugo, even though books published in the UK are now eligible for 2 years instead of one.

    Steve Davies