Hugo Nominations Announced

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Posted by timothy on Monday April 12, 2004 @05:35AM from the hugh-go-girl dept.

Embedded Geek writes "With the 2004 Nebula Awards being awarded this weekend, the Hugo nominations have been announced. As usual, the field is packed with lots of deserving entries, although I'm sure everyone has a favorite that was missed. I was particularly interested in the Short Form Drama, though, with Joss Wheadon getting three nominations for canceled shows (two Firefly, one Buffy) and Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards getting a nod. Also of interest are the Retro Hugos, an effort to look back and recognize SF published before anyone thought to hand out awards for it. Retro nominees include such greats as Childhood's End, Fahrenheit 451, and Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century (no, really!). You have until 31 July, 2004 to join Noreascon Four and vote for your favorites!"

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Retro Nods? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-12 05:36 · Score: 3, Informative

Duck Dodgers is a CURRENT show on Cartoon Network.
1. Re:Retro Nods? by Embedded+Geek · 2004-04-12 05:43 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  I nomination is for the original 1953 cartoon, not the current show.
  Although, it'd be interesting to see a show take nominations in both its retro and current incarnation. Or a novel and sequel, perhaps.
  Something that erhaps they didn't consider when making the retroes.
  
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2. Re:Retro Nods? by idiosynchronic · 2004-04-12 05:49 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Why yes it is - but if you'd RTFA you'd realize that the retroNebulas nomination is specifically for the award-winning cartoon first done by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, two titans of humour.
  
  The current Duck Dodgers is nothing but Waner Brothers sliding down the same whorish slope Disney has blazed.
Firefly wasn't watched by millahtime · 2004-04-12 05:47 · Score: 1, Informative

Ok, I watched firefly. Personally I didn't like it. But, if it were popular Fox would have kept it. So, this leads me to believe that people didn't watch it. So, maybe I'm not alone in my opinion of the show.

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Re:Firefly nominations by soh10r · 2004-04-12 05:49 · Score: 5, Informative

"The nominating comittee", in this case, is the worldcon membership--or rather, those members who sent in nominations. But yes, the previously unaired episodes were the only ones eligible, since only they came out in 2003 (the others aired in 2002).

Also, "Serenity" was the last one broadcast. I guess "The last shall be first" and all that.
Re:Personally.. by flossie · 2004-04-12 05:50 · Score: 3, Informative

I think a Fahrenheit 451 remake has a lot of potential too, with all the modern camera and computer technology today, they could really recreat the world of Guy Montag to such a degree.
Have you seen "Equilibrium"? It's basically F451 with a bit of the Matrix and 1984 thrown in. It is emotion rather than books which are banned, but it makes little difference. Unfortunately, it isn't a particularly good film.

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OMG, Elron and the CO$ are represented! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-12 05:52 · Score: 4, Informative

Check out this entry for best related book:
Master Storyteller: An Illustrated Tour of the Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard -- William J. Widder (Bridge, 2003)

Bridge publications isn't just a CO$ front org... They're the publishers of all the Dianetics (tm, pat. pending, please don't sue me) materials.

Dammit I thought that Fandom had gotten smarter than that.

(posting anon, cuz these are a scary bunch of MFs to cross!)
Re:Gollum speech in a better format? by soh10r · 2004-04-12 05:59 · Score: 2, Informative

It was on the extended DVD. It just wasn't documented as being on there.
Unless you're in region 2; I vaguely recall that it wasn't put on the region 2 DVDs to keep its more kid-friendly rating.
Um, it is ... by DikSeaCup · 2004-04-12 06:03 · Score: 5, Informative

It's an Easter Egg. Though I thought it was DVD 2 and not 1. There's also an EEgg on the FotR Extended Edition in the same place.

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Re:Firefly nominations by happypizzaguy · 2004-04-12 06:18 · Score: 2, Informative

Objects in Space was certainly one of the most unique things I've seen in a while (Whedon's commentary on the DVD really fleshes it out) but it was not the last broadcast episode. In Fox's infinite stupidity, the 2 hour episode written to be the true premier of the show was broadcast as the last episode.

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Re:Gollum speech in a better format? by bmsleight · 2004-04-12 06:22 · Score: 2, Informative

At least the direct links (rtsp) :-
Gollum
Yoda
Re:Ilium by galtenberg · 2004-04-12 06:29 · Score: 5, Informative

I think it's safe to add that if you were never able to get into Homer's Iliad, this is an excellent (although semi-fictional after awhile) ramp into that story. Names, faces, characters come to life thru modes the old classic never bothered with. I can still see them, six months after finishing the book, and they're still amazing.

Ilium is worthy of study if for no other reason than Simmons illuminates some true character differences between ourselves and ancient Greeks. Hearing Odysseus speak on the notion of arete is likely superior to anything you've heard from a college professor. Exhilirating and highly recommended. Oh, and the best SciFi of the nominees.
Re:Gollum speech in a better format? by andersen · 2004-04-12 07:04 · Score: 2, Informative

Here you go.... http://img-nex.theonering.net/movies/gollum_mtvawa rds_Bband.mov

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Download the nominees! by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · 2004-04-12 07:10 · Score: 2, Informative
Or were you hoping not to pay?
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Hugo Gernsback Re:Who the hell is Hugo by StefanJ · 2004-04-12 07:22 · Score: 4, Informative

He was the publisher of many early "pulp" SF magazines, and a big popularizer of the genre.

He wrote a bit too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gernsback

He doesn't judge a thing, being dead. The award was named in his honor.
Fahrenheit 451 Remake in Progress by twootwoot · 2004-04-12 07:31 · Score: 2, Informative

Apparently, there is a Fahrenheit 451 movie remake by the guy who directed, The Shawshank Redemption.
Re:Buffy - Chosen by Ray+Radlein · 2004-04-12 07:41 · Score: 3, Informative

Of course, only the episodes broadcast in 2003 were eligible; "Conversations with Dead People," from early in Buffy's final season, won the Short Form Hugo last year.
Re:Available online? by Ray+Radlein · 2004-04-12 08:16 · Score: 2, Informative

I'm not sure about the Retro nominees, but the regular Hugo niminees are almost always made available for free download at some time prior to the convention.

At the moment, I know that Best Novelette nominee "The Empire of Ice Cream" is available on-line; also, Kage Baker's novella The Empress of Mars appears to be available for free from Fictionwise. Don't know about the others, although, like I said, I'm sure they'll turn up eventually.
Re:Oryx & Crake passed over again by bartash · 2004-04-12 09:02 · Score: 2, Informative

Maybe because Margaret Atwood keeps trying to avoid her work being labelled as a Science Fiction.

`Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen.' (Guardian interview, 26 April)

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