The competition for the Hugo award this year was truly intense. Kudos to China Mieville and Lois McMaster Bujold as well for their excellent works.
From Neil's weblog today:
(Memo to self: even if you don't think you're going to win, write a speech. Otherwise you will wind up on the stage in front of several thousand people, finishing an impromptu speech with "Fuck, I got a Hugo.")
Fortunately, we mere mortals aren't plauged by such concerns.
From the World Science Fiction Society constitution:
3.2.1: Unless otherwise specified, Hugo Awards are given for work in the field of science fiction or fantasy appearing for the first time during the previous calendar year.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi are too intrinsically tied together to make meaningless catagorical distinctions for awards. Hence the label "Speculative Fiction" is now preferred.
Like Apple, Nokia Mobile Phones actually invests time, expertise, and money into usability:)
It's the reason I own a Nokia, and the reason I'll seriously consider buying an ipod once linux HSF+ support is a little less alpha and the ipod interface has been reverse-engineered.
I don't know how long ago you tried using debain, but all three packages (jove, xdu, and lavaps) are on the main debian server. If you ever get tired of redhat, debian will always be there for you:)
Am I the only one who has nightmares thanks to Bakshi?
I saw the animated movies as a kid, and wanted so badly to love them. And I could not make it through the second one, even as a nine-year-old with no preconceptions (other than from having read the book) and a suprisingly long attention span.
If anyone has doubts about how bad this version truly was, see here for a very funny review that doesn't pull punches.
Anyways, if the SciFi "Passage to Middle Earth" special is any indication, the Fellowship of the Ring will be incredible. So the ghost of Bakshi can finally be put to rest.
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Dude, he's an anonymous coward, The original was karma whoring, And this version of the article is formatted better,
From Neil's weblog today:
Fortunately, we mere mortals aren't plauged by such concerns.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi are too intrinsically tied together to make meaningless catagorical distinctions for awards. Hence the label "Speculative Fiction" is now preferred.
Like Apple, Nokia Mobile Phones actually invests time, expertise, and money into usability :)
It's the reason I own a Nokia, and the reason I'll seriously consider buying an ipod once linux HSF+ support is a little less alpha and the ipod interface has been reverse-engineered.
I don't know how long ago you tried using debain, but all three packages (jove, xdu, and lavaps) are on the main debian server. If you ever get tired of redhat, debian will always be there for you :)
Am I the only one who has nightmares thanks to Bakshi?
I saw the animated movies as a kid, and wanted so badly to love them. And I could not make it through the second one, even as a nine-year-old with no preconceptions (other than from having read the book) and a suprisingly long attention span.
If anyone has doubts about how bad this version truly was, see here for a very funny review that doesn't pull punches.
Anyways, if the SciFi "Passage to Middle Earth" special is any indication, the Fellowship of the Ring will be incredible. So the ghost of Bakshi can finally be put to rest.
What, you mean like this?