jeanne@ucla-cs.UUCP (04/23/85)
Following are the just announced 1985 Hugo Nominations. The awards will be given at Worldcon; this year the con is in Melbourne, Australia, the weekend of Aug. 22-26. BEST NOVEL NEUROMANCER--William Gibson (Ace) JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE--Robert A. Heinlein (Del Rey) THE INTEGRAL TREES--Larry Niven (Del Rey) EMERGENCE--David R. Palmer (Bantam) THE PEACE WARD--Vernor Vinge (Bluejay) An aside: the Gibson and Palmer books are both first novels. BEST NOVELLA "Cyclops"--David Brin (Asimov's 3/84) "Valentina"--Joseph R. Delaney & Marc Stiegler (Analog 5/84) "Summer Solstice"--Charles L. Harness (Analog 5/84) "Elementals"--Geoffrey A. Landis (Analog 12/84) "PRESS ENTER"--John Varley (Asimov's 5/84) BEST NOVELETTE "Bloodchild"--Octavia Butler (Asimov's 6/84) "The Lucky Strike"--Kim Stanley Robinson (Universe 14) "Silicon Muse"--Hilbert Schenck (Analog 9/84) "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule"--Lucius Shepard (F&SF 12/84) "The Weigher"--Eric Virdcoff & Marcia Martin (Analog 10/84) "Blued Moon"--Connie Willis (Asimov's 1/84) "Return to the Fold"--Timothy Zahn (Analog 9/84) BEST SHORT STORY "The Crystal Spheres"--David Brin (Analog 1/84) "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything"--George Alec Effinger (F&SF 10/84) "Rory"--Steven Gould (Analog 4/84) "Symphony for a Lost Traveler"--Lee Killough (Analog 3/84) "Ridge Running"--Kim Stanley Robinson (F&SF 1/84) "Salvador"--Lucius Shepard (F&SF 4/84) BEST NON-FICTION SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN THE PROCRUSTEAN BED--Harlan Ellison (Borgo) THE DUNE ENCYCLOPEDIA--Dr. Willis E. McNelley, ed. (Berkely/Putnam) THE FACES OF SCIENCE FICTION, Patti Perret (Bluejay) IN THE HEART OR IN THE HEAD: AN ESSAY IN TIME TRAVEL-- George Turner (Norstrilia) WONDER'S CHILD: MY LIFE IN SCIENCE FICTION--Jack Williamson (Bluejay) BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION DUNE GHOSTBUSTERS THE LAST STARFIGHTER STAR TREK 3: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK 2010 BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR Terry Carr Edward L. Ferman Shawna McCarthy Stanley Schmidt George Scithers BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST Vincent DiFate Tom Kidd Val Lakey Lindahn Barclay Shaw Michael Whelan JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD (not a Hugo, but awarded at the same time. It goes to the best new writer) Bradley Denton Geoffrey Landis Elissa Malcohn Ian McDonald Melissa Scott Lucius Shepard Nominees in this category are eligible for two years. Shepard is the only nominee this year in his second year of nomination. The others wil be eligible again next year. If anyone is interested in the semi-pro and fan categories, send me email--this message is getting awfully long. Also, if anyone is interested in joining the convention (as either an attending or a supporting member--both get to vote), send me email and I'll send you that info.
cas@cvl.UUCP (Cliff Shaffer) (04/25/85)
Could someone please post the nominees/winners for last year's Hugo awards? Cliff Shaffer ...!rlgvax!cvl
mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (04/26/85)
>Following are the just announced 1985 Hugo Nominations. >BEST NOVEL > >NEUROMANCER--William Gibson (Ace) >JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE--Robert A. Heinlein (Del Rey) >THE INTEGRAL TREES--Larry Niven (Del Rey) >EMERGENCE--David R. Palmer (Bantam) >THE PEACE WARD--Vernor Vinge (Bluejay) That should be "The Peace War", not "Ward." Being amazed that I've read them all, I can't help but comment. Surely, those don't represent the best sf novels of the year '84? The books are all good, but the best of the bunch (TPW) isn't anything special. Could someone enlighten me as to the prerequisites a novel needs to be eligible for a Hugo? Copyright date? Publication date? In which country? Thanx, <mike
jeanne@ucla-cs.UUCP (05/08/85)
Could someone enlighten me as >to the prerequisites a novel needs to be eligible for a Hugo? Copyright >date? Publication date? In which country? > It's based on calendar year publication. Books that get published in December and January (and never seem to come out when the copyright says) are a problem that I've never quite figured out. My usual course of action is to use the Recommended List in Locus as a guide to what's eligible. I don't think country makes a difference, but since most people who vote are American, books published in the States obviously have an (overwhelming) advantage.
boyajian@akov68.DEC (05/11/85)
I missed the original posting, but... > From: ucla-cs!jeanne >> Could someone enlighten me as >> to the prerequisites a novel needs to be eligible for a Hugo? Copyright >> date? Publication date? In which country? > > It's based on calendar year publication. Books that > get published in December and January (and never > seem to come out when the copyright says) are a > problem that I've never quite figured out. My usual > course of action is to use the Recommended List in > Locus as a guide to what's eligible. Partially right. Eligibility is based on the stated publication date on the book or magazine. For this year's awards, short stories in magazines are eligible only if the cover date is 1984, regardless of when it comes out. Novels that are serialized in magazines are only eligible for the year that the last issue containing the serial is dated. For books, again, the stated publication date is what counts. Remember, regardless of when a book is actually published, copyright date only reflects when the book was copyrighted, not published. Of course, books are usually issued a month before the stated publication date, but that's something else again. > I don't think country makes a difference, but since > most people who vote are American, books published > in the States obviously have an (overwhelming) > advantage. Nominees are eligible on their first publication *in English*. A worthy story may have been published in, say, France, thirty years ago, but if it was published in English for the first time in 1984, it would be eligible for this year's awards. Books first published in England *can* end up getting screwed if they aren't published in the US until the next year, but this hasn't happened enough to make that much difference. Besides, I believe there is a loophole in the eligibility rules that allows an author of a book published only in England in a given year to withdraw eligibilty for that novel until the year it appears in the US. I know that this has applied to limited edition works. For example, Larry Niven's RINGWORLD ENGINEERS came out in limited edition from Phantasia Press in December 1979, but Niven withdrew it in favor of its trade publication in 1980. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA