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Hugo nominees announced
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on March 21, 2008 - 2:39pm.
This year's list of Hugo Award nominees has been released. As usual, I have read none of the nominees, although I do own one of the novels. I am hoping that over time links to the full texts of the short stories, novellettes and novellas are included on the official worldcon site.
Interestingly, the list of best professional artists for this year's award doesn't seem to be as much a popularity contest as they are linking to specific art works that the artist created last year. I don't know if that's a rule change, but I think it's a better way of awarding the prize.
Looking forward to 2009 when the convention is here in Montreal, the organizers of that event have issued their first progress report that you can read online. I can't wait.
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Rolling back the rollback price
With the oodles of SF books slowly taking over my house it's been a while since I bought a new SF novel while the term 'new' can still be applied to it. But I came across Rollback in Zeller's of all places and the 'You pay US price" banner intrigued me to see what the US/Canada difference on paperback books was these days. I was quite surprised to see that the US price was only $6.99 ($8.99 for Can, sheesh). Anyhow I decided that that was a more than a fair price so I bought it and for a change I'll have read a Hugo novel nominee before the awards are handed out.
Review forthcoming after I finish my CBIP: Jack Chalker's The Moreau Factor
~ Lazarus ~
Electronic versions of Hugo-nominated novels made available
... but only for voting members of Denvention. Click here for details.
I think it's a great idea. Maybe this way people who vote for the books will actually have read them first instead of choosing their favourite authors from the list. Much of the nominated short fiction has been made available already in free, electronic formats and even some of the non-fiction books have gone that route.
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