The Homegrown Hugo Nomination Campaign
Author: Hoger
American speculative fiction authors and their works get more recognition out of the Hugo Awards than anyone else because most of the time the annual Worldcon is held in the US. And good on them for it.
But with the 2010 Worldcon being held here our community has a great chance to internationally recognise the best work from Australia’s best authors.
Here’s how we can do it together.
Nominations for the Hugo Awards are open until March 13. You can help by nominating your favourite Australian work, writers or artists from 2009.
The works I’m highlighting and recommend nominating are:
Best Novella: Horn by Peter M. Ball
Best Novelette (two recommendations):
“Sister, Sister” by Angela Slatter in Strange Tales III
“Inevitable” by Sean Williams in The New Space Opera 2
Best Fan Writer: Bill Wright
The John W Campbell Award for best new writer (two recommendations):
Peter M. Ball
Lezli Robyn
I think Jonathan Strahan will receive another nod for Best Editor (short form) and I encourage people to nominate him. I will be.
If you haven’t already read works by these people track them down and see if you think they deserve a nomination.
There are lots of other categories too. Check them out and see if you’ve got other favourite works worth nominating as well. It’s nominations I’m interested in and I won’t be campaigning like this to get particular people particular awards once the nominations are in. But let’s get some of our best authors out there on the international awards stage.
While nominations don’t close until March 13, you need to be a member (supporting or attending) of Aussiecon 4 by January 31 to be eligible to nominate works.
Spread the word.
About Aussiecon 4 and nominating: www.aussiecon4.org.au/
About the Hugo Awards: www.thehugoawards.org/
Tags: Aussiecon 4, authors, awards
January 29th, 2010 at 8:14 am
One of the ways that you can let people know about Australians who are potential nominees is to get them listed on Recommendation lists such as these or the others I link to.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Thanks Cheryl. I’m about to update the Facebook page with a heap of useful links so I’ll put that one up.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Hi Robert!
Great thing you’re doing here :) I tried searching for the Homegrown Hugo Campaign, as you mentioned on Alisa’s blog, and Facebook couldn’t find it!
I was going to oh so immodestly mention my website, which is mostly for Australian spec fic authors. It’s a wee bit broken at the moment as we’re moving servers, though.
Cheers!
~Nyssa
January 29th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hey Nyssa.
We definitely should plug your website! It’s a great idea.
I’m not sure if there’s an easy way to link to the group from outside Facebook but log in and try this:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=271312902422
Or try searching for:
“The Homegrown Hugo Nomination Campaign”
February 1st, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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