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Sunday, August 9, 2009

2009 Hugo Award Finalists

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Location: Anticipation in Montreal, Quebec. Comments: In 2009 Neil Gaiman continued his dominance of the Hugo Awards by winning the aw...
Monday, July 20, 2009

2009 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

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Location: Mythcon XL in Los Angeles, California. Comments: The roster of authors with works nominated for the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards i...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

2009 Campbell Award Nominees

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Location: Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Comments: As glad as I am that Cory Doct...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

2009 Locus Award Nominees

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Location: Seattle, Washington. Comments: Once again the Best Art Book category was eliminated as an independent entity and folded into...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

2009 Clarke Award Nominees

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Location: Sci-Fi London at the Apollo Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Comments: I've said this before, but the 2009 s...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

2009 Nebula Award Nominees

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Location: Los Angeles, California. Comments: 2009 was a good year for female authors. The year saw two of my favorite authors - Ursula...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Biased Opinion - Nitpicking Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings

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I first saw all three Lord of the Rings movies in their theatrical release. Every year, for three years, the Christmas gift I looked forwar...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008 Campbell Award Nominees

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Location: Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Comments: In 2008, Kathleen Ann Goonan b...

2008 Prometheus Award Nominees

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Location: Unknown. Comments: The Prometheus Award Hall of Fame is, and always has been, something of an odd duck. The nominees are usu...

2008 Clarke Award Nominees

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Location: Sci-Fi London at the Apollo Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Comments: You can often discern the concerns of an ...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

2008 World Fantasy Award Nominees

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Location: World Fantasy Convention, Calgary, Alberta. Comments: Even though there are still serious gender disparity issues displayed i...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

2008 WSFA Small Press Awards

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Location: CapClave in Rockville, Maryland. Comments: One of the more interesting things about the WSFA Small Press Award is that is is...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Biased Opinion - Not All Opinions Matter

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It seems to have become an article of faith in many places that all opinions, no matter how loony, must be considered. On internet boards es...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Biased Opinion - What Is a Sport?

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The other day, I had the Olympics on, and NBC was showing the team synchronized swimming event (I know, but no other channels were carrying ...