Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:31:09 -0500 To: WSFA List <wsfalist at wsfa.org> From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net> Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: PRESS RELEASE #28 - Hugo Nomination Deadline is Approaching Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:58:15 +0000 >From: paul treadaway <paul.treadaway at DIAL.PIPEX.COM> >Subject: [WSFA] [SMOFS] PRESS RELEASE #28 - Hugo Nomination Deadline is Approaching >Comments: To: press at interaction.worldcon.org.uk > >[Disclaimer: This announcement is being posted to multiple mailing lists >with overlapping membership. We apologize for any inconvenience this may >cause.] > >INTERACTION, THE 63rd WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION >http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/ > >PRESS RELEASE #28 - Hugo Nomination Deadline is Approaching > >GLASGOW, Friday 25 February 2005 > >Closing date for Hugo Nominations approaches Interaction reminds >members of Noreascon 4 they are eligible to nominate Nominations >accepted by post or online > > The organising committee of Interaction, the 63rd World Science >Fiction convention today issued a reminder to all those eligible >to nominate works that the closing date for nominations is 11 March 2005. >Members of Interaction, who joined before 31 January 2005 and members of >Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention are eligible >to participate in the nomination process. > > "The Hugo Awards are the most prestigious awards in science fiction >and it is important that as many eligible nominators as possible >participate in the process," said Interaction Co-Chair Colin Harris. > > Information on how to nominate can be found on Interaction's >website at http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/hugovote.htm. >Postal nominations must be received at the UK or US Hugo Administration >addresses on or before 11 March 2005. Online nominations will be >accepted until midnight GMT on the same date, and can be made >using a valid membership number and Personal Identification Number >(PIN). Hugo PINs were printed on the address labels of Interaction's >Progress Report 3. Noreascon 4 members who have not joined Interaction >were sent postal cards with their Hugo PIN information. > > The Hugo Awards, were first presented in 1952, and are named >in honour of Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories and the >man considered to be the Father of Magazine Science Fiction. > > Eligible nominators are entitled to name their favourite five >works in each category. Awards are presented each year in thirteen >categories including Novel, Dramatic Presentations, Fan Writing, and >Art, for work that appeared the previous calendar year. In addition, >each organising committee has the option to add a special once-off >category. Interaction has elected to do so and a Hugo Award for >best Web Site will be presented. > > Based on the nominations received, a final ballot will be announced >towards the end of March and all members of Interaction will be >entitled to vote for their favourite. The winners will be announced at >a glittering ceremony in the Clyde Auditorium of the Scottish >Exhibition and Conference Centre on Sunday 7 August 2007. > > ENDS > >----------------------------------------------------- > >Contacts >General: info at interaction.worldcon.org.uk >Press/Media: David Stewart - press at interaction.worldcon.org.uk > >The 2005 World Science Fiction Convention, known as Interaction, will >take place in Glasgow, UK from 4-8 August 2005. More information about >Interaction, including current membership rates, is available from its >web site (http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/) or by writing to >info at interaction.worldcon.org.uk. > >Specific press contacts, or requests to be removed from the >Interaction press release mailing list should be directed to >press at interaction.worldcon.org.uk. > >"WSFS", "Worldcon", "World Science Fiction >Convention" and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the >World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.