Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:07:59 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] [wsfa-forum] Re: [WSFA] 2006 Hugo & Campbell Awards Nominees
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> samlubell at verizon.net 3/22/2006 2:55:02 PM >>>
>>2006 Hugo & Campbell Awards Nominations
>>
>>Best Novel
>>(430 ballots cast)
>>Learning the World, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor)
>>A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin (Voyager; Bantam Spectra)
>>Old Man's War, John Scalzi (Tor)
>>Accelerando, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
>>Spin, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
>
>This is an interesting list.  Neither the Harry Potter nor the Bujold
made the list.  I've only read Accelerando and Learning the World.  I'm

>surprised the Scalzi book did so well, isn't it a first novel?

It is. PNH has an interesting analysis of things: "since the first Hugo
Awards in 1953, fully 22 debut novels have been among the finalists."
More at
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007354.html#007354   Good
reading there.

>
>>Best Novelette
>>(207 ballots cast)
>>"The Calorie Man", Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF October/November 2005)
>>"Two Hearts", Peter S. Beagle (F&SF October/November 2005)
>>"TelePresence", Michael A. Burstein (Analog July/August 2005)
>>"I, Robot", Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix February 15, 2005)
>>"The King of Where-I-Go", Howard Waldrop (SCI FICTION December 7,
>>2005)
>
>It's too late to slap a "Hugo-nominated story" sticker on the
chapbooks since they were already mailed and the deadline for voting
came
>after we mailed them, so we can't take any of the credit (but if he
wins, getting 300 copies out wouldn't have hurt).

But we could send out an email (Barry?) letting folks know that the
chapbook is actually on the way, and by the way...

Also, Steve Stiles made the final ballot in the Fan Artist category.

And lastly, in the BDP - Short Form... two stage productions made it on
the ballot.

mjw