Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:31:32 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Hugo nominees
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Steven Vaughan-Nichols wrote:

>  On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Neil Ottenstein
>  <nottenst at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Isn't there some sort of contradiction here with John Scalzi being
> > nominated in both these categories?
> >
> > --- Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > Best Novel The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor)
> >
> > Best Fan Writer John Scalzi
>
>  Won't be the first. or last, time, this has happened. Harlan Ellison
>  is the case that first comes to mind back in the 60s.

Not a good example.  Harlan was nominated for Fan Writer in 1968, but
withdrew at some point before the convention.  I won.  Nor is that the
earliest example.  As has been pointed out, Jack Gaughan *won* as both
Fan and Professional Artist in 1967.  And that was the first year the
Fan Artist and Fan Writer categories existed, making it the first
opportunity for something like this to happen.

Most fans don't regard Scalzi as a fan writer at all.

--Ted White