Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:33:11 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

The WSFS Business Meeting had a last minute constitutional admendment =
proposal that the meeting declined to consider, hence there was no debate: =

"We've received one piece of late new business for the WSFS Business =
Meeting, submitted just before the deadline:  A proposal that would =
require that in each of the written-fiction Hugo award categories, if no =
selected nominee has a female author or co-author, the highest-ranked work =
with a female author or co-author from the "top 15 nominees" list would be =
added to the nominations in that category."

mjw

>>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 08/09/09 2:46 PM >>>
Since I'm not actually *at* the Worldcon, I have time to post about it.

The convention newsletters are available at
http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Newsletter.  These two-page
newsletters are PDFs, and some are quite large (over 10 megabytes).

The unopposed Reno in 2011 bid won, unsurprisingly.  Dates are August
17-21, 2011.  That's Wednesday through Sunday, not the more usual
Thursday through Monday.  It's called Renovation.  Their website
is http://www.renovationsf.org/.  Guests of honor are Tim Powers,
Ellen Asher, Boris Vallejo and the late Charles N. Brown.

The 2010 NASFiC will be named ReConStruction.  It will be in Raleigh,
North Carolina, August 5-8 2010.  Guests of honor are Eric Flint,
Brad Foster, and Juanita Coulson.  The toastmaster is Toni Weisskopf.
Their website is http://www.reconstructionsf.org/.  (It's awfully
expensive for a NASFiC -- $95 if you didn't presupport or vote.
That's not the at-the-door price, that's what it costs to register
right now.)

The proposal to delete the Best Semiprozine Hugo category was
defeated.

The Sidewise Award was won by Chris Roberson, for _The Dragon's Nine
Sons_ (long form), and by Mary Rosenblum for "Sacrifice" (short form).

The Texas in 2013 bid has settled on San Antonio, using the same
facilities as the 1997 Worldcon.

I've created or updated all the relevant Wikipedia pages with the
above information.

The panel discussion between Charlie Stross and Paul Krugman is at
http://cluebytwelve.net/anticipation/Stross-Krugman%202009-08-06-24.mp3
(audio, compressed).

The Hugos will be awarded tonight starting at 8 pm tonight.  If anyone
knows of any sites that will be doing live blogging, please tell me.
Thanks.