Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:21:29 -0400
From: Barry Newton <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
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Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: [smofs] Chicon 7 Press Release 23 - 2012 Hugo Voter Packet Released
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Subject: [WSFA] [smofs] Chicon 7 Press Release 23 - 2012 Hugo Voter Packet
Released
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:57:43 +0100
From: Colin Harris <palatinate at gmail.com>
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Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention,
Chicago, IL - August 30 to September 3, 2012

press at chicon.org
www.chicon.org

Postal queries to: Chicon 7, P.O. Box 13, Skokie, IL 60076

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, May 21, 2012

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction
Convention ("Worldcon"), has released the 2012 Hugo Voter Packet, an
electronic package of nominated works graciously made available to
voters by Hugo nominees and their publishers.

The 2012 Hugo Voter Packet is available to Supporting, Attending, and
Young Adult members of Chicon 7 to help inform them about the works
under consideration before voting. The packet is available until
voting closes on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

For more information and to access the 2012 Hugo Voter Packet, please
visit www.chicon.org/hugo-packet.php.

The Hugo Awards are the premier award in the science fiction genre,
honoring science fiction literature and media as well as the genre's
fans. The Hugo Awards were first presented at the 1953 World Science
Fiction Convention in Philadelphia (Philcon II), and they have
continued to honor science fiction and fantasy notables annually for
nearly 60 years.

More information about the Hugo Awards is available from
www.chicon.org/hugo-awards.php.

For additional information, contact us at hugoadmin at chicon.org.

ENDS

Chicon 7 is the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon").
The first Worldcon occurred in New York City in 1939 and Worldcons
have been held annually since then except for 1942-45 when there was
no event due to World War II. Chicon 7's Guests of Honor are five-time
Hugo winning author Mike Resnick, artist Rowena Morrill, art agent and
collector Jane Frank, science fiction fan and former Worldcon chair
Peggy Rae Sapienza, and astronaut Story Musgrave. Chicon 7's
Toastmaster is John Scalzi.

For more details about the convention or to purchase memberships,
visit www.chicon.org. Send press questions, or requests to be removed
from the Chicon 7 press release mailing list, to press at chicon.org.
Send general queries to info at chicon.org. "World Science Fiction
Society," "WSFS," "World Science Fiction Convention," "Worldcon,"
"NASFiC," "Hugo Award," and the distinctive design of the Hugo Award
Rocket are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an
unincorporated literary society.
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