I like all the Will McIntosh stories I've read so far, so I don't feel bad about that one. "Spar" felt to me like it was calculated to get attention, and "Bride of..." was kind of fun, but I want more than "kind of fun" before I'm thinking something deserves a major award. "Bridesicle" has rewarded more thinking on it -- there are a lot of things you can get to through the lens of that story. So while it seems light, it's actually got legs.
The tie for novel is interesting. I was surprised that the buzz left Mieville out (it's a really good book), and I wonder if that doesn't indicate a SFWA-centric perspective on our part. (Not that that would be surprising or even, really, bad, but just saying.) On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Alicia Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey! We predicted one! Bridesicle! > > Alicia > > On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:08 AM, SteveC wrote: > > Reprinted from Ansible. >> >> The live text and video feed at www.thehugoawards.org, run by Cheryl >> Morgan and others, allowed far-off nominees to suffer killing suspense >> in real time and was much admired. So was the base design, inspired by >> Aboriginal myths of the rainbow serpent; though George R.R. Martin >> thought an antipodean Hugo should have a little pouch on the rocket, >> holding a smaller one. Voting turnout was high. >> >> NOVEL a tie, very rare in Hugo history: Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup >> Girl, and China Miéville, The City & The City. >> >> NOVELLA Charles Stross, 'Palimpsest' (Wireless). >> >> NOVELETTE Peter Watts, 'The Island' (The New Space Opera 2). He'd bet >> he wouldn't win: 'Thanks for costing me $20, you guys.' >> >> SHORT Will McIntosh, 'Bridesicle' (Asimov's 1/09). >> >> RELATED WORK Jack Vance, This is Me, Jack Vance! >> >> GRAPHIC STORY Kaja and Phil Foglio, Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha >> Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm. >> >> DRAMATIC, LONG Moon. >> >> DRAMATIC, SHORT Doctor Who: 'The Waters of Mars'. >> >> EDITOR, LONG Patrick Nielsen Hayden – who ruled himself out from next >> year's award, wanting to see new blood. >> >> EDITOR, SHORT Ellen Datlow. >> >> PRO ARTIST Shaun Tan. >> >> SEMIPROZINE Clarkesworld – the first online fiction magazine to win >> this. >> >> FAN WRITER Frederik Pohl. >> >> FANZINE StarShipSofa. >> >> FAN ARTIST Brad W. Foster. >> >> John W. Campbell (new writer): Seanan McGuire. >> >> • Worldcon 2012. Chicago's unopposed bid naturally won the site >> selection vote. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
