Tom Beck wrote:
> Well, let's see...Stand On Zanzibar, Ringworld, Startide Rising,
> Hyperion, Dune, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Moon is a Harsh
> Mistress, The Man in the High Castle, Neuromancer, Starship Troopers,
> A Canticle for Leibowitz, Lord of Light...I think those could be sai
You're right of course, a Retro Hugo doesn't really serve a purpose.
But it's fun! :) Oh and I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure _Farmer
in the Sky_ is still being published. ;)
It is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345324382/
qid=1077864477/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5103243-0
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Subject: Re: Retro Hugos
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:52:27 -0500
Anyway, thoughts . . . Retros good or bad.
Two years ago (almost 3 now, dammit)
ucker, James White and Walt Willis
were also on the ballot). When he accepted the award, he stated this,
adding that he was not, in fact, the Best Fan Writer of 1951.
I don't know. The Retro Hugos don't really mean anything (do the
regular Hugos?), so there's no harm in doing them.
I was looking at Locus on-line
(http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Reviews/02Horton_1953Best.html) the other day
and
noticed an article by Rich Horton on Retro Hugos.
He mentions that the Retros are "controversial" because most voters lack the
experience with older works and knowledge of the
