Because this year's Worldcon is the first weekend of August, Hugo Award deadlines are moved up slightly. Therefore, if we're going to spend our traditional three meetings discussing Hugo Award recommendations and still give people a chance to cast their ballots before the deadline at the end of February, we need to get started now.
You can get a copy of this year's Hugo Awards ballot from http://www.denvention3.org/hugos/08hugonomballot.php -- if you are a member of Denvention Three or were a member of Nippon 2007, you probably received a ballot recently. If you are/were not a member of either of these conventions, you have until the end of January to join Denvention Three as at least a supporting member. See https://www.denvention3.org/wcdb/memed_member.php to register for this year's Worldcon. Tonight (Monday, January 14), after the main BASFA meeting, the Hugo Award Recommendations Discussion Group will meet to start working our way up the ballot. Bring your recommendations for the following categories: John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer (not a Hugo, but acts like one for our purposes) Best Fan Artist Best Fan Writer Best Fanzine Best Semiprozine Next week (January 21), we'll discuss the middle portion of the ballot: Best Professional Artist Best Professional Editor, Long Form Best Professional Editor, Short Form Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form I'm going to be out of town attending a management conference on January 28, and as I've been leading these discussions and nobody else seems to want to take up the cause, we'll have to take that night off. However, the following Monday, February 4, we'll finish the ballot: Best Related Book Best Short Story Best Novelette Best Novella Best Novel I intend to publish BASFA's recommendations to the LiveJournal Hugo Recommendations community <http://community.livejournal.com/hugo_recommend/> using the standards listed there so you can go back and browse everyone's recommendations by category. Of course, if you're on LiveJournal, you can post your own recommendations there and don't need to go through BASFA. Kevin _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
