This Monday, February 3, is the first of four scheduled nights (the first and second Mondays of February and March) where BASFA will start discussing our recommendations for the WSFS-related Awards this year. There are a whole lot of them this, thanks to Loncon 3 electing to present the 1939 Retrospective Hugo Awards and Detcon 1, this year's NASFiC, presenting a special Young Adult Fiction Award (not a Hugo, but administered somewhat like one). And there's also this year's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Because Detcon's YA Award nominating deadline is the end of February while all of the others are at the end of March, I propose we start with the Detcon YA Award discussion tomorrow night, then try and get through at least half of this year's Hugo ballot. I expect we'll continue to revisit categories throughout the next several weeks. As usual, I encourage people to NOT bring items for auction this week or next week and to restrain themselves from overly-long reviews in order to give the club time to consider the Awards ballot recommendations. Kevin _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
