Conference noted::sf

    No.  Nobody knows, as they haven't been chosen yet.  (The nominating
    ballots are out, though.  Not sure what the deadline for returning
    them is.)
    
    >Mark

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: 1993 Hugo Awards nominees announcement
Date: 17 Apr 93 22:57:50 PST
Keywords: awards, Hugo
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Here they are: the official list of 1993 Hugo nominees.
 -- Seth Goldberg and David Bratman, ConFrancisco Hugo Administrator


 Best Novel
 CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG by Maureen McHugh (Tor)
 RED MARS by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins (UK), Bantam Spectra)
 STEEL BEACH by John Varley (Ace/Putnam)
 A FIRE UPON THE DEEP by Vernor Vinge (Tor)
 DOOMSDAY BOOK by Connie Willis (Bantam)
 No Award

 Best Novella
 "Uh-Oh City" by Jonathan Carroll (F&SF June 92)
 "The Territory" by Bradley Denton (F&SF July 92)
 "Protection" by Maureen McHugh (Asimov's Apr 92)
 STOPPING AT SLOWYEAR by Frederik Pohl (Axolotl/Pulphouse, Bantam)
 "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard (Asimov's July 92)
 No Award
 
 Best Novelette
 "True Faces" by Pat Cadigan (F&SF Apr 92)
 "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan (Asimov's Dec 92)
 "In the Stone House" by Barry N. Malzberg (Alternate Kennedys)
 "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent (Asimov's Oct 92)
 "Suppose They Gave a Peace ..." by Susan Shwartz (Alternate Presidents)
 No Award

 Best Short Story
 "The Winterberry" by Nicholas A. DiChario (Alternate Kennedys)
 "The Mountain to Mohammed" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's Apr 92)
 "The Lotus and the Spear" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's Aug 92)
 "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" by Martha Soukup (Asimov's Apr 92)
 "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (Asimov's Apr 92)
 No Award

 Best Non-Fiction Book
 ENTERPRISING WOMEN: TELEVISION FANDOM AND THE CREATION OF POPULAR MYTH
     by Camille Bacon-Smith (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)
 THE COSTUMEMAKER'S ART edited by Thom Boswell (Lark)
 VIRGIL FINLAY'S WOMEN OF THE AGES by Virgil Finlay (Underwood-Miller)
 MONAD NUMBER TWO edited by Damon Knight (Pulphouse)
 LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE DEAF MAN by Dave Langford (NESFA)
 A WEALTH OF FABLE by Harry Warner Jr (SCIFI)
 No Award

 Best Dramatic Presentation
 ALADDIN (Walt Disney Pictures)
 ALIEN 3 (20th Century Fox)
 BATMAN RETURNS (Warner Brothers)
 BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Columbia Pictures)
 "The Inner Light" (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION) (Paramount Television)

 Best Professional Editor
 Ellen Datlow
 Gardner Dozois
 Beth Meacham
 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
 Stanley Schmidt
 No Award

 Best Professional Artist
 Thomas Canty
 David A. Cherry
 Bob Eggleton
 James Gurney
 Don Maitz
 No Award

 Best Original Artwork
 Cover of ARISTOI (W.J. Williams) by Jim Burns (Tor)
 DINOTOPIA by James Gurney (Turner)
 Cover of F&SF, October-November 1992 (illustrating "Bridges",
     by C. deLint), by Ron Walotsky
 Cover of ILLUSION (P. Volsky) by Michael Whelan (Bantam)
 Cover of Asimov's, November 1992 (Asimov portrait), by Michael Whelan
 No Award

 Best Semi-Prozine
 INTERZONE, edited by David Pringle
 LOCUS, edited by Charles N. Brown
 THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION, edited by David G. Hartwell,
    Donald G. Keller, Robert K.J. Kilheffer, and Gordon Van Gelder
 PULPHOUSE, edited by Dean Wesley Smith
 SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE, edited by Andrew Porter
 No Award

� Best Fanzine
 FILE 770, edited by Mike Glyer
 FOSFAX, edited by Timothy Lane and Janice Moore
 LAN'S LANTERN, edited by George J. Laskowski Jr.
 MIMOSA, edited by Dick and Nicki Lynch
 STET, edited by Leah Smith
 No Award

 Best Fan Writer
 Mike Glyer
 Andy Hooper
 Dave Langford
 Evelyn C. Leeper
 Harry Warner Jr.
 No Award

 Best Fan Artist
 Teddy Harvia
 Merle Insinga
 Linda Michaels
 Peggy Ranson
 Stu Shiffman
 Diana Harlan Stein
 No Award

 John W. Campbell Award
 for Best New Writer of 1991-1992 (sponsored by Dell Magazines)
 Barbara Delaplace 
 Nicholas A. DiChario
 Holly Lisle 
 Laura Resnick 
 Carrie Richerson 
 Michelle Sagara 
 No Award


Comments on the Hugo nominees:

The category "Best Translator" included on the nominating ballot 
was eliminated due to lack of interest.  A few voters commented 
that a knowledgable vote in this category would require linguistic
expertise beyond what can reasonably be expected of Hugo voters.

DINOTOPIA by James Gurney received enough votes to be nominated 
in both the Original Artwork and Nonfiction Book categories.  The
administrators judged that it is a single sequential work of art, 
and thus best placed in Original Artwork.

Two nominations were withdrawn from the ballot.  Michael Whelan 
declined nomination as Best Professional Artist for this year.  
Boris Vallejo declined the nomination for Best Original Artwork 
of his cover of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, saying that 
it is against his principles to enter in a competition among 
professionals.  Both artists thank the voters who nominated them, 
and feel honored to have been chosen.

Maureen F. McHugh and Poppy Z. Brite received enough votes to be 
nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, but
were ruled ineligible due to professional publications of fiction in
the science fiction and fantasy field prior to 1991.

397 ballots were received.  The most votes cast were in the Novel
category, 1102.  The most works nominated were 206 short stories
(not counting a few novelettes etc. that also received nominations
as short stories).  The highest number of votes received by a
single item was 100 in Dramatic Presentation.  The lowest number of
votes received by anything that got on the ballot was 9, in Original
Artwork.  (With 125 ballots cast in that category, this was still
well over the 5%-of-the-ballots threshhold required for 4th and 5th
place finishers to be nominated.)  Only 40 voters nominated anything
at all for Best Translator; at 10% this was considered far too low
a turnout.  (Original Artwork was the next lowest category.)  Exact
statistics for each category will be in the final ballot, which will
be posted to rec.arts.sf.announce in the next few weeks.

Ballots will be mailed to ConFrancisco members in PR #6, going out
in late May.  They must be postmarked by July 31 and received by
August 6 to be counted.  The good news is, you'll be able to fax
your ballot; you still can't e-mail it, because we'd like it signed.

-- Seth Goldberg and David Bratman, ConFrancisco Hugo Administrator

-- 
Seth Goldberg
Manager, Computer Resources
David Systems, Inc
Internet:  [email protected]  
    UUCP:  ...!uunet!sam!sgoldberg

    Was there some reason why _no one_ I talked to in the SF community here
    in Atlanta WHO ATTENDED MAGICON received a Hugo nomination ballot?

    For those of you interested in being knowledgable voters in the, ah,
    less familiar categories, there is a sample of Dave Langford's
    writing, from _Let's_Hear_It_for_the_Deaf_Man_, as note 759.* in
    REGENT::ANSI_PRINTING.
    
    						Ann B.
    
    P.S.  Well, perhaps you should read the last reply first.

    	So who won?

No one yet.  The winners will be voted on at ConFrancisco Labor Day weekend.

    I thought I saw a piece on ET (or one of those entertainment magazine
    shows) about the Hugos Awards being handed out.......
    
    Either memory is failing me or
    
    possible spoiler
    
    or possible confusion
    
    Or Batman Returns won the Hugo in its category.
    
    

memory is failing you.

    Actually, you might have heard the results for the Nebula Awards;
    they're usually announced about this time.  'Course I could be 
    wrong -- it's been known to happen.
    					andrew

    That's probably what is was.
    
    Thanx.