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1222.0. "Hugo Nominations for 1994 Awards" by REGENT::BROOMHEAD (Don't panic -- yet.) Fri Apr 29 1994 15:03

    This information was relayed to me from Sharon Sbarsky, another member
    of Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc. (the group that put on
    Noreascons 2 and 3, and is bidding for 2001.)
    
    							Ann B.

     FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1994

Contacts: David Bratman  (408) 725-8559  [email protected]
          Seth Goldberg  (408) 541-6834  [email protected]

     1994 HUGO AND CAMPBELL AWARD NOMINEES

ConAdian, the 52nd World Science Fiction Convention, has released the nominees
for the 1994 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award.  The winners will be
presented at a ceremony at ConAdian in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Saturday,
September 3, 1994.

The nominees that follow were chosen by popular vote by 649 members of
ConAdian or ConFrancisco (the 51st World Science Fiction Convention) who
submitted valid nominating ballots.  The nomination ballots were counted and
verified by the ConAdian Hugo Administrators, David Bratman and Seth Goldberg.
The final ballots will be sent to ConAdian members in Progress Report no. 6,
due to be mailed in May.  The ballot will also be available online on
CompuServe, GEnie, and Usenet.  Only attending and supporting members of
ConAdian are eligible to vote.  Ballots must be postmarked by July 31 and
received by August 6 to be counted, and must be mailed to: 1994 Hugo Awards,
Seth Goldberg, Voting Administrator, P.O. Box 271986, Concord, California,
94527-1986, U.S.A.  Until July 15, ConAdian memberships are available for
US$125/Cdn$165 attending or US$30/Cdn$35 supporting from ConAdian, P.O. Box
2430, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 4A7, Canada.


     Best Novel
 Moving Mars, by Greg Bear (Tor)
 Glory Season, by David Brin (Bantam Spectra)
 Virtual Light, by William Gibson (Bantam Spectra)
 Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress (Morrow AvoNova)
 Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra US)
 No Award

     Best Novella
 "The Night We Buried Road Dog", by Jack Cady (F&SF, January 1993)
 "Mefisto in Onyx", by Harlan Ellison (Omni, October 1993; Mark V. Ziesing)
 "An American Childhood", by Pat Murphy (Asimov's, April 1993)
 "Into the Miranda Rift", by G. David Nordley (Analog, July 1993)
 "Down in the Bottomlands", by Harry Turtledove (Analog, January 1993)
 "Wall, Stone, Craft", by Walter Jon Williams (F&SF, October/November 1993;
     Axolotl)
 No Award

     Best Novelette
 "The Shadow Knows", by Terry Bisson (Asimov's, September 1993; Bears Discover
     Fire (Tor))
 "The Franchise", by John Kessel (Asimov's, August 1993)
 "Dancing on Air", by Nancy Kress (Asimov's, July 1993)
 "Georgia on My Mind", by Charles Sheffield (Analog, January 1993)
 "Deep Eddy", by Bruce Sterling (Asimov's, August 1993)
 No Award

     Best Short Story
 "England Underway", by Terry Bisson (Omni, July 1993; Bears Discover Fire
     (Tor))
 "The Good Pup", by Bridget McKenna (F&SF, March 1993)
 "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", by Mike Resnick (Asimov's, March 1993;
     Alternate Warriors (Tor))
 "The Story So Far", by Martha Soukup (Full Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra))
 "Death on the Nile", by Connie Willis (Asimov's, March 1993)
 No Award

     Best Non-Fiction Book
 Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography, by Robert Bloch (Tor)
 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
     (Orbit UK; St. Martin's US)
 PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies, edited
     by Theodore R. Cogswell (Advent)
 Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, by Scott McCloud (Tundra; Kitchen
     Sink; Harper Perennial)
 The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions, by Michael Whelan (Bantam Spectra)
 No Award

     Best Dramatic Presentation
 Addams Family Values (Paramount Pictures); Producer, Scott Rudin; Director,
     Barry Sonnenfeld; Screenwriter, Paul Rudnick
 "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) (Warner Brothers); Executive producers, Douglas
     Netter & J. Michael Straczynski; Director, Richard Compton; Writer,
     J. Michael Straczynski
 Groundhog Day (Columbia Pictures); Producers, Trevor Albert & Harold Ramis;
     Director, Harold Ramis; Screenwriters, Danny Rubin & Harold Ramis
 Jurassic Park (Universal); Producers, Kathleen Kennedy & Gerald R. Malen;
     Director, Steven Spielberg; Screenwriters, Michael Crichton & David Koepp
 The Nightmare Before Christmas (Touchstone Pictures); Producers, Tim Burton
     & Denise DiNovi; Director, Henry Selick; Screenwriter, Caroline Thompson
 No Award

     Best Professional Editor
 Ellen Datlow
 Gardner Dozois
 Mike Resnick
 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
 Stanley Schmidt
 No Award

     Best Professional Artist
 Thomas Canty
 David Cherry
 Bob Eggleton
 Don Maitz
 Michael Whelan
 No Award

     Best Original Artwork
 Cover of F&SF, October/November 1993 (illustrating "The Little Things", B.
     McKenna), by Thomas Canty
 Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet, by Stephen Hickman (U.S. Postal
     Service)
 Cover of Asimov's, November 1993 (illustrating "Cold Iron", M. Swanwick), by
     Keith Parkinson
 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. Killheffer, and Gordon Van Gelder
 Pulphouse, edited by Dean Wesley Smith and Jonathan E. Bond
 Science Fiction Chronicle, edited by Andrew Porter
 Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, edited by Algis Budrys
 No Award

     Best Fanzine
 Ansible, edited by Dave Langford
 File 770, edited by Mike Glyer
 Lan's Lantern, edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
 Mimosa, edited by Dick and Nicki Lynch
 Stet, edited by Leah Zeldes Smith and Dick Smith
 No Award

     Best Fan Writer
 Sharon Farber
 Mike Glyer
 Andy Hooper
 Dave Langford
 Evelyn C. Leeper
 No Award

     Best Fan Artist
 Teddy Harvia
 Linda Michaels
 Peggy Ranson
 William Rotsler
 Stu Shiffman
 No Award

     John W. Campbell Award
     for Best New Science Fiction Writer of 1992-1993
     (sponsored by Dell Magazines)
 Holly Lisle (2nd year of eligibility)
 Jack Nimersheim (2nd year of eligibility)
 Carrie Richerson (2nd year of eligibility)
 Amy Thomson (1st year of eligibility)
 Elizabeth Willey (1st year of eligibility)
 No Award


In some categories more than 5 nominees appear due to tie votes.  In the
"Original Artwork" category only 3 nominees appear, as no other candidates
appeared on at least 5% of the ballots cast in that category, as required by
Section 2.6 of the WSFS Constitution for 4th and 5th nominees.

Owing to a severe disparity among the short fiction categories in the number
of nominations received by the leading candidates, to achieve a fairer
balance the administrators exercised the option provided by Section 2.2.1 of
the WSFS Constitution to relocate stories within 5,000 words of the category
limits into adjacent categories.  Three stories were relocated: "Dancing on
Air" to Novelette from Novella; "Death on the Nile" and "England Underway" to
Short Story from Novelette.  As a result of this relocation, the threshold for
appearing on the ballot in all three short fiction categories is the same: 28
nominations.  (What is now the 5th place short story received 35 nominations,
but no short story received between 28 and 34 nominations.)  If no relocation
had been made, the threshold would have varied from 28 to 60 nominations (a
range of 32), and two stories with 28 or more nominations would not have
appeared on the ballot.

Hard Landing, by Algis Budrys (Warner Questar), received enough votes to be
nominated for Best Novel, but was ruled ineligible due to having first been
published in magazine format in 1992.  Nicola Griffith received enough votes
to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award, but was ruled ineligible due
to professional publication of fiction in the science fiction and fantasy
field prior to 1992.

Statistics: The chart below shows, for each Hugo category, the total number of
ballots marked, the total number of votes cast, the number of different
candidates nominated, and the range of votes received by the finalists.  The
first two columns were calculated on raw eligible votes, the third after
reassigning scattered votes for single candidates to the most appropriate
category, and the last on the nominees actually appearing on the ballot in
each category.

 Category       Ballots     Votes         Nominees     Range
 Novel          521         1662          285          66-38
 Novella        316          814           60          81-28
 Novelette      322          970          147          81-28
 Short Story    367         1120          284          72-35
 Nonfic. Book   239          448           64         111-23
 Dram. Pres.    345          859          136         159-34
 Prof. Editor   371          924           82         145-73
 Prof. Artist   338          966          177          87-58
 Orig. Art.     216          500          219          34-13
 Semiprozine    320          687           54         142-38
 Fanzine        299          678          131          65-32
 Fan Writer     247          620          190          49-20
 Fan Artist     220          514          142          44-22
 Campbell       307          647          114          54-22


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    Could someone post the winners, please ?