I wrote last Saturday about the Hamilton/Pence brouhaha. Since then I have had a chance to listen to and read other opinions on the issue. It hasn't changed my basic opinion, but it has expanded my perspective. The question was whether the cast of Hamilton was rude, did anything inappropriate, by making their appeal to … Continue reading Perfectly Appoproriate; Perfectly Counterproductive
Tag: Hugo Awards
MidAmeriCon II, Day 4 (Saturday, August 20, 2016)
Arrival today was a bit before 11. Party size was also doubled. Both the son and daughter came along today, to experience one day of a WorldCon. I dropped them off, found parking, and got to the registration desk while they were getting their badges inscribed with their Con Names. We then took them up … Continue reading MidAmeriCon II, Day 4 (Saturday, August 20, 2016)
Hugos: Voting Complete
Well, I did it, I got through all the Hugo nomination categories, reviewed each one and put in my vote for what I thought were the best. I did it with no appeal to the No Award category. Sorry, I just feel that most uses of that category show one to be entirely too stuck … Continue reading Hugos: Voting Complete
Hugo Awards: Voting for Best Related Work
Continuing a theme I will feature a few more times, below is the listing of the category "best related work": BEST RELATED WORK (2080 ballots) Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986 by Marc Aramini (Castalia House) “The First Draft of My Appendix N Book” by Jeffro … Continue reading Hugo Awards: Voting for Best Related Work
Hugo Awards: Voting for Best Short Story
Okay, the nominees for all the Hugo categories were announced awhile ago, but those of us who have paid our membership dues to be able to vote only recently got our voters packets. Those packets have samples or entire copies of the works in question, so we can read and compare and decide what we … Continue reading Hugo Awards: Voting for Best Short Story
At The Rainbow 