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Is it too early to start talking about what we’re excited to put on our
#HugoAward
ballots in 2025?
Our ongoing list of what we're thinking of four our nominating ballots:
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Dystopian fiction is when you take things that happen in real life to marginalized populations and apply them to people with privilege.
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@JBfromDC89
I love the fact that 75-year-old Muriel Fahrion (original creator of Care Bears) has been posting similar artwork to her Instagram.
Image below as example.
Muriel's Insta:
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Since everyone’s talking about Martin Short, I’d like to mention that he got his degree in social work in Ontario 50 years ago … and every time the child protection workers in that province have gone on strike, Martin Short shows up.
He’s a mensch.
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*Charles Dickens stares angrily at this tweet.*
This is the weirdest funniest tweet I've ever seen
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Platforming a mediocre TERF while deleting Coyote vs. Acme is a high crime against art.
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My controversial opinion of the day: People who publicly proclaim their support for the destruction of a people, their language, and their culture, should not be invited to be guests of honour at major science fiction conventions.
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Media criticism (particularly SFF / fandom discussions) would be improved significantly if people understood the difference between these two axes.
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Michael Sheen being the actor who plays Aziraphale seems a little too on-the-nose,
@NeilHimself
.
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*Twitter mentions suddenly go wild.*
Huh. Wonder why?
*sees this quote tweet.*
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COYOTE VS ACME was shown in a theatre exactly once (for friends and family of the crew).
Which means it’s eligible for the Hugo Award in 2025.
And my friends and comrades, together we could do something hilarious as a pointed criticism of David Zaslav.
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This is a labour issue.
@SFWA
is right.
#disneymustpay
NEWS: SFWA takes aim at Disney for non-payment of royalties to STAR WARS and ALIENS author Alan Dean Foster (updated)
#DisneyMustPay
#StarWars
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Science fiction is when you dream of having indentured workers on Mars, fantasy is when you pretend tax cuts on the ultra rich will help the poor.
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Interesting to note that
@SeananMcGuire
is on the verge of a remarkable
#HugoAward
accomplishment.
Only two authors have managed to get 10 works on the
#Hugo
shortlist in the prose categories in a five-year span.
McGuire has nine in the past four years.
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Congratulations to
@SeananMcGuire
, who has earned her 24th
#HugoAward
nomination in a prose category.
She is only the third author to have been on a Hugo ballot in a prose category (novel, novella, series, novelette, short) that often — others are Connie Willis and Mike Resnick.
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I’d watch a whole movie of “Magneto: Nazi Hunter”.
Friendly reminder that Magneto has one of the hardest Marvel scenes ever
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This year,
@seananmcguire
became just the seventh author to have been on a
#HugoAward
shortlist in a fiction category 10 times by the age of 40.
#Worldcon2018
The others? Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven,
@GRRMspeaking
, John Varley, Orson Scott Card and Michael A. Burstein.
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@asharevas
@MuseZack
Oh, I anticipate it to be several Melgibsons worth of racism.
(A 'Melgibson' is the metric unit of racial animosity.)
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I doubt anyone can (without looking it up) quote the first line of
#HarryPotter
.
And try to explain how it’s a better opening than “The story so far: in the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move”
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I guarantee that 99 per cent of the folks who are angry about this:
1) Are too young to have watched the original, and have no conception of how mediocre it was.
2) Would have been angry about any reboot in which a female character has any agency.
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And I bring this up to put into context just what a big deal it is that
@SeananMcGuire
just got her 13th nomination in the four classic fiction categories.
She's done it in a shockingly quick time (nine years). One of the youngest people to have hit that tally.
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Eric Flint (1947-2022) was one of only a handful of science fiction authors to have previous experience as a labour union organizer and activist.
And it showed in his works which often showcased an understanding of workers organizing to defend workplace rights.
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As a follow-up, I'd add that convention organizers should never feel ashamed for disinviting a guest of honour when information comes to light that warrants such an action.
Nobody is *owed* the privilege of being a guest of honour. And cons have every right to rescind it.
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Here’s the pitch:
Chris Evans as Superman
Chris Pine as Superman
Chris Hemsworth as Superman
Chris Pratt as Superman
Chris Noth as Superman
Chris Rock as Superman
Chris Walken as Superman
The movie title?
“Chrises on Infinite Earths”
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The Nebula Award is set to change its name because of controversy over awards namesake Clement G. Nebula.
Noted early SFF author Clement G. Nebula has come under more scrutiny in recent years, as critics claim cannibalism doesn't align with modern values.
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Let. The. Winners. Enjoy. Their. Hugos.
Don’t know why this needs to be said, but don’t trash talk people right after they’ve won an award.
Even if you think a work is awful, just … chill for now.
There’ll be time to analyze it critically later.
FFS.
#HugoAwards
shortlists coming out in the next few weeks. Thoughts on Awards etiquette.
(Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.)
1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.
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The writers on that show you hate? They all deserve fair remuneration for their work.
The writers on that movie you found insipid and boring? They all deserve fair remuneration for their work.
Workplace rights aren’t a matter of taste.
#WGA
#Solidarity
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Here's the thing: In a very real way, Disney owes the long-term viability of
#StarWars
as a commercial enterprise to authors like Alan Dean Foster.
It's hard to imagine now, but after Return of the Jedi, the franchise went through some rocky years.
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"The ones who hold a Worldcon in Omelas"
Omelas is an excellent host city for a Worldcon: it has a vibrant night life, a welcoming LGBTQ community, scenic old moss-grown gardens, and many-flagged towers by the sea.
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STARES ANGRILY AT
@NETFLIX
' TWEET.
@HouseOfSense8
@sense8
We don’t like leaving a story unfinished. We learned a lot from Sense and we’re going to try not to do this in the future.
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In
@MaryRobinette
’s Hugo-shortlisted
#AlternateHistory
novel “The Relentless Moon,” there are newspaper clippings to start each chapter. While taking her portrait, I learned that each clipping is based on a real-world news article. Very cool.
#HugoAwards
#DisconIII
#Worldcon2021
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Happy 80th birthday to
@SamuelRDelany1
!
Fifth-youngest
#HugoAward
finalist in a prose category (for Babel-17 when he was 25).
Second-youngest prose Hugo winner (For "Time Considered..." when he was 28)
One of the all-time greatest SFF authors (also among the most photogenic).
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Two things I like a lot about this photo of
@UrsulaV
:
1) Her mask is gloriously spiky.
2) You can see the warmth of her grin radiating through the mask.
(Congratulations again, T. Kingfisher!)
#HugoAwards
#Worldcon2021
#DisconIII
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o no. due to a paperwork error one of the corgis inherited the throne of canada
god save the very good doggo
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My prediction?
Give it a decade or so, and she'll rival Mike Resnick's tally for
#HugoAward
nominations.
And will deserve it.
/end
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Just updated our list of labour unions in SFF with another couple of interesting examples.
The list:
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Post a gif of a favourite fantasy movie that isn’t Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, or Zardoz.
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Only six authors have each written 20 works that were shortlisted for a Hugo Award in one of the prose categories:
Resnick
Willis
McGuire
Silverberg
Swanwick
LeGuin
(Of these,
@SeananMcGuire
was the youngest to accomplish this)
More
#HugoAward
trivia:
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Seanan McGuire's work has continually improved since her first Hugo nod.
Some authors are content to rest on their laurels after getting love from Hugo voters. She has responded by upping her game. IMHO, Middlegame is a more mature, more artful novel than some earlier ones.
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“Your story might be the lifeline someone needs to pull them back to shore.” —
@marthawells1
speaks truth.
#HugoAwards
#Worldcon2021
#DisconIII
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People forget how crazy the Concorde was. Of all supersonic flight (measured by time at Mach 1 or above), more than 50 per cent of it was done by a Concorde.
This is the only pic taken of Concorde while flying at Mach 2, which is 1534.538 mph.The pic was taken by the pilot of an RAF Tornado over the Irish sea. The pilot of the Tornado could keep up with the Concorde for just about 4 Minutes before he ran out of fuel and had to return.
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#HugoAwards
shortlists coming out in the next few weeks. Thoughts on Awards etiquette.
(Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.)
1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.
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On his 10th time on the shortlist for the Best Editor, Neil Clarke of
@clarkesworld
has won! So deserved after all he’s done for the community. Overdue.
#HugoAwards
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Portraits from 2021
#HugoAwards
.
Photographers: Olav Rokne & Amanda Wakaruk. Released under CC BY NC 2.0 License.
These photos were taken & are being shared by volunteers. [Other photographs were taken by a photographer paid by a corporate sponsor.]
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Congratulations
@AlixEHarrow
on being the second-youngest woman to be a five-time prose fiction (novel, novella, novelette, short story, series)
#HugoAward
finalist.
(Can anyone name me the only woman to have snagged five Hugo nods at a younger age?)
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Look, I know that this is a series of books by a long-dead cis white dude.
BUT THIS IS ZELAZNY! AND I'M GOING TO WATCH THE HECK OUT OF THIS!
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@Selftoken
@DrewMcWeeny
Yes. He shows up in solidarity with workers.
Has also shown up on other picket lines to show solidarity with teachers.
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Addendum: These tallies omit her multiple nominations for best series. Because that award is newer, it makes these sorts of statistics less comparable over time.
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Morally,
@Disney
owes a large part of the cultural footprint of
#StarWars
to the work of Timothy Zahn, Alan Dean Foster, Kevin J. Anderson, Michael A. Stackpole, and other novelists.
Splinter In The Mind's Eye paved the way for
#Mandalorian
, the Star Wars experience, etc.
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#RememberAaronSwartz
— if you’re unaware of what Swartz stood for, watch the documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy.”
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Can I start talking about the
#HugoAwards
for 2023 yet?
Is it time yet?
THERE’S SO MUCH GREAT STUFF OUT THERE THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT!
Our current recommended reading list:
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As of 2022, only five authors have ever racked up a tally of 21 or more
#HugoAwards
nods in the prose categories (short story, novelette, novella, novel, and series).
They are: Connie Willis, Michael Swanwick , Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg and
@SeananMcGuire
.
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The award will be renamed after entirely uncontroversial SFF author Piers Anthony, who penned "Cthon," "Firefly," and "The Colour Of Her Panties."
As of this writing, award organizers are ... like ... 99 per cent certain that Anthony is not a cannibalism enthusiast.
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@VictorManibo
@lbjb247
Sorry. No. sci-fi is when you have *this* karl urban; fantasy is when you have that karl urban
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Building a condo in Omelas, but it’s OK because I donated to a charity that supports awareness of child welfare.
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Cats use litter boxes because evolved in a desert environment, and are therefore instinctively comfortable pooping in sand.
Now in
#StarTrek
, the planet Vulcan is a desert planet, so Mr. Spock is descended from desert-dwelling life.
In this thread, I will argue that …
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With her "Poppy War" trilogy shortlisted for Best Series,
@kuangrf
became the second-youngest woman ever to be be on the
#HugoAward
ballot in a fiction category.
(Only Lisa Tuttle, who was shortlisted for co-authoring the 1975 novella The Storms of Windhaven was younger).
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Man, the people who haven’t read
#DuneMessiah
are going to have their minds blown at the end when Paul wanders out into the desert and finds a broken Statue of Liberty before falling to his knees and screaming that “Dune is Earth!”
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To ensure integrity of fan category
#HugoAwards
, we are proposing to exclude all works that are distributed by any means other than mimeographed booklets that are hand delivered for free at conventions, or upon receipt of a self-addressed stamped envelope.
This includes fancasts
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Babel by
@KuangRF
cleverly uses the cultural precepts of England at the peak of its colonial power to critique the social impacts of those systems.
Gratifying that a book that is deeply concerned with language as a concept uses it so skillfully.
Blog:
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Seanan McGuire (
@seananmcguire
) is only the fourth person to rack up 22 appearances on a prose fiction
#HugoAward
shortlist, and is by far the youngest -- more than a decade younger than the second-youngest, Robert Silverberg
(Silverberg was 55 years, six months old in 1990.)
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Just hear me out: Brutalist concrete starships.
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Science Fiction is more political than it is scientific.
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The CDC has announced that fully vaccinated people are now permitted to gyre and gimble in the wabe.
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Congratulations
@ArkadyMartine
on being the third-youngest woman to win a
#HugoAward
for best novel!
Only Vonda McIntyre (30 in 1979) and Joan Vinge (33 in 1981) were younger when winning a best novel Hugo Award.
#Conzealand
#HugoAwards
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Huh. The Pokemon-Aliens mash-up that I didn't know I needed to see this morning.
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I used to think that science fiction took over the world.
Now I'm starting to suspect that the world took over science fiction.
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It has never been more important for science fiction to be an engine for radical empathy in support of those displaced due to war, climate change or other disasters.
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The fact that
@MaskofBun
just declined a Hugo nod for this tweet is an extremely classy act.
read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.
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So why did Star Wars turn the corner? Novels. The "Expanded Universe."
On paper,
#DisneyMustPay
royalties to Alan Dean Foster, and all the other authors who wrote books that they're still printing copies of.
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So, yeah
@SFWA
and
@MaryRobinette
are entirely right that
#DisneyMustPay
.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
@Disney
should be grateful for the work of the authors who kept the franchise from falling into obscurity in the late '80s and early '90s
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Don't know who needs to hear this, but it's OK to have a hobby without making it a side hustle.
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"I've always believed that you have to separate the art from the artist," said one Nebula fan. "But apparently the ultra-woke modern audiences take umbrage at celebrating someone who brutally dismembered and ate the occasional vagrant. This is peak cancel culture."
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In 1939, both Stan Lee and James Baldwin were attending DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
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The thing that I’m most looking forward to is
@Disney
signing a fair contract with writers and artists. L
Until then, not a penny for their streaming service.
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The word "Muggle," is not just word a invented by a certain controversial YA author's work, but also can be an allusion to Lodowick Muggleton (1609-1698), leader of the Muggletonian faith.
He preached that God was exactly 5'6" tall.
This isn't a joke, & it gets stranger.
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For those who are not aware,
@Scalzi
is a serious artist who must always be taken entirely seriously.
#HugoAwards
#Worldcon2021
#DisconIII
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The typeface of the inscription on the moon “We came in peace for all mankind” is Futura.
A geometric font designed in 1927 by legendary typographer Paul Renner.
Renner was anti-fascist. Arrested in 1933 for opposition to the Nazis.
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What’s your favourite opening line of a fantasy novel published in the past 50 years?
Mine: “IN A DISTANT AND SECONDHAND SET OF DIMENSIONS, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part… Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly.”
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This is a bonkers great year for
#HugoAwards
.
Congrats to
@ZerogSF
,
@aptshadow
,
@seananmcguire
,
@UrsulaV
,
@hugogirlpodcast
,
@cmzhang42
, Richard Man,
@samtasticbooks
,
@clarkesworld
,
@UncannyMagazine
,
@TravisBaldree
,
@Nnedi
, and all our friends involved in any way.
You rock.
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"Edgy columnists, celebrities and podcasters rail against a “cancel culture” that simply isn’t real. This isn’t cancellation – this is wealthy people receiving a slap on the wrist, staying quiet for a bit and then getting on with their massive success."
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@seananmcguire
The full list of
@SeananMcGuire
's 13-time-Hugo-shortlisted peers:
Silverberg
Niven
Ellison
Poul Anderson
Varley
George R. R. Martin
Zelazny
Orson Scott Card
Connie Willis
LeGuin
Mike Resnick
Bruce Sterling
Michael Swanwick
Kim Stanley Robinson
Charles Stross
Nancy Kress
Bujold
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The youngest woman ever shortlisted for the
#HugoAward
for best novel is now
@AlixEHarrow
.
She'll be 30 years, 10 months on the date of the Hugo ceremony. That's one month younger than Vonda N. McIntyre was when she was on the shortlist for Dreamsnake in 1979.
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Siri: show me what the Shape Of Water would look like if it were shoes.
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Only 18 people have racked up at least 13
#HugoAwards
nominations in the four primary fiction categories (novel, novella, novelette & short story).
Robert Silverberg was the first, doing so in 1975 at the age of 40. Followed by Niven and Ellison, who both did so in 1978.
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Is it unusual for a
#Worldcon
WSFS business meeting to condemn a future Worldcon’s Guest of Honour?
Yes.
Will we be voting in favour of this?
Also yes.
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@asharevas
@MuseZack
Back when Breakfast at Tiffany's was filmed, they were still using the Imperial unit of measurement: the Rooney.
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We're giving away three copies of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new novella
#Ogres
.
It's an engaging parable about how monstrous the rich can be.
To enter in a draw, like & retweet this post, and reply with the name of your favourite work by
@AptShadow
.
Review:
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One interesting thing that I noticed today while looking at novellas from 2021 is how broad and overwhelmingly positive the critical consensus is on Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race.
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BREAKING NEWS: Emotionally fulfilling, beautiful, celestial experiences are bad for capitalism.
The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity
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The Mimicking Of Known Successes by
@m_older
is among the best SFF mysteries ever written.
Interesting and engaging worldbuilding like the best sci-fi. Satisfying and unexpected ending like the best mysteries.
Highly recommended.
Blog review:
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"If strong AI — like I wrote about in my novel Autonomous — is developed, I hope that it's not a corporation like
@Google
that creates it. I hope it's open-source activists who make it." —
@Annaleen
#Worldcon
#Worldcon2018
#Worldcon76
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The general rule in Washington politics is that there are three major signs that someone is running for president.
1 - They indicate that they are eligible.
2 - They deny that they are running.
3 - They write a book.
I think Ursula Vernon might be running for President in 2024
@HortonRich
@Hugo_Book_Club
@Nickpheas
@BobDevney
I can confirm I was born in Japan, but to further muddle the question, I was born on the Yokosuka naval base, which was technically American soil—i.e. I can run for President.
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