Well, travel planning time is upon me again. One event I wish I could attend is the annual Locus Awards (I’ve only attended once, and that was back in 1997). This year’s awards are being held June 15-16, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. Basic info is below the cut… Continue reading
Chicon 7, the 70th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards (see list here). This morning, just hours after the ballot was announced, Gary and I were joined by Locus Executive Editor Liza Groen Trombi to chat about the ballot and all things Hugo. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
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Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, has anounced the nominees for the Hugo Awards and the Campbell Award. You can see a full list of the nominees here. I am delighted and honored that The Coode Street Podcast has been nominated along with four other incredibly deserving nominees for Best Fancast, and heartened more than I can say to be nominated for Best Editor, Short Form. I’d like to thank everyone who nominated, all record 1,101 of you, for your being involved in the process. It is a humbling thing and is always a great honor and privilege. I’m also incredibly delighted to share a nomination with my dear friend, Gary Wolfe. I won’t be in Chicago this year, so please party like ridiculously happy people with much running around shouting YAAAAY and flailing arms like muppets for me. It should be a great night!
With Gary now safely home from Florida and all of that ICFA craziness, we sat down to discuss recent events. Most prominent on our minds was Christopher Priest’s passionate but somewhat controversial discussion of the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
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In just over a day the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Kickstarter project has been funded! This is wonderful news, as it means that the photo and ephemera collection at Locus will now be digitized and properly archived. Having spent time with the archive, I know what an important resource it is and how valuable this is going to be to the SF community.
I hope, though, that people will consider keeping supporting the project now that it has been funded. The Foundation says as part of its Kickstarter that:
Should we exceed our funding goals, there are several projects waiting in the wings:
I think these are terrific projects and the first on the list – digitizing the audio collection, is a spectacularly good project. I’ve spent a lot of time at Locus HQ and Charles would always tell us that he had the original recordings for all of the interviews he did for Locus. It would be a spectacular primary resource for the field if they could be preserved for the future.