Finally…!

… a sensible solution on how to stop Locus dominating the Hugos. Cheryl Morgan, in the latest Emerald City, suggests that we should “get 1,000 of your friends to go out and subscribe to Locus so that Charles goes above the 10,000 limit. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind too much.” I suspect not, either, though I haven’t asked him. Anyone up for the challenge?

Oh, and this is probably a good time to add a slightly more public ‘Congratulations and well deserved’ to Cheryl for her Hugo win at Noreascon. I’ve enjoyed reading Emerald City since first stumbling across it a year or two ago, and look forward to every issue. What more could anyone ask for from a ‘zine? Which brings us, briefly, to another question raised by Cheryl. Should she remove herself from the Hugo race next year because she’s doing some work on the convention? My view, for what it’s worth, is no. The SF community is just too small to avoid such situations, and you need to find ways to work around them. In this case, it doesn’t seem like there’s a conflict of interest, so I hope to have the chance to vote for EC again in 2005.