Comments | beamjockey: Worldcon GoHs: How Long in the Saddle?

beamjockey

Worldcon GoHs: How Long in the Saddle?

Sep 04, 2007 19:14

It has become interesting to ask the age of Professional Guests of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention. And how long they were working in the field before the Worldcon honored them.

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Comments 14

ckd September 5 2007, 01:05:45 UTC

(Replace all [] with the angled equivalents.)

To do HTML tables:
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So your first table might start out looking something like this:
LastFirstBirth Year
GernsbackHugo1884
SmithEdward E1890
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shsilver September 5 2007, 01:42:22 UTC

One resource you missed: Debut SF

drzarron September 5 2007, 02:23:47 UTC

Neet. Interesting to see the visual swatch of data over time.

erikvolson September 5 2007, 02:29:46 UTC

I still think it's a shade early for Niel -- not horribly so, and his impact does make up for the longevity. I fully support the 25-30 year rule for Worldcon GoH, but I'm flexible enough about it.

Besides, as I've said before. That sin is more than made up for by Tom Doherty getting tapped.

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erikvolson September 6 2007, 02:13:52 UTC

The WSFS by-laws do not specify a criterion for GOH age.The WSFS bylaws don't say we need badges either. Tradition is *far* more important a factor in how we run Worldcons that the WSFS Constitution, which requires that you award Hugos via a certain process (but not a ceremony), that you hold site selection for the worldcon-after-next, also via a certain process, and that you hold the business meeting ( ... )

erikvolson September 6 2007, 02:14:51 UTC

Oops, forgot to log in.

Another TD point: Neil Rest points out that, given all of the beer of his that we drank, Tom Doherty should be a worldcon Fan Guest of Honor.

archiver_tim September 5 2007, 02:42:13 UTC

A trick, if want to do a quick edit, would be to use the pre-formated, not preformated commands, so that the information is typewritter spaced (mono-spaced) if you had used spaces or tabs in the original document before pasting it in.
By the convention above replace [ ] with captial comma and captial period.
Earliest Birth Year
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Lastname Firstname Birth Year
Gernsback Hugo 1884
...
Gaiman Neil 1960
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