Reminder: Hugo Award voting is open now, but closing soon.

[seanan_mcguire]

To all those of us with memberships for the 2013 World Science Fiction Convention...have you remembered to cast your vote for this year's Hugo Awards? Because if you haven't, you're sort of running out of time; July 31st is your last day to vote. And hey, did you know that anyone can nominate, and vote, for the Hugo Awards? All you have to do is

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[seanan_mcguire]

Very welcome!

[markbernstein]

I'm making progress. I still need to read the novels by Ahmed and Robinson, and re-read "San Diego 2014" and "Blackout", and then see what time I have left to tackle Campbell nominees, Graphic Story, and Related Works.

[gorgeousgary]

I got through the Campbell slate in fairly short order. Cho and Lafferty have short stories. Leicht has the same novel as last year, which I didn't feel a need to re-read. I gave up on Blackbird after about 80 pages. That left reading Three Parts Dead, which wasn't my cup of tea overall but wins points for the descriptions of Alt Coulomb and its buildings.

[seanan_mcguire]

Good luck!

[archangelwells]

As a new voter who was gifted with the ability to vote, I'm really excited. Especially with the diversity of the short stories I've read so far! It's a lot more diverse and less all white than I was expecting, and this is a very good thing!

[seanan_mcguire]

Hooray!

[mneme]

Haven't voted yet, this year--will, though. Just need to get a bit more reading done (I'm only complete on Long Form at the moment, alas).

It's only -mostly- true, mind, that we don't have any control over the price of Supporting Memberships. The reason the Supporting Memberships are so high is that there are rules in the WSFS constitution setting a minimum price for the supporting memberships.

As it happens, there's been some debate this year on whether these rules have outlived their usefulness (and, say, need to be replaced with rules saying that whatever offer you make to people at Worldcon has to be your lowest offer but not setting a floor)--so it's entirely possible that anyone going to worldcon This Year might be able to get the price of supporting memberships dropped down by showing up to the appropriate Business Meeting (or at least start the process, since even if it's on the agenda and gets passed this year it would need to be ratified next year to go into effect).

[seanan_mcguire]

Interesting! I did not know this.

[beccastareyes]

I'll be voting: I'm working my way through 'Best Fanzine' now and still have to do the 'Best Semi-prozine' and 'Best Graphic Novel'*, but everything else I've read and can set into order. (And I'll probably not manage to vote in the Best Dramatic Presentation, as I'm not so good at renting movies and finding TV shows.)

* Here I've read two of the offerings, but rereading is nice.

[seanan_mcguire]

Excellent.