Hugo voting packet
Last night I downloaded my Hugo voting packet and overall I'm very impressed, with only one issue.
For some reason, the publishers of a couple of the novels and one of the novellas decided to use password protected ebooks. Which are a bitch and a half to load onto an ereader so I pretty quickly gave up. One of the novels is the *only* novel I haven't read yet (2312, Kim Stanley Robinson) but I've been able to put it on hold at the library. The novella is Mira Grant's one and it's the one I've been most excited about reading, so I'm quite happy to pay a couple of dollars to get myself the Kindle copy from Amazon.
I do have to wonder whether this will have an influence on the voting. If people are struggling to get half the novels on their ereaders, will they just give up on those and only read the ones that aren't password protected? In which case, I'm pretty confident John Scalzi and Lois McMaster Bujold should be prepping acceptance speeches because it will come down to a close vote between those two.
*sigh*
Other than that, the voting packet this year is amazing. I'm particularly pleased that all the comics (ALL THE COMICS) are included. Last year there were two that I just couldn't get hold of so I had to give up on reading them (the rest were borrowed through the library) and that meant my vote didn't feel as balanced as it should have. This year I can read all of them and make a choice :-D
In fact, there are samples or full books from all the categories apart from short and long form drama, which is incredible. Well done, Lonestar Con, for getting such a comprehensive packet together! My voting prep this year will be so much fun :-D
I've thrown all of the things I can't put on my Kindle into my Dropbox so that I can read (or look at in the case of the art categories) them from the comfort of my sofa and iPad. Modern technology is amazing.
The long and short form dramas are all things I've either seen already or don't mind paying out to rent or borrow from somewhere. I think the only film I need to see is Looper and I need to do a watch of Game of Thrones S2 to see the Blackwater episode. It's weird how prepared I feel this year.
Check back at the end of July when I'm panicking because I haven't got through as much of the material as I'd planned. It will happen :-D
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For some reason, the publishers of a couple of the novels and one of the novellas decided to use password protected ebooks. Which are a bitch and a half to load onto an ereader so I pretty quickly gave up. One of the novels is the *only* novel I haven't read yet (2312, Kim Stanley Robinson) but I've been able to put it on hold at the library. The novella is Mira Grant's one and it's the one I've been most excited about reading, so I'm quite happy to pay a couple of dollars to get myself the Kindle copy from Amazon.
I do have to wonder whether this will have an influence on the voting. If people are struggling to get half the novels on their ereaders, will they just give up on those and only read the ones that aren't password protected? In which case, I'm pretty confident John Scalzi and Lois McMaster Bujold should be prepping acceptance speeches because it will come down to a close vote between those two.
*sigh*
Other than that, the voting packet this year is amazing. I'm particularly pleased that all the comics (ALL THE COMICS) are included. Last year there were two that I just couldn't get hold of so I had to give up on reading them (the rest were borrowed through the library) and that meant my vote didn't feel as balanced as it should have. This year I can read all of them and make a choice :-D
In fact, there are samples or full books from all the categories apart from short and long form drama, which is incredible. Well done, Lonestar Con, for getting such a comprehensive packet together! My voting prep this year will be so much fun :-D
I've thrown all of the things I can't put on my Kindle into my Dropbox so that I can read (or look at in the case of the art categories) them from the comfort of my sofa and iPad. Modern technology is amazing.
The long and short form dramas are all things I've either seen already or don't mind paying out to rent or borrow from somewhere. I think the only film I need to see is Looper and I need to do a watch of Game of Thrones S2 to see the Blackwater episode. It's weird how prepared I feel this year.
Check back at the end of July when I'm panicking because I haven't got through as much of the material as I'd planned. It will happen :-D
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