Hugo nominations are open, with some helpful links!
Hugo nominations are now open. Yay!
Yes, I'm ridiculous, and I enjoy the Hugo process right from the nomination period. As a reminder, if you were a Loncon 3 member, you're eligible to nominate *hint hint* Your Hugo nomination PIN will be emailed to you soon. They're promising "January", but there's a place to nudge the system if you're in a hurry to nominate.
If you weren't a Loncon3 member, then you'll need to buy a supporting (or attending) membership to Sasquan, the 2015 Worldcon, by January 31st. And that supporting membership also makes you eligible to vote!
Even if you're not planning to nominate, I encourage everyone who can afford to do it, to buy a membership of some form in order to vote later on. The membership usually includes an electronic packet of most of the shortlisted material, so it's a good deal. And, most importantly, you'll get to have a say in what wins the biggest awards of the year. Trust me, it feels good to bitterly complain that the wrong thing won when you were part of the voting pool and really tried to make your favourites win. It feels even better when your favourites win and one of those votes was yours :-D
To help, I'm presenting a few nominations round-up posts from elsewhere. I find these hugely helpful in remembering what's eligible each year.
ladybusiness wrote a great post here, reminding me that things like AO3 and slashreport are probably eligible, and making me feel much more secure in my nomination for Winter Soldier :-)
Ken Liu gives a nice summary of several eligable works, focusing on writers from non-traditional SFF, including some he's done the English translation for.
John Scalzi did his usual awareness post for people to note which works of theirs are eligible. He puts up a post for people to rec stuff later in the nomination period, so I'll link to that when it's available.
Aliette de Bodard has a good post noting which of her works are eligible and providing a lovely list of works by other authors to consider.
Hopefully some of this will be helpful, and encourage as many people as possible to take part. I'll post more links to useful stuff as and when I stumble on them. Make this ballot the one you personally want to see, by nominating stuff you've loved!
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Yes, I'm ridiculous, and I enjoy the Hugo process right from the nomination period. As a reminder, if you were a Loncon 3 member, you're eligible to nominate *hint hint* Your Hugo nomination PIN will be emailed to you soon. They're promising "January", but there's a place to nudge the system if you're in a hurry to nominate.
If you weren't a Loncon3 member, then you'll need to buy a supporting (or attending) membership to Sasquan, the 2015 Worldcon, by January 31st. And that supporting membership also makes you eligible to vote!
Even if you're not planning to nominate, I encourage everyone who can afford to do it, to buy a membership of some form in order to vote later on. The membership usually includes an electronic packet of most of the shortlisted material, so it's a good deal. And, most importantly, you'll get to have a say in what wins the biggest awards of the year. Trust me, it feels good to bitterly complain that the wrong thing won when you were part of the voting pool and really tried to make your favourites win. It feels even better when your favourites win and one of those votes was yours :-D
To help, I'm presenting a few nominations round-up posts from elsewhere. I find these hugely helpful in remembering what's eligible each year.
ladybusiness wrote a great post here, reminding me that things like AO3 and slashreport are probably eligible, and making me feel much more secure in my nomination for Winter Soldier :-)
Ken Liu gives a nice summary of several eligable works, focusing on writers from non-traditional SFF, including some he's done the English translation for.
John Scalzi did his usual awareness post for people to note which works of theirs are eligible. He puts up a post for people to rec stuff later in the nomination period, so I'll link to that when it's available.
Aliette de Bodard has a good post noting which of her works are eligible and providing a lovely list of works by other authors to consider.
Hopefully some of this will be helpful, and encourage as many people as possible to take part. I'll post more links to useful stuff as and when I stumble on them. Make this ballot the one you personally want to see, by nominating stuff you've loved!
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