Now that voting for the Hugo Awards are now open, the question has come up about voting for “No Award” over various nominees, whether it should be done, and whether it would be an unprecedented event.
The Hugo Award nominees for the best science fiction of 2014 have been announced. And this year, there’s some major controversy; a number of people have stuffed the ballot box, and oddly, they don’t care who wins. This takes some explaining, and some wading through muck. First, let’s talk about Theodore Bealeaka Vox Day, a…
Back in March, I was asked to put together video clips for this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony, which took place during Worldcon in Chicago on Sunday. Simple assignmentâ find short clips of the nominated works to introduce them to the audience. Well, it didn’t quite happen that smoothly. As you may have heard by now,…
We really are living in the future. Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), and DragonCon, the leading multimedia and popular culture convention, will run joint programming through a two-way video link. Chicon 7 and DragonCon attendees will be able to sample the flavor of each other’s events through a series of program…
Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), has set the attending membership rates that will apply from August 1 onwards for both online and at-the-door sales, and determined its Day Admission rates. The following attending membership rate changes for Chicon 7 will go into effect on August 1, 2012:* The Adult Attending membership…
If you’re registered as a member of this year’s world science fiction convention, a.k.a. WorldCon (Nippon 2007), you’re entitled to vote for the Hugo awards. All votes must be received by Midnight (2359hrs), Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. You can vote online here. Please note that it’s an alternative preference ballot, i.e….
