The Crotchety Old Fan

I just submitted my ballot: I only made four choices for novel, a couple of short stories, one movie (dramatic, long form), a couple of fanzines and fan writers, two short story nominations, one novelette nomination and one fan artist nomination.
My finger is purple.
Make yours purple if you’re eligible and haven’t submitted a ballot [...]

Here’s (most of) the list of “genre” (sf, fantasy, horror) winners and nominees of most of the categories awards are given out for.
Music remains to be handled (best, mixed, editing, etc), as do shorts, but this is the bulk of it.
You may agree or disagree with some of the films I’ve included or excluded: [...]

This is going to be one of those round-up posts – but please pay attention as everything here today is important to someone, and some of them are probably important to a lot of someones.
First:  Gary Farber is in need of some assistance.  You can read the detail here.  If you can spare a few [...]

This morning’s Google Reader roundup brings yet another declaration of science fiction’s slow and agonizing, death rattle infused, demise, this time in the form of commentary from Amy Sterling Casil over at the Book View Cafe’s Blog site (via Charles Tan’s link roundup).
I have decided that enough is enough.  Most of this prognostication and eulogizing [...]

Remember the so-called Joanna Russ amendment introduced at Anticipation? It was designed to assist and elevate the presence of female science fiction authors, at least so far as the Hugo Awards were concerned.
It achieved this noble task by putting forth the scheme that in any year in which there were no female authors represented [...]

But it has been – and here is some of that has been:
Pocket Books is making several copies of a current fantasy series available for folks who buy a membership in Aussiecon IV.  I’ll reveal the title when the shipment arrives.
Haikasoru is making several copies of a couple of titles available for folks who buy [...]

Nick Mamatas – also known as the Nihilistic Kid in his Livejournal incarnation – is one of those contemporary renaissance men you hear about but rarely meet; editor, writer, subverter of higher education, multiple award nominee (in multiple genres), multiple translatee and champion of the Creative Commons.
Nick has several well-received novels under his belt (Northern [...]

Speaking of Mr. Chung (see previous entry): Mr. Chung is among several artists who have responsed positively to my request for artwork that can be used to make link buttons/badges for folks to display on their blogs & websites announcing their participation in the Rock The Hugo Vote in 2010 grassroots effort.
Several Hugo Winning Artists [...]

Interesting.? The complete nominating, balloting and voting information for Anticipation’s 2009 Hugo Awards are now available as a downloadable PDF HERE (via Save the Semiprozine) and a quick check of the Novel category nominations reveals that -
Four of the six Arthur C Clarke Award finalists were nominated for the Hugo – MacLeod’s Song of Time, [...]

Keith Graham, noted beekeeper and maintainer of the C3PO Blog wrote in today to let me know that he’s purchased his supporting membership to Aussiecon 4.
I’ve tasked him with finding at least one other person who’ll sign up.
Here’s my receipt from Pay Pal – putting the proverbial money where my mouth is:

Original Transaction

Date
Type
Status
Details
Amount

Aug. 11, 2009
Payment [...]