I’m leaving today for the AAAS meeting in DC, where I’ll be through the weekend. The AAAS works much differently than the physics conferences I’m used to, most notably requiring speakers to upload their presentation several days ahead of time. This means that my usual night-before-a-talk process of fiddling with my slides is right out. I mean, I could fiddle with my slides, but any changes won’t be reflected in the pre-uploaded ones I’ll get to do the actual talk, so what would be the point?<\/p>\n
This puts me in the unusual (recently) position of having some time available to read fiction. I’m 50-ish pages into Felix Gilman’s The Half-Made World,<\/cite> but since my only reding time these days is half an hour or so before bed, if that, progress has been slow. This weekend, though, I’ve got two plane flights and Friday night in the hotel (I can’t work on my talk, but playing pool ’til 4am is still Right Out), which means I might actually make a dent in some of my reading.<\/p>\n This, in turn, reminds me that the Hugo Award nomination<\/a> period ends in a bit more than a month (that’s part of why I’m reading the Gilman– lots of people have said things that make it sound potentially award worthy, and I liked his previous books). Which means this is probably a good time to renew my request for recommendations of things to nominate. The Locus recommended reading list<\/a> is a little thin on books I might reasonably expect to like, and most of the ones I have read were pretty meh. And for short fiction, I’ve read the stuff from Short Story Club<\/a> and that’s about it.<\/p>\n So, if you have Opinions and Ideas about what should be on the SF awards ballots, here’s your chance to (potentially) influence my vote. If there’s anything– novels, short fiction, etc.– that I simply must<\/em> read and consider for nomination, leave a pointer to it in the comments, and I’ll make a reasonable effort to give it a shot. I can’t promise I’ll have time to read it– my book deadline isn’t long after the Hugo nomination deadline– and I certainly can’t promise to vote for it, but I’ll do what I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m leaving today for the AAAS meeting in DC, where I’ll be through the weekend. The AAAS works much differently than the physics conferences I’m used to, most notably requiring speakers to upload their presentation several days ahead of time. This means that my usual night-before-a-talk process of fiddling with my slides is right out.… Continue reading Hugo Nomination Recommendations?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop_culture","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}