{"id":264,"date":"2011-07-28T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2011-07-28T22:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:27:23","slug":"hugos-part-7-best-related-work-and-campbell-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Hugos Part 7 &#8211; Best Related Work and Campbell Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running out of days to post these things! I still have Long Form Dramatic Presentation and\u00a0 Novel to go! At least I&#8217;m almost done! Just the behemoth! Exclamation point!<\/p>\n<p>OK, now that I&#8217;ve finished hyperventilating, I can discuss the two awards above, joined only because I spent all of yesterday finishing off Dervish House (Black Out\/All Clear must excel if it wants to get top spot from me), and I don&#8217;t have enough days left to post them all individually. You will forgive me, no?<\/p>\n<p>Best related work: Easy for me. Writing Excuses. I love this podcast. The guys have insightful things to say, their topics are interesting, I love the guests, and it&#8217;s short&#8230; but not too short. I&#8217;ve listened to all of them, not just season 4. They are all good. It seems, too, that this is the year of Writing Excuses. I can&#8217;t wait to see how they fare (for the uninitiated, Dan Wells and Howard Tayler are up for the Campbell and Graphic Story, respectively, and Dan&#8217;s editor is up for Long Form editor). Other than Chicks Dig Time Lords, I wasn&#8217;t all that enthused with anything else, so I&#8217;ll just be voting for those two.<br \/>\n<em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><strong><em><strong>Writing Excuses, Season 4<\/strong><\/em>, by Brandon Sanderson, Jordan Sanderson, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It<\/strong><\/em>, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O\u2019Shea (Mad Norwegian)<br \/>\n<em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001<\/strong><\/em>, by Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lxnen.com\/rogerbeccon\/X\/Bearings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Online Excerpt [PDF]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing<\/strong><\/em>, by Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg (McFarland)<br \/>\n<em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1: (1907\u20131948): Learning Curve<\/strong><\/em>, by William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the Campbell, I was already familiar with three of the authors, and I&#8217;ve skimmed the other two. It&#8217;s tough, I didn&#8217;t give myself enough time to actually read the work offered, so I don&#8217;t know if I will vote in this category, since it wouldn&#8217;t be totally fair to Lev and Lauren. If I do vote, though, Dan Wells will get the top spot (unless I read more before the deadline (doubt it!)), like so:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dan Wells<\/li>\n<li>Saladin Ahmed<\/li>\n<li>Larry Correia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauren Beukes<\/li>\n<li>Lev Grossman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I became engrossed in I Am Not a Serial Killer, and went out and immediately bought the next book in the series, of course to let smolder in the stacks around here. I really enjoy Saladin&#8217;s take on the genre, and I really like the story of Larry himself. I feel like I am in the same boat,\u00a0 carving out bits of time here and there around my hectic life to get a few hundred words down here or there. Easier now that I have something portable to write on.<\/p>\n<p>Should I be this scrupulous? I don&#8217;t know. I read another blogger&#8217;s take on best novel; he did not read and is not voting for Cryoburn merely because he hadn&#8217;t read the rest of the series, and it would be unfair to the author. Might also be unfair to discount the author this way. I&#8217;ll make my decision on ballot day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=264\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running out of days to post these things! I still have Long Form Dramatic Presentation and\u00a0 Novel to go! 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