Month: August 2009

Video of the WSFS Business Meeting – Semiprozine Vote

- Neil Clarke

From Kevin Standlee’s blog:

The video of the 2009 Main WSFS Business Meeting held Saturday, August 8, at Anticipation is now online. If you have difficulty viewing the video through Vimeo’s online viewer, you can download the video (WMV format) to your machine using the link in the lower right corner of the video’s web page.

Vimeo limits users to uploading 500 MB/week, although once uploaded, the files stay up there and new files do not displace them. I plan to post the Site Selection Business Meeting next week.

The Main Business Meeting dealt with amendments to the WSFS Constitution pending ratification after having received initial passage at the 2008 Business Meeting in Denver. The Main Event was the debate over the removal of the Semiprozine Hugo Award. Also on the agenda: The Graphic Story Hugo Award and the explicit expansion of Hugo Award eligibility to electronic (web-based) publication.

This information is not secret. Feel free to pass it along to anyone else you think might be interested. You can quote this message entirely if you wish.

So, if you weren’t there and want to see how the discussion and vote on the semiprozine went down, here is your chance.

Apex Magazine – August 2009

- Markets

apexmagv3i2fpApex Magazine – August 2009

FICTION:

  • “Kenny 149” by Brad Becraft
  • “Pimp My Airship” by Maurice Broaddus
  • “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster

NON-FICTION:

  • “Game Fiction: Why It Works (and Why It Doesn’t)” by Monica Valentinelli
  • Interview with Gene O’Neill by Maggie Jamison
  • The real story of “Pimp My Airship” by Jason Sizemore

2009 Semiprozine Hugo Results

- Neil Clarke

Final Results of the 2009 Best Semiprozine Hugo Award

1. Weird Tales
2. The New York Review of Science Fiction
3. Interzone
4. Locus
5. Clarkesworld Magazine

*source: http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2009%20Final%20Ballot.pdf

Results from the original nominations used to make the final ballot:

1. Interzone 82
2. Locus 74
3. Weird Tales 70
4. New York Review of Science Fiction 66
5. Clarkesworld 55
6. Ansible 43
7. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 38
8. On Spec 35
9. Neo Opsis 17
10. Strange Horizons 16
11. Internet Review of Science Fiction 16
12. Abyss & Apex 12
13. Postscripts 9
14. Shimmer 9
15. Electric Velocipede 8  *** Nominated for Best Fanzine and won
16. Talebones 7
17. Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine 7
18. Subterranean 6
19. Shadow Unit 6
20. Helix 5
21. Fantasy Magazine 5

* source: http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2009%20Nominations.pdf

We did it! The Semiprozine Hugo will continue!

- Neil Clarke 10 Comments

I would like to thank everyone who has supported our cause and especially everyone who showed up at today’s business meeting. Our supporters spoke eloquently and with conviction. When the vote was finally held, we won by an overwhelming majority. The Best Semiprozine Hugo will continue.

A new committee to help redefine the semiprozine and related Hugos was voted into place shortly afterwards. It will be chaired by Chris Barkley. More information on that as it becomes available.

Again, thanks to everyone involved. I have to say that everything was handled very professionally (by both sides) and it does appear that we are united in repairing the category. This is a very good day.

Kevin J. Maroney on the Semiprozine Hugo

- Neil Clarke

Kevin J. Maroney is one of the managing editors of The New York Review of Science Fiction, one of this year’s Best Semiprozine Hugo nominees. Over on his blog, he makes a strong case for the continuation of the award. Definitely recommended reading for those interested in this issue.

You can find his post at http://womzilla.livejournal.com/259350.html.