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08 Aug, 2009

We did it! The Semiprozine Hugo will continue!

Posted by: Neil Clarke In: discussion elsewhere|Hugo Rules

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.

10 Responses to "We did it! The Semiprozine Hugo will continue!"

1 | Joe Sherry

August 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Outstanding! I suspect your efforts played a major role in helping the Semiprozine category to remain.

2 | Dave

August 8th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Congratulations! Great news indeed.

3 | File 770 » Blog Archive » 2009 Business Meeting Keeps Semiprozine, Graphic Story Hugos

August 8th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

[...] Clarke, at Save the Semiprozine Hugo said in his “We Did It” [...]

4 | John Klima

August 8th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Awesome! Glad to hear it! Now, good luck Sunday night!

5 | Fabio Fernandes

August 8th, 2009 at 10:23 pm

Congratulations, Neil! Long live the Semiprozine category! And good luck!!

6 | SF2 Concatenation

August 10th, 2009 at 7:39 am

Well done!

Now, there is the follow-up work with the WSFS committee to do.

7 | David Langford

August 10th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Congratulations from me too! Alas, I couldn’t be at this Worldcon to join the vote.

8 | Bart Leib

August 13th, 2009 at 9:26 am

This is terrific. I was there for the vote and it was an incredible relief. I agree that both sides handled the tense situation very amicably, despite the strong disagreements.

Now we all have to keep participating in the dialogue to change the current categories, especially by joining or helping the committee.

9 | Tom L Waters

August 13th, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Excellent news. I’ll be looking on with interest to see what is decided about the “repair” of the category definitions. It seems like separate the fiction mags out from Locus would solve 90% of the problem.

10 | Andrew Porter

August 16th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

Yes, it was very tense, but no guns were drawn, no one killed. Fortunately, Dag Hammarskjold intervened at the last minute to work out an amicable settlement, and all went away happy.

This all sounds like Sam Moskowitz writing about the epic struggles of 14 year old SF fans in THE IMMORTAL STORM. Weird….

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Semiprozine.org was originally founded as SaveSemiprozine.org when the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award was in danger of being eliminated. After successfully saving the category, it was decided that this site should continue to serve as a central point of communication from and about semiprozines. We will also be reporting on the efforts of the committee that has been charged with redefining the criteria for the Best Semiprozine Hugo.

We did it! The Semiprozine Hugo will continue!

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