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21 May, 2009

Hugo Award Voting is Now Open

Posted by: Neil Clarke In: Hugo Rules|What you can do

Please remember to vote for the 2009 Hugo Awards! Via the Hugo Website: Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, has released the ballot for the 2009 Hugo Awards. Members of Anticipation can vote online at the convention web site. Paper ballots are included in the convention’s latest progress report, which the convention recently mailed [...]

03 Apr, 2009

The Vote to Eliminate Semiprozine

Posted by: Neil Clarke In: Hugo Rules

The fate of the Best Semiprozine Hugo will be determined during the WSFS business meeting at Anticipation this August. I’ve invited Kevin Standlee, WSFS Business Meeting Chair, to give us an overview of how the process will work. Here’s his response: Short Version The proposal to eliminate the Semiprozine Hugo Award and make existing semiprozines [...]



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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.

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