It’s award time again, and author Catherine Schaff-Stump has written a lovely post titled Why I’m Nominating Jim Hines for the Best Fan Writer Hugo (and why you should too). I am truly flattered, and I think you should go read her post right now.
Hugo nominations are open to attending or supporting members of Worldcon in 2011, 2012 or 2013. My eligibility this year includes:
Best Fan Writer (for the blog)
Best Novel (for The Snow Queen’s Shadow)
Best Short Story
- “In the Line of Duty” from Zombiesque (Undead FBI agent vs. bioterrorists, which did not in any way start out as zombie Criminal Minds fanfic)
- “The Blue Corpse Corps” from When the Hero Comes Home (Goblins vs. zombies)
- “Epilogue” from Human for a Day (Slightly surreal piece about living stories. Yes, this one also includes zombies.)
If you’ll be voting for Hugos or Nebulas this year and want to read something of mine, just let me know.
Mary Robinette Kowal has a good post about self-promotion and some of the ways we try to approach it without coming off as self-absorbed and egotistical. The problem is that a fair number of us, myself most definitely included, are both egotistical and rather self-absorbed.
I.e., we’re writers.
My solution is to turn it over to the goblins, because they’re much more entertaining about this stuff…
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Vote for me or I’ll eat you. |
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Why don’t we try to keep things positive this time? We could start by recognizing some of the wonderful books and stories that were published last year– |
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John Scalzi e-mailed me personally to say his rabbit chewed up his trophy shelf, causing massive structural damage. The animals are safe, but the weight of another Hugo award could destroy his entire house! For the sake of the bunny, DON’T VOTE FOR JOHN SCALZI. |
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There’s something seriously wrong with you. |
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Tobias Buckell is eligible in a number of categories, including Best Related Work for Nascence, a collection of FAILED stories! If you’re going to vote for failure, vote goblin instead … wait, that came out wrong. |
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Do you have any idea how many people are eligible for these things? Are you going to sling mud at them all? |
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It’s the American way! John J. Adams claims to be the editor of Lightspeed magazine, but when pressed, he admitted he only edits at about Mach 3. Seanan McGuire is actually a team of hyperintelligent typing velociraptors who want to eat your puppy. Jennifer Brozek edited your mom. Cat Valente isn’t even a real cat! Lynne Thomas picks her nose with a sonic screwdriver. |
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I think you used that last one in 2011. |
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Shut up! Alma Alexander sparkles in sunlight! Elizabeth Bear had Snoopy fixed! Shweta Narayan had an illicit affair with R2D2! Aliette de Bodard is the 8th horcrux! Neil Clarke cancelled Firefly! N. K. Jemisin writes Veggietales/Mario Brothers porn! |
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Jemisin didn’t even write a post listing her eligible work! |
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Yeah, but she’s a really good writer. It’s preemptive mudslinging. Laura Anne Gilman is 1/4 Smurf! (Show us the birth certificate!) Marie Brennan wants to cast Carrot Top as the new Superman! Saladin Ahmed prefers odd-numbered Trek films! Cat Rambo greenlit another Garfield movie! Pat Rothfuss is the host body for a superintelligent alien beard. Nnedi Okorafor keeps the petrified head of H. P. Lovecraft for a trophy! |
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That’s the World Fantasy Award. Just stop before you embarrass us further. |
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Do you realize what we could do with a Best Fan Writer rocketship? Imagine flying that golden rocket to the moon. We could establish the first goblin colony in space! |
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Golaka can create new recipes for moon cheese and if anyone gives us any crap we’ll drop moon rocks on their heads! The only way for goblins to finally live in peace is to WIN ALL THE ROCKETSHIPS! |
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They’re trophies! The rockets are thirteen inches high! You thought they were handing out real rockets? How exactly did you think John Scalzi was keeping his on a shelf? |
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I … I just thought it was a really big shelf. |
And now I want to win a Hugo so I can use my goblin miniatures to depict their efforts to reach the moon. I could even create a goblin miniatures vs. LEGO minifigs showdown…
If you’ve read something this year that you feel is award-worthy, please feel free to leave your recommendation(s) in the comments!
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(Oh, and I saw my dentist today. His son is now an official Jim Hines fan. I did that...)
Dr. Phil
And 'A Glass of Shadow', Liz Williams, in her collection of the same name (Newcon Press 2011), in which it's an original publication.
Among Others, by Jo Walton - 'nough said.
Revolution, by Jennifer Donnelly - which will probably not win, due to the low fantasy content, but has the most beautiful descriptions of music I have read since Sharon Shinn's Samaria books.
Deep State, by Walter Jon Williams - let's astroturf Turkey!
Midnight Riot, by Ben Aaronovitch - writer of Remembrance of the Daleks does police procedural urban fantasy...kind of.
The Door To Lost Pages, by Claude Lalumiere - what other book about an abused child has a cosmic lioness eat the parents in revenge in the first quarter of the book? It's wholesome. Besides, the flying skeletons with briefcases working for the green blue and brown god are awesome. Besides, it's about bookstores.
Nightspell, by Leah Cypess - lawyer-turned-writer produces exceptional work of ghostly political intrigue.
Leviathan Wakes, by James SA Corey - space opera is back, from noir detectives to funny idealists to vomit zombies...great ending.
Raising Stony Mayhall, by Daryl Gregory - the incomparably weird Gregory fails to disappoint yet again with his amazing story of zombies, the 1960s underground, and the mind/body problem.
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline - John Scalzi called it a nerdgasm, and he is right.
Isles of the Forsaken, by Carolyn Ives Gilman - exciting, complex fantasy about colonial repression, freedom, and interdependence.
The Shattering, by Karen Healey - what if your brother's suicide was actually a magically-induced assassination? How far would you go to find out which of your family or neighbors had turned on you? Or to stop the next death? Powerful and avoids the escapism trap.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor - an art student raised by a family of loving demons must figure out what to do when angels attack.
The Freedom Maze, by Delia Sherman - a young girl from the 1960s is transported back in time to meet her pre-Civil War Southern ancestors, who mistake her for a slave.
(Except for Deep State, which is pretty much ok to read as a standalone, I didn't include novels from ongoing series, so you will have to find out about Devon Monk, Richard Kadrey, Rosemary Edghill, Elizabeth Moon, Holly Black, Janni Lee Simner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman yourself.)
So THAT'S who cancelled Firefly! *straps on sword*
I hope you win all the Hugos.
What did I do to make you say such mean things to me???
I love, love, LOVE the goblin dialog and am looking forward to the video of them trying to get to the moon!
Thanks!
I figure I'm a long shot to actually win anything. But it would be so much fun to do goblin/LEGO/Hugo trophy pics :-)
Because reading this what my brain did was instantly start composing a Song of Solomon-based VeggieTales/Mario porn fic. And now the rest of you with similarly over-active imaginations can also have that mental image.
LOVE them! And LOVE the fandom-deep-geek references - I think I actually got them all! ;>
In practice, I wonder how useful such a list would be. I've watched similar attempts before. If authors can add their own work, you quickly end up with an unmanageable list of works, many of (in my opinion) dubious quality. If a third party is responsible, that's a *lot* of work, and an inclusive list would once again end up being pretty overwhelming, given the vast number of stories and books released each year.
I dunno. I'm reminded of the movie Primer, where a guy takes a time machine back in a time machine, and things just get ugly.
I'm not sure a link to a link to a link isn't going to result in some anti-matter explosion.
Probably in another reality, we've already had this conversation.
Boom.
As much as I want you to win a Hugo, I now NEED you to win one, so I can see this come to life.