2 File 770:144 Best Dramatic Presentation Retrospective Hugo Awards Long Form (363 ballots) for work done in 1953 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line Cinema). Directed by Peter Jackson; screenplay by Fran Walsh, Best Novel of1953 (113 ballots) Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson. Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury (Ballantine) Best Novella of1953 (67 ballots) “A Case of Conscience” — James Blish (If, Best Dramatic Presentation Sept. 1953) Short Form (212 ballots) “Gollum’s Acceptance Speech at the 2003 Best Novelette of 1953 (66 ballots) MTV Movie Awards” (Wingnut “Earthman, Come Home” — James Blish Films/New Line Cinema). Written and (Astounding, Nov. 1953) directed by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens File 770:144 is edited by Mike & Peter Jackson. Glyer at 705 Valley View Ave., Best Short Story of 1953 (96 ballots) Monrovia CA 91016. File 770 is “The Nine Billion Names of God” — Arthur C. Clarke (Star Science Fiction Stories #1, available for news, artwork, Best Professional Editor Ballantine) arranged trades, or by subscription: (319 ballots) $8 for 5 issues, $15 for 10 issues, Gardner Dozois Best Related Book of 1953 (21 ballots) air mail rate is $2.50. Conquest of the Moon — Wernher von Braun, Telephone: (626) 305-1004 Best Professional Artist Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley (Viking E-Mail: [email protected] (241 ballots) Press) Art Credits Bob Eggleton Tarai: Cover, Bacover Best Dramatic Presentation, Bill Rotsler: 2,3,9,22,23,27,37 Best Semi-Prozine (199 ballots) Short Form, of1953 (96 ballots) Diana Glyer (photos): 4 Locus, ed. Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, The War of the Worlds (Paramount Pictures). Keith Stokes (photos): and Kirsten Gong-Wong Directed by Byron Haskin; screenplay by 6,9,16,17,28 Barre Lyndon; based on the novel by H.G. Mike Glyer (photos): Best Fanzine (211 ballots) Wells. 7,10,11,12,34,35 Emerald City, ed. Cheryl Morgan Alan White: 5,14,21,28 Best Professional Editor Alexis Gilliland: 7 Best Fan Writer (260 ballots) of 1953 (49 ballots) H.L. Drake (photos): 18, 19 Dave Langford John W. Campbell, Jr. Ray Capella: 20, 25 Sue Mason: 30, 33, 36 Best Professional Artist Best Fan Artist (190 ballots) Sheryl Birkhead: 31 Frank Wu of 1953 (68 ballots) Grant Canfield: 39 Chesley Bonestell The John W. Campbell Award Best Fanzine of 1953 (36 ballots) 2004 Hugo Ayvard Winners for Best New Writer (192 ballots) Slant, ed. Walter Willis; art editor James Jay Lake (second year of eligibility) White Note: This award is not a Hugo; it is spon­ Best Novel (462 ballots) sored by Dell Magazines. Best Fan Writer of 1953 (38 ballots) Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold Bob Tucker Special Noreascon Four Best Novella (215 ballots) Committee Award (not a Hugo Award) Retro Fire: N4’s Patrick Malloy quickly “The Cookie Monster” — Vernor Vinge found a home for the Noreascon Four Retro Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss (Analog, Oct. 2003) Hugo for Best Related Book awarded to Con­ quest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Best Novelette (243 ballots) Fred L. Whipple and Willy Ley. The Hugo “Legions in Time” — Michael Swanwick was accepted by the chief curator of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala­ (Asimov’s, April 2003) 1 i t t ! a t i bama on October 19 and was placed on dis­ » > i play in the Center’s special exhibit of science Best Short Story (310 ballots) t i 1 fiction's influence on the careers of von Braun “A Study in Emerald” — Neil Gaiman t •» and others in the early days of rocketry. The * 11 (Shadows over Baker Street, Del Rey, 2003) exhibit runs through May 2005. When it ends, the Hugo will be transferred to the Center’s Best Related Book (243 ballots) permanent exhibit of von Braun's office. The Chesley Awards for SF & Fantasy Art: A Pictures of Pat Molloy placing the trophy Retrospective — John Grant, Elizabeth L. in the display can be found at: Humphrey, & Pamela D. Scoville (Artist’s http://www.norcascon.org/hugos/vonBraun- & Photographer’s Press Ltd., 2003) Von Braun with two-stage Hugo. hugo.html February 2005 3 I saw a lot of you File 770 readers at No- even when well-done. When Victor an­ I could probably list between 75 and 100, reascon 4. You all set me straight about the nounced Trufen.net to the RASFF newsgroup, particularly if I were allowed to list some fans schedule of this fanzine. Falling a year behind a skeptical Hal Heydt inquired, “Do you see who’ve died in the past few years.” It was a because I’m raising a toddler wasn’t the prob­ the irony of posting this on a Usenet news­ great monkey poke. I really wanted to argue lem - it was saying last issue I felt okay about group?” Hal felt that most fannish happenings that I do so write better than dead people. that, there I crossed the line! find their way into newsgroups, a medium he By the way, Trufen.net welcomes all living So I’m cranking up the heartbeat of this also felt is technically superior to a website. (and undead) fanwriters to log on and post fanzine to a faster pace. Or at least I’m trying. However, he underestimated why news web­ comments. As is also the problem with e- And John Hertz, who knows about Big Hearts, sites (or paper newzines) are still read by fanzines, it’s rare that articles on Trufen gen­ calls every few days with welcome encourage­ many fans, even those who are already well- erate much response, and then the response is ment. informed: for the interpretive vision a good more likely to be about something other than A few hundred words about the delays are editor brings to the news. A good newzine the content of the article. The editors are left not needed. I will only mention that because editor thinks up questions and pursues the to strain as much egoboo as we can from the time is flying by, a few things that “ought” to answers, he doesn’t just fish on the surface. rising figure of the hit counter on the behind- be in this issue have been pushed back, such Fans want news delivered with a storyteller’s the-scenes story-editing screen. Victor would as my half-finished Noreascon 4 report. (The touch, and with a sensitivity to connections love the site to have thousands of hits a day, silver lining to that, I suppose, is that I have and historical significance. Each editor does with so many posts that people need the site’s one-quarter of next issue’s material already that in a personal way — the reason multiple comment-scoring system to sift through the written.) fannish newzines can thrive at the same time dross. At the moment, Trufen.net gets about Trufen.net: I was basically on my way to and have overlapping audiences. 200 visitors a day and about 10% of them apply for membership in Victor Gonzalez’ Right now, Trufen.net strikes me as a fast­ leave comments. Trufen e-mail list when Google directed me to moving fanzine, which may be slow by the Eventually Trufen.net may be universally Trufen.net. It proved not be the web-based net’s activity standards but is pretty satisfying read, but for now it still makes sense to run in version of the list I was seeking (which is at to fans. The more actively contributing editors File 770 things I already posted there. They Yahoo.com.), but something much more won­ are Victor (who writes about 80% of the news will be new (if not “news”) to most of you. derful than that - a fan news website that pur­ stories), Earl Cooley and me. Victor has also Having Trufen as an outlet, and Victor’s en­ sues fresh stories every day. It’s captured my lined up wonderful features from Andy couragement, has definitely given new impe­ enthusiasm and I’ve become a contributor as Hooper, a fanzine review series titled tus to my fanwriting. I hope this will translate well. “Hooperbole,” and Peter Weston, writing into several issues of File 770 in 2005. Victor, in collaboration with Linux-savvy about the life of an elder statesfan. There is Sierra Days: My girl just turned three Dan Watling, unfurled Trufen.net in April also a journal area, where Jerry Kaufman is years old. These days I'm logging a lot of time 2004. Their site is bejeweled with latest the one of the most frequent writers. with Sierra and her stuffed animals. She says, technical enhancements used in blogs and rich brown’s comments and essays assure “Daddy, let’s play tiger and lion!” Playing commercial websites, something quite inter­ more than a bit of controversy, which always tiger and lion once meant alternately roaring esting in its own right. Trufen.net also has seems to make Victor’s day (more hits!) like, then fleeing from, imaginary predators. simple pleasures - when 1 log on, the first though I could sometimes do without. I was Now that’s her shorthand for everything we thing I see is soothing field of emerald green. horrified by brown’s toxic blast at Cheryl can play on the floor of her room. Sometimes How rare it is to find a site with a clean visual Morgan when she won the fanzine Hugo. Sierra wants to be a preschool teacher and transition, that doesn’t erupt with a rainbow However, when rich got around to me (in a read stories to her stuffed animals.