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File 770: 103 2 File 770:103 File 770: 103 2 File 770:103 File 770:103 is edited by Mike Glyer at 5828 ommiftee iScvuerva Woodman Ave. #2, Van Nuys CA 91401. File 770 is available for news, artwork, arranged trades (primarily with other newzines and clubzines), or by Here's the long-sought St. Louis in '97 Bid Commit­ subscription. Subscriptions cost $8.00 for 5 issues tee list, courtesy of Rich Zellich: mailed first class in North America or surface mail rates overseas. Air printed matter service is available Tri-Chair: Michelle Zellich, Rich Zellich, Les for $2.50 per issue. Telephone (818) 787-5061. Haven; The Rest of the Crew: Mary Broughton, Jim Knappenberger, JoElien Potchen, Kathy Burkhart, Frequently Unnoticed: This month's trivia question is, Joan Mri Knappenberger, Mark Rowley, Roy what fannish newzine has published 11 issues in the Burkhart, Bruce Mai, Sean Sendlein, Maureen past 23 months? Davis, Nora Mai, Jon "Mr. Wonderful" Stadter Randy Davis, Cheryl Medley, Bob Stoltman, Mike [[And the answer is - drum roll please - File 770. Evans, Camuolyn "Sam" Nickelberry, Steve Swope, #103 May '94, #102 April ’94, #101 January '94, Doug Glenn, John Novak, Roger Tener, Kay Goo­ #100 October'93, #99 August '93, #98 June '93, #97 de, Charlotte Phelps, Marie Willbrand, Ron Henley, April '93, #96 January '93, #95 November '92, #94 Dave Phelps, Linda Zang. September '92, #93 July '92.]] Rich adds a note that this is most of the con [co-] ART CREDITS: chairs, department heads, and senior staff of the three St. Louis-area conventions (plus Roger Tener Ruth Thompson: Cover from Wichita), and a scattering of people from the Peggy Ranson: 2, 6, 9, 15, 18 local Dr. Who, Starfleet, and Costumers Guild Bill Rotsler: 8, 12, 13, 19 groups. TH€ THRGG CASGS OF gvg Eve Ackerman sent the Glasgow Worldcon commit­ tee this quote from a recent Dave Barry column: "...December 1993 issue of the Scottish Medical Journal... article entitled THE COLLAPSE OF TOILETS IN GLASGOW.' This article, which I am not making up, describes three cases wherein people were injured 'whilst sitting on toilets which unex­ pectedly collapsed.' All three patients had to receive hospital treatment for wounds in the buttocks LANGFORD AND GLYER ISSUE region. (The buttocks region is located just west of Edinburgh." JOINT PRESS RELEASE Eve asked the Intersection ConCom if they had "After a friendly debate about Ansible coverage of anything to add to Dave Barry's advice, which is "If Harry Andruschak's comments on LASFS, as you must go to a foreign country, go to the bath­ reported in F770A02, the massively contused editor of F770 agreed that the Ansible report (which room before you leave." however tasteless was a correct rendition of Andruschak's claim) shouldn't have been called 'erroneous' ...while Dave Langford of Ansible admitted through broken teeth that running the original item had been a Bad Idea. Both newszine moguls are said to be as well as can be expected." 3 File 770 [] Issue 105 [] May 1994 1994 Hugo and Campbell Award Nominees ConAdian. the 52nd World Science Fiction Convention, has released the nominees for the 1994 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award. The winners will be presented at a ceremony at ConAdian in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Saturday, September 3,1994. The nominees that follow were chosen by popular vote by 649 members of ConAdian or ConFran- cisco (the 51st World Science Fiction Convention) who submitted valid nominating ballots. The nomination ballots were counted and verified by the ConAdian Hugo Administrators, David Bratman and Seth Goldberg. BEST NOVEL BEST NOVELETTE Moving Mars, by Greg Bear (Tor) "The Shadow Knows", by Terry Bisson (Asimov's, Glory Season, by David Brin (Bantam Spectra) September 1993; Bears Discover Fire (Tor)) Virtual Light, by William Gibson (Bantam Spectra) "The Franchise", by John Kessel (Asimov's, Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress August 1993) (Morrow AvoNova) "Dancing on Air", by Nancy Kress (Asimov's, Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Harper­ July 1993) Collins UK; Bantam Spectra US) "Georgia on My Mind", by Charles Sheffield No Award (Analog, January 1993) "Deep Eddy", by Bruce Sterling (Asimov's, BEST NOVELLA August 1993) No Award The Night We Buried Road Dog", by Jack Cady (F&SF, January 1993) BEST SHORT STORY "Mefisto in Onyx", by Harlan Ellison (Omni, October 1993; Mark V. Ziesing) "England Underway", by Terry Bisson (Omni, "An American Childhood", by Pat Murphy July 1993; Bears Discover Fire Tor)) (Asimov's, April 1993) "The Good Pup", by Bridget McKenna (F&SF, "Into the Miranda Rift", by G. David Nordley March 1993) (Analog, July 1993) "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", by Mike "Down in the Bottomlands", by Harry Turtledove Resnick (Asimov's, March 1993) (Analog, January 1993) "The Story So Far", by Martha Soukup (Full "Wall, Stone, Craft", by Walter Jon Williams Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra)) (F&SF, October/November 1993; Axolotl) "Death on the Nile", by Connie Willis (Asimov's, No Award March 1993) No Award 4 May 1994 BEST NON-FICTION BOOK David Cherry Bob Eggleton Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Don Maitz Autobiography, by Robert Bloch (Tor) Michael Whelan The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited No Award by John Clute and Peter Nicholls (Orbit UK; St. Martin's US) BEST ORIGINAL ARTWORK PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty- First Century Studies, edited by Theodore R. Cover of F&SF, October/November 1993 Cogswell (Advent) (illustrating "The Little Things", B. McKenna), Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, by by Thomas Canty Scott McCloud (Tundra; Kitchen Sink; Harper Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet, by Perennial) Stephen Hickman (U.S. Postal Service) The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes /Visions, by Cover of Asimov's, November 1993 (illustrating Michael Whelan (Bantam Spectra) "Cold Iron", M. Swanwick), by Keith Parkinson No Award No Award BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION BEST SEMI-PROZINE Addams Family Values (Paramount Pictures); Interzone, edited by David Pringle Producer, Scott Rudin; Director, Barry Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown Sonnenfeld; Screenwriter, Paul Rudnick The New York Review of Science Fiction, edited by "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) (Warner Brothers); David G. Hartwell, Donald G. Keller, Robert Executive producers, Douglas Netter & J. KJ. Killheffer, and Gordon Van Gelder Michael Straczynski; Director, Richard Pulphouse, edited by Dean Wesley Smith and Compton; Writer, J. Michael Straczynski Jonathan E. Bond Groundhog Day (Columbia Pictures); Producers, Science Fiction Chronicle, edited by Andrew Porter Trevor Albert & Harold Ramis; Director, Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, ed. by Algis Budrys Harold Ramis; Screenwriters, Danny Rubin No Award & Harold Ramis Jurassic Park (Universal); Producers, Kathleen BEST FANZINE Kennedy & Gerald R. Malen; Director, Steven Spielberg; Screenwriters, Michael Crichton Ansible, edited by Dave Langford & David Koepp File 770, edited by Mike Glyer The Nightmare Before Christmas (Touchstone Lan's Lantern, edited by George "Lan" Laskowski Pictures); Producers, Tim Burton & Denise Mimosa, edited by Dick and Nicki Lynch DiNovi; Director, Henry Selick; Screenwriter, Stet, edited by Leah Zeldes Smith and Dick Smith Caroline Thompson No Award No Award BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR BEST FAN WRITER Ellen Datlow Sharon Farber Gardner Dozois Mike Glyer Mike Resnick Andy Hooper Kristine Kathryn Rusch Dave Langford Stanley Schmidt Evelyn C. Leeper No Award No Award BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST BEST FAN ARTIST Thomas Canty Brad W. Foster File 770:103 5 Teddy Harvia been published in magazine format in 1992. Nicola Linda Michaels Griffith received enough votes to be nominated for Peggy Ranson the John W. Campbell Award, but was ruled ineligi­ William Rotsler ble due to professional publication of fiction in the Stu Shiftman science fiction and fantasy field prior to 1992. No Award Sharon Sbarsky posted the following nominating JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD statistics on GEnie, which were not part of the e- for Best New Science Fiction Writer of 1992-1993, mail press release I received: (sponsored by Dell Magazines) "Statistics: The chart below shows, for each Hugo Holly Lisle (2nd year of eligibility) category, the total number of ballots marked, the Jack Nimersheim (2nd year of eligibility) total number of votes cast, the number of different Carrie Richerson (2nd year of eligibility) candidates nominated, and the range of votes Amy Thomson (1st year of eligibility) received by the finalists. The first two columns were Elizabeth Willey (1st year of eligibility) calculated on raw eligible votes, the third after No Award reassigning scattered votes for single candidates to the most appropriate category, and the last on the Final Bells and Whistles: [[Bratman and Goldberg nominees actually appearing on the ballot in each devoted the balance of their press release to justifying category. the arrangement of stories on the ballot.]] Category Ballots Votes Nominees Range Novel 521 1662 285 66-38 In some categories more than 5 nominees appear Novella 316 814 60 81-28 due to tie votes. In the "Original Artwork" category Novelette 322 970 147 81-28 Short Story 367 1120 284 72-35 only 3 nominees appear, as no other candidates ap­ Nonfic. Book 239 448 64 111-23 peared on at least 5% of the ballots cast in that Dram. Pres. 345 859 136 159-34 category, as required by Section 2.6 of the WSFS Prof. Editor 371 924 82 145-73 Prof. Artist 338 966 177 87-58 Constitution for 4th and 5th nominees. Orig. Art. 216 500 219 34-13 Semiprozine 320 687 54 142-38 Fanzine 299 678 131 65-32 Owing to a severe disparity among the short fiction Fan Writer 247 620 190 49-20 categories in the number of nominations received by Fan Artist 220 514 142 44-22 the leading candidates, to achieve a fairer balance Campbell 307 647 114 54-22 the administrators exercised the option provided by Bratman says he spent the weekend after the no­ Section 2.2.1 of the WSFS Constitution to relocate minations were ready at the Fantasy Worlds Festival stories within 5,000 words of the category limits into in Berkeley, and by courtesy of the chair, Elizabeth adjacent categories.
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