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ASFACTS 2015 APRIL “V ARIED WEATHER ” S PRING ISSUE Winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards Ban- quet June 6 at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago IL. In addition to his contributions to the genre, Niven has influenced the “fields of space exploration and technology.” The Grandmaster Award is given for “lifetime achievement VERNON AMONG 2014 N EBULA NOMINEES ; in science fiction and/or fantasy.” Jeffry Dwight will receive the 2015 Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award. NIVEN NAMED SFWA G RAND MASTER In late February, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writ- 2015 H UGO AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED ers of America released the final ballot for the 2014 Nebula Awards. The group also named Larry Niven the recipient of The finalists for the 2015 Hugo Awards were announced the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, citing his April 4 at Norwescon and three other conventions and online “invaluable contributions to the field of science fiction and via UStream, as well as via the Twitter feed and other social fantasy.” A full list of nominees, including Bubonicon 44 media of Sasquan, the 2015 Worldcon. Artist Guest Ursula Vernon, follows: Since then, the Hugo committee has decided that two Novel: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, nominees were not eligible, two other nominees have asked Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon, Ancillary Sword by Ann for their names to be removed from the ballot, and Connie Leckie, The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Coming Willis has withdrawn as an award presenter at the ceremony Home by Jack McDevitt, and Annihilation by Jeff Vander- – all due to controversy around the nominees. Meer. Novella: We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Greg- 2,122 valid nominating ballots were received – setting a ory, Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress, “The Regular” by Ken new record for participation, exceeding last year’s previous Liu, “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert, Calen- record nominating ballot turnout of 1,923 votes. A full list of drical Regression by Lawrence Schoen, and “Grand Jeté nominees, including Albuquerque’s Laura J. Mixon and (The Great Leap)” by Rachel Swirsky. George RR Martin’s TV show, follows: Novellette: “Sleep Walking Now and Then” by Richard Best Novel: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie, The Dark Bowes, “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon” by Tom Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson, The Goblin Em- Crosshill, “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i” by Alaya Dawn peror by Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette), and Skin Johnson, “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado, Game: Dresden Files Book x by Jim Butcher. Best Novella: “We Are the Cloud” by Sam J. Miller, and “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson. Short Story: “The UPCOMING ASFS M EETINGS Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard, “When It Ends, He • Tonight: Devin O’Leary of the Weekly Alibi pre- Catches Her” by Eugie Foster, “The Meeker and the All- sents his 3RD SCI -FI TRAILER PARK with a look at Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel, “The Vaporization En- forthcoming genre movies. We’re a week late! thalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik, • May 8: Mars One candidate Zachary Gallegos! “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker, • June 12: Local artist Jon Sanchez shows off his “Jackalope Wives” by URSULA VERNON , and “The Fisher stuff, and talks about his art & printing techniques. Queen” by Alyssa Wong. • July 10: Unknown program. Plus the summer Ray Bradbury Award: Birdman, Captain America: issue of ASFacts (deadline July 5). The Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, Guardians of the • August 14: Bubonicon 47 preview & a visit from Galaxy, Interstellar and The Lego Movie . Andre Norton author Melinda Snodgrass. Award: Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan, Salvage by Alex- • August 21: Bubonicon 47 Gofer Meeting. andra Duncan, Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson, • September 18: Bubonicon 47 & Spokane World- Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King, Dirty con reports. Meeting is a week late (3rd Friday). Wings by Sarah McCarry, Greenglass House by Kate Mil- • October 9: Club officer elections, something fun ford, and The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Laven- or educational, and the Halloween ASFacts . der by Leslye Walton. Craig Chrissinger, normal editor. Darth Vader, guest editor each December. Please Send All Correspondence to — PO Box 37257, Albuquerque, NM 87176-7257. Phone: (505) 266-8905. E-mail: [email protected]. ASFACTS published February, April, July & October for the Albuq SF Society. SITH FACTS out each December. NEXT DEADLINE : Sun, July 5. Club Officers: Kevin Hewett & Craig Chrissinger, co-Zec Secs (505) 266-8905. Geneva Schult, Moderator. Patricia Rogers, Alternator. Bubonicon Chairs: Craig Chrissinger & Caci Cooper (505) 559-0931. www.bubonicon.com Big Boys Don’t Cry by Tom Kratman, “Flow” by Arlan An- drews, Sr, One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. HUGO VOTING CAMPAIGN SPARKS CONTROVERSY Wright, “Pale Realms of Shade” by John C. Wright, and from Isabella Biedenharn of EW.com & File 770 “The Plural of Helen of Troy” by John C. Wright. Many science fiction writers are up in arms with a slate Best Novelette: “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to of Hugo Awards nominees lobbied by two groups affiliated Alluvium” by Gray Rinehart, “Championship B’tok” by Ed- with last year’s GamerGate scandal, Sad Puppies and Rabid ward M. Lerner, “The Day the World Turned Upside Down” Puppies. by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, “The Journeyman: In the Stone Sad Puppies broadcast their selection on February 1, House” by Michael F. Flynn, and “The Triple Sun: A Golden writing: “If you agree with our slate below—and we suspect Age Tale” by Rajnar Vajra. Best Short Story: “On A Spiri- you might—this is YOUR chance to make sure YOUR voice tual Plain” by Lou Antonelli, “The Parliament of Beasts and is heard.” Brad Torgerson, who runs Sad Puppies along with Birds” by John C. Wright, “Totaled” by Kary English, and Larry Correia, complains that the Hugo Awards have lately “Turncoat” by Steve Rzasa. skewed toward “literary” works, as opposed to Best Related Work: “The Hot Equations: Thermody- “entertainment.” namics and Military SF” by Ken Burnside, Letters from Torgerson also writes that he disagrees with Hugos be- Gardner by Lou Antonelli, Transhuman and Subhuman: ing awarded for affirmative action-like purposes, as many Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by John C. women and writers of color went home with awards in 2014: Wright, “Why Science is Never Settled” by Tedd Roberts, “Likewise, we’ve seen the Hugo voting skew ideological, as and Wisdom from My Internet by Michael Z. Williamson. Worldcon and fandom alike have tended to use the Hugos as Best Graphic Story: Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal writ- an affirmative action award: giving Hugos because a writer ten by G. Willow Wilson, Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and or artist is (insert underrepresented minority or victim group Sorcery written by Kurtis J. Weibe, Saga Volume 3 written here) or because a given work features (insert underrepre- by Brian K. Vaughan, Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird sented minority or victim group here) characters.” Trick written by Matt Fraction, and The Zombie Nation Book The other lobbying group, Rabid Puppies, is run by #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate by Carter Reid. Theodore Beale (who goes by the name Vox Day). As The Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Captain Telegraph reports, “Members of the Science Fiction and Fan- America: The Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, Guardi- tasy Writers of America called for Beale’s exclusion from ans of the Galaxy, Interstellar , and The Lego Movie . Best the group after he wrote against women’s suffrage and Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who : posted racist views towards black writer NK Jemisin.” “Listen,” The Flash : “Pilot,” GAME OF THRONES : “T HE Writer Philip Sandifer wrote on his blog April 5, “The MOUNTAIN AND THE VIPER ,” Grimm : “Once We Were Hugo Awards have just been successfully hijacked by neo- Gods,” and Orphan Black : “By Means Which Have Never fascists.” Sandifer’s post, which is worth reading in full, ad- Yet Been Tried.” dresses what this disaster means for the sci-fi world: Best Editor, Short Form: Jennifer Brozek, Vox Day, “To be frank, it means that traditional sci-fi/fantasy fan- Mike Resnick, Edmund R. Schubert, and Bryan Thomas dom does not have any legitimacy right now. Period. A com- Schmidt. Best Editor, Long Form: Vox Day, Sheila Gil- munity that can be this effectively controlled by someone bert, Jim Minz, Anne Sowards, and Toni Weisskopf. Best who thinks black people are subhuman and who has called Professional Artist: Julie Dillon, Kirk DouPonce, Nick for acid attacks on feminists is not one whose awards have Greenwood, Alan Pollack, and Carter Reid. any sort of cultural validity. That sort of thing doesn’t hap- Best Semiprozine: Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Space- pen to functional communities. And the fact that it has just ways In-Flight Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lights- happened to the oldest and most venerable award in the sci- peed Magazine , and Strange Horizons . Best Fanzine: Black fi/fantasy community makes it unambiguously clear that tra- Gate, Elitist Book Reviews, Journey Planet, The Revenge of ditional sci-fi/fantasy fandom is not fit for purpose.” Hump Day , and Tangent SF Online . Best Fancast: Adven- As writer Joe Abercrombie put it on Twitter: “The Hugo tures in SF Publishing, Dungeon Crawlers Radio, Galactic Awards have never looked less like the future of anything. Suburbia Podcast, The Sci Phi Show , and Tea and Jeopardy . 2:24 PM - 4 Apr 2015” Best Fan Writer: Dave Freer, Amanda S.
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