Still catching up on stuff, and have more photos to upload, so blogging might be light for a few days…
Back From Worldcon
August 22nd, 20112011 Hugo Award Winners
August 21st, 2011Hot from the Renovation home page, here’s the 2011 Hugo Award Winners:
Best Novel (1813 ballots)
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)Best Novella (1467 ballots)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean)Best Novelette (1469 ballots)
“The Emperor of Mars” by Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s, June 2010)Best Short Story (1597 ballots)
“For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s, September 2010)Best Related Work (1220 ballots)
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea (Mad Norwegian)Best Graphic Story (1263 ballots)
Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, written by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (1755 ballots)
Inception, written and directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner)Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (1466 ballots)
Doctor Who: “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang,” written by Steven Moffat; directed by Toby Haynes (BBC Wales)Best Editor, Short Form (983 ballots)
Sheila WilliamsBest Editor, Long Form (898 ballots)
Lou AndersBest Professional Artist (1304 ballots)
Shaun TanBest Semiprozine (1112 ballots)
Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, Sean Wallace; podcast directed by Kate BakerBest Fanzine (870 ballots)
The Drink Tank, edited by Christopher J Garcia and James BaconBest Fan Writer (814 ballots)
Claire BrialeyBest Fan Artist (993 ballots)
Brad W. FosterJohn W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1138 ballots)
Lev Grossman
Worldcon 2011 Photos for Saturday, August 20
August 21st, 2011I have solved my camera battery problem. It seems my MacBook does not have enough juice to recharge the camera, even when plugged in. So it’s a good thing I brought the wall to USB charger adapter for it. Packing Heavy for the win!
Since I had gotten the lovely Gail Carriger in red before, you know I had to get her in green. “I’m a one-woman Christmas!”
Steve Jackson, God-Emperor of Steve Jackson Games, my old Nova Express proofreader, one of the people that helped me move endless boxes of books into my house, and an all-around cromulant guy.
Harry Turtledove. “So Harry, how many books did you write this year?” “Just part of one.” “Just one? You? That’s unpossible! Did all your daughters graduate from college?” “Yes.”
His Majesty’s Subject Cory Doctorow, throwing up sum mad n3rdc0rz gangster signs, yo.
Adam-Troy Castro. In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to snap his pic during that proctology exam.
John W. Campbell Award winning author Lev Grossman.
Joan D. Vinge. With the light behind her, this actually came out much better than expected.
John Picacio, who was robbed AGAIN!
Guest of Honor Tim Powers, who was not only Steampunk before Steampunk was cool, but was Steampunk before it was even Steampunk.
Michael Swanwick and Gordon Van Gelder.
Lois McMaster Bujold.
Yvonne Daily, an old friend back from the halcyon days of the Austin BBS community, where we all hung 300 baud modems from our belt, because that was the style at the time.
Phil Brogden, ditto. This isn’t perspective, his hand really is eight time larger than a normal human’s.
Phil & Yvonne going for the full Irish experience.
Worldcon 2011 Photos for Friday, August 19
August 20th, 2011I would have had more, but my battery died early.
A CapClave image for Howard Waldrop.
Ditto. Just your standard chain-mail-clad dodo riding a Dachshund.
Gordon Van Gelder.
Larry Niven.
Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, unknown.
Greg Bear and Jean Johnson.
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Worldcon 2011 Photos for Thursday, August 18 (part 2)
August 19th, 2011Another batch of the literati glitterati:
Your Humble Narrator. I was going for the “I want you to chop off all their heads and bring them to me on a pike” look. I think I succeeded.
Scott Cupp, similarly enthroned.
The extremely lovely and exquisitely dressed Gail Carriger.
Best Editor Hugo Nominee Jonathan Strahan.
Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams, who was also corralled in the same Best Editor Petting Zoo as Strahan.
John Douglas. “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
Kurt Baty, one of the few men in the world to own more books than me.
Scott Bobo, in his natural bar habitat.
Sara Felix and Fred Duarte.
John Hertz, who has sent me about 300,000 issues of Vanamode over the years.
Gary K. Wolfe.
John Moore: The Headshot.
Art Widner. It’s a little known fact that Lady Gaga stole this look from Art for her “Paparazzi” video.
Sean McMullin.
Sandy Cupp
Mary Robinette Kowal and fellow Farker Carrie Vaughen.
It’s late, so forgive me if I’m low on pith…
Worldcon 2011 Photos for Thursday, August 18
August 18th, 2011Another batch:
Zoo City author Lauren Beukes.
Guest of Honor Tim Powers and Robert Silverberg, discussing the difference between writing a novel every two years and writing a novel every two weeks. James Patrick Kelly lurks menacingly in the background.
Steve Gould, explaining to me how he had not only moved back to New Mexico, but had actually moved back into the same house after two years in Texas.
Michael Swanwick, back from his stint in the home for the criminally insane. (Wait, are you sure he said “medical problems”? I’m pretty sure I heard “mental”…)
TAFF winner John Coxon.
Willie Sirois, counting the money he has just extracted from my pocket. Again.
Worldcon 2011 Photos for Wednesday, August 17
August 18th, 2011After a few technical difficulties, I think I have this sussed out…
Scott Edelman, Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi, Ian MacDonald
Alastair “Ten Book Contract” Reynolds
Lou Anders
Ellen Datlow and Susan Casper, counting up the money from the marks
Gardner Dozois and Joe Haldeman
The one only Pat Cadigan, shortly after she drank Andre the Giant under the table.
Joe Haldeman and Robert Silverberg, getting together to see if either of them could actually remember the 60s.
Martha Wells
David Hartwell looms large in science fiction.
Copy-editing Goddess Deanna Hoak
John Scalzi, displaying the horrific befuddlement and inevitable mental degeneration that comes with being SFWA President.
Right before I snapped this picture, Ian McDonald said he always photographs horribly, then went out of his way to demonstrate the accuracy of the statement.
My apologies if I’ve misspelled anyone’s name, but I haven’t had breakfast yet. More later…
Moogfest
August 14th, 2011If I were in Asheville, NC the weekend of October 28-30, I would totally go to Moogfest. In addition to Brian Eno, it’s a veritable feast of Prog Rock goodness, including Tangerine Dream, M83, and half of King Crimson in the form of the Adrian Belew Power Trio.
Since M83 may be unfamiliar to many readers, here’s them doing “We Own the Sky:”
Gene Wolfe: Four Cheap Street Chapbooks
August 14th, 2011One of my favorite authors is Gene Wolfe (which you might have noticed before), so naturally I’ve tried to collect all his books. This includes all his chapbooks, some of which can be quite difficult to find.
Among his hardest to find are the ones he did for Cheap Street. Over the years I have picked up four of the five pure chapbooks done by them (as well as the two hardback books, Empires of Flowers and Foliage and Bibliomen), but frequently I would have trouble remembering which of them I have, a difficulty not aided by rather bland exteriors of the chapbooks themselves and the fact that all came in a standard Cheap Street envelope when I bought them, none of which revealed what was inside.
So, for both the sake of Gene Wolfe collectors, and to jog my own memory, I’ve scanned the title pages of each of the ones I have (click to embiggen):
Or, to list them in order of publication:
I think I paid in the $35-$40 range for each of those.
Chalker and Owings says that seven copies of each of the above were done as leather-bound hardbacks. Not only do I not have those, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of them offered for sale.
As far as I can tell, I’m only missing two Wolfe chapbooks now:
I’ll have to add those to the want list.
I think I have a first edition hardback of every other Gene Wolfe book.
More about Cheap Street here.
Black Dynamite Coming Back As An Animated TV Show
August 14th, 2011You may remember me raving about Black Dynamite, Michael Jai White’s awesome parody of low-budget 70s Blaxpotation films.
You may be pleased to know that the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim is doing Black Dynamite: The Animated Series. Click on the link to see the pilot. The show itself is set to premiere in 2012.