{"id":1411,"date":"2014-05-07T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2017-08-29T20:43:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:43:45","slug":"locus-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2014\/05\/07\/locus-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCUS Nominees Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/7059164\/204172\/204172_original.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"locus\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/204172_300.jpg\" title=\"locus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOCUS, the premiere SF and fantasy newsletter\/ fanzine\/ semiprozine\/ whatever &#8212; an indispensible publication whatever you call it &#8212; has just announced the finalists for this year&#39;s annual Locus Awards, and I am happy to announce that the list includes a couple nods for me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Princess and the Queen,&quot; my &#39;fake history&#39; novella from DANGEROUS WOMEN, has been nominated as Best Novella.<\/p>\n<p>And OLD MARS, the retro-SF anthology I co-edited by Gardner Dozois, is a finalist for Best Anthology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/7059164\/204509\/204509_original.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Old Mars cvr\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/204509_300.jpg\" title=\"Old Mars cvr\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gargoo is competing against himself in the anthology category, since his annual BEST OF THE YEAR is also nominated.&nbsp; Gardner is also nominated as Best Editor (I&#39;m not).<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m also thrilled by the nominations of a couple of stories we edited.&nbsp; Joe Abercrombie&#39;s &quot;Some Desperado&quot; from DANGEROUS WOMEN and Howard Waldrop&#39;s &quot;The Dead-Sea-Bottom Scrolls&quot; from OLD MARS are both finalists in Best Short Story.<\/p>\n<p>And while I had nothing to do with it, I&#39;m equally delighted by the nomination of ABADDON&#39;S GATE by my friends Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck as Best Novel.&nbsp; ABADDON&#39;S absence from this year&#39;s Hugo ballot is a crime, especially considering some of the stuff that <i>did<\/i> make that ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Win, lose, or draw, it is an honor just to be nominated.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of nominees can found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2014\/05\/2014-locus-awards-finalists\/\">http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2014\/05\/2014-locus-awards-finalists\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCUS, the premiere SF and fantasy newsletter\/ fanzine\/ semiprozine\/ whatever &#8212; an indispensible publication whatever you call it &#8212; has just announced the finalists for this year&#39;s annual Locus Awards, and I am happy to announce that the list includes a couple nods for me. &quot;The Princess and the Queen,&quot; my &#39;fake history&#39; novella from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}