Nominations are now open for the 2016 Hugo Awards.<\/p>\n
You can nominate online at http:\/\/midamericon2.org\/the-hugo-awards\/hugo-nominations\/<\/a> <\/p>\n Those still using paper can also download a ballot and mail it in.<\/p>\n On-line works better, though. A mailed ballot, once mailed, is done. On-line, you can fill in a few choices now, then add or change later. The nominations are opening now, but won’t close until March 31. So if you know a few things you want to nominate, and you have your PIN, put them down now. You can always change ’em later.<\/p>\n Of course, you do need to be a worldcon member to nominate. That is to say, a member of this year’s worldcon (MidAmericon II in Kansas City), or last year’s (Sasquan in Spokane), or next year’s (in Helsinki). If you hold a membership in any of those you’re good.<\/p>\n If not, though, you need to act NOW<\/i><\/b>. To qualify, you need to buy a membership in either KC or Helsinki by JANUARY 31<\/span>, and the last time I looked, that was tomorrow.<\/p>\n You can sign up at: Even if you can’t come to worldcon, you can still nominate and vote by buying a supporting membership. But attending is better, if you can make it. Finland has never hosted a worldcon before, but Helsinki is a great city, so ’17 should be a hoot and a half. With saunas. As for KC, MidAmericon I in 1976 was my favorite worldcon of all time, and if MAC II is even half as good, it will be terrific.<\/p>\n What you nominate is, of course, entirely up to you. <\/p>\n But please, NOMINATE. I have been beating that same drum for a decade, and this year it behooves me to beat it even louder. Nominate the stuff that you<\/b><\/i> enjoyed best last year. Let your own individual voice be heard. <\/p>\n Yes, I have recommended some stuff I liked, in older posts below. And I will be doing more of same in the near future. But remember, that’s just me saying, “hey, I liked this, you might like it too, take a look.” No one should ever nominate anything just because someone else tells them to.<\/p>\n ((This is has been a fannish service announcement)). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nominations are now open for the 2016 Hugo Awards. You can nominate online at http:\/\/midamericon2.org\/the-hugo-awards\/hugo-nominations\/ Those still using paper can also download a ballot and mail it in. On-line works better, though. A mailed ballot, once mailed, is done. On-line, you can fill in a few choices now, then add or change later. The nominations […]<\/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":[29,30,39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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