Hugo, man of a thousand ballots

[avram]

I’m way behind on my Hugo reading, and with the deadline at the end of this month, I dunno if I’m gonna make it, not all the novels and the short fiction. But on my most recent visit to Barnes & Noble I saw that Charlie Stross’s Singularity Sky is out in mass-market paper, and snatched it up. I really ought to read the other Best Novel nominees too (except the Robert J. Sawyer; I feel pretty confident predicting that I wouldn’t like it, though I suppose I might hate one of the others more), but a book that contains the line “the brightly colored sporks of revolution” has a definite leg up.

If I see 28 Days After I’ll have seen all the Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) nominees; out of the other four I’m leaning towards Pirates of the Caribbean for first, X2 for second.

The Dramatic Short Form I’ll probably just skip. I’ve only seen one out of the five, and don’t consider that one award-worthy, and seeing the others would likely be a pain in the ass, unless someone wants to lend me a Firefly DVD.

Note to self: Nominate PNH, TNH, Jim Henley, and John M Ford for Best Fan Writer next year. Langford’ll take the award anyway, but maybe one of ’em’ll get on the ballot.

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[mamishka.livejournal.com]

If you want to tell me what's up for a Firefly award, I'll give you my choice? Otherwise you might be able to find a video store to rent the episode from.

[avram]

The five nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form:

"Chosen" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards"
"Heart of Gold" episode of Firefly
"The Message" episode of Firefly
"Rosetta" episode of Smallville