Alastair Mayer's T-Space

With the new year comes nomination season for various SF/F awards for stories, books, movies and other works that first appeared in 2010.

The Hugo awards and the Campbell award nominations can be made by anyone who has registered as an attending or supporting member of Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon, by January 31st , or who was a member of Aussiecon 4, the 2010 Worldcon. You can always update a supporting membership to full membership later (I believe you need a full membership for the final voting), but that deadline is coming up. (Much as I like the two short stories I’ve had published in 2010 — “Light Conversation” and “Poetic Justice” — I realize that they’re competing against hundreds if not thousands of other new short stories, many by very well known writers. It really would be an honor just to be nominated.)

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is open to anyone whose first professional sf/f story was published in 2009 or 2010. The nomination is for the writer, not for any specific work. My publications this year put me in qualification. (Note that there’s another Campbell award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. This is not that.)

Nebula nominations are also open, and is limited to SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) members. Associate members can nominate but only active (full) members can vote. If you’re a member, you’re probably getting the reminder emails.

Nomination suggestions
I’ll be posting my nomination suggestions when I’ve had more chance to consider them. Meanwhile, Codexian author Jason Sanford has posted his list of suggested nominations for the 2010 Hugos, Nebula, Locus and other awards. I’m particularly pleased to be included among his choices for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Thanks, Jason! Of course, it takes more than one nomination to get onto the final ballot. If you’re a member of this year’s Worldcon and you like my writing (or, hey, even if you don’t ), please consider me when putting your nomination list together. Thanks.

Reading copies
If you’re eligible to nominate and you’d like to read any of my published stories, just ask and I’ll be glad to email you a copy. Contracts won’t let me just post them publicly here yet.

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