And another thing I just noticed on the ConJose web site (okay, so they do do regular updates…): Worldcon in 2005 is going to be in Glasgow! (Ten years after Intersection in 1995. That seems a looooong time ago now. I had just started work as a teacher! Yikes!)
Hugo awards
The Hugo awards for 2002 have now been announced (an not in the place I thought they would be…). Neil Gaiman gets best novel for American Gods! Going to have to go & get that now!
Neil Gaiman himself writes about getting a hugo on his journal:
(Memo to self: even if you don’t think you’re going to win, write a speech. Otherwise you will wind up on the stage in front of several thousand people, finishing an impromptu speech with “Fuck, I got a Hugo.”)
New photos
Rands Vegas System
A hilarious series of articles about how (and how not) to do a trip to Vegas
Holiday next week
We’re off work next week, and we’ve just made a hotel booking at the Auld Kirk Hotel in Ballater for next Wednesday. We’ve been past the hotel any number of times on our way through Ballater, and have always thought that we ought to try a stay there some time. On one of trips through Scotland we even popped in and tried to get a room there, but they were fully booked. So we’re definitely looking forward to finally getting to stay there next week.
We’ll be bringing Grandma McLean with us, in the hope that she’ll help us win a car again. (It’ll also help Alex to not wreck her house completely as he runs around with his boundless energy.)
Hugo nominees
Took me ages to track this one down (I must have injured my Google muscle): the 2002 Hugo award nominees.
And just for the record, the ConJosé web site is a bit rubbish. Does their web site include a link to the Hugo nominees on the home page? Nope. Does it include a link in their sidebar? Nuh uh. Does the site even have a way of searching their content? Tee hee.
No: you’ve got to know that Hugos fall under “WSFS business.” (World Science Fiction Society). Only there do you find a link to their press release with the nominees on it.
So how long will it be before they put up a link to the final voting results? Anyone’s guess. But they’ve been putting their press releases here: http://www.conjose.org/Pubs/PressRel/.