Still August Info-Alert NewsFlash!!
1998 Hugo Awards!
The 45th Annual Hugo Awards were announced at Bucconeer, the 56th
World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, August
7, 1998.
Complete results: (Courtesy of the Sci-Fi Wire from the Sci-Fi
Channel)
Best Novel
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0441004067/fantasicfuturesbA
Best Novella
"...Where Angels Fear to Tread" by Allen Steele
(in Asimov's Science Fiction Oct/Nov 1997)
Actual text at http://www.sfsite.com/asimovs/hugo/angels.htm
Best Novelette
"We Will Drink A Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson
(in Asimov's Science Fiction May 1997)
Actual text at http://www.sfsite.com/asimovs/hugo/drink.htm
Best Short Story
"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick
(in Asimov's Science Fiction December 1997)
Actual text at http://www.sfsite.com/asimovs/hugo/antar.htm>
(Asimov's will have to update their Awards List
http://www.sfsite.com/asimovs/info/cvinfo.htm#AWD )
Best Non-Fiction Book
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute and John Grant
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0312145942/fantasicfuturesbA
Best Dramatic Presentation
Contact
http://us.imdb.com/Title?Contact+(1997/I)
Best Professional Editor
Gardner Dozois
http://elaine.teleport.com/~osfci/orycon18/gardner.html
Best Professional Artist
Bob Eggleton
http://www.novaspace.com/LTD/EGG/Bobbio.html
Best Semiprozine
Locus
http://www.locusmag.com/index.html
Best Fanzine
Mimosa
http://smithway.org/mimosa/
Best Fan Writer
Dave Langford
http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/
Best Fan Artist
Joe Mayhew
http://www.bucconeer.worldcon.org/BR4/mayhew01.gif
John W. Campbell Award
Mary Doria Russell
http://members.stratos.net/druss44121/sparrow.html
For further information about the 1998 Hugo Award winners, see our
listing at:
http://clever.net/cam/hugonovels.html
J.M.S. Too Sick to Attend Worldcon!
Special Guest of Honor J.M.Straczynski, barely beginning to
recover from a bout with pneumonia, was forbidden to go to Baltimore
to attend Bucconeer due to the risk to his health this past weekend.
Yes, he's recovering but he might well have gotten much worse had he
defied his doctor and attended anyway. See his letter to the con
here: http://www.bucconeer.worldcon.org/jms.html
Babylon 5 moves to new time!
As of August 19, 1998, TNT will begin airing Season 5 episodes
of Babylon 5 at 9 PM CDT (with the echo episode the following Monday
nights, except there's a conflict re the first one on August 24). The
last five episodes of Season 5 will air starting October 28, 1998. For
more information (including WHEN the various series will have new
seasons starting this fall), see our listing at:
http://clever.net/cam/sftv.html
Star Wars 22nd Birthday Present
The official release date for Episode 1 of the Star Wars Prequel
Trilogy has now been moved to Friday, May 21, 1999 in North America.
The good news is this means that you have four less days to wait.
The bad news is that you may have very long lines. Lucas is going to
concentrate on a quality release, which means fewer screens, its
estimated 2,200 theaters as opposed to 3,200+ theaters for a normal
major release. Speculation is that Lucas is aiming at releasing
the prequel film in theaters hand picked for quality of presentation
encouraging more theaters to move to high quality THX digital theater.
With the limit in theaters, releasing the film a week before Memorial
day gives extra viewing days to allow all previous box-office records
to be broken by the end of the Memorial Day Holidays. - Thanks to Beth
Arganbright and Paula Seals for bringing this to our attention.
The Announcement is at
http://members.tripod.com/~prequelrumors/swrelease.html
Analysis is at http://members.tripod.com/~prequelrumors/vespop.html
Alleged Plot to Episode I (Prophets of the Force) is at
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/SWPrequels/ep1.html
Darkside Prequel News is at
http://members.tripod.com/~prequelrumors/soguco.html
May the Force Be With You!
Web Zines
The new Omni Web Zine to be edited by Ellen Datlow has bought the
name Event Horizon from the Web Zine Event Horizon magazine which
will be retitled Singularities.
Event Horizon edited by Ellen Datlow is at
http://www.e-horizon.com/eventhorizon/
Singularities edited by Danny Adams is at
http://www.wwco.com/scifi/
Pocket Books is now issuing Fan Fiction!
Strange New Worlds, the first Star Trek fan-written fiction anthology
ever was published in July 1998 as the result of a fan fiction writing
contest conducted on Pocket Book's Star Trek Books website. Enter the
2nd contest now for your fan fiction to be published in Strange New
Worlds II (scheduled for release in "late 1999")!! See:
Strange New Worlds edited by Dean Wesley Smith
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0671014463/fantasicfuturesbA
Strange New Worlds II contest
http://www.simonsays.com/startrek/features/strange.html
Frozen North Revisited
We heard from new Info-Alert recruit Paula Seals in Ohio who signed
her email:
Paula
Seals
In the cold --- 80 degrees today - north!
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