Science Fiction Awards Watch

via SFSite: Members of First Fandom have until June 1 to vote on the inductees into the Hall of Fame. First Fandom was founded in 1959 to connect those who had been in fandom prior to 1938. Its membership has since expanded with various classes of member. The Sam Moskowitz Award is presented for excellence [...]

In our haste to post the 2009 Hugo Award results, we appear to have inadvertently omitted the other awards presented at the Hugo Award ceremony at Anticipation, an omission we’re happy to rectify now. The Forest J. Ackerman Big Heart Award: Andrew I. Porter The First Fandom Hall of Fame Award: James Gunn

In all the excitement of the live-blogging of the Hugos and Campbell we entirely forgot to list the winners of the other awards given out at the ceremony. For those of you who were not there and didn’t follow the live blog, here’s what was given out. Big Heart Award – Suford Lewis First Fandom [...]

Here’s an update on the fannish awards normally presented at Wordcon. The First Fandom Award was presented at the NASFiC and went to Algis Budrys. (Thanks to MikeK and Locus for the info). As noted earlier, one of the Big Heart Award winners was Robin Johnson. We still don’t have the name of the Japanese [...]

Most of the attention on Saturday is going to be on the Hugo Award results but, as Worldcon regulars know, the Hugo ceremony is home to a number of other awards: The First Fandom Hall of Fame Award acknowledges the life-long enthusiasm of one of the self-styles dinosaurs of fandom; The Big Heart Award is [...]