Posted in Locus Awards on April 9th, 2008 Comments Off
The deadline for the Locus Awards is now less than a week away. Remember, it costs nothing to vote, you don’t have to be a member or a club or a convention, or a Locus subscriber. There is no conspiracy preventing you from voting. You can do so here.
Posted in Locus Awards on March 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
OK, so the Hugos are done and dusted for a while, but award season is in full swing. The next deadline on your calendar should be the Locus Awards. Remember, the voting for these awards is completely open. You don’t have to pay a fee, you don’t have to join a convention, you don’t even [...]
Posted in Locus Awards on February 8th, 2008 Comments Off
The ballot for this year’s Locus Awards is now available here. This is an open ballot. You don’t have to be a member of any organization, or pay any money, in order to vote, so you have no excuses for not participating. The deadline is April 15th.
One of the Hugo Categories that gets most flak from people is Best Related Book, because it is unashamedly a “catch-all”. Voters complain about the impossibility of deciding which is best between an art book and a collection of academic essays. The artists and the academics both complain about how unfair it is that they [...]