BSFA shortlist
Jan. 23rd, 2008 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceOkay, I'm told the press release has gone out, which meant it must be officially disembargoed, even if no one's actually published it yet: the shortlist has been announced for the British Science Fiction Association awards, and wow. My short story "Terminal" is still there. Officially shortlisted. Yay!
I haven't actually seen the list yet, so I don't entirely know who else is there and I don't want to pre-empt their own announcements, but - well, big SF names are there. With mine.
You know how people say that being shortlisted is the real victory? Well, in this case I think they're right. In the same way that SF is not really about the rocketships, it's about human interaction, so too awards are not really about the rocketship-shaped statuettes. They're about validation, other people saying "yes, Chaz, you are too a genuine SF writer, see?"
Which is not to say, of course, that I do not want to win rocketship-shaped statuettes (or whatever the BSFA awards actually are, which I do not know, and their website is not telling me). Of course I want to win it! The fact that I feel like I've won it already, that's utterly irrelevant. Soon you will have a new voting opportunity - any member of the BSFA, that is, and anyone going to Eastercon - and I will encourage you to use it. Many times, probably.
Thank you for nominating me, those of you who did: your efforts were not wasted. Now, onward and upward! One more heave! And other inspirational tracts.
Also, I can at least tell you this much: that Bryan Talbot's "Alice in Sunderland" is shortlisted in the novel category. Personally I think of it as non-fiction, but hey. I'll vote for it, wherever they choose to list it. I have a duty, and a unique position: being the only shortlisted author also to appear as a character in another shortlisted work. Yay!!
ETA: SF Awards Watch has the full shortlists. Of course. They're quick, them...
I haven't actually seen the list yet, so I don't entirely know who else is there and I don't want to pre-empt their own announcements, but - well, big SF names are there. With mine.
You know how people say that being shortlisted is the real victory? Well, in this case I think they're right. In the same way that SF is not really about the rocketships, it's about human interaction, so too awards are not really about the rocketship-shaped statuettes. They're about validation, other people saying "yes, Chaz, you are too a genuine SF writer, see?"
Which is not to say, of course, that I do not want to win rocketship-shaped statuettes (or whatever the BSFA awards actually are, which I do not know, and their website is not telling me). Of course I want to win it! The fact that I feel like I've won it already, that's utterly irrelevant. Soon you will have a new voting opportunity - any member of the BSFA, that is, and anyone going to Eastercon - and I will encourage you to use it. Many times, probably.
Thank you for nominating me, those of you who did: your efforts were not wasted. Now, onward and upward! One more heave! And other inspirational tracts.
Also, I can at least tell you this much: that Bryan Talbot's "Alice in Sunderland" is shortlisted in the novel category. Personally I think of it as non-fiction, but hey. I'll vote for it, wherever they choose to list it. I have a duty, and a unique position: being the only shortlisted author also to appear as a character in another shortlisted work. Yay!!
ETA: SF Awards Watch has the full shortlists. Of course. They're quick, them...
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Date: 2008-01-22 11:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 11:42 pm (UTC)*beams*
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Date: 2008-01-23 12:03 am (UTC)We're not always first with the news. Sometimes a press release comes out when we are both asleep, and not all awards send stuff to us yet, but we are getting there, we hope.
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Date: 2008-01-22 11:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 11:42 pm (UTC)I can't wait to see the list now.
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Date: 2008-01-22 11:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 11:47 pm (UTC)But blast for certain novels I may have had a hand in that didn't make it onto the shortlist. Gah!
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Date: 2008-01-23 08:04 am (UTC)A press release being distributed does not mean that it has been disembargoed. The Press Release itself may say something like "embargoed until 1st Feb" or something like that.
(But in this case it didnt)
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Date: 2008-01-23 09:18 am (UTC)I was pleased but puzzled about Alice in Sunderland. I didn't include it in my 'top five' for Vector specifically because I counted it as non-fiction.
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Date: 2008-01-23 03:02 pm (UTC)And many congratulations!
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