It’s now called “Glasgow 2024 – a bid for the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention.” Today the committee announced that the venue they’ve chosen for the 2024 UK Worldcon bid will be the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow.
Previously known as the SECC, the Glasgow SEC has already hosted two Worldcons – Intersection in 1995, and Interaction in 2005. We are delighted that our new bid is once again based around this internationally-renowned venue, which has seen considerable growth in the last few years, including new onsite hotels and reworking and expansion of the spaces inside the convention centre. The SEC has recently announced a further £200 million development plan to support the growth of conventions around the campus.
Our bid team is a dedicated band of fans both international and local, experienced and new. Our working party and support team already contain previous Worldcon Chairs and Bid Chairs, who volunteer alongside newcomers. We draw our experiences from the many events that take place around the UK and beyond, and celebrate the huge enthusiasm to continue hosting Worldcon after the success of Loncon 3 (2014 – the event’s most recent visit to the UK), and ongoing passion for Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon (2019).
The bid Chair is Esther MacCallum-Stewart, who invites everyone attending Ytterbium, the British Eastercon, to join them on Sunday evening, April 21, at 7 p.m. to celebrate this announcement and meet the team.
They will start taking pre-supports when the bid launches officially at Dublin 2019 in August.
The bid art is by Sara Felix.
For more information or to get involved in bidding for a UK Worldcon in 2024, contact them at info@ukin2024.org or watch for updates on their new website at www.glasgow2024.org.
Few people have had the chance to see Arwen Curry’s documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, which began making the rounds of film festivals in June 2018 but won’t be available to a mass audience until it airs on PBS in late 2019. It isn’t a finalist for this year’s Hugo Awards, and some who feel that might be the result of underexposure have announced plans to ask the Dublin 2019 business meeting to extend the film’s eligibility.
Here is the draft text of their motion:
Short Title: Hugo Eligibility Extension for Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Moved, to extend for one year the Hugo Award eligibility of the film documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, based on limited availability, as authorized by Section 3.4.3 of the WSFS Constitution.
Proposed by: Jo Van Ekeren, Hampus Eckerman, Adri Joy, Theodora Goss, Terry L Neill, Juliette Wade, Paul Weimer, Ziv Wities
This motion extends eligibility for the Hugo Awards under Section 3.4.3; therefore, it requires a two-thirds vote of approval.
Commentary: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a documentary film by Arwen Curry exploring the life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin. Work on the documentary began as early as 2009, and the filmmaker was able to complete the many hours of filming prior to the author’s death in January 2018. The film premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival on June 10, 2018. Since then there have been a number of screenings at film festivals in various locations around the world; however, the film has not yet been made available for viewing by the general public. Arrangements are in progress for the film to be shown at Worldcon in Dublin in August, and the film will be broadcast in the U.S. on PBS American Masters in October 2019.
Due to its limited release in 2018, very few members of Dublin 2019 had the opportunity to view the film before the deadline for nominating for the 2019 Hugo Awards. Passage of this proposal would make the documentary eligible for nomination in the Best Related Work category for the 2020 Hugo Awards next year.
As noted in the motion, the authority for extending the eligibility period comes from WSFS Constitution Section 3.4.3:
In the event that a potential Hugo Award nominee receives extremely limited distribution in the year of its first publication or presentation, its eligibility may be extended for an additional year by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the intervening Business Meeting of WSFS.
This provision of the WSFS Constitution was used in 2015 to extend eligibility for the film Predestination and for the short film I Remember the Future, and to extend the eligibility of the anime Summer Wars in 2011.
This year Dublin 2019 released the Hugo finalists on a Tuesday,
leading to renewed fannish
discussion of John Scalzi’s 2014 claim that announcing the
finalists during the week would get the Hugo Awards more media attention than
announcements made at Easter weekend conventions (as has been done 11 of the
last 17 years).
The 2018 nomination announcement was made on Easter weekend, but the 2017 and 2019 announcements were not, and Jo Van Ekeren has amassed a collection of links to media articles from 2017, 2018, and 2019 for comparison.
The lists can be seen here; there are separate
spreadsheets tracking coverage of the finalist announcements and the Hugo Award
winners. Anyone who wishes to submit a URL which does not appear on the list
can use this form to do so. (Links to personal blogs,
small SFF fan group blogs, posts by publishers and agents for their authors,
sites that appear to be mirrors of other sites, and automated content-scrapers
have been omitted.)
Van Ekeren invites people to look at the data and draw their own conclusions. Right now the 2019 Hugo nominations more than twice as many mentions as the 2018 nominations. She did detailed searches for every site on the 2019 list to see whether they had posted a nomination mention in 2018. Well over half of them had not.
However,
the nomination for Archive of Our Own has
likely been a wild card factor in attracting attention from at least a few of
the sites that decided to cover this year’s nominations.
Last
year’s Worldcon committee received some criticism for scheduling its livestreamed
announcement on Passover/Easter weekend/a Saturday (see Pixel Scroll 3/27/18
item #15). Chair Kevin Roche apologized for the conflict with Passover but explained the
strategy of making simultaneous live presentations at conventions in
England, the U.S. and Australia “is a way
to further increase fan awareness of and participation in the awards,
ultimately raising its profile in the general population as well.”
Inasmuch
that Easter 2020 will be on April 12, WAY too late for Hugo Awards activity to
start given CoNZealand’s earlier dates (July 29-August 2), there won’t be an
Easter announcement next year, either.
The
finalists for the 2019 Hugo Awards, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer,
the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Award for Best Young Adult Book, and
the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Awards were announced April 2 in a live webcast.
There
were 1800 valid nominating ballots (1797 electronic and 3 paper) received and
counted from the members of the 2018 and 2019 World Science Fiction Conventions
for the 2019 Hugo Awards.
For
the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards, 217 valid nominating ballots (214 electronic and 3
paper) were received.
The
webcast announcing the finalists is available for viewing on the Dublin 2019
YouTube channel.
Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon will take place in and around the
Convention Centre Dublin from August 15 to 19. More than 5,600 people have
already signed up as members, including more than 4,580 attending members.
Voting
on the final ballot will open later this month. Only Dublin 2019 members will
be able to vote on the final ballot and choose the winners.
The Calculating Stars,
by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Record of a Spaceborn Few,
by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager)
Revenant Gun,
by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
Space Opera,
by Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
Spinning Silver,
by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Macmillan)
Trail of Lightning,
by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
Best Novella
Artificial Condition,
by Martha Wells (Tor.com publishing)
Beneath the Sugar Sky,
by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing)
Binti: The Night Masquerade,
by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com publishing)
The Black God’s Drums,
by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com publishing)
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky
Peach, by Kelly Robson (Tor.com publishing)
The Tea Master and the Detective,
by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency)
Best
Novelette
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen
Cho (B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 29 November 2018)
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections,” by Tina
Connolly (Tor.com, 11 July 2018)
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth,” by Daryl Gregory
(Tor.com, 19 September 2018)
The Only Harmless Great Thing,
by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com publishing)
“The Thing About Ghost Stories,” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny
Magazine 25, November-December 2018)
“When We Were Starless,” by Simone Heller (Clarkesworld
145, October 2018)
Best
Short Story
“The Court Magician,” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed,
January 2018)
“The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society,” by
T. Kingfisher (Uncanny Magazine 25, November-December 2018)
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George
Washington,” by P. Djèlí Clark (Fireside Magazine, February 2018)
“STET,” by Sarah Gailey (Fireside Magazine, October
2018)
“The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the
Prince Who Was Made of Meat,” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine 23,
July-August 2018)
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal
Fantasies,” by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
Best
Series
The Centenal Cycle,
by Malka Older (Tor)
The Laundry Files,
by Charles Stross (most recently Tor/Orbit)
Machineries of Empire,
by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
The October Daye Series, by Seanan McGuire (most recently DAW)
The Universe of Xuya,
by Aliette de Bodard (most recently Subterranean Press)
Wayfarers,
by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager)
Best
Related Work
Archive of Our Own,
a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Astounding: John W. Campbell,
Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science
Fiction, by Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street Books)
The Hobbit Duology (documentary
in three parts), written and edited by Lindsay Ellis and Angelina Meehan
(YouTube)
An Informal History of the Hugos:
A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000,
by Jo Walton (Tor)
www.mexicanxinitiative.com: The
Mexicanx Initiative Experience at Worldcon 76 (Julia
Rios, Libia Brenda, Pablo Defendini, John Picacio)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations
on Writing, by Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon (Tin House Books)
Best Graphic Story
Abbott,
written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä, colours by Jason Wordie, letters
by Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios)
Black Panther: Long Live the King,
written by Nnedi Okorafor and Aaron Covington, art by André Lima Araújo, Mario
Del Pennino and Tana Ford (Marvel)
Monstress,
Volume 3: Haven, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
On a Sunbeam,
by Tillie Walden (First Second)
Paper Girls,
Volume 4, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt
Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image Comics)
Saga,
Volume 9, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
Best
Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Annihilation,
directed and written for the screen by Alex Garland, based on the novel by Jeff
VanderMeer (Paramount Pictures / Skydance)
Avengers: Infinity War,
screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo
and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios)
Black Panther,
written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, directed by Ryan Coogler (Marvel
Studios)
A Quiet Place,
screenplay by Scott Beck, John Krasinski and Bryan Woods, directed by John
Krasinski (Platinum Dunes / Sunday Night)
Sorry to Bother You,
written and directed by Boots Riley (Annapurna Pictures)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,
screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter
Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Sony)
Best
Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
The Expanse:
“Abaddon’s Gate,” written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck and Naren
Shankar, directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Penguin in a Parka / Alcon
Entertainment)
Doctor Who:
“Demons of the Punjab,” written by Vinay Patel, directed by Jamie
Childs (BBC)
Dirty Computer,
written by Janelle Monáe, directed by Andrew Donoho and Chuck Lightning
(Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy Records / Atlantic Records)
The Good Place:
“Janet(s),” written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by
Morgan Sackett (NBC)
The Good Place:
“Jeremy Bearimy,” written by Megan Amram, directed by Trent O’Donnell
(NBC)
Doctor Who:
“Rosa,” written by Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall, directed by
Mark Tonderai (BBC)
Best
Professional Editor, Short Form
Neil Clarke
Gardner Dozois
Lee Harris
Julia Rios
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
E. Catherine Tobler
Best
Professional Editor, Long Form
Sheila E. Gilbert
Anne Lesley Groell
Beth Meacham
Diana Pho
Gillian Redfearn
Navah Wolfe
Best Professional Artist
Galen Dara
Jaime Jones
Victo Ngai
John Picacio
Yuko Shimizu
Charles Vess
Best
Semiprozine
Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews
Fireside Magazine,
edited by Julia Rios, managing editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, social coordinator
Meg Frank, special features editor Tanya DePass, founding editor Brian White,
publisher and art director Pablo Defendini
FIYAH Magazine
of Black Speculative Fiction, executive editors Troy L. Wiggins and DaVaun
Sanders, editors L.D. Lewis, Brandon O’Brien, Kaleb Russell, Danny Lore, and
Brent Lambert
Shimmer,
publisher Beth Wodzinski, senior editor E. Catherine Tobler
Strange Horizons,
edited by Jane Crowley, Kate Dollarhyde, Vanessa Rose Phin, Vajra
Chandrasekera, Romie Stott, Maureen Kincaid Speller, and the Strange Horizons
Staff
Uncanny Magazine,
publishers/editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, managing
editor Michi Trota, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, Disabled
People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue editors-in-chief Elsa
Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien
Best
Fanzine
Galactic Journey,
founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus
Journey Planet,
edited by Team Journey Planet
Lady Business,
editors Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay & Susan
nerds of a feather, flock together,
editors Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla and The G
Quick Sip Reviews,
editor Charles Payseur
Rocket Stack Rank,
editors Greg Hullender and Eric Wong
Best
Fancast
Be the Serpent,
presented by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske and Jennifer Mace
The Coode Street Podcast,
presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Fangirl Happy Hour,
hosted by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
Galactic Suburbia,
hosted by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts,
produced by Andrew Finch
Our Opinions Are Correct,
hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
The Skiffy and Fanty Show,
produced by Jen Zink and Shaun Duke, hosted by the Skiffy and Fanty Crew
Best
Fan Writer
Foz Meadows
James Davis Nicoll
Charles Payseur
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
Alasdair Stuart
Bogi Takács
Best
Fan Artist
Sara Felix
Grace P. Fong
Meg Frank
Ariela Housman
Likhain (Mia Sereno)
Spring Schoenhuth
Best
Art Book
The Books of Earthsea: The
Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess,
written by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga Press /Gollancz)
Daydreamer’s Journey: The Art of
Julie Dillon, by Julie Dillon (self-published)
Dungeons & Dragons Art &
Arcana: A Visual History, by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman,
Jon Peterson, Sam Witwer (Ten Speed Press)
Spectrum 25: The Best in
Contemporary Fantastic Art, ed. John Fleskes (Flesk
Publications)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
– The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed (Titan Books)
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth,
ed. Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library)
John
W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Katherine Arden (2nd year of eligibility)
S.A. Chakraborty (2nd year of eligibility)
R.F. Kuang (1st year of eligibility)
Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility)
Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2nd year of eligibility)
Rivers Solomon (2nd year of eligibility)
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
The Belles,
by Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform / Gollancz)
Children of Blood and Bone,
by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt / Macmillan Children’s Books)
The Cruel Prince,
by Holly Black (Little, Brown / Hot Key Books)
Dread Nation,
by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
The Invasion,
by Peadar O’Guilin (David Fickling Books / Scholastic)
Tess of the Road,
by Rachel Hartman (Random House / Penguin Teen)
1944
RETROSPECTIVE HUGO AWARD FINALISTS
Best
Novel
Conjure Wife,
by Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Unknown Worlds, April 1943)
Earth’s Last Citadel,
by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (Argosy, April 1943)
Gather, Darkness! by
Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Astounding Science-Fiction, May-July 1943)
Das Glasperlenspiel [The
Glass Bead Game], by Hermann Hesse (Fretz & Wasmuth)
Perelandra,
by C.S. Lewis (John Lane, The Bodley Head)
The Weapon Makers,
by A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science-Fiction, February-April 1943)
Best
Novella
“Attitude,” by Hal Clement (Astounding
Science-Fiction, September 1943)
“Clash by Night,” by Lawrence O’Donnell (Henry Kuttner
& C.L. Moore) (Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1943)
“The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” by H.P. Lovecraft,
(Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Arkham House)
The Little Prince,
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Reynal & Hitchcock)
The Magic Bed-Knob; or, How to
Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons, by Mary Norton (Hyperion Press)
“We Print the Truth,” by Anthony Boucher (Astounding
Science-Fiction, December 1943)
Best
Novelette
“Citadel of Lost Ships,” by Leigh Brackett (Planet
Stories, March 1943)
“The Halfling,” by Leigh Brackett (Astonishing
Stories, February 1943)
“Mimsy Were the Borogoves,” by Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore
& Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943)
“The Proud Robot,” by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) (Astounding
Science-Fiction, February 1943)
“Symbiotica,” by Eric Frank Russell (Astounding
Science-Fiction, October 1943)
“Thieves’ House,” by Fritz Leiber, Jr (Unknown Worlds,
February 1943)
Best
Short Story
“Death Sentence,” by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science
Fiction, November 1943)
“Doorway into Time,” by C.L. Moore (Famous Fantastic
Mysteries, September 1943)
“Exile,” by Edmond Hamilton (Super Science Stories,
May 1943)
“King of the Gray Spaces” (“R is for Rocket”),
by Ray Bradbury (Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1943)
“Q.U.R.,” by H.H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) (Astounding
Science-Fiction, March 1943)
“Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper,” by Robert Bloch (Weird
Tales, July 1943)
Best Graphic Story
Buck Rogers: Martians Invade
Jupiter, by Philip Nowlan and Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
Flash Gordon: Fiery Desert of
Mongo, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
Garth,
by Steve Dowling (Daily Mirror)
Plastic Man #1: The Game of Death,
by Jack Cole (Vital Publications)
Le Secret de la Licorne [The
Secret of the Unicorn], by Hergé (Le Soir)
Wonder Woman #5: Battle for
Womanhood, written by William Moulton Marsden, art by Harry G. Peter (DC
Comics)
Best
Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Batman,
written by Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker and Harry L. Fraser, directed by
Lambert Hillyer (Columbia Pictures)
Cabin in the Sky,
written by Joseph Schrank, directed by Vincente Minnelli and Busby Berkeley
(uncredited) (MGM)
A Guy Named Joe,
written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Dalton Trumbo, directed by Victor
Fleming (MGM)
Heaven Can Wait,
written by Samson Raphaelson, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (20th Century Fox)
Münchhausen,
written by Erich Kästner and Rudolph Erich Raspe, directed by Josef von Báky
(UFA)
Phantom of the Opera,
written by Eric Taylor, Samuel Hoffenstein and Hans Jacoby, directed by Arthur
Lubin (Universal Pictures)
Best
Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
The Ape Man,
written by Barney A. Sarecky, directed by William Beaudine (Banner Productions)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman,
written by Curt Siodmak, directed by Roy William Neill (Universal Pictures)
Der Fuehrer’s Face,
story by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, directed by Jack Kinney (Disney)
I Walked With a Zombie,
written by Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray, directed by Jacques Tourneur (RKO Radio
Pictures)
The Seventh Victim,
written by Charles O’Neal and DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Mark Robson (RKO Radio
Pictures)
Super-Rabbit,
written by Tedd Pierce, directed by Charles M. Jones (Warner Bros)
Best
Professional Editor, Short Form
John W. Campbell
Oscar J. Friend
Mary Gnaedinger
Dorothy McIlwraith
Raymond A. Palmer
Donald A. Wollheim
Best
Professional Artist
Hannes Bok
Margaret Brundage
Virgil Finlay
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
J. Allen St. John
William Timmins
Best Fanzine
Fantasy News,
editor William S. Sykora
Futurian War Digest,
editor J. Michael Rosenblum
The Phantagraph,
editor Donald A. Wollheim
Voice of the Imagi-Nation,
editors Jack Erman (Forrest J Ackerman) & Morojo (Myrtle Douglas)
YHOS,
editor Art Widner
Le Zombie,
editor Wilson “Bob” Tucker
Best
Fan Writer
Forrest J. Ackerman
Morojo (Myrtle Douglas)
Jack Speer
Wilson “Bob” Tucker
Art Widner
Donald A. Wollheim
The Hugo Awards are the premier award in the science fiction genre, honoring science fiction literature and media as well as the genre’s fans. The Awards were first presented at the 1953 World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia (Philcon II), and they have continued to honor science fiction and fantasy notables for more than 60 years.
The
1944 Retro Hugo Awards will be presented on Thursday, August 15, the opening
night of Dublin 2019. The 2019 Hugo Awards, and the Lodestar and Campbell
Awards, will be presented on Sunday, August 18 as part of the main Hugo Awards
ceremony.
The
2019 Hugo base will be designed by Dublin artist Jim Fitzpatrick. The 1944
Retro Hugo base will be designed by Eleanor Wheeler, a ceramicist in County
Down. The 2019 Lodestar Award will be designed by Sara Felix, the Austin,
Texas-based president of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Artists.
More
information and membership registration for Dublin 2019 are available at https://dublin2019.com. Follow the convention
on Twitter at @dublin2019.
“World
Science Fiction Society,” “WSFS,” “World Science Fiction Convention,”
“Worldcon,” “NASFiC,” “Hugo Award,” the Hugo Award Logo, and the distinctive
design of the Hugo Award Trophy Rocket are service marks of the World Science
Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
Dublin 2019 will announce the 2019 Hugo and 1944 Retro Hugo nominees at 1400 Irish Time on April 2 (6 a.m. Pacific) over their YouTube channel.
We’ve prepared the ballots and will announce the finalists for the 2019/1944 @TheHugoAwards live at 1400 Irish Time on 2 April 2019 on our YouTube channel here ?https://t.co/K7M7bltsnO
By James Bacon: Mike, Filers and Fans — the Dublin 2019 Access team are sending out an important message to anyone with access needs, specifically those requiring mobility scooter hire.
We
identified a suitable mobie hire company, who were happy to work with us, and
we had sufficient mobies for Dublin 2019. Unfortunately, that provider has had
a fire and lost the majority of their stock. This means there are fewer mobies
available in Ireland now than we anticipated. Many hours and days have
been spent investigating this and we have had support from the Irish
Wheelchair Association. Yet there are still fewer mobies available than we
would like.
As
we continue to seek creative solutions to this problem, we are asking that
anyone interested in hiring a mobie for Dublin 2019 please fill out our online
form (https://dublin2019.com/forms/mobility-scooter-rentals/).
That will help us know how many additional mobies we need to source.
Hugo award-winning comic book artist Sana Takeda and Irish playwright Rosaleen McDonagh will be featured at Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon.
“It is important to us that we share all aspects of Irish culture and brilliance with our members,” Dublin 2019 chair James Bacon said. “We look forward to bringing our own artists in all media together with the fantastic slate of worldwide talent who will be joining us in Dublin.”
Joining Dublin 2019 as a featured artist, Tokyo-based Sana Takeda is best known for drawing the prizewinning Monstress series, written by Marjorie Liu and published by Image. The heroine of Monstress, Maika Halfwolf, survives bereavement, slavery, and disabling injury to take control of her psychic powers and change her people’s history. Since it premiered in 2015, Monstress has won three Hugos, five Eisners, three British Fantasy Awards and a Harvey Award.
Takeda´s artistic reference points range from Japanese woodblock prints to Marvel Comics, where she has drawn for franchises including X-Men and Ms. Marvel. She joins Afua Richardson, Maeve Clancy, and Jim Fitzpatrick on the featured artist roster.
Equally excitingly, Rosaleen McDonagh, playwright and activist for the Irish Traveller community, will be discussing Irish Traveller culture at Dublin 2019. Her plays including Mainstream, Stuck, She’s Not Mine, and Rings explore aspects of feminism, ethnicity and disability. She has been chosen by Colum McCann to adapt for the stage his novel Zoli, the story of a Polish Roma poet and writer.
McDonagh worked for ten years managing the Violence against Women Programme at the Pavee Point Traveller & Romany Centre. She writes for the Irish Times and is completing a PhD that will be her fourth degree from Trinity College Dublin. She was the first Traveller invited to join the Irish artists’ academy Aosdána in 2017, and the first Traveller to stand for election to the Seanad, the Irish legislature’s upper house, in 2002 and 2007.
Voting to select the site of the 2020
North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) has started.
The Columbus for 2020
NASFiC bid is the only one on the ballot. They propose to hold the con August
20-23, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Convention Center, in Columbus, Ohio.
Lisa Garrison is the bid chair, and the committee includes Dale Mazzola and Kim
Williams.
Members of SpikeCon, the 2019 NASFiC in Layton,
Utah, are eligible to vote on the site of the 2020 NASFiC upon payment of a $35
Advance Supporting Membership (“Voting”) Fee.
Voting in advance
closes June 29, 2019. SpikeCon/NASFiC 2019 must receive your ballot
by that date. (Postmark date does not count.) Voting at the convention opens on
the afternoon of Thursday, July 4, 2019 and closes on the evening of Friday,
July 5, 2019.
The rules allow for
write-in votes and votes for “None of the Above.”
For full information see Kevin Standlee’s post on the NASFiC
website.
Mini Hugo rocket carried into space and photgraphed by astronaut Kjell Lindgren in 2015.
The deadline to make nominations for the 2019 Hugo Awards and
the 1944 Retro Hugos (honoring the achievements of 1943) is now only a
week away – Friday,
March 15, 2019, 11:59 PDT.
Members
of the Dublin 2019
Worldcon are eligible to vote and have already been sent individual links to access the
online form. A paper ballot is is available and can also be downloaded here — the mailed
paper ballot must be received by March 15.
Remember
that Dublin 2019 is taking nominations in a special Hugo category
this year: Best Art Book. Likewise, voters will be recommending the finalists
for the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the John W. Campbell
Award for Best New Writer.
