(1) INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO HUGO AWARDS CENSORSHIP REPORT. Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford’s report “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion” (also available at Genre Grapevine and as an e-book epub file and as a PDF) has sparked the attention of mass media: .
The Guardian: “Authors ‘excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns’”. In addition to covering the report, the article includes an excellent quote from Chinese social media:
…The incident prompted discussion among the science fiction community in China. One commenter on Weibo wrote: “Diane Lacey’s courage to disclose the truth makes people feel that there is still hope in the world, and not everyone is so shameless … I can understand the concerns of the Hugo award staff, but ‘I honestly think that the Hugo committee are cowards.’”…
BBC Radio 4: Last night’s arts programme Front Row’s third quarter looked at the Hugo Awards debacle. “Ukraine drama A Small Stubborn Town, Emma Rice, The Hugo Awards”. Jonathan Cowie says, “It was a superficial dive. For example, it did not note that the nominating stats literally did not add up, so clear fraud, nor that Glasgow also is ignoring WSFS rules.” (Cowie adds, “Remember to skip to the programme’s final third quarter.”)
In the wake of the Hugo Awards scandal, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, culture critic and Hugo awards finalist, Han Zhang, editor-at-large at Riverhead Books, focussed on finding works in the Chinese language for translation and publication in the US, and Megan Walsh, author of The Subplot: What China is reading and why it matters, discuss the fallout and what is reveals about the popularity of Sci-Fi in China.
There’s also a paywalled article in New Scientist: “Amid (more) Hugo awards controversy, let’s remember some past greats”.
IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that all awards are total bunk except for the ones you personally have lifted into the air in triumph. That rule doesn’t hold, however, if your prize is in some way sullied later on. This, sadly, is the situation for the winners of the 2023 Hugo awards….
Slashdot has an excerpt of 404 Media’s paywalled article: “Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China”.
And here are some highlights from the vast social media discussion.
John Scalzi: “The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here” at Whatever
Cora Buhlert: “The 2023 Hugo Nomination Scandal Gets Worse”
Mary Robinette Kowal’s thread on Bluesky starts with this link.
Neil Gaiman commented on Bluesky: “I’m unsure how comfortable I would be participating if anything I was involved in was nominated for a Hugo in 2024, if there were people involved who had been part of what happened in Chengdu.”
Chuck Tingle’s thread on X.com begins, “this report of leaks regarding what actually happened at hugo awards shows a disgusting way. years of buckaroos working in and around hugo awards popularizing phrases like ‘chuck tingle made the hugos illegitimate’ when the rot was starting with them.”
Courtney Milan, on Bluesky, offers a series of short scripts for how censorship could have been deflected. The first is: “Ways to handle censorship if someone asks you on the DL to censor your award. 1. ‘No, this isn’t in our rules. Is this going to be a problem? I can let the community know that the Hugo rules aren’t going to be applied if so.’”
(2) IT ONLY GETS VERSE. [Item by Jennifer Hawthorne.] A brilliant poem by TrishEM about the Hugo mess: “A Vanilla Villain’s Variant Villanelle” at What’s the Word Now. The first stanza is:
It’s wrong to allege we were mere censors’ tools;
If you knew all the facts, you’d condone our behavior.
I grok Chinese fans, and was their White Savior.
I maintain the Committee just followed the rules.
(3) HOW CENSORSHIP WORKS. Ada Palmer’s post about censorship and self-censorship comes highly recommended: “Tools for Thinking About Censorship”. It begins:
“Was it a government action, or did they do it themselves because of pressure?”
This is inevitably among our first questions when news breaks that any expressive work (a book, film, news story, blog post etc.) has been censored or suppressed by the company or group trusted with it (a publisher, a film studio, a newspaper, an awards organization etc.)
This is not a direct analysis of the current 2023 Chengdu Hugo Awards controversy. But since I am a scholar in the middle of writing a book about patterns in the history of how censorship operates, I want to put at the service of those thinking about the situation this zoomed-out portrait of a few important features of how censorship tends to work, drawn from my examination of examples from dozens of countries and over many centuries….
(4) ELIGIBILITY UPDATE FOR US NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS. “US National Book Awards: Opening to Non-US Citizens” – Publishing Perspectives has the story.
In recent years, as readers of Publishing Perspectives’ coverage of book and publishing awards know, there have been several cases in which higher-profile book and publishing awards programs have decided to broaden their eligibility requirements for authors whose work is submitted.
Today’s (February 15) announcement from the National Book Foundation about the United States’ National Book Awards‘ change in eligibility opens the program to submissions of work by authors who are not citizens of the United States, as long as they “maintain their primary, long-term home in the United States, US territories, or Tribal lands.”
These new updated criteria will be in effect as of March 13, when submissions for the 75th National Book Awards open….
(5) WAYWARD WORMHOLE. Two workshops will be available at “The Rambo Academy Wayward Wormhole – New Mexico 2024”.
The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers is pleased to announce the second annual Wayward Wormhole, this time in New Mexico. Join us for the short story workshop to study with Arley Sorg and Minister Faust, or the novel workshop with Donald Maass, C.C. Finlay, and Cat Rambo.
Both intensive workshops will be hosted at the Painted Pony ranch in Rodeo, New Mexico. The short story workshop runs November 4-12, 2024, and the novel workshop runs November 15 through 24, 2024.
The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers has been in existence for thirteen years, serving hundreds of students who have gone on to win awards, honors, and accolades, including Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. “I attended Clarion West, and have taught at multiple workshops now,” says Academy founder Cat Rambo. “While others have delivered the gold standard, I decided to stretch to the platinum level and deliver amazing workshops in equally amazing settings. Last year’s was a castle in Spain, this year a fabulous location in southwestern America. And wait till you hear what we’ve got cooked up for 2025!”
More details about these exciting workshops and how to apply!
(6) CHENGDU WORLDCON ROUNDUP. [Item by Ersatz Culture.]
Photos from the reopened Chengdu Science Fiction Museum
The Chengdu SF Museum reopened to the public a few weeks ago, after an event a few days earlier involving Hai Ya and other authors. The images I’ve selected here are primarily because of their potential interest to MPC types, but you can click on the following links to see the Xiaohongshu galleries these came from.
As far as I can tell, all of these photos have been taken in the past few weeks; there are none from when the Worldcon was running.
Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Gallery 3, Gallery 4, Gallery 5, Gallery 6, Gallery 7, Gallery 8, Gallery 9
(7) OCTOTHORPE. Episode 103 of the Octothorpe podcast, “Just This Guy, Y’know?”, is available for listening. John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty say:
Octothorpe 103 is here! We discuss a bunch of stuff which isn’t Hugo Award-related before moving onto the bits of the kerfuffle that we couldn’t fit into 102 and hadn’t come out when we recorded.
(8) MOURNING MUSIC. “Matthew” (at Bandcamp) is a tribute song about Matthew Pavletich by his sister, Jo Morgan. Matthew died in January. The lyrics are heart-wrenching – see them at the link.
‘Matthew’ is a touching tribute dedicated to Jo’s beloved brother who passed away after a courageous battle with Motor Neurone Disease. Tenderly capturing the power of familial love, serving as an anthem honouring all the qualities defining him.
Jo says “I wrote this song to celebrate my brother Matthew who passed away from Motor Neurone Disease in January 2024. There are so many wonderful qualities about this beautiful man and I am so blessed to have had him as my brother. He lost so much to this illness, and I want the world to know about this sweet and humble gentle man.”
Jo will be making a donation from some of the proceeds from the song to support MND NZ and animal welfare charities.
(9) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY.
[Written by Cat Eldridge.]
Born February 15, 1945 — Jack Dann, 79. It’s been awhile since we’ve done an Australian resident writer, so let’s do Jack Dann tonight. Yes, I know he’s American-born but he’s lived there for the past forty years and yes he’s citizen there.
In 1994 he had moved to Melbourne to join Janeen Webb, a Melbourne based academic, SF critic, and writer, whom he had met at a conference in San Francisco and who he married a year later. Thirty years later they’re still married.
They would edit together In the Field of Fire, a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories relating to the horrors of the Vietnam War. I’m not aware who anyone else has done one on this subject, so go ahead and tell who else has.
He published his first book as an editor, Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction forty years ago, (later followed up by More Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction) and his first novel, Starhiker, several years later.
His Dreaming Again and Dreaming down-under are excellent anthologies of Australian genre short fiction. The latter, edited with his wife, would win a Ditmar and a World Fantasy Award. Dreaming Again, again edited with his wife, also won a Ditmar.
With Nick Gever, he won a Shirley Jackson Award for one of my favorite reads, Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense.
He’s written roughly a hundred pieces of shorter fiction. I’ve read enough of it to say that he’s quite excellent in that length of fiction. Recently Centipede Press released in their Masters of Science Fiction, a volume devoted to him. Thirty stories, all quite excellent.
So what is worth reading for novels beyond Starhiker which I like a lot? Well if you’ve not read it, do read The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci in which de Vinci actually constructs his creations as it is indeed an amazing story.
The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean is extraordinary. All I’ll say here is Dean lived, had an amazing life and yes it’s genre. I see PS Publishing filled out the story when they gave us Promised Land.
Those are the three novels of his that I really, really like.
(10) COMICS SECTION.
- Frazz points out the divide between general SF fans and hard SF fans.
- Frank and Ernest has the differences in danger.
- The Argyle Sweater cracks awesome Dr. Seuss puns in the middle of an exorcism.
- Carpe Diem has the downside of pride in your creation.
- Candorville has early cartoon wars.
(11) EVIL GENIUS GAMES. [Item by Eric Franklin.] Morrus, the owner of ENWorld, posted an article on “The Rise And Fall Of Evil Genius Games” that may be of interest to the gaming contingent of File770’s readership: EGG has produced games for a number of licensed genre properties, including Pacific Rim, Escape from New York, and The Crow. “DriveThruRPG – Evil Genius Games”.
How does a company go from over twenty core staff to just six in the space of a few weeks?
In the summer of 2023, Evil Genius Games appeared to be riding high. They’d made about half a million dollars over two Kickstarter campaigns and had raised $1M from several rich investors in the form of technology companies. The company boasted 25-30 core staff, an official tabletop role-playing game for a movie franchise called Rebel Moon was well under development, and EGG standees and window clings representing characters from the d20 Modern-inspired Everyday Heroes could be seen in game stores across America.
By the end of the year, the Rebel Moon game was dead, staff had been asked to work without pay for periods of up to three months, freelancers were struggling to get paid, people were being laid off, and the company’s tech company investors seemed to be having cold feet in the face of escalating expenditure and dwindling resources….
(12) SFF FROM LAGOS. “’Iwájú’ trailer: Disney’s enticing limited series is set in a futuristic Nigeria” says Mashable. Available February 28 on Disney+.
“Iwájú” is an original animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria. The exciting coming-of-age story follows Tola, a young girl from the wealthy island, and her best friend, Kole, a self-taught tech expert, as they discover the secrets and dangers hidden in their different worlds. Kugali filmmakers—including director Olufikayo Ziki Adeola, production designer Hamid Ibrahim and cultural consultant Toluwalakin Olowofoyeku—take viewers on a unique journey into the world of “Iwájú,” bursting with unique visual elements and technological advancements inspired by the spirit of Lagos.
(13) NSFF770? [Item by Mike Kennedy.] Star Zendaya walked the red carpet at the Dune Part Two premiere wearing a formfitting silver and translucent robot-inspired outfit. Friendly warning: anyone inclined to over-agitation at such a sight might want to make sure they’ve taken their heart medication before checking out the video. “Zendaya’s Robotic Outfit For The ‘Dune: Part Two’ Premiere Has To Be Seen To Be Believed” at Uproxx. Article includes a roundup of X.com posts with video.
(14) WHAT REALLY MATTERS. “This new map of the Universe suggests dark matter shaped the cosmos” at Nature. See the compilation photo at the link.
Astronomers have reconstructed nearly nine billion years of cosmic evolution by tracing the X-ray glow of distant clusters of galaxies. The analysis supports the standard model of cosmology, according to which the gravitational pull of dark matter — a still-mysterious substance — is the main factor shaping the Universe’s structure.
“We do not see any departures from the standard model of cosmology,” says Esra Bulbul, a senior member of the team and an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany. The results are described1 in a preprint posted online on 14 February.
The galactic clusters were spotted in the most detailed picture ever taken of the sky using X-rays, which was published late last month. This image revealed around 900,000 X-ray sources, from black holes to the relics of supernova explosions.
The picture was the result of the first six months of operation of eROSITA (Extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array), one of two X-ray telescopes that were launched into space in July 2019 aboard the Russian spacecraft SRG (Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma). eROSITA scans the sky as the spacecraft spins, and collects data over wider angles than are possible for most other X-ray observatories. This enables it to slowly sweep the entire sky every six months….
(15) VALENTINE’S DAY IN THE TARDIS. How can you not click when Radio Times offers to tell about “Doctor Who’s four greatest love stories – and why they make the cut”?
The love stories definitely aren’t the main focus in Doctor Who… but they certainly don’t hurt.
From David Tennant’s Ten and Billie Piper’s Rose being ripped away from each other in Doomsday, to Matt Smith’s Eleven and Alex Kingston’s River Song finding their way back to each other through time, some of them are love stories for the ages.
Some of them, perhaps, deserved a little more time (looking at Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteen and Mandip Gill’s Yaz), and some don’t even feature the Doctor at all, with Karen Gillan’s Amy and Arthur Darvill’s Rory melting our hearts….
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Chris Barkley, Cat Eldridge, Jason Sanford, Cat Rambo, Kathy Sullivan, Eric Franklin, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Steven French, Mike Kennedy, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Soon Lee.]
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1) it’s a fractally expanding universe of reaction. And I did get asked for comment by the Guardian again.
2) I am chuffed by TrishEm’s poem
It’s The Man Who Melted Jack Dann!
(1) Also seeing stuff on Tumblr and other sites, because fans are everywhere.
Also Xiran Jay Zhao is tired of people misspelling her name.
I dunno, I don’t think there’s a market for more than 640k pixels…
Birthday: I have In the Fields of Fire. And no, I’m not aware of any other such collection.
Argyle Sweater: ARGH!!!
(12) I do not want to subscribe to Disney+ (given how hard any of the streaming services are to cancel)… but I WANT TO SEE THIS.
(13) Sorry, too many links to show the video. And I’ve found, as of the last week or so, you cannot see anything on The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter (TPFKAT) unless you sign in. As I never had an account, and certainly don’t want one now, I searched around to see a pic. Impressive. Another three years, I think it is, and she could be Maria, a century later.
2) “I grok Chinese fans, and was their White Savior.”
Ouch. But Dave deserves all that and more.
(Huh. No comment tickycheck?)
13) Seeing the outfit, I thought some costumers would try to recreate this outfit. Not me, as I could never walk in high heels, and I can’t imagine one could be comfortable in it for long. Still, if I had been young, I might have been able to pull it off.
Bonnie McDaniel: The comment tickybox comes and goes. Mostly goes. I’ve manually turned it on again.
“whom he had met (…) and who he married”? Is this how English works nowadays, or did it jar anybody else?
(1) I seem to have missed something. What is Glasgow doing that violates WSFS rules?
Now I’m going to click the box before it escapes again.
2) Eeeeee, thanks so much for sharing my poem here, and calling it brilliant, Jennifer Hawthorne! Also, I’m excited to see my first tag here!
Of course, I’m sad, disgusted, and angry at the events that sparked this poem, and the continuing fallout from the extremely poor decisions that were made. I hope that significant changes come about to safeguard the integrity of the awards hereafter.
12) For sure, “Iwájú” looks really intriguing and fun!
Lis – they said something in their original statement for people donating $350 presupport – something about proxies, I think. They have since corrected it so that it does meet WSFS rules.
(1) Dang! That’s a lot of coverage. I know what I’ll be reading tomorrow or over the weekend…
(10) OMG “The Argyle Sweater” is great today! The priest even reminds me a little of Jason Miller…
To paraphrase Elton John and Bernie Taupin… “The box is back!”
Mark, you’re confusing this year’s Worldcon with a bid for the one in 2026.
I, too, would like to know what Glasgow has done that goes against the WSFS constitution.
Anne Marble… coverage, yeah. How odd, to think what was started over 80 years ago by a small group of fen… is now truly noticed by the world. Not sure if that’s good….
@mark–
No, they didn’t. That was the Montreal bid for…2027, I think. Not Glasgow, this year’s WorldCon. (And Montreal quickly corrected that when called on it.)
So, really, if Jonathan Cowie thinks Glasgow is ignoring WSFS rules, I’d like to know what he’s referring to.
P J Evans, Zhou’s pronouns are they/them
Well what the hell is he talking about?
Michael Brooks: Jonathan Cowie contends Glasgow 2024 should be sending him paper publications. I leave it to him whether to make that argument in detail.
RE: censorship. Desantis is rethinking his book ban in Florida, as the classics are being banned. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” has cross-dressers, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (slavery), “The Scarlet Letter,” (sexual content) “The Diary of Anne Frank,” (the holocaust) “Webster’s Dictionary” (has the word “sex” defined), and it’s only a matter of time until someone complains about “The Bible,” as it has all kinds of violence and sex described in its cautionary tales. Comes under the heading of “be careful what you wish for!”
https://newrepublic.com/post/179055/ron-desantis-mistake-florida-schools-book-bans
https://news.yahoo.com/even-desantis-thinks-florida-book-212547663.html
De Santis is also having a problem with the curriculum in wanting to teach young kids about “the dangers of Communism.” (They can’t teach about Black history, but want to teach about communism?????)
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-gop-republicans-communism-ron-desantis-1869951
“The ABCs of Book Banning” is a documentary short by Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic, which is up for an Academy Award. It’s available for view on Amazon.
(6) With apologies to anyone who’s ever seen The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Twenty fen were roaming
They were roaming
Twenty fen were roaming
The huckster room
Money they were burning
They were burning
And they had to have-a
Way to buy merch.
@carl: when I was a high school kid in Miami circa 1970, there was a mandatory anti-communism unit which was beyond hilarious: old Jack Webb propaganda movie (black & white, of course) followed by descriptions of capitalism, socialism and communism clearly composed by Birchers. Seven years later, I was a candidate for national secretary of the Socialist Party USA; so you can see how effective it was.
@Paul: You gave a really great quote to the Graun.
(1) Is Jonathan Cowie an ill-informed troll? Or simply not very bright? And why doesn’t he want us to listen to the other 75% of the show.
(2) Brilliant indeed, on-point, perfect title and use of the form.
(6) With the recent uproar (entirely not the fault of the Chinese, of course), I’d think they’d be taking that signage down ASAP. Don’t the businessmen who bigfooted their way into control want the place to bring them all the glory?
(9) “Wandering Stars” is fab.
(10) Argyle Sweater deserves all the kudos today.
(12) Looks interesting.
Thank you for Title Credit.
(1) It’s a betrayal by the Hugo Admin, the very person we entrusted to run the Hugo Awards with integrity. That’s what’s so damaging & upsetting. It will take a lot to rebuild trust, trust that was earned over years, and blown up by this.
Some of the early steps are in the right direction (e.g. ensuring nobody who served on the Chengdu team has any involvement with future Hugo administration), but I feel we are still in the early days of this process of restoring trust.
(9)
Unless time travel is involved that doesn’t add up.
@GiantPanda
Obviously Melbourne is ten years behind the times
13) If an appreciation of Maschinenmensch-type costumes is in the offing, may i point attention to Heidi Gardner’s silver suit in this SNL sketch:
(…and it’s genre as well!)
@Ray Radlein: You beat me to the The Man Who Melted Jack Dann – leaving me bereft and tickbox-less
I messed with my WordPress settings – I may now get all File770 comments (or I may not – who knows).
O what can ail thee, fan-at-play,
Alone and palely doomscrolling?
The tickbox is missing from the comments,
And no birds sing.
@Catherine Crockett
Are you talking about Zhao? Because Zhou’s not here.
Michael: I know where you’re coming from. My folks, in California, were staunch Republicans and my mom was a John Birch Society member. Both my sister and I were Democrats. Go figure!
The more outrageous the right wing claims, the more people they’ll lose. This is all like a dystopian fantasy!
I nominated the banned novel for best novel and the fan writer is still eligible. Nominate him!
13) She’s an absolute smoke show so she pulls it off, but there is no way in the world that that is comfortable and I wouldn’t want to try and sit down in it.
15) I’d say that the greatest love story in ‘Doctor Who’ is between the show and the fans, although at this point maybe it’s a love/hate relationship for some of them.
@Ray Radlein Like how the ’80’s didn’t come to Canada until ’93.
Doctor Who absolutely goes through cycles of Love/Hate with its fans. Although at least half the time that’s describing the relationship the show has to the fans, rather than the other way around
Quatermain: Zendaya is famous (among fashion fans) for being able to pull off very extreme fashion and look magnificent in it. She has impeccable taste.
Possible story for today’s scroll: J.G. Ballard story provides theme for this year’s Met Gala (https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/style/2024-met-gala-theme-co-chairs/index.html)
@Dan’l: WOW. It’s been … whoo boy, 45 years? since I last read that story. Is that the one where there are glassy roses that loose their petals, and there’s a couple, a man and a woman in the garden? Very elegiac, Jack Vance-like?
Here’s it’s isfdb entry. I definitely owned Introducing SF, ed. Aldiss, either picked up while travelling w/ family age 12 or else in a 2nd hand bookstore a couple years later; I wonder if it’s still here, somewhere?
Speaking of Birthdays, I turned sixty six on the Fifteenth.
So how did I celebrate it? i had my third of my every six month nerve operation to sever the left area nerves where the ribs were broken from reviving me after I died eleven times from head trauma, all but one while in cardiac critical care, six years ago as the ribs are still too sensitive too touch, so the nerves are painful.
They called my primary care office to see I had a do not resuscitate order about the sixth time according to Jenner, my primary care Nurse Practitioner later when she told me this, as they didn’t think they could keep doing it. The Chief Medical Officer told her he thought for about a second and said no. He said to her, did they think I was going to say yes?
@ Liz and @ M Brooks. Re Glasgow. It has been brought to our – SF2 Concatenation – attention that Glasgow will not be sending no show attending members paper publications. Two of us (fully paid up members of Glasgow – one at the super friend rate) reached out to Glasgow and received unsatisfactory answers from separate people (but both at the Division Head level). One simply refused to confirm that they would send physical publications and the other confirmed that they would not.
The WSFS rules are quite clear that not only no show attending members should get publications but WSFS Business Meeting clarification at Helsinki affirmed that supporting members should get physical publications.
https://www.wsfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/WSFS-BM-Resolutions-Rulings-of-Continuing-Effect-20220905.pdf
This may seem a trivial matter but if you cannot get the small things right then you cannot begin to expect to get the big things right, like the Hugos.
Further, we are now in a post-CoVID world where folk who get CoVID are expected to stay away from gatherings. It is a bit of a kick in the teeth for someone who about to leave for a Worldcon tests positive and so stays away only to be rewarded with no publications as is their due determined by the Worldcon community. Glasgow is doing its own thing and needs to be called out about it. We are considering making a formal complaint to WSFS but are not sure if they will take any action to ensure that the constitution and matters arising from the business meeting will be enforced. Possibly former Chair Kevin S may have a view????
@Jonathan C.–
And
You have just demonstrated that you can’t, or possibly can’t be bothered to, get the “small things” right.
So obviously we should take you very, very seriously, right?
@Jonathan C
It clearly states that Supporting Members have the option to ask for printed Progress Reports IF they are offered. If the electronic option is all that’s offered – as is the case – then there’s no option. You do have the option to receive a printed Souvenir Book – but you may have to pay,
@Jonathan C.
I’m still waiting for my Souvenir Book from San Jose in 2018. 🙂 (They did send me paper Progress Reports.)
eta: I never saw an option to request one from Chengdu. No big surprise there.
Laura: While Worldcon 76 has not sent such publications, we haven’t forgotten that we need to do so. It’s a matter of money and people points.
@Kevin Standlee
Wow, I had really given up. Going on 6 years I imagine quite a few people have moved or have moved on in another way.