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    From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 16 22:04:46 2025
    Several weeks from now, I will be filling out a nomination ballot for
    the 2025 Worldcon. I will be doing this with the knowledge that there
    will be a very good chance that none of my entries in the 4 fiction
    categories will make the final ballot (and, of course, there is a very
    good chance that I will have not read any of the 24 titles in the four
    fiction categories on the final ballot).

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to tnusenet17@gmail.com on Mon Jan 20 16:02:46 2025
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 1/17/25 1:04 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
    Several weeks from now, I will be filling out a nomination ballot for
    the 2025 Worldcon. I will be doing this with the knowledge that there
    will be a very good chance that none of my entries in the 4 fiction
    categories will make the final ballot (and, of course, there is a very
    good chance that I will have not read any of the 24 titles in the four
    fiction categories on the final ballot).

    Just curious... which parts are you pondering? What to nominate? Whether
    to nominate? Other?

    My problem is that I am still catching up on SF from many decades ago and
    the main way I get introduced to new SF is by seeing what is nominated for Hugos and Nebulas.

    I'd love to be able to nominate books for Hugos but how would I find out
    about new books that are eligible other than... by their already being nominated?
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to Tony Nance on Mon Jan 20 09:50:47 2025
    In article <vmlgrt$34k05$2@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 1/17/25 1:04 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
    Several weeks from now, I will be filling out a nomination ballot for
    the 2025 Worldcon. I will be doing this with the knowledge that there
    will be a very good chance that none of my entries in the 4 fiction categories will make the final ballot (and, of course, there is a very
    good chance that I will have not read any of the 24 titles in the four fiction categories on the final ballot).


    Just curious... which parts are you pondering? What to nominate? Whether
    to nominate? Other?

    Both what and whether (I will most likely skip the drama and fan
    categories entirely). I am also pondering on what to do with the final
    ballot. Do I rank "No Award" over every fiction title that was both not complete in the voting package or was not readily available to me (I
    have already read it, have it but had not read yet, or was available at
    no cost somewhere)?

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. —-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to tnusenet17@gmail.com on Thu Jan 23 00:05:54 2025
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

    Do what you feel most comfortable with of course. For me (only!), I
    would only feel comfortable ranking "No Award" over stuff I'd actually
    read, because to me (only!), putting "No Award" above something says
    that the stuff below it was unworthy of winning.

    I feel the same way, which is why I go out of my way to read as many of
    the literary entries as possible. That was problematic the last time
    around as some of them were in Chinese and either were not translated
    openly or had what seemed to be an extremely poor translation... and
    one of them was out of print.

    I am willing to put "No Award" in front of an unavailable book, however, because I don't think any unavailable book should get an award.

    I've never voted - do you have to rank everything that is nominated?

    No. I never vote in any of the media categories myself since I have
    seldom seen more than one or two of the nominees.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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