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Hugo votes

I voted for the Hugos!  I’m sure you’ve been dying to know where the all-important bloc of my single vote was going. Novel: no vote.  I bailed out of even trying to finish all of these candidates on time, as discussed previously.  I ended up reading two of the six novels, instead favoring reading the [...]

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There are no Classic Comics versions of contemporary Hugo nominees to save me

I woke up this morning with the realization that I wasn’t going to get all my Hugo Award reading done.  Apparently my brain spent the down time calculating pages left versus time.  I mean, I appreciate the effort, considering it usually chews on fantasy baseball stats, but if it was thinking about stock prices or [...]

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Paying to vote, NES librarianship, lettuce, and a cat

Two notable nerdstuffs happening lately: *Just got a supporting membership to AussieCon4, i.e., this year’s WorldCon, i.e., a big nerdy sci-fi convention.  Among other things, the reason I got in on it was for a Hugo vote.  I’ll have some reading to do before the vote is due July 31, but that’s three months to [...]

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