ianmcdonald ([info]ianmcdonald) wrote,
@ 2008-03-21 10:26:00
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Well, everyone else is so why shouldn't I?
The Hugo nominations are out, and I'm delighted to be up there on the Best Novel list. Exciting stuff indeed. Congratulations to all the other nominees, and especially to those who sent me nudge-nudge little 'noticed anything...unusual... in your inbox recently?' emails over the past couple of weeks. You know who you are.

Other gear: it's been a couple of days of Clarkeness: on Thursday I did a brief piece on Arts Extra on Radio Pravance Ulster about A.C.C., and yesterday on phone piece for The New York Times, which should in theory be out on Sunday. It's made me reflect on Clarke's generosity of vision, and mourn our gradual introversion as a culture. It's no longer full of stars: it's full of shops. Planet Facebook: universal contact gives only the illusion of communication. Says he shouting his little blog into the gales of tattle.

But hey ho! Orbital tomorrow!


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[info]frandowdsofa
2008-03-21 10:53 am UTC (link)
We were reading them over breakfast at Orbital, and how we cheered! Well Done That Man.

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[info]lamentables
2008-03-21 11:40 am UTC (link)
Congratulations!

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[info]chanphenglew
2008-03-21 11:44 am UTC (link)
Congratulations!

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[info]gerardbrennan
2008-03-21 11:55 am UTC (link)
Congratulations!

Is the Arts Extra piece on tonights show? I'll check it out on Listen Again.

gb

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[info]caf_pow
2008-03-21 12:02 pm UTC (link)
well done! i hope you win!

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[info]papersky
2008-03-21 12:12 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations! Go Brasyl!

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[info]stevenagy
2008-03-21 12:12 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations. :-)

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Congrats!
[info]human2dot0.wordpress.com
2008-03-21 12:54 pm UTC (link)
Congrats for the nomination, Ian. Wish you good luck.

Jacques

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[info]pompe
2008-03-21 01:00 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations!

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[info]jonathannil
2008-03-21 01:53 pm UTC (link)
Congrats!

Coincidentally, I just, like ten minutes before reading this and clicking on the link, finished fellow nominee _The Yiddish Policemen's Union_. I'm not sure it's SF exactly, even though it's an alternate history. (And not because I think SF and 'literature' are disjunct, ha, enough of that! Margaret Atwood writes SF whether she likes it or not, and so does Ballard and Pynchon!). In the same way that I want to say that Bruce Sterling's hilarious _Zeitgeist_ IS SF, even though it takes place in the present (or really PAST now) and has no particular SFy plot elements. But hell, who knows what SF is, it's a suckers game debating it. Still interesting to me that Chabon's book ends up on the Hugo list.

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[info]ghostwes
2008-03-21 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Congrats!

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[info]tinman0
2008-03-21 03:09 pm UTC (link)
congrats on the Hugo nomination

however your mention of Arthur C reminds me of my bile levels rising these last few days. On a few other lists I'm on the frequent comment has been "ah, but what about the kiddie fiddling" I recall those previous rumours myself and couldn't remember how it was resolved but a few minutes googling found countless follow-ups on how it was a British tabloid digging for dirt and all blown over when it was properly investigated and he was cleared. Yet despite this information being readily accessible, the gutter rats and snipers came out of the woodwork with their vile innuendos, half truths and ill-remembered rumours. When the reality of their ignorant or malicious comments was pointed out to them, with references, the common response was "no smoke without fire", or "why would anyone say it if wasn't true"

In a similar vein following the Pratchett donation and subsequent fan surge, "Match it for Pratchett" in Livejournal I have actually read a comment from some misanthrope who wrote "well he didn't do much for Alzheimers before he got it himself"

I'm as cynical as the next fan, maybe more so but isn't there a line between balanced cynicism or scepticism and outright venom or gain saying. The sour milk of human kindness indeed.

Anyhoo rant over, best of luck for the con and have a good one

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[info]racebannon42
2008-03-21 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Congrats to you!

Brasyl was the best book I read last year, and will certainly be getting my vote. What I understood of it blew me away :p

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-23 04:35 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations !!!

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[info]cdab
2008-03-23 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Brasyl is a very fine novel. If I could I would let my vote !!!
I would only suggest that some typos should be corrected.

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[info]gillesg.myopenid.com
2008-03-25 08:37 am UTC (link)
Congrats ! By the way, the URL for the nominations seems to have changed to http://www.denver2008.com/hugos/08hugonomlist.php

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