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Live Coverage Plans

Published on 2 Sep 2010 at 6:40 am. No Comments.
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Worldcon is now underway in Australia. The room in which the Hugo Award ceremony is very splendid, and what’s more has excellent wi-fi coverage at a reasonable price. There is also a good 3G signal for mobile phones. It therefore looks likely that we will be able to bring you the results very promptly. We [...]

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Nominations Announcement Schedule

Published on 30 Mar 2010 at 2:03 pm. 1 Comment.
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From the Aussiecon 4 news feed:
Aussiecon 4 received a record number of nominations for the 2010 Hugo Awards: 864, up from 799 nomination ballots at Anticipation in 2009 and 483 at Denvention 3 in 2008. This year’s Hugo Award nominations will be announced 22:00 BST, Easter Sunday 4 April, at Odyssey 2010, this year’s Eastercon, [...]

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A Blast from the Past

Published on 10 Jan 2010 at 11:37 am. Comments Off.
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In 1979 Worldcon was held in Brighton, England, and the BBC sent along a film crew. They were making a series of programs, Time out of Mind, about science fiction writers, and Worldcon was a good place to get footage. The final program in the series ended up dedicated entirely to the convention, and culminated [...]

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2009 Award Ceremony Video

Published on 6 Jan 2010 at 6:11 am. Comments Off.
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The Anticipation folks have made a DVD of the 2009 Hugo Award Ceremony available for sale. It costs $9.95 + postage, and you can buy it from CreateSpace. A DVD of the convention’s masquerade is also available.

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