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		<title>Nomination Eligibility Deadline Looms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to participate in the nominations stage of this year&#8217;s Hugo Awards, and you were not a member of the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal, then you must purchase at least a Supporting Membership in this year&#8217;s Worldcon by January 31st.
Note that this is not the deadline for submitting nominations, it is just the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/01/nomination-eligibility-deadline-looms/</link>
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		<title>A Blast from the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/01/a-blast-from-the-past/</link>
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		<title>2009 Award Ceremony Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s masquerade is also available.
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		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/01/2009-award-ceremony-video/</link>
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		<title>Nominations Open for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As per our tweet earlier today, Aussiecon 4 has opened nominations for the 2010 Hugo Awards. And being in Australia, which started 2010 long before most of us, they were very quick off the mark indeed. You can find the ballot at their web site.
As usual, the nominating stage of the process is open to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/01/nominatons-open-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Logo in Book Stores Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Scalzi reports that the Tor edition of his book Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded is going to hit the book stores soon (the official publication date is January 5th). As far as we know, this is the first book to bear the official &#8220;Hugo Award Winner&#8221; logo. We look forward to seeing many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/12/logo-in-book-stores-soon/</link>
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		<title>Introducing the Hugo Award Showcase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People have been asking us for some time where there is no annual anthology of Hugo Award winners. Our answer has been that no one wanted to publish one (and WSFS does not publish books). However, that answer no longer applies. We are delighted to announce that we have licensed Prime Books to produce a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/11/introducing-the-hugo-award-showcase/</link>
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		<title>Oscars Copy Hugos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The instant runoff voting system that the Hugo Awards use for their final ballot (often known as an Australian Ballot) has come in for a fair amount of criticism in its time. People complain that it is too complicated and they can&#8217;t understand it. However, we have stuck with it, because we believe that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/09/oscars-copy-hugos/</link>
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		<title>2009 WSFS Business Meeting Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the 2009 Business Meeting of the World Science Fiction Society the following motions that affect the Hugo Awards were adopted. (Strikeouts indicate text removed, underlines indicate text added.)

Marking Peter Weston’s Contribution
Moved, to amend section 3.5 of the WSFS Constitution to reflect the contribution of Peter Weston in refining the current design of the Hugo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/08/2009-wsfs-business-meeting-report/</link>
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		<title>2009 Hugo Award Winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Presented at: Anticipation, Montréal, Quebec, August 6-10, 2009
Toastmaster: Julie Czerneda, with translation by Yves Meynard
Base design: Dave Howell
Awards Administration: Diane Lacey, Ruth Lichtwardt, Jeff Orth and Rene Walling


Best Novel: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Best Novella: &#8220;The Erdmann Nexus&#8221;, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008)
Best Novelette: &#8220;Shoggoths in Bloom&#8221;, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Mar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/08/2009-hugo-award-winners/</link>
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		<title>The 2009 Trophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pictures of the 2009 Hugo Award trophy, designed by Dave Howell, are now online here. Be sure to check out the top-down view of the base, which shows the blast pit as the Hugo rocket lifts off from the asteroid base.
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		<link>http://www.thehugoawards.org/2009/08/the-2009-trophy/</link>
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