Author: Kevin

Hugo Awards Ceremony Tonight

~ Kevin

The 2011 Hugo Awards will be announced tonight, August 20, at a ceremony at the Peppermill Hotel in Reno, Nevada during Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 8 PM Pacific Daylight Time tonight.

Live video streaming of the event is scheduled to be available on the UStream Worldcon Events channel, courtesy of Renovation’s Events Team.

Text-based live-blogging coverage of the Hugo Award Ceremony on CoverItLive will be hosted by TheHugoAwards.org.

Hugo Awards Livecast Scheduled

~ Kevin

Can’t attend this year’s Worldcon? You can virtually attend the ceremony by following our online coverage. As we did last year, TheHugoAwards.org will provide live text-based coverage of the Hugo Awards ceremony from Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, in Reno, Nevada on Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 8 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

Bookmark our 2011 Hugo Award Live Coverage page for the gateway to the event coverage on CoverItLive.

Kevin Standlee and Mur Lafferty will cover the event from the Tuscany Ballroom at the Peppermill Hotel in Reno and we’ll incorporate the official @Renovationsf and @TheHugoAwards Twitter feeds, as well as Twitter posts using the #hugos, #hugoaward, and #hugoawards hashtags.

Our coverage is text-only. Renovation intends to provide live streaming coverage of the ceremony on UStream. We’ll include a link to the live-stream from within our coverage.

We’ll be “on the air” shortly before the scheduled 8 PM PDT start. Join us to watch, read, and discuss the results as the Worldcon presents our field’s top honors.

Our thanks to Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon, for their cooperation in providing live coverage of the 2011 Hugo Awards ceremony.

2011 Hugo Voter Packet Released

~ Kevin

Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, has released the 2011 Hugo Voter Packet, an electronic package of nominated works graciously made available to voters by nominees and their publishers.

The 2011 Hugo Voter Packet is available to Supporting, Attending, and Young Adult members of Renovation to help inform them about the works under consideration before voting. The packet is available until voting closes on Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:59pm PDT.

Members may access the packet on the Renovation Worldcon web site or email hugopacket@renovationsf.org for voter information. If you are not yet a member of the 2011 Worldcon, you can register online. You do not need to attend the convention to participate in the Hugo Awards.

2011 Hugo Award Nominations Announced

~ Kevin

The nominations for the 2011 Hugo Awards were announced today at a joint ceremony held at Norwescon and Eastercon. The full list of nominations is posted on the Renovation web site.

Supporting, Attending, and Young Adult members of Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, are eligible to vote in the finals. For more information, please visit Renovation’s website.

The winners will be announced Saturday, August 20th, 2011, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony at Renovation in Reno, Nevada.

2011 Hugo Base Design Competition Open

~ Kevin

Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, has announced an open competition for the design of the 2011 Hugo Award base. The convention is soliciting artists and designers from around the world to come up with a base that is worthy of the Hugo Award and which reflects the convention’s theme of the New Frontiers and/or the region of Reno, Nevada and the North-Western United States.

The Hugo Award trophy consists of the iconic Hugo Award rocket, the design of which remains essentially constant from year to year, and a base designed by each Worldcon. Many recent Worldcons have held open competitions to design their bases.

The winning designer will have the opportunity to introduce their base design as part of the Hugo Ceremony itself and the base will also enter the archive of Hugo base designs, including the Hugo History exhibit which travels to each Worldcon. In addition, the winner will receive a full 5-day attending membership of Renovation along with $250 towards the cost of attending the convention.

Entrants are asked to submit initial drawings/renderings of their design to Renovation by January 1, 2011. Entrants also need to be able to arrange for up to 30 bases to be manufactured if their design is successful, with a target price of no more than $150 per individual base. The winning design will be selected no later than February 28, 2011.

Full terms and conditions for the competition can be found on Renovation’s web site.

Note: This competition is being run by Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon. Questions should be directed to them, not to the Hugo Awards web site.