At 9:25 PM -0800 2/9/12, Adrienne Foster wrote:
I'm not sure how the SF community is going to respond to this, but I
just posted an essay detailing the reasons why I believe Locus
should not be nominated as a semi-prozine for the Hugo Award. For
anyone interested in reading it, you'll find it at the following URL:
<http://www.epinions.com/content_5605007492>http://www.epinions.com/content_5605007492
If you feel Locus deserves a Hugo nomination, I hope you'll consider
nominating its editors in the Best Editor--Short Form category.
Hi Adrienne,
As you can see in
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Fanzine>, Locus won
the Best Fanzine award eight times in total, and four times in a row
prior to the creation of the Semiprozine category. Locus has always
been a very good and very successful zine, and it deserved its
awards, but not at the expense of all other deserving fanzines for
the rest of all time, which is how things looked in 1982-3. The
Semiprozine category was created for Locus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Semiprozine
Locus won all of the Best Semiprozine awards from when the category
was created in 1984 through 1992. It was a big surprise in 1993 when
Science Fiction Chronicle won (especially at ConFrancisco where Locus
is local). Since then the category has been more competitive. Locus
has won several more times, but so have others. The most recent three
awards have gone to Weird Tales and Clarkesworld (twice). This seems
pretty good to me. What exactly do you think is broken and how are
you proposing to fix it?
Also I don't think it matters whether a publication is struggling or
not. Most of the entrants in every category are struggling. The whole
field is struggling. Locus stands out as a relative success but it
hasn't been easy even for them.
Regards,
Tom
--
Tom Becker <t...@fanac.com>
Potlatch n. A science fiction convention where readers and
writers meet on common ground. http://potlatch-sf.org
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