{"id":2575,"date":"2014-04-19T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T22:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:59:44","slug":"double-fractional-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":"DOUBLE FRACTIONAL AWARD NOMINEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi.jpeg\" alt=\"specyfiction72ppi\" width=\"184\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi.jpeg 613w, http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi-218x300.jpeg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2014\/04\/announcing-the-2014-hugo-award-nominees\">the Hugo nominations are out<\/a>, and there are a number of things I like and many things I have absolutely no interest in. In the end I weakened and nominated some stuff, just so I could feel properly entitled to moan at the final shortlist. I think four of the items I nominated made it onto the final list of 90 or so nominees &#8211; I&#8217;ll be expecting cash from the lucky few in the next post.<\/p>\n<p>But the really important news about the Hugo nominations isn&#8217;t that some weird, slightly cultish, distinctly Tea Partyish, group of American writers have got their arses in gear to exploit the nomination process &#8211; anyone with a background in student politics will recognise the effect of organising lists in popular voting &#8211; Hackery101.\u00a0It will be interesting to see if this is the start of a trend of progressive\/reactionary organisation for awards.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The really important news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Speculative-Fiction-2012-reviews-commentary\/dp\/0957347553\" class=\"broken_link\">Speculative Fiction 2012<\/a> &#8211; featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2210\">my harsh words on Stina Leicht&#8217;s &#8220;Fey and the Fallen&#8221;<\/a> books \u00a0has been nominated for a Hugo. As one of 48 contributors, I&#8217;m claiming this as a fractional nomination for a Hugo.<\/p>\n<p>Add that to the earlier nomination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Solaris-Rising-Science-Fiction-Indigo\/dp\/1781080879\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397947580&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Solaris+Rising+2\" class=\"broken_link\">Solaris Rising 2<\/a>\u00a0for the Philip K Dick Award for best science fiction book first published in paperback (?) &#8211; to which I am one of 20 contributors with my story &#8220;The First Dance&#8221; &#8211; means that I am a multiple fractional award nominee this year.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering what that means, I&#8217;ve worked it out for you as a simple equation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nominee-maths.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nominee-maths.jpg\" alt=\"nominee-maths\" width=\"468\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nominee-maths.jpg 468w, http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nominee-maths-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Hugo nominations are out, and there are a number of things I like and many things I have absolutely no interest in. In the end I weakened and nominated some stuff, just so I could feel properly entitled to moan at the final shortlist. I think four of the items I nominated made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[67],"tags":[69,46,117,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27AP7-Fx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}