2009 Hugos/WorldCon
I missed the last two days of the 2009 WorldCon due to a friend’s wedding on the west coast, so I had a slightly truncated Montreal experience. At any rate, Gaiman deserves full credit for his second Hugo (though personally I would have rather seen the prize go to Stephenson for ANATHEM). Oh, and apparently I missed the Campbell nomination by one vote!—21 votes to Felix Gilman’s 22. Hey, there’s still next year. . . .
Other highlights:
—Meeting up with Peter Watts again, who I hadn’t seen in over two years. Peter is in many ways the reason I’m published, since he read MIRRORED HEAVENS way back in the day and told me what was wrong with it. Something about it needing an ending, as I recall.
—Watching Charles Stross and Paul Krugman converse on the problems inherent in predicting the future. Without those crystal balls, it’s tough.
—Seeing Montreal. Amazing city. But how come everyone speaks French?
—Having lunch with Patrick St. Denis of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. Per the above, it was cool to be going around Montreal with a native, and Pat’s sense of humor is my type of dry.
—Reading alongside cyberpunk legend Pat Cadigan. Not only is her writing awesome, she’s got one hell of a personality. Lives in London too!
—Seeing Joshua Palmatier again. Joshua is probably the only professor of mathematics who also writes fantasy; I suppose that beats a history major who writes science fiction . . .
—Catching up with my inimitable agent Jenny Rappaport. We talked about lots of things, including what I’m going to be working on next. Watch this space.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I was ok reading until the last line and you had to go and do it. Now we need some type of hint please.
John
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August 12th, 2009 at 11:17 am
hint? what hint do you need? I think it’s quite obvious what’s about to happen. : )
August 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Looks like we were swapping coasts. I was somewhere between Virginia and New York visiting family when I got tweets about the Hugo winners.