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Cora Buhlert

9 months

A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2023

A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2023

I never felt particularly comfortable with eligibility posts, but I posted such an overview for the first time in 2016, when someone added my name to the Hugo Nominations Wiki. Eventually, it paid …

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1 year

My Dad died today in hospital. I was the one who found him, when I came to visit him this afternoon and he wasn't moving or reacting. Here's a photo of my Dad last Christmas. I could never get him to look into the camera. Addy Buhlert (1938 - 2023).

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My Mom, Barbara Buhlert, died this morning, only four and a half month after my Dad. She would have been 82 next month. This one wasn't quite as out of the blue as Dad, since Mom has been steadily declining for two years now, but it still hurts.

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@sagebeatlove It took me a while to realise that the reason people told me, "You're so good with kids," was because I treated kids like human beings. Apparently, that low hurdle is all it takes.

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2 years

Brand new Hugo winner celebrating her win with champagne and chocolates. Thank you to everyone who voted for me.

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2 years

I just realised that I will attend my high school reunion next weekend as a Hugo winner.

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1 year

Here is a public service announcement for all creatives and everybody really: Never sign an employment contract that blanket grants your employer the copyrights to any intellectual property you develop during your time working for them.

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2 years

I Won a Hugo Award!

You’ll have to wait a bit longer for the 2022 Hugo Winner commentary, because it turns out that I’m one of the winners. That was a huge surprise, because I honestly didn’t think I…

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4 years

Day 11 of my advent calendar of random photos from my archive. Here is a cherry tree in full bloom in the neighbour's garden this spring. #CorasAdventCalendar2020

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3 years

@shivvinesse @carmenmmachado Being not from the US, it always baffles me that US rating systems so blasé about graphic violence, but completely freak out once there is an uncovered female breast or someone says the f-word.

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4 years

So here's my take on last night's Hugo mess: There is a place for older authors like GRRM and Robert Silverberg reminiscing about the past. However, that place is NOT the Hugo ceremony.

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2 years

That person should be arrested. BTW, this is also the best argument why important works of art should not be privately owned, because you might get people doing this.

Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

Hate it here

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3 years

@MercurialMiss In Europe, cashiers always sit. There is no reason cashiers shouldn't sit. Standing only causes health issue and doesn't improve performance at all.

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2 years

Thread: International writers are not to blame for the problem of AI-generated spam stories overwhelming genre magazines. Arseholes are to blame.

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“Another editor told The Verge that even before the AI-generated stories, they’d get submissions and emails from writers in countries where the cost of living is lower and an $80 publication fee goes much farther than it does in the US.” — you don't say

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@CoraBuhlert

2 years

Look who's in the @weserreport today:

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1 year

As you may know, I won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer last year. So let's spread the shiny rocket love around with this non-exhaustive list of fan writers deserving recognition:

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3 years

@Hugo_Book_Club For many people, Harry Potter was their first exposure to certain ideas and tropes. And that's fine. What's not okay is blindly assuming that Harry Potter was the first time anybody wrote about those tropes or ideas.

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2 years

I'm a Hugo finalist for Best Fan Writer again and in most excellent company, too.

Chicago Worldcon

@chicagoworldcon

2 years

2022 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Fan Writer @cmzhang42 , @bitterkarella , @queenofrats , @CoraBuhlert , @jasonsanford , @princejvstin #HugoAwards #ChicagoWorldcon

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2 years

I may not be physically at #Chicon8 but I can still dress up for the Hugos. #HugoRedCarpet

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2 years

Look who's in the @weserkurier today, hugging her Hugo trophy. Thanks to Alexandra Penth for the lovely article.

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3 years

Just got called a bunch of nasty names for giving a bad review to a 55-year-old SFF book by an author who died in 1988. And I even wanted to like that book. It's not my fault it was terrible.

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@KateElliottSFF I fully expect that we'll be in for another round of "Wow, women and POC are writing and editing science fiction now" in twenty years, while most of the amazing people working now will have been thrown into the memory hole along with the women and POC writers of previous decades

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2 years

I just made my first story sale of 2023.

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1 year

Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema Please no. Most actors and many viewers don't particularly like or miss these scenes. Only film critics and some directors seem to want them.

Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema

Director’s latest film has more explicit scenes than almost all modern studio-backed features

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2 years

And another look at my Hugo gown. #Chicon8 #HugoRedCarpet

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2 years

@secretbutterfly @Sheila_Dang I hate that feature so much. Look, if I want the latest tweets, I'll just refresh. But I see an interesting tweet and it just gets snatched away and I can't find it again, I'm very annoyed.

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3 years

Congratulations to Chengdu. I know many people are not happy with this decision, but can we please not blame the Chinese fans who voted to have a Worldcon in their home country for any issues, no matter how legitimate, we have with the country and its policies.

DisCon III - The 79th Worldcon

@worldcon2021

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Congratulations to Chengdu, China - home of #Worldcon2023 ! #Worldcon2021 #Worldcon #DisConIII

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3 years

@tonyjballas @Hugo_Book_Club Sorry, but I am German and vaccinated and he is no legend, but a complete disaster.

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2 years

I just read that Brandon Sanderson article in Wired and it's as terrible as everybody says. And mind you, I don't even like Sanderson's books - they are exactly the sort of fantasy with overdesigned world and overly systematic magic that annoys me.

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1 year

Here's another photo of Dad that's very typically him. After lunch or dinner, Dad would always fall asleep at the table for ten minutes or so. His pose and expression were so much like the Abra Pokemon that I snapped this picture.

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Thank you for the kind words and condolences, everybody. Unfortunately, I can't reply to everyone individually, but believe me, your words are a great help in this difficult time. Thank you all very much.

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Sorry, if I've been a bit off in the past few days or fail to reply to messages, but my father is very ill and his condition is deteriorating rapidly and the doctors fear he may not survive. Good vibes are appreciated.

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1 year

@AlasdairStuart Can it hurry up and collapse quickly, pretty please?

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This is a serious, possibly fatal blow for many magazines, especially since KU's terms are terrible for magazines (and authors, though many like it).

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2 years

In an absolutely devastating announcement (right before the holidays) Amazon has informed us that they are ending their Kindle Subscription program in 2023 and trying to get magazines to switch to Kindle Unlimited. Asking for more details, but this is bad.

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3 years

This needs to be in a sword and sorcery story.

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3 years

Late neolithic dagger of rock crystal. Very revealing about early bronze age dagger and sword construction. Also beautiful and creepy, right? Definitely going into my #bronzeage #fantasy and tganks to @paul_bryant for the reference!

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3 years

Another look at my Hugo gown, necklace and tiara. #Worldcon2021 #HugosRedCarpet

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2 years

Congratulations to all my fellow 2022 Hugo winners! It's an honour to be one of you!

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4 years

If you're eligible to nominate for the 2021 Hugo Awards, don't ignore the fan categories, cause they honour people who do great work for little to no pay.

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3 years

I'm a Hugo finalists again and in most excellent company, too! Congrats to all my wonderful fellow finalists!

DisCon III - The 79th Worldcon

@worldcon2021

3 years

The finalists for 2021 Best Fan Writer 🖊 Cora Buhlert - @CoraBuhlert Jason Sanford - @jasonsanford Charles Payseur - @clowderoftwo Paul Weimer - @princejvstin Elsa Sjunneson - @snarkbat Alasdair Stuart - @AlasdairStuart #DisConIII #Worldcon #Worldcon2021 #HugoAwards

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1 year

This is one of the very few childhood photos I have of my Dad. He was born in 1938 and was a kid during WWII, so there are not a lot of photos. I think he must have been about ten, when this photo was taken.

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It's a fact that 30% of all habitable planets in the Universe look like British Columbia, 30% look like Vasquez Rocks and 30% like a quarry in Wales. The remaining 10% look like Iceland, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Tunisia or they are CGI.

100% HUMIRA recipient now. 🖖✍️ (🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇪)

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Seems to happen in every Stargate episode...doesn't it? 🤔

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My Mom, Barbara Buhlert (1942 – 2024)

Once again, this isn’t a post I wanted to write today or any other day. But as some of you may already know, my Mom died February 12, only four and a half months after my Dad. Mom’s dea…

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2 years

You don't have to like Brandon Sanderson or his books or the LDS church to think that Wired article is bad journalism. Criticising Sanderson's financial support for the LDS church is valid, but that's not what the author of that article did.

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3 years

Can we just leave the whole "canon of SFF" discussion in the dustbin where it belongs? Read whatever you want and what gives ou joy, whether it's old or new. Don't dismiss what others read, even if it isn't your thing. Don't call something irrelevant, because you don't like it.

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1 year

I wanted to thank you all for the outpouring of love and support after my Dad unexpectedly died. Even if I can't reply to everybody individually, believe me, every kind word, every condolence, every prayer (in four different world religions) and every gif helps enormously.

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3 years

And here is the article about my Hugo nomination in the print edition of the Weser-Kurier:

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@CoraBuhlert

5 months

Just picked up the mail. No birthday cards alas, but a letter from the court informing me that the house is now officially mine, since I have now been entered into the land register as the new owner. So that's a nice birthday present after all.

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3 years

@seananmcguire I so sympathise with this. I saw someone complain about Best Fan Writer being "Just the usual suspects" this year. For Paul, Elsa and me it's the second nomination. For Alasdair and Charles, it's the third. For Jason, it's his first Hugo nomination. Yet we're the usual suspects.

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4 years

There is a place for older authors and fans at Worldcon. But it would be far better to put people like GRRM and Robert Silverberg on a panel where they can reminisce about the old days than letting them do it at the Hugo ceremony.

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2 years

As for "Sanderson has a huge mansion and a private lair/cave and a private movie theatre", so what? If I made 55 million US-dollar in a year, I'd spend some of it on weird stuff, too. Like an amusement park ride or a Castle Grayskull replica or both on the empty lot next door.

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4 years

Enjoy these beautiful photos of beautiful couples: 'Not married but willing to be!': men in love from the 1850s – in pictures

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5 years

Thread: So much for the "But what about the poor menz?" complaints regarding the Hugos.

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2 years

Regarding Elon Musk's #TwitterTakeover I'm furious. Not because I am afraid of "free speech", but because I've found a community here, a community of likeminded people, many of whom are marginalised or otherwise rightfully fear becoming targets.

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@JoshuaPotash What does Van Gogh's sunflowers have to do with colonialism? It's a painting by a European artist displayed in a European museum. And the connection to climate change is even more tenuous, because it's a 140 year old painting.

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4 years

One argument I don't understand about this whole copyright debate is how anybody's creative freedom is stifled by authors getting paid for their work during their lifetime.

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4 years

I may not have won tonight, but I sure looked good in my Hugo gown.

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2 years

Was bitteschön geht es irgendwelche Leute, die seit Jahrzehnten keine Schule mehr von innen gesehen haben, an, was Schüler tragen? Schuluniformen sind übergriffig, häßlich und auch noch teuer.

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1 year

Unwrapping birthday presents and holding up a book.

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1 year

If you're a Hugo nominator, might I remind you that Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné is eligible for best series this year due to the publication of The Citadel of Forgotten Myths last year?

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But a blanket copyright grab means that your employer owns the novel you wrote in your spare time, the song you wrote for your partner or the new and improved coffee maker you developed in your garage.There is no justification for that, so never sign a contract with such a clause

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1 year

I remember Lord of the Rings very differently.

Moldvay, Rises from the Basement

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1 year

Eowyn and the Witch King at Minas Tirith.

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@shivvinesse @carmenmmachado Because in Germany, it's the opposite. Swearing, nudity and sex are largely accepted, but ratings agencies are really sensitive about violence to the point that Basic Instinct got a 16 rating, while Robo-Cop had all the gore edited out and still got an 18 rating.

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4 years

Here's my article about the #DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster and SFWA Joint Press Conference via @File770 #DearMickey

The #DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster and SFWA Joint Press Conference

Cora Buhlert By Cora Buhlert: After some confusion regarding the start time, the joint Zoom press conference of Alan Dean Foster and SFWA about Disney’s failure to pay royalties due to Mr. Fo…

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3 years

Behold my Hugo gown and tiara. My Dad is not the best of photographers, but I think I look like I could be on the cover of Weird Tales in approx. 1929. #Worldcon2021 #HugosRedCarpet

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4 years

@seananmcguire Thank you, Seanan, and also congrats for your nominations. I'm a first time finalist and I did ride this particular emotional rollercoaster these past two weeks. Though I was an accepter last year, so I at least got to enjoy the whole experience.

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1 year

If your employment contract contains such an intellectual property clause, check that it specifies intellectual property connected to the employer's line of business. Such clauses are reasonable and common in certain industries, though I don't like them.

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2 years

And mocking Sanderson's religion is not okay, especially since he has never espoused some of the hateful beliefs of his chruch. Nor is mocking his taste in food - besides, it may well have been undersalted.

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But I've also never heard anybody say a bad word about Brandon Sanderson. By all accounts, he's a genuinely nice and helpful person.

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The memorial ceremony for my Mom was today. This is what it looked like. The actual funeral is next week.

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4 years

This is ridiculous. First of all, writers can write whatever they want. Secondly, this is not going to last forever. And I can guarantee you that when those books come out in one or two years time, no one wants to read about social distancing in a romance or crime novel.

Guardian Books

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No pubs, no kissing, no flying: how Covid-19 is forcing authors to change their novels

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2 years

My Hugo trophy is still in transit, now in Cologne. And so we continue our play "Waiting for Hugo".

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2 years

Am I the only person in the universe who doesn't care about the travails of Prince Harry and Meghan?

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Not that Sanderson cares that some folks at Wired have never heard of him (Wired, really? That Atlantic or New Yorker I would accept, but Wired?) and that some dude thinks he's a bad writer. Sanderson is laughing all the way to the bank and you know what? Good for him.

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Lukianenko was never a good choice of GoH for the Chengdu Worldcon, but he has become completely untenable by now. This isn't a case of writers not wanting to comment on the politics of their country. Lukianenko and his pals are explicitly endorsing the invasion of Ukraine:

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Numerous Russian SFF Writers Support Ukraine Invasion in Open Letter

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Here's another photo of my Dad that I found. He's posing with his co-workers in front of a SEPCON unit, which cleans oil-contaminated water in case of oil spills. My Dad helped to design and build these systems.

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2 years

Success: Hugo Voltron assembled!

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10 months

Yes, let's denounce a whole genre because some people learn the wrong lessons from some books.

Tyler Austin Harper

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Science fiction is not simply politically useless, it’s dangerous. Two centuries of sci-fi have been a net negative for the world, fueling the megalomaniacal fantasies of tech tyrants and inspiring the invention of untold horrors. The world would be a better place without it.

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However, it seems to me as if those bemoaning the lack of sex scenes in movies and TV are mostly directors and film critics of a certain age. Actors often don't like these scenes and many viewers don't like or miss them either.

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Now it can be said: I'm a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Fanwriter! I'm so thrilled and honoured to be in such great company. Congratulations to all my fellow finalists! #Hugos2020

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@tansyrr I used that for a murder mystery, too, once. Museum intern is found dead in the museum cellar wearing a Victorian ballgown.

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Reading SFF is not homework, it's supposed to be fun. Having an understanding of the genre's history helps to see where the genre is coming from and where it's going, but if you can't stomach a certain writer, you don't have to read them.

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@freshyill @HeerJeet George Lucas was credited as the author of the novelisation of the original Star Wars movie (now A New Hope), but Alan Dean Foster wrote it and received royalties, until Disney decided not to pay him anymore.

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BTW, all four fiction categories went to women writers, two of them two women of colour. #HugoAwards

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2 years

The base of my replacement Hugo trophy finally arrived safe and sound. Now I only need to assemble the trophy.

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@Hugo_Book_Club My first exposure to the idea of time travel was the 1966 TV show Time Tunnel. My first exposure to sword and sorcery was He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

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And there is absolutely no excuse to mispronounce and misgender Hugo finalists, especially not since all finalists were asked to provide their pronouns and a phonetic spelling of their names.

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2 years

This sounds like the start of a folk horror story.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

A dark growth, fed by alcohol vapors from barrels of aging Jack Daniel’s whiskey, has coated homes, cars, patio furniture and road signs in a sooty crust in Lincoln County, Tennessee, residents said.

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For the sake of your loved ones, please specify where and how you want to be buried, what music you'd like to have played, etc... Even more importantly, please make sure you have a will.

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Did someone ask Martin Scorsese why he made a movie about an unsolved maybe murder that only Americans care about? Did anybody ask Quentin Tarantino why he made an alternate history movie about Hollywood full of details only Americans know or care about?

Jenna Guillaume

@JennaGuillaume

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Someone just asked Bong Joon-ho why he decided to make Parasite in Korean. Are they going to ask every American director why they filmed their movies in English.... #Oscars

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The battle for the Hugo Award: "This Hugo rocket shall be mine, bwahaha." - "Never, Ming. You won't get the rocket." #DefendersOfTheEarth

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8 years

So perfect, especially since he looks like John Cleese who was in favour of Leave

deray

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8 years

July 2016. @NewYorker . #Brexit .

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11 months

Because of reasons: Listen to the heartfelt acceptance speech of Hai Ya, whose story "The Space-Time Painter" just won the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novelette:

Center.Sichuan

@SichuanDaily

11 months

#Chengdu makes my two worlds collide! "My dream has shone into my real life." Congratulations! The #2023HugoAward for Best Novelette is given to "The Space-Time Painter" by #Chinese writer Hai Ya. Are you also an average commuter who carries another dream of your hobby? #scifi

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

2 years

The finalists for the 2022 Hugo Awards will be announced on Thursday, but my 2021 Hugo pin, certificate and other stuff arrived in the mail today.

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

8 months

This really needs to be said: We had a set of great Hugo winners in 2023 and what happened is not their fault.

Jason Sanford

@jasonsanford

8 months

Worldcon must fix their rules so no one manipulates nominations in future. But none of last year's Hugo Award winners were involved in that. The Hugo winners have nothing to be ashamed of. They did nothing wrong. They created amazing works that were very worthy of being honored

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

2 years

If you're only accepting print submissions, you're not locking out the AI spammers, but you're mostly locking out international authors. Or do you think it's an accident that the number of international authors went up sharply after more and more mags switched to e-mail subs?

Nick Buy My Book Mamatas 🤼‍♂️🏴🧭

@NMamatas

2 years

Annoying AI spam. Also annoying: the number of people responding to the magazine with the suggestion to use print mail submissions only.

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

1 year

The 2023 Hugo nominations close tomorrow. If you're a Hugo nominator, please don't neglect the four fan categories, because they honour people who do amazing work for little to no money. If you still have free slots on your Hugo nomination ballot, stay tuned for this thread:

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

6 years

Something happy for today:

CBS News

@CBSNews

6 years

When she dropped to one knee to propose, her girlfriend didn't say yes -- she did something better.

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

2 years

It's my birthday, so behold my book haul.

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

1 year

Well, I can only say that Clement didn't try to eat me, when I met him at the Hugo reception years ago. On the contrary, he even offered me a bite of the roasted Worldcon volunteer he was nibbling on at the time. All around swell guy.

An Awkwardly Named Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog

@Hugo_Book_Club

1 year

The Nebula Award is set to change its name because of controversy over awards namesake Clement G. Nebula. Noted early SFF author Clement G. Nebula has come under more scrutiny in recent years, as critics claim cannibalism doesn't align with modern values.

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

3 years

Look at these Chinese fans awaiting the site selection results with bated breath. These are the people some of you are accusing of not being "real fans". They are fans, just like us.

科幻��界SFW

@sfw_china

3 years

Chengdu bid team and fandoms from universities waiting together for the result of site selection of 2023 Worldcon. Good luck Chengdu! And cheer for both bid team！

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Cora Buhlert

@CoraBuhlert

8 months

The care home where my Mom spent the last year has a corner of remembrance for those inhabitants who recently died. This is what it looked like yesterday, when I had to clean out Mom's room.

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