If you attended the Montreal Worldcon last year, you can nominate for this year's Hugo Awards
That's how it works: everyone who had a membership (attending or supporting) in Anticipation, last year's World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, may nominate for free for the Hugo Awards to be presented at Aussiecon 4, this year's World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Melbourne (members of Aussiecon 4 are also entitled to nominate, too, of course).
All you need is your Anticipation membership number, which you can probably get here, and your Hugo voting PIN, which should have been emailed to you in January. If you didn't get the PIN, send an email to hugopin@aussiecon4.org.au along with a note saying you were a member of Anticipation (the Montreal Worldcon), and including your membership number, and you'll be sent a PIN.
You may then cast your nominating ballot here.
Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible. For a list of eligible Canadian works, please see The Canadian SF Works Database.
Comments
Quibbling? If the
Quibbling?
If the eligibility is not limited to English works, why specify English?
You wrote "Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible."
And then complained that it was pedantic for someone to interpret this as meaning "ONLY works first published in English are eligible"
You also implied that that was in fact what you really did mean:
"What I said was true, and it explained, with concision, the realities of the way the Hugos actually work....technically non-English-language works are eligible for the Hugo ...but, in practice... precisely what I said is true: "Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible.""
Hugos and English language
I specified English to make the point that works published in languages other than English originally in earlier years but appearing in translation to English for the first time in 2009 are eligible for the Hugo Award -- an award for which no novel, novella, novelette, or short story ever published in any language other than English has ever been nominated.
This is of great significance to several French-Canadian writers (and at least one Romanian-Canadian writer), whose work first appeared in French in previous years, and now might in fact find it useful to be reminded or made aware that their work is meaningfully eligible for (that is, has a realistic chance of nomination for) the Hugo this year.
"Any work first published in
"Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible."
This is a common misconception. Any work published in 2009 is eligible for a Hugo, no matter what language it is in.
Also, any work previously published in another language is eligible again when it is first published in English.
English language and Hugos
I wrote, and Cybernetic Nomad quibbled with, "Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible."
What I said was true, and it explained, with concision, the realities of the way the Hugos actually work.
Yes, Cybernetic Nomad makes a pedantic point (but he incorrectly labels it as dispelling a misconception); again, every word of mine he quoted is true and accurate as written. Had I written (and I didn't) that "ONLY works first published in English are eligible ...," his language might be justified.
Yes, technically non-English-language works are eligible for the Hugo (by reading between the lines of the Hugo rules, which actually nowhere explicitly state that), but, in practice (and of much greater interest to non-English-language authors whose work first saw English translation in 2009), precisely what I said is true: "Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible."