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[pecunium]

I've been out of the loop since Friday:

So, I will take this opportunity to announce that felicitations are due matociquala who won the Campbell Award for best new writer at the World Science Fantasy Convention in Glasgow (which is a convention for SF, as well as Fantasy. The name predates Fantasy as a separate function of the genre) [Edit as pnh points out below, I misremembered the name (probably too much time with LASFS, and that's not right, it's World Science Fiction Convention)].

It's a big deal.

Since she is the greatest flogger of my blog (if I see a name I can't place, I assume she's been telling people about me) and was willing to go out of her way to have supper with us while we were on our way to Utah, and was kind enough to buy me a drink while we were at it, it only seems fair and just that I tell people about this.

She also laughed with/at me when I was critiquing the idiot in the parking lot who had zero idea of how to use the sap he was trying to beat someone with.

So, congratulations dear.

I guess I'll have to read one of your books now.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I'll be back for further sap-slapping tricks. *g* And don't feel obliged, unless you actually want to...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I don't feel obliged, and for reasons inarticulate, I've got you on the to read list.

TK

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

;-)

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm missing a subtle joke, you're mistaken. The full name of the Worldcon is the "World Science Fiction Convention."

Mind you, the Hugo Awards explicitly include fantasy as well as SF in their purview.

[goshawk.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Hammered was a great read. Am waiting impatiently for Scardown to be paperback so my Starving-Student-ness can afford it. ::grin::