paulmelko ([info]paulmelko) wrote,
@ 2007-03-29 07:07:00
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I'm Up for a Hugula!
The Hugo nominees are out and "The Walls of the Universe" is on the list. I feel like retiring, 'cause I'm not sure it can get any better than this. When I got the Nebula nomination, I figured I was at the pinnacle. Apparently, I had a bit more to go.

I know most of the people on this ballot. How can I not in this small field? But, but, but... my posse made the Hugo list! Way to go, Bill, Paolo, Tim, Ben, and John! Of course there are also other people I'm tickled to see there: Sheila, Frank, Steven, John, Patrick, David X2, Lou, and Gardner.

Wow.

Paul


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[info]colonelrowe
2007-03-29 11:29 am UTC (link)
Zoot zoot! Hooray!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 03:54 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Christopher. It's not even April yet and this year has been overpowering.

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[info]lauriemann
2007-03-29 11:32 am UTC (link)
Congrats!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Laurie!

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[info]beth_bernobich
2007-03-29 11:34 am UTC (link)
Yay for you!!!!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:03 pm UTC (link)
We've been joycing and rejoycing here in Ohio for ten days already! Thanks.

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[info]blzblack
2007-03-29 11:34 am UTC (link)
Woo! Congrats. :)

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:03 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]secritcrush
2007-03-29 11:58 am UTC (link)
Awesometastic!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:03 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yes. It is.

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[info]pollyc
2007-03-29 12:49 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:04 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, thank you.

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[info]calico_reaction
2007-03-29 01:20 pm UTC (link)
Congrats!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:04 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]shunn
2007-03-29 01:29 pm UTC (link)
Way to go! See you in Japan!

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[info]asphalteden
2007-03-29 01:34 pm UTC (link)
Also, let me be the first to congratulate you both on not having to combat Neil Gaiman on the ballot.

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We got Gaiman
[info]shunn
2007-03-29 03:45 pm UTC (link)
Ha ha ha. Although it's not exactly like we're facing off with a bunch of lightweights! I mean, Robert Reed, Michael Swanwick, and Robert Charles Wilson?? I can rest easy and enjoy the awards ceremony knowing this is not my year to set off airport security with a rocket in my luggage.

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[info]asphalteden
2007-03-29 03:54 pm UTC (link)
Something tells me Japanese airport security officers are quite accustomed to seeing giant metal phalluses in outgoing luggage.

Now I am anything but a guy who claims to understand the vicissitudes of Hugo voting politics, but surely the Neb nominations can't hurt, and, from my personal standpoint of voting for the literature rather than the Known Big Names, you gents have pretty even odds.

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Re: We got Gaiman
[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:06 pm UTC (link)
I hope to attend my first Hugo's Losers party!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:05 pm UTC (link)
To Japan, Miss Deskwalker! To Japan!

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[info]asphalteden
2007-03-29 01:32 pm UTC (link)
This is terrific news.

I believe this is the first year in my professional career where I'd have a genuinely hard time picking which story to vote for. Thankfully I'm not going to Japan, so I can love it all equally and guiltlessly. I think my only regret is that Daryl's story didn't make it on.

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Asimov's has 10 (10!) short fiction nominations as well as Sheila's nomination. Holy crap. You deserve a congratulations too.


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[info]asphalteden
2007-03-29 03:55 pm UTC (link)
I spoke to Sheila this morning and we believe this might be a record. Any SF wacko with actual figures out there?

TAKE THAT you nameless bitches bemoaning the death of the SF magazine.

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[info]asphalteden
2007-03-29 04:01 pm UTC (link)
A record for Asimov's, I mean.

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[info]raecarson
2007-03-29 01:36 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations, Paul! Woooo!!!!!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:06 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Rae!

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[info]mekkavandexter
2007-03-29 02:06 pm UTC (link)
Melko! Yelko! YAYKO! :D

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:07 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Amber!

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[info]gregvaneekhout
2007-03-29 02:38 pm UTC (link)
And one more time ... congratulations!!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:07 pm UTC (link)
Can you post that ten more times, please? I didn't quite catch it the first time.

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[info]gregvaneekhout
2007-03-29 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Don't make me yank your eye stalks.

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[info]ammitnox
2007-03-29 03:05 pm UTC (link)
woot!

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Oh yes. Woot, indeed.

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[info]stevenagy
2007-03-29 03:41 pm UTC (link)
Congrats and good luck. Have a good time in Japan. :-)

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[info]paulmelko
2007-03-29 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! It should be a great time.

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[info]tim_pratt
2007-03-29 04:19 pm UTC (link)
Well done, Paul! Congratulations and good luck.

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[info]tacithydra
2007-03-29 05:05 pm UTC (link)
Yay! Congratulations on the Hugula nom!

(I'm in the Semi-Os in Chicago, so I always think of you as kind of a Johnny Appleseed, spawning writers groups as you journey through the world...you've influenced my life and we've never even met!)

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[info]czakbar
2007-03-29 07:36 pm UTC (link)
Congrats, Paul! Glad you're able to go to Japan too. Have fun!

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