Sujet : Re: Today's interesting development
De : wthyde1953 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (William Hyde)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 23. Jul 2024, 21:13:26
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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James Nicoll wrote:
In article <17e4b0e7cba747c0$17833$3494482$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>,
Michael Benveniste <mhb@murkyether.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
>
https://fancyclopedia.org/1989_Hugos#Consecutively_Numbered_Money_Orders
>
I own a copy of the book that got withdrawn as a result. Neither
author published much after that.
Out of sheer curiosity:
Was the book good enough to be a valid nominee?
Do you regret the departure of the (I assume) co-authors from the field?
William Hyde