From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
Subject: ESF Award results
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:17:56 GMT

I am still away, and was so busy at Magicon that I did not get to post
the ESF awards.  Right now I'm at disney world, after the amazing feat
of getting a hotel room with a modem jack.

Hint:  Don't hold a party *every* major night of a worldcon.

Anyway, the results:  I presented the award on Friday night at a
special ceremony they had for alternate awards.  They still had
some other awards during the Hugo ceremony.  They did this to cut
the number down.

The winner was Geoff Landis.  The trophy I got was quite nice,
and everybody liked it.  It was displayed in our @ party suite and
in the SFWA sutie.  Geoff of course won the Hugo the next day, and had
already won the Asimov's reader poll.

I don't want to write up a detailed description of a Huo voting
matrix over Sprintnet latency from disney world, so someody else
can do that, but here they are.   On the Hugo ballot, Jackals came
second, Dog's Life was last, and I don't recall the rest.


Winner of Place #1:	'A Walk in the Sun'
                  A Walk in the Sun   71   72   73   79   91  105  129
                          Press Ann   42   42   46   52   57   60   87
             In the Late Cretaceous   31   31   34   39   44   52     
  One Perfect Morning, with Jackals   20   21   21   24   25          
                    Winter Solstice   22   22   23   23               
                            Buffalo   17   19   20                    
                         Dog's Life    9   10                         
                           No Award    6                              

	[ "A Walk in the Sun" is the clear winner not just here, but on
	 1st place votes, under the Carr system (what Locus uses) and
	 just about any other weighted voting system you can think of.
	 There is speculation that it wins for being the only hard SF
	 on the ballot.   However, it also won the Asimov's reader's
	 poll and was picked by Dozois as one of the best of the year.]

Winner of Place #2:	'Press Ann'
                          Press Ann   64   64   72   80   96  126
             In the Late Cretaceous   40   40   44   53   66   88
  One Perfect Morning, with Jackals   31   35   39   45   53     
                    Winter Solstice   32   32   35   38          
                            Buffalo   22   24   26               
                         Dog's Life   20   21                    
                           No Award    9                         

	[ Terry Bisson won the Hugo last year overwhelmingly for
	  Bears Discover Fire.  This year he comes close]

Winner of Place #3:	'In the Late Cretaceous'
             In the Late Cretaceous   55   56   68   86  117
  One Perfect Morning, with Jackals   44   48   52   64   94
                         Dog's Life   41   42   51   64     
                    Winter Solstice   41   41   43          
                            Buffalo   25   27               
                           No Award   11                    

	[There was debate as to whether this was SF.  It might have won
	 without that movement.  There's an underlying current to this
	 story that many missed, where the scientists mirror the
	 dinosaurs they are researching that makes it SF, though light
	 SF in my book.]

Winner of Place #4:	'One Perfect Morning, with Jackals'
  One Perfect Morning, with Jackals   61   67   81  111
                         Dog's Life   54   55   71  102
                    Winter Solstice   48   49   61     
                            Buffalo   37   42          
                           No Award   17               

	[ To the purists, the only other true SF story after "Walk."
	Many felt this story did not stand as great on its own without
	the rest of the Kirinyaga series -- which has already had many
	awards. ]

Winner of Place #5:	'Dog's Life'
                         Dog's Life   77   84  113
                    Winter Solstice   69   75   99
                            Buffalo   47   54     
                           No Award   24          

	[ Dog's Life was last among the stories in first place votes,
	but it got a lot of the voters from 'Press Ann' ]


Winner of Place #6:	'Winter Solstice'
                    Winter Solstice  113  132
                            Buffalo   58   77
                           No Award   43     
	[ Winter Solstice took some, but by no means a lion's share of the
	votes from Perfect Morning.  I guess there is not a 'Resnick camp'
	on this ballot. ]

Winner of Place #7:	'Buffalo'
                            Buffalo  109
                           No Award  100

	[ Buffalo was highly controversial, as can be seen by the fact
	that it almost lost to No Award.   Many voters said that
	Buffalo was not genre fiction at all.  They liked the story but
	felt it was not qualified to be on the ballot.  As such they
	ranked it after No Award.]

Winner of Place #8:	'No Award'

	[ No Award almost didn't finish last this time.   But these days
	it is not often voted for, and even on this complete ballot
	only a controversy over the genre status of Buffalo got it
	up that high. ]
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
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