From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Do not forget to send in your ESF Award ballot
Reply-To: esf-ballot@clarinet.com
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:05:06 GMT

ESF Award voting had been sparser than I had hoped, so it's time for
a reminder.   All 7 hugo nominated short stories this year are available
by anonymous FTP.  If you got them and read them, be sure to send in
a ballot for the Electric Science Fiction Award.   I will probably present
this award at the Worldcon.

[Late Breaking News -- I have added the Hugo-nominated novelette "Understand"
by Ted Chiang to the library.  If you are voting on the hugos be sure
to get this story.  I don't have the other novelettes, so there will be
no ESF award for novelettes.  Thanks greatly to Mr. Chiang.]

If you read the stories but haven't voted, take the time now to vote
by replying to this message including the text.  Fill out the ballot,
then remove the ">" style inclusion lines,  and delete everything that
does *not* begin with "#".   Please follow the directions to make a
machine readable vote.  I have had to alter a number of incorrect ballots
by hand and this is a pain to do.

All 7 stories are available by anonymous FTP on sf.clarinet.com in the
directory "sf".   They are also available on gatekeeper.dec.com in the
directory "pub/sf."   These are copyrighted, further reproduction is
prohibited and they are only available for a limited time.  Stories can
also be had via e-mail using the ftpmail server.  Mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
a message just "help" in the body.

ESF Voting has been extended to August 10.   (P.S. does anybody have an
STV style voting program?)

=============================
	Ballot for:

	The "Electric Science Fiction Award"

	Best SF/F Short Story, published in 1991.

[If you're getting this ballot without other information, these stories, and
the Hugo Ballot, and other information, are available for anonymous FTP
from sf.clarinet.com in the "sf" directory.]

FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.   PLEASE SUBMIT ONLY MACHINE
READABLE ANSWERS IN EXACTLY THE FORM SHOWN.  DO NOT PROVIDE ANSWERS IN
ENGLISH.

On the ballot below, rank the stories by replacing the question mark with
a digit from 1 to 8 indicating how you liked the story.  Place a 1 beside
the story you liked most.  Rank "No award" just like a story, ranking it
higher than the stories that you do not feel qualify for an award, or
ranking it as "8" if you feel all stories are of sufficient quality.
Do NOT assign ties.   You may leave an entry blank if you feel unable to
rank it.  Note that the voting system used simulates a runoff, and assures
that voting for other stories under your favourite can never harm its
chances.

In selections with an "|" in them, select one of the choices, such as
a "y" or an "n" and remove the other choices and the or-bar.

#Va ?	Terry Bisson, "Press Ann"
#Vb ?	John Kessel, "Buffalo"
#Vc ?	Geoffrey A. Landis, "A Walk in the Sun"
#Vd ?	Mike Resnick, "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals"
#Ve ?	Mike Resnick, "Winter Solstice"
#Vf ?	Martha Soukup, "Dog's Life"
#Vg ?	Connie Willis, "In the Late Cretaceous"
#Vh ?	No Award

Example: to rank No Award 4th, you change this to "#Vh 4  No Award"

We would also appreciate it if you answer the following questions:

Are you/will you be a member of the 1992 WorldCon (MagiCon)

#worldcon: y|n

If yes, did you/will you vote on the Short Story Hugo?

#ssvote: y|n

If so, did the availability of the electronic stories help you in any way
with hugo voting?

#hugohelped: y|n

Did you make a contribution to be distributed to the authors of these
stories?  (See or request the read.me file in the story directory)

#contribute: y|n

One of the reasons for this library is to see what people think of getting
stories in electronic form.  Answering the questions below is optional.
Delete them if you wish.

Did you read the stories on a CRT, LCD (laptop), printout or on paper in their
original magazine?   (Select the latter only if you read all of them
this way and did not read any via electronic publication.)

#method: crt|lcd|printout|magazine|other

If you read on a screen (CRT|LCD), please give your impressions of reading
short fiction in this manner.  Pick a number from -10 to +10, where 0 means
you are neutral about it, 10 means you love it and found it superior to
paper in every way, and -10 means you only did it as an experiment but
hated it. 

#quality: ?

The question authors around the world want to know the answer to: Would
you pay money to read and access pro stories in electronic form?

#pay: y|n

E-Mail this ballot to esf-ballot@clarinet.com.  Please delete all the
lines that don't begin with a "#" to save space.  Under no circumstances
should you delete the "#"s and keywords, or provide any answers on a line
without a #keyword prefix.   In ed/vi style editors, say :v/^#/d

Electric Science Fiction is a trade mark of ClariNet Communications.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366