From: "Seth Goldberg" <goldberg@davidsys.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.announce
Subject: 1993 Hugo Awards nominating ballot
Date: 29 Dec 1992 13:08:19 -0500
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I have been a sometimes reader of rec.arts.sf.* (and before of
rec.arts.sf-lovers).  For 1993 I am one of the Hugo Awards
Administrators.  The nominating ballot just went to press.  I attach
a copy in this posting that you will probably get before the PR even
if you are a member of ConFrancisco.  I also plan to do the same with
the final ballot.  The results I will post after the con (or after the
ceremony if someone provides me terminal and modem at the con).
Let me know if you think this service is of value to you (e-mail to
goldberg@davidsys.com).

For those who do not know, the Hugo Awards is a popular vote award by
sf readers.  It is extremely well known amongst the sf community.
You must be a member of the 1993 WorldCon (ConFrancisco) to vote.

We can not take votes via e-mail, written form only.  Please print and
mail if you wish to use this ballot.

-- 
Seth Goldberg
Internet:  goldberg@davidsys.com  
    UUCP:  ...!uunet!sam!goldberg
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    Nominating Ballot for the 1993 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award
        (printed ballots will also be available in ConFrancisco's PR5
         to be mailed before the end of January, 1993).
 
 Name:      ____________________________________________
 
 Address:   ____________________________________________
 
            ____________________________________________
 
            ____________________________________________
 
 Signature: ____________________________________________
 
 Please check one:
 ____   I am a member of ConFrancisco; my membership number is   
        ____________________.
 ____   I am not a member of ConFrancisco but was a member of MagiCon;
        my MagiCon membership number is ___________________________.
 ____   I enclose $110 for an attending membership in ConFrancisco.
        (If you select this option, your ballot must be postmarked
         by January 31, 1993.)
 ____   I enclose $25 for a supporting membership in ConFrancisco.
        (If you select this option, your ballot must be postmarked
         by January 31, 1993.)
 
 If you wish to pay for your membershipwith your credit card, please
 provide the following information:

                  ______VISA      or      ________ MasterCard
 Card Number      ___________________________________________________
 Expiration Date  ___________________________________________________
 
 This Ballot must be postmarked by March 31, 1993,
 and received by April 6, 1993.
 
 Please send to:
 
 1993 Hugo Awards
 Seth Goldberg, Voting Administrator
 P.O. Box 271986
 Concord, CA 94527-1986
 
 Please read these instructions carefully before casting your ballot.
 
 *   Eligibility to Nominate
 You may nominate for the Hugo and Campbell Awards if you either:
 a) were an attending or supporting member of MagiCon (the 1992 World
 Science Fiction Convention) or b) become an attending or supporting
 member of ConFrancisco (the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention)
 by January 31,1993. 
 
 You may purchase a membership in ConFrancisco by completing the
 appropriate information at on this ballot and enclosing a check for
 the membership fee. If you are already a MagiCon or ConFrancisco member,
 do not send any money with your ballot. Just fill in your name, address,
 and membership number so that we can verify your membership.
 Please print or type.
 
 *   Deadline
 Ballots must be postmarked by March 31,1993, and received by
 April 6,1993, to ensure that they will be counted. Please mail as
 early as possible. Members from outside the US should send their
 nominations airmail. 
 
 Mail your ballot to: 1993 Hugo Awards, Seth Goldberg, Voting
 Administrator, P.O. Box 271986, Concord, California, 94527-1986,
 U.S.A. Do not mail ballots to the ConFrancisco main address in
 Walnut Creek! The Post Office recommends that you use an envelope
 or tape the ballot shut; stapled mail tends to get mutilated in transit.  
 
 Do not FAX or E-mail your ballot.
 
 Please be sure to fill in the previous page and mail all pages.
 We cannot count your ballot if you do not do this.
 
 *   How to Nominate                        
 You may nominate up to five persons or works in each category.
 However, you are permitted (and even encouraged) to make fewer
 nominations or none at all if you are not familiar with the works
 that fall into that category. The nominations are equally weighted:
 the order in which you list them has no effect on the outcome. 
 
 Don't bother to nominate "No Award" (unless that's the title of a
 story or magazine you want to vote for). "No Award" will appear
 automatically in every category on the final ballot. 
 
 Please include source information whenever possible. This is not
 mandatory, but makes it easier for us to identify the work you intend
 to nominate. For the fiction categories, NonFiction Book, and
 Original Artwork, space has been provided for this. In the continuing
 categories (Professional Editor and after) there's less room, but if
 your nominee is not well known we'd appreciate your writing in a source
 where his or her 1992 work in that category may be found. 
 
 Please type or print clearly. We cannot be responsible for what you
 may inadvertently nominate if your writing is not clear. 
 
 The five top vote getters in each category (more in case of ties,
 fewer if not many nominations are cast in that category) will appear
 on the final Hugo Awards ballot, which will be distributed with
 ConFrancisco Progress Report  #6 (scheduled for publication in
 May, 1993). Only members of ConFrancisco (including those who join
 after January 31, 1993) will be eligible to vote on the final ballot.
 
 *   Eligibility
 Works published in 1992 are eligible for the 1993 Hugo Awards.
 Books are considered to have been published on the "publication date"
 which usually appears with the copyright information on the back of
 the title page. If there is no stated publication date, the copyright
 date will be used instead. A dated periodical is considered to have
 been published on the cover date, regardless of when it was placed
 on sale or copyrighted.  Serialized stories or dramatic presentations
 are eligible in the year in which the last installment appears.
 A work originally appearing in a language other than English is
 eligible both in the year of its original appearance and in the year
 in which it first appears in English translation. 
 
 Exclusions:  The ConFrancisco Committee has irrevocably delegated all
 Hugo Administration authority to a subcommittee.  Therefore, only
 David Bratman, Seth Goldberg, and Kevin Standlee are ineligible for
 the 1993 Hugo Awards.  Other rules of eligibility are given with
 the specific categories.
 
 *   Reproduction
 Reproduction and distribution of this ballot are permitted and
 encouraged, provided that it is reproduced verbatim (including voting
 instructions), with no additional material other than the name of the
 person or publication responsible for the reproduction.
 
 -  David Bratman and Seth Goldberg
    Hugo Awards Administrators
 
 Best Novel (40,000 or more words) A science fiction or fantasy story
 of 40,000 words or more that appeared for the first time in 1992.
 (See "Eligibility".)
      Author & Title                                          Publisher
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Novella (17,500 - 40,000 words) A science fiction or fantasy story
 between 17,500 and 40,000 words in length that appeared for the first
 time in 1992.
      Author & Title                                    Where Published
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Novelette (7,500 - 17,500 words) A science fiction or fantasy story
 between 7,500 and 17,500 words in length that appeared for the first 
 time in 1992.
      Author & Title                                    Where Published
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Short Story (Under 7,500 words) A science fiction or fantasy story
 of less than 7,500 words that appeared for the first time in 1992.
      Author & Title                                    Where Published
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best NonFiction Book A nonfiction work whose subject is the field of
 science fiction, fantasy, or fandom that appeared in book form for the
 first time in 1992. 
      Author/Editor & Title                                   Publisher
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Translator   (An additional award created by the ConFrancisco
 committee in keeping with our theme of "Building Bridges".)  A translator
 whose work, from any language to any language, in the field of science
 fiction or fantasy was professionally published in 1992.
      Translator                                                 Source
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Original Artwork  An original piece of science fiction or fantasy
 artwork first published in 1992.
      Author & Title                                    Where Published
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Dramatic Presentation
 A production, in any medium, of dramatized science fiction or fantasy
 that was publicly presented in its present dramatic form for the first
 time in 1992.   Individual episodes or programs in a series are eligible,
 but the series as a whole is not; however, a sequence of installments
 constituting a single dramatic unit may be considered as a single 
 program.
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Professional Editor
 The editor of a professional publication devoted primarily to science
 fiction or fantasy during 1992. (A "professional publication" is one
 that had an average press run of at least 10,000 copies per issue.)
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Professional Artist
 An illustrator whose work appeared in a professional publication in the
 field of science fiction or fantasy during 1992.
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo)
 (For Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines.)  A writer whose
 first professionally published work of science fiction or fantasy
 appeared during 1991 or 1992.  (See "Eligibility".)  A work is
 considered "professionally published" if it had a press run of at least
 10,000 copies.
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Semiprozine
 A generally available nonprofessional publication (average print run of
 fewer than 10,000 copies per issue) devoted to science fiction or fantasy
 which has published 4 or more issues, at least one of them in 1992, and
 met at least two of the following criteria in 1992: 
 1) had an average press run of at least 1,000 copies per issue, 
 2) paid its contributors or staff in other than copies of the publication, 
 3) provided at least half the income of any one person, 
 4) had at least 15% of its total space occupied by advertising, or
 5) announced itself to be a "semiprozine".
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Fanzine
 A generally available nonprofessional publication devoted to science
 fiction, fantasy, or related subjects which has published 4 or more
 issues, at least one of which appeared in 1992, and which does not
 qualify as a semiprozine.
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Fan Writer
 A person whose writing has appeared in semiprozines, fanzines, or
 generally available electronic media.
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________
 
 Best Fan Artist
 An artist or cartoonist whose work appeared in semiprozines or fanzines,
 or was publicly displayed in 1992.
 A.   _________________________________________________________________
 B.   _________________________________________________________________
 C.   _________________________________________________________________
 D.   _________________________________________________________________
 E.   _________________________________________________________________