From: magicon@jjmhome.UUCP (MagiCon Press Relations)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,alt.fandom.cons
Subject: MagiCon Round-up (Part 1 of ???)
Keywords: Hugos, attendance, auctions
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:35:10 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: JJ Software, Westboro, MA

The Hugo winners were announced Saturday night at MagiCon.  The results
were posted to the commercial networks immediately thereafter, but it's
not clear that they were ever posted on USENET.  The winners are:

Best Novel:  Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (Analog, July-October 1991 and
                   Baen Books)
Best Novella:  "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress (Axolotl Press and Asimov's,
                   April 1991)
Best Novellette:  "Gold" by Isaac Asimov (Analog, September 1991)
Best Short Story:  "A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's, 
                   October 1991)
Best Non-Fiction Book:  The World of Charles Addams by Charles Addams (Knopf)
Best Original Artwork:  Cover of The Summer Queen by Michael Whelan (Warner
                   Questar)
Best Dramatic Presentation:  Terminator 2 (Carolco)
Best Professional Editor:  Gardner Dozois
Best Professional Artist:  Michael Whelan
Best Semiprozine:  Locus  (Charles N. Brown, PO Box 13305, Oakland, CA  94661)
Best Fanzine:  Mimosa (Dick & Nicki Lynch, PO Box 1350, Germantown, MD  20875)
Best Fan Writer:  Dave Langford
Best Fan Artist:  Brad Foster
Campbell Award (Sponsored by Dell Publications):  Ted Chiang

Spider Robinson MC'ed the awards event.  Forrey Ackerman presented the
Big Heart Award, which went to Samanda Jeude, one of the founders of
Electrical Eggs.  A slide show retrospective of history of the Hugo
Awards, assembled by the team of Scott Robinson and Sally Martin,
rounded out the evening.

Florida artist Phil Tortorici, working in conjunction with MagiCon chair
Joe Siclari, created a very special Hugo design, to visualize the
convention's theme "Where the magic of imagination meets the techonology
of space." The gold-plated rocket appears against a starry background.
It rests atop a small piece of the metal grid taken from the gantry of
Launch Complex 26 at Cape Canaveral.  (Stepping out of my role of
"MagiCon Press Relations," and into my role as long-time fan, this Hugo
statue blows any prior Hugo statue out of the water.  Phil, Joe, Peter
Weston (the metal-working fan who produced the rockets) and anyone else
who had anything to do with the design of the award set a very high
standard here, one unlikely to be surpassed any time soon. Congratulations!)

About 5,500 fans attended MagiCon.  

A number of charitable auctions were held.  About $950 was raised for
the Effinger Fund.  Auctions for AIDS research & care, TAFF-DUFF, and
Terry's Dream (a fund to bring more foreign fans to Con Francisco) were
also held.  Additionally, about $400 to benefit Hurricane Andrew
survivors was collected at the Information Booth.

The convention generally ran quite smoothly.  The Orlando/Orange County
Convention/Civic Center was a very large facility, giving fen plenty of
space to spread out in.  The parties were plentiful, and the suites in
the Peabody ranged from large to absolutely amazing.

Many fen praised the excellent costumes they saw at the Masquerade, and
it is generally believed that the Masquerade was the best-ever in terms
of costume-quality.

More to come, once I dig out more of my records!  

  Laurie Mann, MagiCon Press Relations, PO Box 621992, Orlando, FL  32862-1992
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