11.22.63 12 Monkeys 3% A Series of Unfortunate Events American Horror Story Ascension Mirror Black Sails Class Colony Containment Continuum Crazyhead Dark Matter DC: Arrow DC: Gotham DC: Legends of Tomorrow DC: Supergirl DC: The Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Doctor Who Emerald City Frequency From Dusk Till Dawn Game of Thrones Glitch Grimm Helix Heroes Reborn Hunters Humans iBoy iZombie Killjoys Limitless Lucifer Marvel: Agent Carter Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel: Jessica Jones Marvel: Legion Marvel: Luke Cage Marvel: Daredevil Mr. Robot Once Upon a Time Orphan Outcast Outlander Penny Dreadful Powers Preacher Second Chance Sense8 Shadowhunters Sleepy Hollow SS-GB Star Wars Rebels Stranger Things Supernatural Teen Wolf The 100 The Aliens The Expanse The Leftovers The Magicians The Man in the High Castle The OA The Returned The Shannara Chronicles The Strain The Vampire Diaries The Walking Dead The Thunderbirds Are Go Travelers Twin Peaks the Dome Van Helsing Westworld Z Nation Taboo Discussion: This motion was referred to the Hugo Study Committee.
Additionally, there was a small security/hacker conference calling itself NolaCon. Luckily, we did not have to do anything as the MPC is not responsible for protecting individual conventions’ names. A Chinese television company based in Washington, D.C., SEP, was looking for a speaker regarding the science fiction market in China. We gave them a few more appropriate names/organizations to contact. Jo Van Ekeren offered her services to the MPC. She actively helped collect the information needed to get our EU marks registered, and we look forward to her continued participation in one manner or another. We continue to receive various enquiries not MPC related. We received one asking how to submit a work for Hugo consideration; this year we received such an enquiry from China. We also received an enquiry from a woman whose aunt and uncle live in what was Alfred Bester’s Pennsylvania home. The top floor of the house still contains his reference/research books and other related materials! Before they cleared this space, they wanted to know if any of these items would be of interest to the MPC. We recommended they contact either the Fan History Project or the Eaton Collection, depending on whether the material was fannish or professional. This spring we received a request from the offices of Future Man, a new Sony television series, for permission to use a mock “dummy” of a Hugo Award as set dressing in the fictional home of a famous Hollywood director in an episode of the series. We responded that we had no objection to their using a mock-up of a Hugo Award, or even an actual Hugo Award trophy, and suggested they contact the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, which could probably put them in contact with someone who has an actual Hugo Award trophy.) We asked in return if they could include our mark in the closing credits of the episode and to please let us know when the episode becomes available so that we could publicize it through the Hugo Awards web site. The producers said they had no control over the issue and that they could not add the credit, but that they would send their standard release to confirm permissions. We also received a question along the same lines from Paul Cornell, the author of the comic, Saucer State, asking if he could draw a Hugo Award (unmentioned) sitting on the desk of a fictional science fiction writer. We did not see any problem with that.
Appendix B – Hugo Awards Study Committee HUGO AWARDS STUDY COMMITEE At Thursday’s WSFS Business meeting, the creation of the proposed Hugo Awards Study committee was supported, and I was asked to chair it. I appreciate the honour and trust implied. – Vincent Docherty The text of the proposal was: B.2.1 Short Title: Hugo Awards Study Committee (amendment by substitution) Moved: to substitute for B.2 the following: To create a Hugo Awards Committee, appointed by the Chair, to (1) Study revisions to Article 3 (Hugo Awards) of the WSFS Constitution, including any such proposals for amending Sections 3.2 and 3.3 as may be referred to it by the Business Meeting or suggested by others; (2) Make recommendations, may include proposing constitutional amendments, to the 2018 Business Meeting; and (3) Authorize the Chair of the Committee to appoint other persons to serve on the committee at the Chair’s discretion. Note: The scope of the committee therefore includes various definitions, such as what professional means (section 3.2) and ALL of the current Hugo Categories. The committee scope does not include the administration and tallying of nominations and votes, and it also does NOT include the separate proposals relating to the YA award, which are on the Business Meeting agenda. The committee chair was asked to report back to Friday’s main Business Meeting, following creation of the committee, including any initial recommendations. Key points: 1. Several people volunteered to join the committee. Their names are listed at the bottom of this report, along with the proposers of the Artist Hugo Eligibility and the Novel, Related and BDP Hugo changes, who have also been invited by the committee chair to join. The list will be cross-checked with the WSFS Business Meeting Chair and Secretary. 2. An email kicking-off the committee was sent to this initial group. Given the lack of availability of many members on Thursday, due to Worldcon75 responsibilities, the committee chair’s email included the following, which those who replied supported:
Initial Membership: From Artist Eligibility proposal: • Nicholas Whyte • Kathryn Duval • Michael Lee • Kate Secor From proposed Novel, Related, BDP changes: • Vincent Docherty • Barkley • Robert J. Sawyer Other names received to date : • Andrew A. Adams • Bobson • Joni Brill Dashoff • Todd Dashoff • Cliff Dunn • Colin Harris • Kevin Hewett • Joshua Kronengold • Dave McCarty • Lisa • Hanne Paine • Ann Marie Rudolph • Standlee • Kári Tulinius • Jo Van Ekeren • Juhani Vuorio • Ben Yalow