[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Nebula awards prelim ballot posted

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

Bones?
--- lupinesque <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> 
> > One real reason that Rowling's not in the Nebula
> > ballot is that she didn't produce anything last
> year,
> > absent her pamphlets.  
> 
> Neither did Pullman; The Amber Spyglass was
> published in October 2000. 
>  I suppose the cutoff date fell sometime between
> July and October.
> 

No clue w.r.t. the Whitbread, but the Nebula runs from
1 JAN to 31 DEC, IIRC.

Interesting that Locus covered Pullman's win with a
link to the Guardian's story.

> Ah, I don't care.  It's always nice when something I
> love gets a big 
> award, but whenever it doesn't, I just remind myself
> that "Terms of 
> Endearment" won the Best Picture Oscar and then I
> know just how much 
> these things mean.

And that 'Shrek' seems to be a favorite with most
critics.  Bozh'moi!

Cheers/B*B,

Drieux

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