Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Actually, on Saturday night Greg won the Australian equivalent, the Ditmar
> Award, for his novel TERANESIA. It seems quite likely that he will decline
> to accept the award, since he's being doing so in respect of various Aussie
> sf awards from some little time now. I assume he *did* accept the Hugo in
> absentia, however (even though the award was made at a convention conducted
> in Australia, and doubtless attracting the majority of Oz votes).
I will certainly admit that Hugos often go to authors, rather than
stories; that Greg Egan won the Hugo for _Oceanic_ because he was long,
long, long overdue, not because Oceanic was the best story of the year.
Nonetheless, I don't think the Hugo that *went to* "A Fire Upon the Deep"
was *for* "True Names", *or* for schmoozing with the fans. But maybe I'm
wrong. Or maybe I'm just being sentimental and I haven't been keeping up
with the recent winners.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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