My Life Needs Hot Sauce

[ase]

I regret to say that I ate cheap lunchmeat turkey. I have discovered exactly what mushy cardboard tastes like, and regret not keeping tabasco in the house. Fortunately I had K's leftover pork chop with raspberry chili sauce, mashed potatoes, and spinach to warm my belly on this rainy day. Real food is awesome.

I gave my presentation last night and it went... pretty well, I guess. I actually got a "good job!" from the professor. Now, if only he'd give a rubric with a grade on it (for anything), I'd be a lot more reassured about my class standing. Tuition reimbursement doesn't kick in until I pass!

I could do a bedtime story about double-sided tape, shared reagents, and the tragedy of the commons in lab work, but anyone who's ever shared one small, critical item between three or more people knows how this one goes.

The Hugo nominees are out. I am trying to figure out how to congratulate all the nominees while also observing that only four of the 20 nominees in the four standard fiction categories are not men. Because yay, Hugo nomination: awesome; however, significant problems within the community are highlighted in the ballot. I am especially tickled by Y: the Last Man: Whys and Wherefores making the graphic novel cut, because I finally read it earlier this month and, other than massive tragic spoiler, I thought it was awesome and a fitting end to the series.

Comments

[nwl.livejournal.com]

aren't they traditionally more hard-science oriented?

People say that every year, but it's not accurate. The Hugos are for SF and fantasy works no matter where they fall on the spectrum. The works also have to have been published in the last calender year. I'm never sure if timing is a factor, but I suspect it is.

You know, there used to be an SF community, back in the '70s when I got involved. The new books weren't as numerous and it was a smaller community. Over the years, SF has expanded to include anything a person points at and declared to be "SF" or "fantasy." There has been a lot of discussion on when SF fandom expanded beyond what it had been, but it was definitely when Star Trek and Star Wars became main stream. The real question is will SF fandom last.

When we started reading SF, computers were just being invented. I'm living in the SF world I read about as a kid. How many modern fans feel that way?

Well, I'll stop. Thanks for listening.

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

People say that every year, but it's not accurate. The Hugos are for SF and fantasy works no matter where they fall on the spectrum.

Okay, thanks for letting me know :) I am so clueless about SF fandom... if only I had known about it when I started reading SF in the 80's, but I didn't. So are about half of the nominees for the Hugos fantasy, then?

Yeah, it's really neat to read SF from the 70's and before, and be able to say "Hey, I'm living that life! Only better!" Especially reading all the Golden Age stuff about supercomputers in huge rooms and being all "yeah, my laptop can do all that."

[ase.livejournal.com]

The Hugos touted as SF/F, but it's interesting to notice how the nominations actually skew. Has anyone looked at sub-genres (space opera, "hard" sf, AUs, fat fantasy epics, etc) lately?