Brainstorming 2015

[naraht]

By request, a Dreamwidth version of the LJ post.

We've had the Yuletide schedule, so that must mean it's time to start brainstorming!

What are you excited about nominating? What are you still on the fence about? What are you hoping to persuade someone else to nominate? Or do you just feel like sharing some squee?

Like last year, we get we get three fandom nominations each with up to four characters per fandom.

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Comments

[moontyger]

Cross-posting from the LJ post. Thanks so much for this one!

I'm obviously still undecided, but things I am seriously considering nominating for this year include:

Pillars of Eternity - this one is probably definite, unless someone else covers it.

"The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak - this novella was published in 1958, but turns out to be pretty easy to find.

"The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge - I don't know how easy this one would be for people to find, but I've remembered this story for years and always wanted more. First published in 2003 in Analog and reprinted in several anthologies.

Gateway by Frederick Pohl - If I go with this one, I'm not sure if I should nominate just Gateway or the whole Heechee Saga.

Fools by Pat Cadigan - Out of print for years, but now available in an omnibus of her work.

I Remember You/Hello, Monster - I've seen this kdrama called both things in English and I'm not sure if it has an archive canonical.

Anyone have any thoughts on any of these?

[isis]

Gateway! OR the whole Heechee Saga! I will have to see if I can dig up my copies. I remember these books very very fondly.

[moontyger]

The mess with the Hugos reminded me how much I love them. Gateway is my favorite (I think the concept of Gateway itself is fantastic), which was why I was considering just nominating it and saying people could use the others, but it wasn't required.

[gehayi]

Here's the first part of it:

The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge

[moontyger]

Thanks for this! Too bad it isn't the whole thing. :/

I have it in the 21st Annual Year's Best Science Fiction, the ones edited by Gardner Dozois, but that only helps if someone else has that one, too, or can readily obtain it.