The Hugo Awards
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- TheBlueOne0
Is this for sy fy?
- cannonball0
Why is this a joke? As someone who writes speculative fiction, I can tell you writers respect the Hugo.
- version30
"You can become a part of Worldcon history by designing the official logo for The Hugo Award. "
- version30
Spec is design in a vacuum.
Actual design emerges when a designer who has a unique ability to understand the client's specific needs and goals and challenges is able to then extend from the consulting and problem solving processes extend a solution that addresses that.
Posting a project without that kind of give and take precludes that relationship.
Money or compensation is the representation of the clients commitment to that relationship.
-Lydia Mann, AIGA
- plash0
dont get why this is a joke. hell, im participating
Ender's Game - Hugo winner, love that book!
- you will be providing vector and raster files for free on the chance you may be compensatedversion3
- yeah. if and that a big IF .. my submission gets chosen, it'll be an honer. Hugo Awards is a big dealplash
- loved the Ender series!!!!alicetheblue
- cannonball0
yeah i might put in a submission
- cannonball0
normally I would say fuck contests, but this is actually something I respect, and feel it's worth my time to help with an award that recognizes other hard people's work.
- TheBlueOne0
Anybody recommend any new good sci-fi books? I have recently finished the John Scalzi Old Man's War series and Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs' series...looking for some good newish space opera...
- Yeah..huge scifi nerd...shoot me...TheBlueOne
- Try Gene Wolfe "Book of the New Sun"dasohr
- *goes to Amazon...TheBlueOne
- version30
well, I'm glad I linked it for everyone then...
contests are bullshit though.
good luck to all of you and your entries :)
- cannonball0
World War Z
If you want space opera, take a look at the Mars Trillogy. Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. Best hard sci-fi books about colonizing mars imho.
- not really newish, but Kim Stanley Robinson rules (and is teaching clarion this year)cannonball
- wasn't a fan of her "Years of Rice and Salt" so much...TheBlueOne
- him :)cannonball
- oh really?TheBlueOne
- ya rlycannonball
- Huh. Learn something new everyday.TheBlueOne
- Still takes some evil people to name their son Kim.TheBlueOne
- dasohr0
Ey TheBlueOne: also check out "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood if you haven't read it yet. Also Vonnegut's "Slapstick". Pure genius.
- alicetheblue0
- That is a great book, but I wouldn't call it scifi really...TheBlueOne
- science fantasy ;-)alicetheblue
- if it's not true, it's fiction, no?version3
- yeeees
science fantasy makes the impossible plausible
alicetheblue - while science fiction makes the implausible possible,alicetheblue