{"id":706,"date":"2012-01-04T20:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=706"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:59:03","slug":"hugos-and-nebulas-and-pegasi-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/hugos-and-nebulas-and-pegasi-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugos, and Nebulas, and Pegasi, Oh, My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen quite a few “Hugo Nominations” blog posts since the turn of the new year — because the nomination period is now open — and a few other awards-related posts way back in late 2011. I even wrote an awards post back in early December, asking for reading suggestions for the Nebula Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nSo, as yet another exercise in self-promotion, here’s my most detailed awards season post ever.<\/p>\n

First, if you don’t care what the Hugo Awards<\/a> are, or the Nebula Awards<\/a>, or the Pegasus Awards, then thanks for reading this far anyway! If you think you might care, but just don’t know what they are, I’ll give a brief run-down of each.<\/p>\n

The Hugos and Nebulas are Science Fiction & Fantasy awards. By analogy to film awards, the Hugos are roughly equivalent to the Golden Globes, and are given out at every World Science Fiction Convention; the Nebulas are roughly equivalent to the Academy Awards (since they’re voted on by members of the profession), and are given out at a special weekend event held by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have two stories eligible for these awards:<\/p>\n