2000 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award Voting Ballot Chicon 2000 The 58th World Science Fiction Convention August 31st - September 4th, 2000 Hyatt Regency Chicago - Chicago, Illinois USA P.O. Box 642057, Chicago, IL 60664 USA www.chicon.org - chi2000@chicon.org Deadline Ballots must be postmarked by July 31, 2000 Please return ballots to: Chicon 2000 Hugo Awards P.O. Box 3407 Merrifield, VA 22116-3407 USA +1-312-946-3779 (fax) The Hugo Awards The winners of the 47th annual Science Fiction Achievement Awards for the best science fiction or fantasy works premièred during 1999 and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer will be selected by the members of the World Science Fiction Society. The winners will be announced at a formal ceremony during Chicon 2000. The complete voting results will be posted on Chicon's at-con web site, http://onsite.chicon.org/, immediately after the ceremony. To learn more about the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award, please visit the Hugo web page at http://www.chicon.org/hugos.htm. Contact the Hugo Administrator through the Hugo postal or e-mail address (hugos@chicon.org) if you have any questions. "World Science Fiction Society," "WSFS," "World Science Fiction Convention," "Worldcon," "NASFiC," and "Hugo Award" are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. Eligibility to Vote Only attending and supporting members of Chicon 2000 are eligible to vote. Complete registration information may be found on the Chicon Registration web page, at http://www.chicon.org/reg/reg.htm. New Chicon 2000 Member Registration Please provide the appropriate information if you wish to purchase a membership in order to be eligible to vote: PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE CLEARLY (We cannot process illegible forms) Indicate membership type: __ Attending ($150 US) __ Supporting ($40 US) Please check one: __ My check or money order (payable in US funds) for ____________ is enclosed __ Charge my credit card: __ Visa __ MasterCard Purchaser's Name (as it appears on the card): ______________________________ Signature: ___________________________________________ Amount: $ _____________________ Card Number: ___________________________ Expiration Date (mm/yyyy): _______ How to Vote (please read) Hugo Awards and Campbell Award voting is conducted using the Alternative Vote System. To vote, number your choices in each category in order of preference: "1" for first place, "2" for second place, and so on. You are not required to rank all the nominees in any category (and your Hugo Administrator would be happy if you didn't). We recommend that you not vote in any category in which you are not familiar with a majority of the nominees. If you decide not to vote in a given category, leave it blank. Note that "No Award" is a vote that none of the nominees should be given the award in question, not an abstention. When the ballots are counted, all the first place choices will be tabulated. If no nominee has received a majority of first place votes, the nominee with the fewest first place votes will be eliminated. If there are second place nominations on any of the eliminated nominee's ballots, they are counted as first place nominations for the remaining nominees. This process of elimination will continue until one nominee receives a majority of the votes, at which point it becomes the winner (unless the votes are outnumbered by "No Award" votes under specific conditions described in Section 3.11.2 of the WSFS Constitution). A Few Tips That May Help You in Voting 1. Keep in mind that second place and further preference votes play no part in the voting process unless your first choice is eliminated. This is not a point system where many second choice votes can overwhelm a few first choice votes. 2. We suggest that after marking your first choice, you proceed by imagining that it has disappeared from the ballot, and placing your second place (2) by the remaining nominee you most prefer, and so on. This mimics the way the ballots are actually counted. Thus - even if your heart is set on one nominee - don't hesitate to give second place (2) and lower (3, 4, or 5) rankings to other nominees you also consider worthy of the award. 3. If your top choices are eliminated, your lower preferences could be the tiebreaker between the remaining nominees - so choose all your preferences carefully! No matter how much you dislike a nominee, if you rank it, the vote will be counted if all of your other choices are eliminated. You should not rank a particular nominee at all if you feel that it should not receive an award under any circumstances. The Nominees A total of 427 Hugo nomination forms were submitted (130 on-line electronic forms). Eighty-one Aussiecon Three members submitted nominations. Twenty nomination forms were eliminated because the person had joined Chicon 2000 after the January 31, 2000 deadline or was not a valid supporting or attending member of Aussiecon Three or Chicon 2000. The Novelette category has six nominees due to a tie for fifth place. Reproduction Reproduction of this ballot for distribution is permitted and encouraged (provided that it is reproduced verbatim with voting instructions included). No additional material other than the name of the person or organization responsible for the reproduction is permitted. Eligibility to Vote (mandatory information) You must include your name, signature, and postal address in the appropriate spaces for your ballot to be valid. Membership numbers can be found on your Chicon 2000 progress report mailing labels or may be obtained from the Registration Director (reg@chicon.org). PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE CLEARLY (We cannot process illegible forms) __ Check here if this is a new postal address (and you have not yet sent it to Chicon's Registration Director) or if you have made corrections to the postal address used on your Chicon 2000 progress report mailing labels. Use the comment box at the end of this form for any necessary explanations. Chicon 2000 Membership Number (if available): _______________ Voter's Name: ________________________________________ Signature: ________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ City: ________________________________________ State/Province: ______________ Postal Code: ___________ Country: ________________________________________ E-mail (optional): _____________________________________ Ballots must be postmarked by July 31, 2000. Send ballots to Chicon 2000 Hugo Awards, P.O. Box 3407, Merrifield, VA 22116-3407 USA. Please do not send ballots to the Chicago postal address. Ballots may be faxed to +1-312-946-3779. Best Novel (334 nominations for 183 novels) _____ A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) _____ Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (Avon) _____ Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (HarperCollins UK; Del Rey) _____ A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Tor) _____ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury; Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Press) _____ No Award Best Novella (191 nominations for 58 novellas) _____ "The Astronaut From Wyoming" by Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion (Analog 7-8/99) _____ "Forty, Counting Down" by Harry Turtledove (Asimov's 12/99) _____ "Hunting the Snark" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 12/99) _____ "Son Observe the Time" by Kage Baker (Asimov's 5/99) _____ "The Winds of Marble Arch" by Connie Willis (Asimov's 10-11/99) _____ No Award Best Novelette (168 nominations for 130 novelettes, six nominees due to a tie) _____ "Border Guards" by Greg Egan (Interzone 10/99) _____ "The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's 12/99) _____ "Fossil Games" by Tom Purdom (Asimov's 2/99) _____ "The Secret History of the Ornithopter" by Jan Lars Jensen (F&SF 6/99) _____ "Stellar Harvest" by Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's 4/99) _____ "1016 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/99) _____ No Award Best Short Story (189 nominations for 158 short stories) _____ "Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 2/99) _____ "Hothouse Flowers" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 10-11/99) _____ "macs" by Terry Bisson (F&SF 10-11/99) _____ "Sarajevo" by Nick DiChario (F&SF 3/99) _____ "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 7/99) _____ No Award Best Related Book (167 nominations for 74 related books) _____ Minicon 34 Restaurant Guide by Karen Cooper and Bruce Schneier (Rune Press) _____ The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano (DC Comics/Vertigo) _____ Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Frank M. Robinson (Collectors Press) _____ The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen (Ebury Press) _____ Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner (Underwood) _____ No Award Best Dramatic Presentation (304 nominations for 106 dramatic presentations) _____ Being John Malkovich (Single Cell Pictures/Gramercy Pictures/ Propaganda Films) Directed by Spike Jonze; Written by Charlie Kaufman _____ Galaxy Quest (DreamWorks SKG) Directed by Dean Parisot; Story by David Howard; Screenplay by David Howard and Robert Gordon _____ The Iron Giant (Warner Bros. Animation) Directed by Brad Bird; Book by Ted Hughes; Screenplay by Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies _____ The Matrix (Village Roadshow Productions/ Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures) Directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski; Written by Andy and Larry Wachowski _____ The Sixth Sense (Spyglass Entertainment/Hollywood Pictures) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan; Written by M. Night Shyamalan _____ No Award Best Professional Editor (203 nominations for 66 editors) _____ Gardner Dozois (Asimov's Science Fiction) _____ David G. Hartwell (Tor/Forge; Year's Best SF) _____ Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books; Starlight) _____ Stanley Schmidt (Analog Science Fiction and Fact) _____ Gordon Van Gelder (St. Martin's Press; F&SF) _____ No Award Best Professional Artist (196 nominations for 103 artists) _____ Jim Burns _____ Bob Eggleton _____ Donato Giancola _____ Don Maitz _____ Michael Whelan _____ No Award Best Semiprozine (168 nominations for 38 semiprozines) _____ Interzone edited by David Pringle _____ Locus edited by Charles N. Brown _____ The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell, and Kevin Maroney _____ Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter _____ Speculations edited by Denise Lee and Susan Fry; published by Kent Brewster _____ No Award Best Fanzine (195 nominations for 94 fanzines) _____ Ansible edited by Dave Langford _____ Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III _____ File 770 edited by Mike Glyer _____ Mimosa edited by Nicki and Richard Lynch _____ Plokta edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies and Mike Scott _____ No Award Best Fan Writer (191 nominations for 147 fan writers) _____ Bob Devney _____ Mike Glyer _____ Dave Langford _____ Evelyn C. Leeper _____ Steven H Silver _____ No Award Best Fan Artist (164 nominations for 101 fan artists) _____ Freddie Baer _____ Brad Foster _____ Teddy Harvia _____ Joe Mayhew _____ Taral Wayne _____ No Award John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (110 nominations for 72 writers) An award for the best new writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy appeared during 1998 or 1999 in a professional publication. Sponsored by Dell Magazines. _____ Cory Doctorow (2nd year of eligibility) _____ Thomas Harlan (1st year of eligibility) _____ Ellen Klages (2nd year of eligibility) _____ Kristine Smith (1st year of eligibility) _____ Shane Tourtellotte (2nd year of eligibility) _____ No Award Comments: _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________