random Hugo Award trivia

I haven't done detailed research, so I could be mistaken, but I think Susanna Clarke is the first author to win the Hugo for her first novel, with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, since Walter Miller won for A Canticle for Liebowitz in 1961, and Terry Pratchett is the first person to decline a best novel Hugo nomination since James Tiptree, Jr., in 1979.

That's a trivia question for some future con: Pratchett, Tiptree, and Silverberg. Either as "name the authors who have declined the best novel Hugo nomination" or "What do Pratchett, Silverberg, and Tiptree have in common?"

random Hugo Award trivia

I haven't done detailed research, so I could be mistaken, but I think Susanna Clarke is the first author to win the Hugo for her first novel, with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, since Walter Miller won for A Canticle for Liebowitz in 1961, and Terry Pratchett is the first person to decline a best novel Hugo nomination since James Tiptree, Jr., in 1979.

That's a trivia question for some future con: Pratchett, Tiptree, and Silverberg. Either as "name the authors who have declined the best novel Hugo nomination" or "What do Pratchett, Silverberg, and Tiptree have in common?"

GIP

This might make a good "summer' icon.

GIP

This might make a good "summer' icon.