random Hugo Award trivia

[redbird]

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?"

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[redbird]

Poking around yesterday, I found a site listing Hugo nominees--and showing cover art, Ghu knows why--that had Up the Walls of the World as withdrawn for 1979.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I see, (http://web2.airmail.net/tharvia/hugo_novels_by_year.html) I had just never heard that before.