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[james_davis_nicoll]

Withdrawing from the supreme honour of a Dragon Award is not permitted!

Comments

[jamoche]

They didn't tell Antonelli either: from http://file770.com/?p=36807

Nominations for the Dragon closed July 24, and after a week had passed I assumed I had not made the grade. I was sure of it last Thursday night when I received an email that had a link to the final ballot.

I opened the ballot, to see who HAD made the grade, and was startled to see my name there. The Dragon award apparently is less bureaucratic than some others, I suppose, and they simply released the final ballot the way the nominations fell.

[redbird]

That does lead to the question, did they tell anyone, or just put the ballot on a website somewhere and expect the information to diffuse by Brownian motion?

[brooksmoses]

It is sounding like the answer is neither; it didn't occur to them that the information particularly needed to get to the authors at all.

[elf]

There's some logic to that.

If a music festival had an award for "best song of the last year," they might not inform the bands until they had winners picked out. So in this case, they're treating authors like distant celebrities rather than part of the community that makes up the convention.

... I didn't say it was a good choice, just that I could follow the reasoning.