066 Hugo Award Winning author William McIntosh
Here is Will’s story Bridesicle: https://scificats.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/bridesicle.pdf
This interview first appeared in writing on LancerKind.com: https://lancerkind.com/interview-with-my-pal-william-mcintosh-hugo-and-nebula-award-nominee/
A wikipedia entry about Will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_McIntosh
A video of Will accepting his award at AussieCon10, presented by Cory Doctorow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZwx0HSrZw
McIntosh’s short story “Soft Apocalypse” was shortlisted for both the British Science Fiction Award and the British Fantasy Award. His story “Bridesicle” won both the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story[3] and the 2010 Asimov’s Reader Poll, along with being a finalist for that year’s Nebula Award. [4]
Hugo award history: thehugoawards.org
This ward is given Best science fiction or fantasy works of previous year.
It was first given out at the 11th World Science Fiction conventions in 1953. The nominees and winners are selected by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (also known as World Con). The Hugo award is named after Hugo Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories magazine.
The Nebula Awards:
Is given to the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States during the previous year. The first Nebulas were given in 1966. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
So the major differences between the awards is that the Hugo awards are by voted by anyone who attends or supports a World Con and the Nebula Award is awarded by a professional association of science fiction and fantasy writers.
This episode is special. SciFi Thoughts has been going strong now for over a year. Yet before there was a SciFi Thoughts, I’d record an interview and keep it in case I become part of a broadcast vehicle like SciFi Thoughts. So this is one of those, which I hope will be better with age, like a good red wine.
It was April 25th in 2010. I was living in China, Will McIntosh was in Georgia, in the US. Will and I were classmates at Clarion writers’ workshop and because of that I saw him announce to the email list that he was nominated for a Hugo. So I schedule an international call with him and recorded our conversation with which became the blog article in 2010; the link is in the show notes. I kept the recording because who knew, maybe someday I’d start a podcast and get to share our chat with the rest of the world. So here it is. A conversation between two friends, one of who was nominated for an award. At the time of the interview, he didn’t know he would win the award and so you can imagine his state of mind: excited, yet he really wasn’t sure he should take the long international flight from one side of the Earth to the other. This is the first episode from that interview.
Here is Will’s story Bridesicle: https://scificats.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/bridesicle.pdf
