melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote 2015-07-23 01:25 pm (UTC)

It's not so much being in the voter packet itself as knowing whether the art they have online actually qualifies as fanart from 2014. :? Legget, at least, was already selling bookcovers to pro publishers in 2014, best I can tell, and I suspect all of my favorite stuff of hers counts as pro. And a couple of the others seem to mostly have REALLY OLD works up, with no clear way to tell which ones qualify for this year. I don't want to give the award to people who did almost no fanart that year; it's not meant to be a lifetime achievement award.

Theoretically at least the voter packet stuff is actually 2014 fanart, although even them I'm side-eyeing some of it.

And my impression of Australian 'old-school' SF fandom - the con-going, zine-publishing, hugo-nominating part, anyway - is that it's small and insular, but mighty - there's been a lot of epic SF fan production out of Australia for how small and dispersed that community is. (And not necessarily hooked in to other Australia geek communities.)

And the podcast wasn't *bad* but I suspect you would have to be part of that community to actively love it.

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