Balticon 40.30 – Hugo Loser’s Party Special
WorldCon photos, mostly from this party are online. All photos by Martha Holloway.
Hugo Party Notes
- David Brin
- World SF Magazine in China moved their event to a week before WorldCon in Yokohama
- Cheng Du, some distance inside China
- Szechuan province
- Look for link (can’t find)
- Brin’s thoughts on the award ceremony and this year’s awards
- Brin has a new show coming up on Discovery Channel
- New book, Star Wars on Trial
- davidbrin.com
- Robert Silverberg
- No longer the Hugo Loser’s Party. Now the Hugo Nominee’s Party.
- He is training himself not to work
- He’s been gardening
- Professes to be making room for the new authors in the field
- Went straight out of college to winning a Hugo
- Bob used to read all the new Sci-Fi that was published. It’s impossible to do that today
- Bob is heading to Italy in Sept. Hopefully inspiration will strike him.
- We talk about Balsamic Vinegar
- Political correctness in the US language
- Martha steps in for a picture of Bob and me
- Cory Doctorow
- Nominated for I, Robot
- Different directions Cory uses for publishing his works
- He is working as a Fullbright Chair, The inaugural fullbright Canada U.S. Chair
at the Univ Southern Calif Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy - Cory talks about threats to electronic freedoms and copyright law
- James Patrick Kelly
- Got to present the award to Peter Beagle
- Author of the novella, Burn, available as a book and a Podiobook
- I’m a little slow on the uptake
- We were both born on Lon Guyland (Long Island to those don’t speak the language)
- He lives in New Hampshire now
- He attributes his Hugo nomination to the book being released as a Podcast
- He’s striving to write longer books in the coming years
- Drinkus Interruptus (Yipee! We’re podcasting live)
- Peter S. Beagle
- Peter is still coming down from winning
- He talked himself out of beleiving he could win
- He won for Two Hearts
- The only advice he got was, “Don’t trip walking up on stage”
- He’ll be working on more short novels in the next year, including a follow on to The Last Unicorn
- It was great to see Peter so elated.
- I’d love to help him get some of his stories podcasted next year
- Ellen Datlow
- Nominated for best professional editor for Sci Fiction and for several book anthologies
- We talk about the job of a professional editor
- Editing is a lot of work
- The first and last stories in an anthology are the most important
- Her next anthology is call Inferno and will be published by Tor
- She talks about how you, the author, get into her anthologies and magazines
- Podcastus Interruptus (Yeah! Live Podcasting)
- I explain the difference between audio on a website and a podcast
- I talk about Mark Foreman’s projects reading Cory Doctorow’s work
- I talk about Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius podcast
- Ellen is too busy reading to listen to podcasts
- She lives in NYC, so she reads during her commute
- I talk about the non-fiction book, Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
- Ellen gets to do what she loves and she gets to work from home
September 6th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I enjoyed hearing all the different interviews. What equipment did you use?
September 6th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
I used an iRiver IFP-799 solid state MP3 player/recorder with an external microphone from Giant Squid Audio Labs.
Steve Eley from Escape Pod turned me on to the Giant Squid. It’s a great mic for the iRiver and similar devices. The mic has 2 omni heads on 6′ long cables. Each head has a clip so it can be attached to stuff.
I stuffed the excess cable into my shirt, then clipped one mic on the guest while keeping the other mic for myself. The iRiver was strapped to my upper arm with the sports strap that comes with it. The rig is very stealth, it’s hard to see in person, let alone in pictures. You can see a picture of the rig here.
September 14th, 2006 at 12:41 am
Hey there, Paul ! Really interesting – especially for the dormant SF geek in me (it’s kinda hard to find English reading matter in Taiwan).
Talking of gear, I’m looking at the brand new Zoom H4 to replace my minidisk for field recordings – I’m really bummed that I can’t transfer recordings from my 3 year old MD digitally. The H4 is not as stealth as your rig, but it can record 24-bit/96 kHz wavs – great for music production.