tor 2009-05-14 klockan 09:51 +0200 skrev Daniel Albertsson:
Någon som kan kolla upp Hugokriterierna? Jag tycker ju att man borde gå efter antal tecken. Och eftersom några såg misstänktsamt lika långa ut som Swanwicks Babelnovell var jag ju tvungen att räkna lite tecken...
Swanwicks Babel: 44 421 tecken (med blanksteg)
Bears Shoggoths: 44 362
Resnicks Alastair: 51 268
Den första är en short story och de två senare är novelletter. Teckenskillnaden är ganska liten, och i Bears fall är hennes verk till och med kortare än en short story. Så vad gör den ena till det ena och den andra till det andra?
På http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=3 hittar jag detta:
Length of work Several of the category definitions are based on the length of a work. Don’t worry if you have not counted the number of words in a story that you want to nominate. Firstly you can check with some recommendation lists such as the ones linked to on this site. If the story is listed there it will almost certainly be in the right category. And if that doesn’t help, guess. The people who administer the voting are there to help, and they will generally move your nominations into the correct category if you have them wrong.
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The categories The current list of Hugo Award categories is as follows:
- Best Novel: Awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of forty thousand (40,000) words or more.
- Best Novella: Awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) words.
- Best Novelette: Awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) words.
- Best Short Story: Awarded for science fiction or fantasy story of less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) words.
Hans