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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: General Battuta on February 15, 2011, 01:07:53 pm
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hang on i'll put some content here when i get off the phone with the editor
Okey dokey, I just heard back from the Dell Magazines Award, a contest run by the publishers of Asimov's and judged by Sheila Williams, one of the top editors in the SF field. Past winners include Cory Doctorow, now a NYT bestseller, my friend David Barr Kirtley, a successful short fiction writer, and more. Winners - and runners-up - get flown to the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Last time I placed I spent the weekend hanging with a delightfully [redacted] Joe Haldeman and such luminaries as Ted Chiang, Rob Sawyer, Vernor Vinge, R. Scott Bakker, Tim Zahn and more.
I have a history with these awards! The second-to-last time I applied I took an honorable mention with a story about a PTSD-afflicted giant mech pilot endlessly reliving his own war experience in the confines of his own VR-augmented skull, and the travails of the counselor networked in to pull him out. Last time I applied I got second place with a story about a gang of AI hunters who stumble upon a group of virtual human infants raised in total sensory deprivation. This was my last year of eligibility so I knew that I had to equip my most formidable neuroprosaic turbines and risk complete synaptic burnout in order to finally reach THE TOP
This time around I am happy to report that a story I posted for conference here on HLP, The Immaculate Conception of Private Sunilben, took home first. It will be published by Asimov's (giving me my first professional credit). Better yet, the awards were completely swept by my fellow graduates of the Alpha workshop, establishing us as the coolest cats in town. They are all young women because men can't write for **** any more. On that note I'm off for my sex change.
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all battutas rejoice for writerttuta
*for values of greatest writer parametrized by greatest writers who submitted manuscripts written during time in college to the Dell Magazines Award in the year 2010
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Congratulattuta!
Which version of the story won? The one you screened to us, or the revised version that you mentioned a while back?
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There were a fair number of revisions, some of which went out to later readers, but the final version was one produced when a late HLP draft was conferenced on the alpha-crits listhost.
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BRAVO GENERAL :yes: :yes: :yes:
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ALL GLORY TO THE GENERAL!
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Congratulations Authortutta.
You are hereby awarded the HLP Distinguished Verbosity Order
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That was certainly better than most published scifi stories I've read. Congrats!
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Congratulations! But remember:
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"Respice te, hominem te memento"
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Hooray
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Congratulations!
Be prepared for the real work, though.
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*pretends he knows who any of the notables mentioned in the first post are, so as to fit in with the cool kids*
*gives up and just offers congratulations instead*
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All 5000 goobers congratulate all battutas!
Also, StarSlayer's image is A-1 SUPAR. I shall investigate creating a badge.
EDIT: If you get to hang out with Joe Haldeman again, ask him to write another FS1 fanfic. Or FS2, if you prefer.
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... I had to equip my most formidable neuroprosaic turbines and risk complete synaptic burnout in order to finally reach THE TOP
THE TOP
AIM FOR THE TOP!
Battuta uses hard work and guts to eradicate the Space Monsters achieve authoritarian victory!
All redsnipers salute all Battutas!
ITT: Battuta makes awesome references without realizing it on purpose.
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All ttutas rejoice at authorttuta becoming greatest author in Amerittua.
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Congratulations to all battutas. :)
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Congrats to you Batutta! (Plural?) Here's hoping you go far with this.
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Awesome! When will it debut for the General Publick if it hasn't already? :yes:
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Congratulations! But remember:
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win
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John Scalzi took that picture, John Scalzi is a science fiction writer, I could well be the next SF writer to make a cat meme :colbert:
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I salute you, sir! Most hearty congratulations!
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That's awesome. And well deserved. Congratulations, man.
Looking forward to reading the revised story in Asimov.
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Now you get to work on the few hundred rejections for your novel!
:P
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Nuclears declare all writerttutas most excellent writers in the world!
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Ah, seems I was a bit late to the party. Good on you, buddy!
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Wow Battuta, that's amazing! I congratulate you on your well deserved victory.
Though I'm not fully aware what part you did for Blue Planet, that mod alone is worthy of some amazing awards, and rewards, as well.
Keep 'em coming! You deserve a lot more praise than you've gotten so far.
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And the cool thing is, now any project he works on gets to put in the tags, "Co-developed by Dell Magazines Award winner General Battuta"
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Except I doubt the name on the award is "General Battuta".
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Except I doubt the name on the award is "General Battuta".
sethttutas?
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Except I doubt the name on the award is "General Battuta".
no, it is
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Except I doubt the name on the award is "General Battuta".
In the interest of privacy, I declined to use Batt's real name, even though I remember it from the story mailings.
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You should put -First name- "General Battuta" -Last name- on the award/story, seriously.
But excellent work, and serious congratulations.
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I prefer to give unserious congratulations. :yes: