Valentin D Ivanov

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• whitroth commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  By the way, folks, as of an hour or two ago, I made the new version of my website live MRW, and on it, among other things, is a complete short story - the origin story for a character who appears in 11,000 Years....
• Scott Sanford commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  Not eligible for a Hugo, alas. Several categories do not specify fictional works. For example, the 1970 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation went to "TV Coverage of Apollo XI." (Who got the rocket trophy for that, anyway?) But I do suspect that C elegans is insufficiently dramatic....
• Scott Sanford commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  So: what, if anything, have you published in 2021? Around September I rediscovered the open-source character Jenny Everywhere (Wikipedia, TV Tropes) and found that while she’d slipped my mind since 2009 or so there were still people remembering her and making fiction. Cool! So that got me thinking and writing and I’ve turned out a few stories of my own. It's nice to be writing prose fiction again....
• JohnS commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  David L @ 50: can only compete with David L and JBS in the "short military-related comments on an SF author's blog" category David L never served. So JBS only. Most of my military "expertise" is just knowing there's something to look up. I never really write anything that anyone couldn't find with a decent search engine. My experience gives me a bit of help knowing the most productive search terms to use. I google all that stuff before I post a comment just to make sure I'm not misremembering something or "speaking out of school" 1 about something that...
• sabik commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  "Not eligible for a Hugo, alas." I would be deeply worried if a scientific paper was eligible for fiction Various government policies on climate change, on the other hand......