{"id":2555,"date":"2021-02-09T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2021-02-09T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:00:42","slug":"the-far-from-obligatory-annual-award-eligibility-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/02\/the-far-from-obligatory-annual-award-eligibility-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Far-from-Obligatory Annual Award Eligibility Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again.  If you&#8217;re the kinda person that nominates stories for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehugoawards.org\/2021\/01\/2021-hugo-awards-nominations-open\/\">Hugo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nebulas.sfwa.org\/about-the-nebulas\/how-to-vote-rules\/\">Nebula<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/award_directory.cgi\">etc<\/a>. Awards, I&#8217;ve got exactly one qualifying story for you to consider this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;All Hail the Pizza King and Bless His Reign Eternal&#8221; (<em>F&amp;SF<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/toc2007.htm\">July\/Aug 2020<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketstackrank.com\/2020\/07\/All-Hail-the-Pizza-King-and-Bless-David-Erik-Nelson.html\">review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tangentonline.com\/print-bi-monthly\/fantasy-science-fiction-july-august-2020\/\">review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingstories.com\/2020\/08\/review-f-sf-july-august-2020-part-i\/\">review<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a person who might nominate stuff and need a copy, I can send you a PDF. <a href=\"https:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/contact.html\">Contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fsf-7-2020-medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fsf-7-2020-medium.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fsf-7-2020-medium-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, I loved that art so much that I contact the artist (Alan M Clark) and bought the original charcoal-on-paper drawing that was the source. It&#8217;s <em>amaaaaaazing!<\/em> The original is 16&#8243;x20&#8243;. A 5&#8243;x8&#8243; magazine cover cannot do it justice. Such a treat to have on my wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0043-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. If you&#8217;re the kinda person that nominates stories for the Hugo, Nebula, etc. Awards, I&#8217;ve got exactly one qualifying story for you to consider this year: &#8220;All Hail the Pizza King and Bless His Reign Eternal&#8221; (F&amp;SF, July\/Aug 2020) (review, review, review) If you are a person who might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/02\/the-far-from-obligatory-annual-award-eligibility-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Far-from-Obligatory Annual Award Eligibility Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[85,11],"tags":[289,556,46,30,553,554,298,557,555],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}