Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 614 The Puzzling Double Prize

"President, don't you find it strange that the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award have not been moved yet." In the Green Field Bookstore, Luo Wei said to Zhang Junwei worriedly.

Zhang Junwei was busy with publishing the quotations, when he heard Luo Wei's words, he raised his head.

In fact, some book friends mentioned this matter in February.

According to the usual practice, the Nebula Awards will announce the list of nominations for the year's awards in January or February, but there has been no movement so far this year.

In January, February, and even March, everyone didn't take it seriously, but now it's the beginning of June, and the Nebula Awards have not been moved. Could it be that the Hugo Awards are suspended this year like last year?

Speaking of the Hugo Awards, since last year, this award has become weird. Not to mention the last time it was stopped, there has been no movement this year, and there has not even been a vote.

"Maybe they have their own considerations. Anyway, they haven't made an announcement yet, so let's just wait patiently."

Luo Wei was still worried, "These two awards can't be messing with our boss."

"How could it be? They have two big awards that have survived for decades, even if they want to be the boss. Don't think about it, we will have a key meeting of the book club tomorrow. You can help me a little. I don't have time to spare. "Zhang Junwei said.

"Okay, I'll go right now."

Looking at Luo Wei's figure going upstairs, Zhang Junwei also secretly sighed. Although he could calmly comfort Luo Wei, he was also worried about what would happen to these two awards.

It shouldn't be possible to stop sending, I'm afraid that something will happen.

It's not just Zhang Junwei who are worried, many other book fans are also worried about this matter, and many people went to the official social accounts of Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards to discuss the issue.

As time passed, the voices of book fans grew louder.

[Will the awards be given out this year? 】

[Stop sending should also tell everyone. 】

[Could it be because of pz that you got it now? 】

……

I don’t know if it’s because of the appeal of netizens. Just a few days after Children’s Day, on June [-]th in the United States, the Nebula Awards and the Hugo Awards announced at the same time, and the announcement included a list of nominations for this year’s awards .

But these two nomination lists are very beyond the expectations of netizens.

Especially in the nomination list for the Nebula Award, Zhang Zhong was nominated for seven books alone.

The problem is that Zhang Zhong only released six science fiction novels last year, namely "The Last Starfish", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Three-Body Problem 1 Past Events on Earth", "Three-Body Problem 2 Dark Forest", and "Ender's Game" , "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ".

And the seventh book turned out to be "The Wandering Sea Ball" from the year before last.

Some readers who don’t know about the Nebula Award are a little confused. What’s wrong? Wasn’t “The Wandering Sea Ball” the book of the year before last, and this book was nominated last year, why is it nominated again this year?

【Is there a mistake in the Nebula Awards? 】

[Yeah, I'm confused when I see it. 】

[The two upstairs are not mistaken, according to the rules of the Nebula Award, it is possible.Because the selection scope of the Nebula Award is the works published in the United States in the previous two years.As for being nominated last year and nominated again this year, I have never heard of it, but it is not against the rules. 】

[I have tasted it, is it that the short story award will be given to "The Wandering Sea Ball" in a few years? 】

[Theoretically, this is the case, otherwise why do you need a second nomination? 】

[It's still hard to say, it might be a stunt by the Nebula Awards. 】

[Two books in the Three-Body Problem series were nominated, and Three-Body Problem 1 was classified as a medium-length novel, while Three-Body Problem 2 was classified as a long-form novel. Is it possible that both books can win the award? 】

[I think you're thinking about farting, and in my mind, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" should win the novel award. 】

[Will Zhang Zhong win several awards this time? 】

【Who knows. 】

Compared with the Nebula Award, the nomination list for the Hugo Award will be more restrained. Zhang Zhong’s works have been shortlisted for four categories, namely "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Ender's Game", "Three-Body 2 Dark Forest", Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ".

However, it is also very intriguing that the nominations for the two awards were announced on the same day so "coincidentally".

This time, the two sides not only announced the nomination list, but also announced the specific awarding time.

The Nebula Awards will be presented on August [-]nd, while the Hugo Awards will remain unchanged, and the awards will still be announced at the original World Science Fiction Convention.

As for the reasons for the postponement of the nomination, both sides gave explanations, of course, the explanations must be different.

The Hugo Award here means that after the corruption incident in the guild last year, the guild has been rectifying until now, so the nomination of the awards has been delayed.

As for the Nebula Awards, they said that some of the judges in their jury had caught a contagious cold, which affected the progress of the awards.

Netizens didn't quite believe their reasons, but no matter what, now that the awards have been decided, everyone is in a good mood, so they discussed this matter with a joking mood.

[Sure enough, it's a fantasy and fantasy award, even the reason is so magical. 】

[I don't care about anything else, as long as pz is shortlisted, I'm satisfied. 】

[This year's World Science Fiction Convention, will Zhang Zhong go?I'm a member, if he goes, I'll find a way to get an admission ticket. 】

[I'm also a member, isn't it only a few dozen dollars? 】

【Hey, do you guys think this day is a bit special for a few days, June [-]th...】

【Don't tell me I haven't remembered yet, but this day is not very auspicious. 】

[Today's announcement means that pz is a devil? 】

[You guys are really imaginative. 】

……

Zhang Zhong also thought that this year's Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards were very interesting. As for his being nominated for seven Nebula Awards and four Hugo Awards, he was not that excited.

These popular novel awards can only be icing on the cake for him now, and his desire is not high.

If the judges of these two awards knew Zhang Zhong's thoughts, they would probably scold her.

In fact, they didn't want Zhang Zhong to be shortlisted for so many awards. It would be a very bad thing for one person to win an award. Of course, the jury hoped that there would be a lot of flowers on the list.

But in the science fiction world in the past two years, Zhang Zhong is a name that cannot be avoided.

When discussing the awards before, some judges of the Nebula Awards even felt that Zhang Chong published too many science fiction novels in a year.

If he only published one or two science fiction novels a year, things would be much easier, and he would give one prize for one, and two prizes for two.

It's all right now, there are shortlists in each category, and they still can't be divided.

In order to avoid that the nominations for novels are all Zhang Zhong's books, they had to classify several shorter novels into medium-length novels, or even novelettes.

Even so, apart from short stories, there are still two heavy books for several other items.

(End of this chapter)