{"id":2452,"date":"2014-04-26T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2014-09-28T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T23:34:20","slug":"galactic-chat-up-for-a-ditmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Chat up for a Ditmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p id=\"top\" \/>So, the preliminary Ditmars ballot\u00a0is out and a podcast that I contributed to last year (<em>Galactic Chat<\/em>) has been nominated. It&#8217;s the first time a speculative fiction project I&#8217;ve been involved in has been nominated for an award, so its very exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Ditmar preliminary ballot\u00a0can be found <a title=\"2014 Ditmar preliminary ballot\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.sf.org.au\/2014_Ditmar_preliminary_ballot\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but to save that extra click, <em>Galactic Chat<\/em> can be found in the Best Fan Publication in Any Medium category, which I&#8217;ve reproduced below.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\"><span id=\"Best_Fan_Publication_in_Any_Medium\" class=\"mw-headline\">Best Fan Publication in Any Medium<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><i>Dark Matter Zine<\/i>, Nalini Haynes<\/li>\n<li><i>SF Commentary<\/i>, Bruce Gillespie<\/li>\n<li><i>The Writer and the Critic<\/i>, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond<\/li>\n<li><i>Galactic Chat Podcast<\/i>, Sean Wright, Alex Pierce, Helen Stubbs, David McDonald, and Mark Webb<\/li>\n<li><i>The Coode Street Podcast<\/i>, Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan<\/li>\n<li><i>Galactic Suburbia<\/i>, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those that follow speculative fiction awards closely may have already noticed that three of our competitors are up for the Hugo award for Best Fancast (<em>The Writer and the Critic<\/em>, <em>Galactic Suburbia<\/em> and <em>The Coode Street Podcast<\/em>).<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Now\u00a0just because we&#8217;re up against three Hugo nominated podcasts doesn&#8217;t mean we have any less chance&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">(&#8230;checks facts&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Ah, apparently it does mean we have less of a chance. Still, I like to think of us as a plucky band of misfits taking on the might of the establishment, and unless fiction has lied to me my entire life that means we&#8217;re almost certain to win&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">(&#8230;checks facts again&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">OK, apparently fiction\u00a0<b>has<\/b>\u00a0lied to me my entire life. Ummm, it&#8217;s an honour to be nominated?<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">(&#8230;checks facts a third time&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Yes, it&#8217;s an honour to be nominated.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Phew.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">I should also mention that several of the <em>Galactic Chat<\/em> &#8220;cast&#8221; have further nominations.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>David McDonald has been nominated for the William J Atheling Award for Criticism or Review;<\/li>\n<li>Alex Pierce was nominated twice for\u00a0the Atheling, is part of the <em>Galactic Suburbia<\/em> team\u00a0AND was nominated for Best Fan Writer; and<\/li>\n<li>Sean Wright, leader of aforementioned\u00a0plucky band of misfits, has also been nominated for the Best Fan Writer award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All nominations are very well deserved &#8211; its been a pleasure working with all the members of the <em>Galactic Chat<\/em> crew and it&#8217;s great to see them being recognised for their diverse talents.<\/p>\n<p>The Ditmars are presented each year at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention, which this year is <a title=\"Continuum 10 website\" href=\"http:\/\/continuum.org.au\/c10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne&#8217;s Continuum<\/a>, held in early June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"top\"><\/p>Hi,\n<p>Welcome to Mark Webb&#8217;s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse &#8211; I&#8217;ve only recently started writing and there isn&#8217;t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0<a title=\"All About Mark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=11\">my biography<\/a>, see &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105,121,21,15],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ditmars","tag-galactic-chat","tag-news-2","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}