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CROWS CONTEND FOR HUGO AWARD<br>April 5, 2006<br> The members of the LACon IV and Interaction worldcons have nominated A Feast for Crows for the Hugo Award for the Best Novel of 2005. The Hugo is the oldest and most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy, and it is a thrill, as ever, to be on the ballot. <br> The other finalists in the Best Novel category are Learning the World by Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor), Old Man's War by John Scalzi (Tor), Accelerando by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit), and Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor). <br> For the rest of this year's Hugo nominees, check out my "Not a Blog" page, where I have posted the full list. <br> All members of LACon IV are eligible to vote for the Hugo Awards. To join the convention, as either an attending or supporting member, go to their website at <a href='http://www.laconiv.org/' target='_blank'>http://www.laconiv.org/</a> . The Hugo winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in Anaheim, California, on the evening of Saturday, August 26. <br> It is always an honor to be nominated for a Hugo, especially in the novel category (the "Big One," as someone once dubbed it, can't think who). So many good books are published each year that every place on the ballot is sharply contested. This marks the third time one of my books has been nominated for the Best Novel Hugo. Dying of the Light lost the award in 1978 to Frederik Pohl's Gateway, and A Storm of Swords was crushed in 2001 by J.K. Potter's megabestseller Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. <br><br><br><br>Hugo A Feast For Martin<br><br>New York Times best-selling, multiple award-winning author George R.R. Martin, whose novel A Feast for Crows just earned him his 17th Hugo Award nomination, told SCI FI Wire that he was very pleased to hear that he'd been nominated again. "I've been there a few times before, but it's still a thrill," Martin said in an interview. "It's a distinguished list, so I'm glad to be a part of it." <br><br>A Feast for Crows is Martin's third nomination for Best Novel. "The Song of Ice and Fire is my magnum opus," Martin said. "[A Feast for Crows, the fourth volume] took a little longer [to write] than the others. It took me five years, ... so it was effectively three years late. Part of it is that the story had grown so large that I was juggling a lot of plot, a lot of characters. It was hard to fit them all into the pages that I had, and I wound up dividing the book into two books. ... But the books have been very popular, and I'm very gratified by that. It's an ambitious series. I have to say it's not easy to write. Maybe that's why I'm slowing down a little." <br><br>Although Martin says J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard had "an enormous impact" on him in his youth, he didn't set out to write an epic fantasy. "To a certain extent, I don't know where it came from," Martin said. "In 1991 ... I'd been working on a science-fiction novel called Avalon that I'd been writing for some time, when suddenly the first chapter of A Game of Thrones came to me. I didn't know where it had come from, I didn't know what it was, but I did know that I had to write it. So I put Avalon aside, and I wrote this chapter that was not part of the book that I was writing. Then, ... I wrote the second chapter and ... the third chapter. And at a certain point, I sat down and drew a map. .... By that time, I realized that I certainly had a novel. And pretty soon I realized I had more than one novel. Initially, I sold it as a trilogy, but as Tolkien has said about Lord of the Rings: 'The tale grew in the telling.'" <br><br>The Song of Ice and Fire series has been lauded by critics and fans for its rich characterization, and it's clear Martin puts a lot of effort into making his characters seem very real. "Humanity interests me. I agree with what Faulkner said in his Nobel acceptance speech, that the human heart in conflict with itself [is] the only thing worth writing about. And I think that informs all genres, whether you're writing a mainstream novel like Faulkner did, or you're writing science fiction and fantasy, or a mystery story, or a romance, ... it still comes down to the human heart in conflict with itself," Martin said. "Human beings are complex. I think that's the one thing I've learned as I write. We contain within ourselves heroes and villains. We are capable of very courageous acts, very cowardly acts, ... are capable of being altruistic, capable of being selfish—and it's all wrapped up in the same person; it's only in fiction that you see these cardboard characters who are [good or] evil all the time. ... I'm more interested in real human beings."页:
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