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I've alerted Aurora Award administrator Clint Budd to this problem, but haven't heard back from him. The postmarked-by deadline given at the Aurora Award website for this year's nominating ballot was Friday, February 5, 2010, however the actual PDF ballot lists the deadline as Monday, February 8, 2010.

I've suggested to Clint that the only fair thing is to accept ballots postmarked on or before the later date, but just to be on the safe side, those who still wish to nominate for the Auroras might wish to use the online ballot (which is here); online nominations will be accepted until Monday, February 15, 2010.

That's how it works: everyone who had a membership (attending or supporting) in Anticipation, last year's World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, may nominate for free for the Hugo Awards to be presented at Aussiecon 4, this year's World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Melbourne (members of Aussiecon 4 are also entitled to nominate, too, of course).

All you need is your Anticipation membership number, which you can probably get here, and your Hugo voting PIN, which should have been emailed to you in January. If you didn't get the PIN, send an email to hugopin@aussiecon4.org.au along with a note saying you were a member of Anticipation (the Montreal Worldcon), and including your membership number, and you'll be sent a PIN.

You may then cast your nominating ballot here.

Any work first published in English in 2009 anywhere in the world is eligible. For a list of eligible Canadian works, please see The Canadian SF Works Database.

Peter de Jager -- a past columnist for the Aurora Award-winning fanzine Voyageur -- has just received the Lifeboat Foundation's Guardian Award for his efforts to avert the Y2K problem; Peter lives in Brampton, Ontario.

Details are here and here.

All the details are here.

The Aurora Award-winning website MADE IN CANADA -- Don Bassie's elaborate and detailed repository of information about Canadian science fiction and fantasy -- is no more. It had been hosted on Yahoo's Geocities service, and, in a spectacular act of online genocide, Yahoo wiped out all free Geocities sites on 26 October 2009. Don's site had been an enormous asset to us all, and it's terrible that it's gone. For the record, the URL for it was www.geocities.com/canadian_SF. Don had stopped updating the site -- which won Auroras in 2000, 2003, and 2004 -- some time ago, but it was still an enormously valuable historical resource.

Thank God for the Internet Archives. The most recent version from there, dated August 2004, can be accessed here. Sadly, it only contains bits and pieces of the now-gone full site, though.

Under the new Nebula Awards rules, nominations for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award are only accepted (by active members of SFWA) from November 15 of the current year until February 15 of the following one). So: nominations will be opening very soon. If you haven't yet listed your 2009-published works here at the Canadian SF Works Database, now's the time to add them.

All the winners (and the nominees) are listed here. Congratulations to all -- and special congrats to Liana Kerzner for running a flawless, wonderful Aurora banquet.

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother has just won the Prometheus Award (for Libertarian SF); it will be presented to him at the Worldcon in Montreal. Details are here.

(And it should be noted that Montrealer Donald Kingsbury's 1982 Courtship Rite was a finalist this year for the Prometheus Hall of Fame award.)

SF Scope has the scoop.