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I'm calling on the Aurora Award administrators to have on-site voting not just at VCon in Vancouver but also at Con*Cept in Montreal this year. See my blog for details.

Robert J. Sawyer
in Beijing

Dennis Mullin has yet again delayed release of the final Aurora ballot for 2007. It was to have been released in July; he then changed that to today, Saturday, August 18 -- handily making sure that no ballots or copies of work could be available for Con-Version, the Calgary regional con, which is happening this weekend (and, save Con*Cept, the last Canadian regional prior to VCon where the awards will be given this year).

But that's not delay enough, apparently. He's just now announced: "The 2007 voting ballot should become available on the website during the August 21-27 time period." That puts the release date of the Aurora ballot two full months after the originally announced date for the close of nominations; the Hugo administrators normally turn around the ballot within two weeks.

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V-Con, this year's CanVention, has announced a break from CanVention tradition and is having on-site voting for the Aurora Awards (in addition to mail-in voting). Says V-Con Progress Report #2:

Vote at VCON

Linda Ross-Mansfield sends the following:

After three years of effort and hard work (not to mention conventions and parties) we are almost at the point of knowing if the Worldcon will be in Montreal. The vote to decide the location of the 67th Worldcon will be taking place this coming Labour Day weekend at this year's Worldcon, Nippon 2007, in Yokohama Japan, just a few weeks away.

If you like the way the category headings now look on the "2006 - Publications in English" and "2007 - Publications in English" pages, I invite someone to copy the formating to the French pages. :) I was finding the category headings very hard to pick out from the listings. :)

Dennis Mullin has announced that the NOMINATING deadline for the 2007 Prix Aurora Awards has been EXTENDED to Monday, July 23, 2007 (postmarked by that date).

You can get a nominating ballot right here. Any Canadian may nominate, and it's free to do so.

Robert J. Sawyer

This is the top level Wiki page for the Canadian SF information database. The following pages are categorized into publication year. Fundamentally, this is meant to be a database of titles to provide a memory aid for people who are nominating titles for the various awards (the various awards are listed in the side menu).

Given that we are looking to provide visitors (nominators and voters alike) with information for the current awards, we should focus on current information, starting with 2006.