The nominations for the prestigious 2002 Hugo awards have been announced, and three Tolkien-related things are in the running! [More]
Month: April 2002
The nominees for the 2002 Hugo Awards have just been announced, and three Tolkien-related things are in the running, two books in the category for Best Related Book (nonfiction), and one film for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Meditations on Middle-Earth, edited by Karen Haber is a collection, illustrated by John Howe, of essays about Tolkien by seventeen writers, including Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, Karen Haber, Poul Anderson, Michael Swanwick, Esther M. Friesner, Harry Turtledove, Robin Hobb, Diane Duane, Douglas A. Anderson, Lisa Goldstein, Glenn Hurdling (in conversation with Tim and Greg Hildebrandt) and Terri Windling. Excerpts from five of these essays are previewed at Green Books. [More]
Green Books also has an interview with Tom Shippey, for his nominee J.R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. [More]
The 2002 Hugo Awards will be announced and presented at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, September 1, 2002 in the San José Civic Auditorium during ConJosé. For a full list of the nominees click here [More]
BEST RELATED BOOK (six nominees total)
Meditations on Middle-Earth by Karen Haber, ed. (St. Martin’s Press/A Byron Preiss Book)
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey (HarperCollins (UK) (2000);Houghton Mifflin)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (five nominees total)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films) Directed by Peter Jackson; Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Phillipa Boyens & Peter Jackson; Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Tim Sanders, Producers; Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, Executive Producers.
CONJOSÉ, THE 60TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363 USA
press@conjose.org; http://www.conjose.org/
The nominees for the 2002 Hugo Awards have just been announced, and three Tolkien-related things are in the running, two books in the category for Best Related Book (nonfiction), and one film for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Meditations on Middle-Earth, edited by Karen Haber is a collection, illustrated by John Howe, of essays about Tolkien by seventeen writers, including Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, Karen Haber, Poul Anderson, Michael Swanwick, Esther M. Friesner, Harry Turtledove, Robin Hobb, Diane Duane, Douglas A. Anderson, Lisa Goldstein, Glenn Hurdling (in conversation with Tim and Greg Hildebrandt) and Terri Windling. Excerpts from five of these essays are previewed at Green Books
Green Books also has an interview with Tom Shippey, for his nominee J.R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. More
The 2002 Hugo Awards will be announced and presented at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, September 1, 2002 in the San José Civic Auditorium during ConJosé. For a full list of the nominees see here
BEST RELATED BOOK (six nominees total)
Meditations on Middle-Earth by Karen Haber, ed. (St. Martin’s Press/A Byron Preiss Book)
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey (HarperCollins (UK) (2000);Houghton Mifflin)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (five nominees total)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films) Directed by Peter Jackson; Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Phillipa Boyens & Peter Jackson; Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Tim Sanders, Producers; Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, Executive Producers.
CONJOSÉ, THE 60TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363 USA
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press@conjose.org
Ringer Spy Ed sends along some new pics of a single Orc warrior he found at his local toy store. [More]
Cynthia writes: The May 2002 issue of “Premiere” has an article titled “The Power 100” listing Hollywood’s most powerful people. The artwork for the article is all in the style of Middle Earth. There’s a fold-out map of “The Reel World” made to resemble Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth, and various listees are depicted like characters from LOTR. [More]
Miss Took reviews the Warner Brothers piano/vocal arrangement of the LOTR soundtrack music. [More]