World Fantasy Convention Nominations
Speaking in favor of Ben Yalow
My apologies for two posts in one day, but this one is rather time-sensitive.
If you are a member of the World Fantasy Convention in 2022, 2023, or 2024 - WFA member nominations are open until May 31st.
If you are eligible and intend to submit a ballot, I would like to ask you to please consider nominating BEN YALOW for LIFE ACHIEVEMENT. You can follow that link there to get just a taste of all that he’s done for the SF/Fantasy community.
Editor of From These Ashes: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Frederic Brown, Ben was the co-chair of the 2023 WorldCon, and a member of the Chair advisory team for Glasgow 2024, and has been a member of numerous other Worldcon bids for the past five decades. He's been around fandom longer than most of us have likely been alive. If there's a person that embodies the gentle, gracious, and accepting nature of SF/Fantasy fandom, it's Mr. Yalow. I've had the pleasure of getting to know him recently, and frankly, the man deserves every honor that can be laid upon him, and then some.
While you’re working on your ballot, you might want to consider a few possibilities for some of the other categories…
For short fiction and anthologies, there's no shortage of amazing work from
, , Cannon Publishing, and @Chris Kennedy Publishing's New Mythology Press. Have at it.For collections, I'd be an idiot for not suggesting my own volume of flash fiction, One October Night. I'm sure there's plenty more good stuff out there as well, but I am rather partial to that one.
Artist?
of course! Come on. Just LOOK at everything she's done in the past year!
Anyways. Just a few suggestions. Now, go vote, before the Desert Death Moggie sniffs out your slackness and pays you a visit when the clock strikes thirteen.
Ben Yalow presided over the Worldcon that has repeatedly lied and broken the trust of the wider community. Honouring him like this would send a signal that those actions were acceptable, and this post sends a clear message that the author thinks what happened with the 2023 Hugo Awards was not only acceptable, but salutary.
Question for all the silly trolls showing up here: Have you met Ben Yalow? Perhaps you should take the time to talk with people, who have, before you show your @$$ in public like a hospital patient blithely prancing down the hall with your fundament swinging in the breeze like this?
It cracks me up when you trolls show up to slam Mr. Yalow for the things that can clearly be laid at the feet of that no-talent @$$clown Mary Robinette Kowal(ski?). It always bugged me that her name seemed to be a chopped form of an honorable name, like she, or an ancestor, was foolishly ashamed of their ancestry?
Anyway, back on track. By all means blame the scape goat that she and the other morons running Worldcon and SFWA created to retain their phony baloney jobs.
Ask yourself why you're protecting those losers, who have done nothing to ensure that writers receive the back royalties owed them by publishing houses. Look up Alan Dean Foster and George Lucas's publishing agreement for ghost writing Star Wars for old George, which was later taken over by Disney and still failed to be honored. That was all Kowal and her fellow losers. Feel stunning and brave still, Johnny-boy, Camestro?