Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: DJ Earworm, "World Go Boom (State of Pop 2011)."

In which Seanan (or Mira) is nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award.

So, uh. That happened. Deadline—the second installment in the Newsflesh trilogy—has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. This is a juried award, and, to quote the website, "The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States."

Distinguished science fiction. Screw winning (although naturally I'd like to win; I am only human, and pretending I don't dream of winning the things I'm nominated for seems needlessly coy and a little idiotic): I have been nominated for an award because I wrote something that's regarded as distinguished science fiction.

Dude. What.

Orbit, which has three books in the list of seven, has already posted a gleeful post of gleeful congratulations, which made me feel very loved. I'm seriously over the moon about this.

The full ballot for this year:

The Company Man, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Deadline, Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Other, Matthew Hughes (Underland)
A Soldier’s Duty, Jean Johnson (Ace)
The Postmortal, Drew Magary (Penguin)
After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
The Samuel Petrovich Trilogy, Simon Morden (Orbit)

I am very excited, and very flattered, and yeah, a little hopeful, because who wouldn't be? This is amazing.

Yay.
Tags: awards and stuff, cheese and cake, deadline, dino dance party, good things, mira grant, pandemic time
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laria_gwyn

January 11 2012, 16:08:23 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations!!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:02:49 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

qnofhrt

January 11 2012, 16:09:13 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations on getting nominated!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:02:58 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

adelheid_p

January 11 2012, 16:16:18 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:03:08 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

la_marquise_de_

January 11 2012, 16:21:52 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations.

spitphyre

January 11 2012, 17:19:00 UTC 5 years ago

Totally off topic but I have a cat that looks almost exactly like the cat in your icon and I have a picture of him on a red dog bed that also looks almost exactly like that. For a moment I totally thought it was an icon I hadn't realized I had made!

la_marquise_de_

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:03:37 UTC 5 years ago

I'm thrilled.

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seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:03:49 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

mac_arthur_park

January 11 2012, 16:30:07 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! *throws confetti*

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:04:13 UTC 5 years ago

Woo! *makes someone else vacuum*

ladymondegreen

January 11 2012, 16:35:34 UTC 5 years ago

Wow. That's awesome!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:04:55 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah.

songfire3

January 11 2012, 16:36:09 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! :D

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:05:09 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

madfilkentist

January 11 2012, 16:38:20 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations, Seanan!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:23:13 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

ravnsdaughter

January 11 2012, 16:43:23 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations on being nominated! That's so exciting!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:23:56 UTC 5 years ago

I know!

jenjen4280

January 11 2012, 16:48:11 UTC 5 years ago

Fan-frakkin-tastic! Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:24:18 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

billroper

January 11 2012, 16:52:06 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:24:27 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

rarelylynne

January 11 2012, 16:54:06 UTC 5 years ago

Yanno, WOOT!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:25:03 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

puddingcat

January 11 2012, 16:59:52 UTC 5 years ago

AWESOME. Congratulations! It's well-deserved :)

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:27:36 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

wee_warrior

January 11 2012, 17:03:01 UTC 5 years ago

*applauds* Congratulations. Definitely keeping my fingers crossed for you!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:27:55 UTC 5 years ago

Olivia appreciates my nomination!

scarybaldguy

January 11 2012, 17:03:55 UTC 5 years ago

'bout damn time.

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:28:07 UTC 5 years ago

Aw, thank you.

spitphyre

January 11 2012, 17:14:43 UTC 5 years ago

It has become one of my most favorite novels of all time. For real. The nomination was totally deserved :) Many giant congratulations!

I hope this means we'll be seeing you at Norwescon?

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:28:49 UTC 5 years ago

Sadly, no. I am out of vacation time, and the ceremony is Friday in the early evening. I'd literally get off the plane to texts telling me whether I lost.

archangelbeth

January 11 2012, 17:16:21 UTC 5 years ago

Congrats and good luck!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:29:04 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

missingvolume

January 11 2012, 17:20:20 UTC 5 years ago

Congrats! I always love checking out what makes the PKD list since there is always good reading on that list.

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:29:15 UTC 5 years ago

I'm excited!

spectralbovine

January 11 2012, 17:21:23 UTC 5 years ago

I haven't even heard of the other books! You are the most distinguished to me.

Congratulations!

I have been nominated for an award because I wrote something that's regarded as distinguished science fiction. Actually, I've now been nominated
And what? That's it? Actually, I've now been nominated and here's a million dollars? Actually, I've now been nominated and here's your own spaceship? I mean what the f—

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:29:48 UTC 5 years ago

Come over here so I can hit you.

aircrash

January 11 2012, 17:29:01 UTC 5 years ago

ahhhh congrats!!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:29:57 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

pbristow

January 11 2012, 17:29:51 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, excellent!

I look forward to April, when I hope I will be able to impress all my friends by announcing loudly that "Seanan has a Dick!!!". =;o>

(Gods, I'm so predictable...)

autographedcat

January 11 2012, 17:38:17 UTC 5 years ago

I'm glad you went there. My resolve was weakening.

azurelunatic

5 years ago

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pbristow

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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anne_d

January 11 2012, 17:32:08 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:30:26 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

lysystratae

January 11 2012, 17:37:53 UTC 5 years ago

Very cool

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 19:30:42 UTC 5 years ago

Yes. :)
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