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Norton Awards 2003
02/10/2003 . Source: Jessica Martin 
The first annual Bay Area Norton Awards presented to Kage Baker and Ron Turner. Kage and Ron received the first annual Norton Awards on September 14th at the Tachyon Publications Eighth Anniversary party held at Borderlands Books in San Francisco.
The award is named after and commemorates the memory of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico and is represented by a bust of Norton sculpted by Paul Groendes. The award itself is called a Joshua.
The Norton is a Bay Area-specific award given each year for, "Extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason." It is a juried award and this year's judges were Richard Lupoff (author), Alan Beatts (book store proprietor), and Jacob Weisman (editor/publisher)
Two awards are given: the first is given to either a single written, fictional work of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror or an author of any of these genres of fiction. The second award is given to any creation, creator, or service relating to those genres.
Kage Baker was on hand to receive her award for "A Night on the Barbary Coast," from the Silver Gryphon Anthology, edited by Gary Turner and Marty Halpern. Receiving the award for Ron Turner, the owner of local distributor and comic book publisher, Last Gasp, was Last Gasp employee Bucky Sinister.
The awards ceremony/anniversary party, which was free and open to the public, was well-attended. Peter S. Beagle, Michael Swanwick, and Sheila Finch all read selections from their latest Tachyon releases.
Richard Lupoff read a selection from his forthcoming Tachyon anthology, The Best of Xero. Other notable authors and editors in attendance included Mark Budz, Grania Davis, Cory Doctorow, Marina Fitch, Marty Halpern, Jeremy Lassen, Pat Murphy, and Richard Paul Russo.
What a party ... what an award!
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