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These are the detailed descriptions for
the categories of nomination. Please make sure
you vote for your favourite sites in the appropriate
category. Votes made for sites in the wrong category
will be disregarded. E.g. if you vote for a shop
such as Forbidden Planet Online in the best author
site category, said vote will not be manually
moved across to the correct category, it will
be cancelled.
1. Best
Online Magazine
Any online English-language SFF magazine which
doesn't produce in parallel a print version of
its content. Sites which offer just an Adobe PDF
download equivalent of their magazine or e-book
download of their publication are eligible for
this category. Sites which produce an annual printed
yearbook or other irregular compendium of their
online content are also eligible for entry here.
Sites must cover a broad spectrum of the SFF
genre to be eligible to be considered a magazine.
Single-topic broadcast media sites such as sites
that focus only on Star Trek, Middle Earth, Star
Wars etc should enter the appropriate media category
below.
2. Best
Print-to-Web Magazine
Any online English-language SFF magazine web site
which also has a print version. To be eligible
for this category the site must support a print
publication of more than 30 pages which comes
out with a quarterly or greater frequency.
Small press and mainstream publications with
web sites are both eligible.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the printed publication. If a
publication has a high quality print magazine,
but a two page brochureware site, it should not
come top of your voting list.
3. Best
Author Site
Any web presence of an author published in printed
novel form. Authors can be published by small-press
or mainstream publishers to qualify for entry
here. Novels are defined as any print science
fiction or fantasy story of thirty thousand words
or more.
To qualify as a print publisher for the purposes
of the Best Author site category, the author's
publisher must offer the work of more than 10
different author's works for sale in printed form.
E-book only authors should submit their site
in the Best E-book category; this includes self-published
authors by services such as iUniverse which include
a POD (print-on-demand) element.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the author's work.
If a writer happens to be your favorite author,
but they only have a two page brochureware site,
it should not come top of your voting list.
4. Best
Artist Site
Any web presence of an individual illustrator
or painter whose main focus is SFF. This is intended
for artists who work with the visual arts (airbrush,
oil, acrylic, pen and ink, pencil, CGI, Macromedia
Flash etc) - poetry, sculpture and music are not
eligible for entry in this category. The artist's
work must be primarily SFF, although some non-SFF
work is allowed to be included on the artist's
site.
Artist's pages on a gallery or site showcasing
multiple artists' work are not allowed to be entered
in this category. The site must focus on the work
of a single artist.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the artist's work.
If an artist happens to be your favorite illustrator,
but they only have a two page brochureware site,
it should not come top of your voting list.
5. Best
Gallery Site
Any web presence of a gallery showcasing more
than one artist's SFF work. The art showcased
should be primarily the visual arts (airbrush,
oil, acrylic, pen and ink, pencil, CGI etc) -
if a gallery includes a limited amount of sculpture
alongside paintings, it is still eligible for
entry in this category. If a gallery includes
a majority selection of non-visual work such as
sculpture, it is not eligible for entry in this
section.
Galleries showcasing the work of a single artist
should be entered into the Best Artist site category;
they are not eligible for entry into the gallery
category.
6. Best
Print Publisher Site
Any web presence supporting a SFF print publisher.
Sites can be small-press or mainstream. To qualify
as a print publisher, the site must offer the
work of more than 10 different author's works
for sale in printed form. Author's works are defined
as any print science fiction or fantasy story
of thirty thousand words or more.
Subsidy and vanity presses are not allowed for
entry in this category - this is defined as any
publisher who requires the author to make any
payment - however small - towards the cost of
their novel.
7. Best
E-book Publisher Site
Any web presence supporting an e-book publisher.
Sites can be small-press or mainstream. To qualify
as a print publisher, the site must offer the
e-book work of more than 10 different author's
works in digital form via download, email delivery,
disk or CD-ROM.
Subsidy and vanity presses are not allowed for
entry in this category - this is defined as any
publisher who requires the author to make any
payment - however small - towards the cost of
their e-book novel.
Valid formats are Adobe PDF, Rocket, Microsoft
Reader, or Palm Reader. Sites which offer only
HTML-format novels are not eligible for entry.
8. Best
E-book Site
Any web presence of an SFF author published only
in e-book form. Works can be self-published or
published through an e-book publisher. This category
includes authors who have published through subsidy
services such as iUniverse.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the author's work.
If a writer happens to be your favorite e-book
author, but they only have a two page brochureware
site, it should not come top of your voting list.
9. Best
Official Movie Site
Any studio-created site with a focus on a single
SFF movie or a series of sequels set in the same
universe.
Sites must have been created by the studio, production
company or distributor to qualify for entry in
this category.
If a site has been created by a fan as a tribute
to their favorite movie, it should be entered
in the 'Fan Movie' category below.
Online-only movies which have not had a theater
or direct-to-video release are not eligible for
entry into this category.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the movie itself.
If a film happens to be your favorite movie, but
they only have a two page brochureware site, it
should not come top of your voting list.
10.
Best Fan Movie Site
Any fan-created site with a focus on a single
SFF movie or a series of sequels set in the same
universe.
Sites must have been created by a fan or a group
of fans to qualify for entry in this category.
Sites with an official status, created by the
film's studio, production company or distributor
should enter the 'official movie' category above.
Online-only movies which have not had a theater
or direct-to-video release are not eligible for
entry into this category.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the movie itself.
If a film happens to be your favorite movie, but
they only have a two page brochureware site, it
should not come top of your voting list.
11.
Best Official TV Site
Any studio-created site with a focus on a single
SFF TV series or programme.
Sites must have been created by the channel,
studio, production company or distributor to qualify
for entry in this category.
Online-only TV series which have never had a
terrestrial broadcast release are not eligible
for entry in this category.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the TV series
itself. If a TV series or TV program happens to
be your favorite piece of television, but they
only have a two page brochureware site, it should
not come top of your voting list.
12.
Best Fan TV Site
Any fan-created site with a focus on a single
SFF TV series or programme.
Sites must have been created by a fan or a group
of fans to qualify for entry in this category.
Sites with an official status, created by the
TV series' channel, studio, production company
or distributor should enter the 'official movie'
category above.
Online-only TV series which have never had a
terrestrial broadcast release are not eligible
for entry in this category.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the TV series
itself. If a TV series or TV programme happens
to be your favorite piece of television, but they
only have a two page brochureware site, it should
not come top of your voting list.
13.
Best Online SFF store
Any store selling SFF books, videos, models, toys
and related merchandise.
To qualify for entry in this category, stores
must be a stand-alone commercial entity, not an
affiliate or associate member of another store's
marketing program.
Stores can either be operating online only, or
be an online operation supporting the commercial
activities of an off-line store.
Online store service, speed of delivery, breadth
of offering and other off-line components should
form a part of evaluating the quality of the nominations
in this category.
14.
Best Fan Site Home Page
This category ran in both the 2003 and 2004 Wooden
Rocket awards, but was discontinued 2005 and forward.
It was always the weakest category in terms of
number of votes cast, and when blogs came along,
most fan sites seemed to trade in their static
sites for the joys of the blogosphere anyway.
15.
Best Directory Site
Directories, online databases or search engines
with a worthy SFF section.
Directories are defined as any site where its
main focus is cataloguing external SFF resources;
search engines are defined as any SFF-only web
index crawling external sites; examples of online
databases would be genre encylopedias, or databases
that attempt to be comprehensive within an area
such as SFF films, books or magazines.
16.
Best Convention/Organisation/Society Site
Sites that support an SFF event, genre non-profit
organisations or regional SFF societies.
Voters should note, the award is for the quality
of the site, not the quality of the convention
or event itself. If an event happens to be your
favorite fan beerfest, but they only have a two
page brochureware site, it should not come top
of your voting list.
17.
Best Foreign Language Site
Any SFF site not presented in the English language.
Limited English content is allowed, but the majority
of content should be in a non-English language
such as French, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Korean
etc.
Foreign sites that have the majority of
their content in English, or have a full dual
language capability - such as that offered by
many French Canadian sites - are eligible to enter
categories 1-16.
Please note, sites with limited English content
such as a two-page introduction to their site,
with their remaining content in non-English form,
are required to enter the Best Foreign
Language Site category - and no other.
18. Best Blog
Love them or hate them, blogs and the self-absorbed
children of the blogosphere seems to be here to
stay.
To qualify, nominated blogs must be science fiction
and fantasy oriented (although we'll settle for
them just being written by a SFF genre notable,
given most of these things seem to talk about
what your cat last had for dinner or how passing
through a Eastern European airport on the way
to SFF convention is akin to the seventh circle
of hell).
Sites must be English language.
Note, this category is new for 2005.
19. Best Rich Content
Best web site with rich content material online.
Rich content includes downloadable video, streaming
media, Pod casts, Flash animations and the like.
Basically, any content that isn't flat text and
static pictures.
Animations and audio/video streams etc must be
English language.
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (Mark's take) 01/02/2012. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol still does not have the hang of what made the TV show so good. Instead of an intelligent puzzle for the viewer, it offers mindless excitement in one action stunt from Tom Cruise after another. But given that it is a Tom Cruise vanity piece and a mindless action film, it is one of the best mindless action films of 2011. Considerably better than the previous entries of the "Mission Impossible" series formerly animation director Brad Bird gives us quite a ride in his first live-action film. The film is a mixed bag of elements, but some are very good.
Dreaming while wide awake 01/02/2012. Writing stories is akin to dreaming while wide awake, except it’s depicted in words rather than dream images. It’s often said that everyone has at least one decent story in them. The problem a lot of the time is finding it. You should see my own ideas file as I’m still looking.
Whatever happened to the Megalomaniac? 01/02/2012. Wanted: Megalomaniac. Must be prepared to sit in a chair and look menacing. Desire to rule the world a must. Being totally ruthless as asset. A speculation by: GF Willmetts.
The Strange Case Of Angelica (Mark's take) 01/01/2012. This film is a Portuguese fantasy written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The pace is operatic and slow enough so that there is not much story here. Some dreamlike photography and a soothing musical score are pluses but slow, draggy telling is likely to frustrate the viewer and pay off with far too little reward for the effort of watching.
DC spends a million dollars on new logo 20/01/2012. DC Comics has revealed its new brand identity, which is, they say, "reflective of the company's mission to fully realise the value of a rich portfolio of brands, stories and characters, distinguished by incredible breadth and depth across publishing, media and merchandise." Well, if they say so.
NASA discovers first Earth-size planets beyond our Solar System 20/12/2011. NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, but they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our sun.
Steelhaven 20/12/2011. John Wordsworth, Commissioning Editor at Headline, has concluded a pre-emptive three-book World rights deal for an epic fantasy series by UK author Richard Ford with the agent John Jarrold. The first volume is provisionally titled Steelhaven.
The Amazing Spider-Man 15/12/2011. Here's the latest suite of photos from the next Spidey reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Directed rather appropriately by Marc Webb!
Doctor Who named top TV show in US charts 13/12/2011. Series six of the world’s longest running science fiction TV series Doctor Who has pipped US home-grown favourites such as Dexter, The Walking Dead and Glee to become 2011’s most downloaded show (season) on iTunes in America.
Mrs Dickens' family Christmas 13/12/2011. As the nation prepares to celebrate the festive season, there’s one man whose name is synonymous with Christmas and whose prose depicted the season as a wonderful time for the family to get together and forget about their troubles.
Matt Smith interviewed in the wardrobe 13/12/2011. The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe is Matt Smith’s second Christmas outing as the Doctor and this time he doesn’t have his trusted companions, ‘The Ponds’, by his side. However, it hasn’t stopped him relishing in another Christmassy adventure and here he reveals what Doctor Who has in store for festive viewers.
Claire Skinner interviewed: Dr Who Xmas 2011 13/12/2011. An interview with actress Claire Skinner (of Outnumbered fame), who plays Madge Arwell in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special. This is the seventh Christmas special since the show’s revival in 2005.
Alexander Armstrong interviewed: Doctor Who Christmas 2011 13/12/2011. An interview with Alexander Armstrong who plays Reg Arwel in the Doctor Who Christmas Special. The story is set during World War II and is about a family of Blitz refugees, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, who have to relocate to Dorset, where they meet the Doctor.
BBC to launch new series of Doctor Who games 13/12/2011. The BBC has released the details of a new gaming development for the Doctor Who TV prog. Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock will be the first of a series of Doctor Who console games developed by BBC Worldwide Digital Entertainment and Games.
Solaris buys Gaie Sebold's Hunter's Moon 13/12/2011. Jonathan Oliver, commissioning editor of Solaris Books, has acquired Hunter’s Moon by Gaie Sebold, a sequel to Babylon Steel - the opening volume of a fantasy series to be published in January 2012.
Hero Of The Empire: steampunk from David Barnett 13/12/2011. Claire Eddy, Senior Editor at Tor Books in New York, has concluded a three-book World English Language rights deal for British author David Barnett, for a strong five-figure sum in US dollars. The agent was John Jarrold.
Drakenfeld 21/11/2011. Bella Pagan, Senior Commissioning Editor at Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired world rights to the first two volumes of a new fantasy series called ‘Drakenfeld’ by Mark Charan Newton. The agent was John Jarrold.
Captain Nemo steampunked by Kevin J. Anderson 21/11/2011. Author Kevin J. Anderson’s newly released novel Captain Nemo (Titan Books) tells a steampunk version of Jules Verne’s creation, Captain Nemo, builder and captain of the Nautilus and secret benefactor to the castaways on the Mysterious Island.
Liam Neeson in new War of The Worlds 21/11/2011. Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of The Worlds is returning with "The New Generation" worldwide tour in November 2012, SFcrowsnest was told this morning by Jeff Wayne and Liam Neeson.
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Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (Mark's take)
Dreaming while wide awake
Whatever happened to the Megalomaniac?
The Strange Case Of Angelica (Mark's take)
