Fred Pohl has a Hugo

[julesjones]

A while back, there was this ripple of posts across sf blogland of posts that consisted of "Fred Pohl has a blog!", followed by comment threads consisting of variations on "squee!!!"

Not really a surprise then that he's just won this year's Hugo for Best Fanwriter. Not bad for a 90 year old. :-)

Comments

[jhall1]

Nit bad at all. I suppose that he and Ray Bradbury must be about the last of the greats from the "golden age" of SF who are still with us.

[julesjones]

As Nojay pointed out on the LJ version of the post, Jack Vance got a Hugo for Best Related Work, and *he's* 94. But there aren't many of First Fandom still around now. (Ray Bradbury is the one who immediately comes to mind, though I think there are others.)

[jhall1]

I think that Jack Vance must only have come to the for comparatively late in life as, rightly or wrongly, he isn't someone who I associate with the Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Jack Vance got the rocket for best non-fiction book, his autobiography which is arguably also fan writing of a sort and he's four years older than Fred.

[julesjones]

Ta, I *thought* I saw something about that, but that was the point at which my laptop decided that it wasn't talking to the external monitor and I missed some of the chat feed