{"id":17376,"date":"2009-08-16T21:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:19:25","slug":"nebula-awards-weekend-2000-why-science-fiction-age-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/16\/nebula-awards-weekend-2000-why-science-fiction-age-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebula Awards Weekend 2000: Why <i>Science Fiction Age<\/i> died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost 10 years since Paul Levinson, then president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, approached me at the 1999 Philcon and asked if I would act as Toastmaster for the following year&#8217;s Nebula Awards ceremony in New York. <\/p>\n<p>Ham that I am, I immediately accepted.  Click below to  see how I repaid Paul for that honor.<\/p>\n<p>The event was recorded by a group called the Rochester Fantasy Fans, something which I&#8217;d completely forgotten.  At the Montreal Worldcon last weekend, they presented me with a DVD containing a complete video of that evening, which contains speeches by Daniel Keyes and Brian Aldiss, plus stage appearances by Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, John Kessel, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ll get to see them in the future. But for now, here&#8217;s a brief taste of my shtick. If you behave, I may inflict  more of it on you.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LU1VHlpy4CQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LU1VHlpy4CQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost 10 years since Paul Levinson, then president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, approached me at the 1999 Philcon and asked if I would act as Toastmaster for the following year&#8217;s Nebula Awards ceremony in New York. Ham that I am, I immediately accepted. Click below to see how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,17],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nebula-awards","tag-science-fiction-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17377,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}