GSDA Recommendations 2004

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2005-02-07 08:11pm

People like me have no clue whats out there thats new and qualifies for the GSDAs this year. Please feel free to chime in this thread and provide us with great fics from this year that qualify for the GSDAs to get people's juices flowing so they can email Dalton with their nominations.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2005-02-07 08:47pm

The Big One, The Great Game, Crusade, High Frontier, Interstellar Highway, Saigon, The Sun set behind a Mountain, The Three Eagles, The Guiding Light, Blocking Action, Civis Americanus Sum, Unorganized Militia, Vengeance is Mine, A Matter of Returns,Ten Plagues, A Dish

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-02-07 08:53pm

The Unnamed Porno Fanfic
The entire series of DrakaFics
Fast Times at SD High

Post by **fgalkin** » 2005-02-07 10:16pm

SDH:The Place to Be...Oh wait, that's next year.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-02-07 11:03pm

MKSheppard wrote:The Big One, The Great Game, Crusade, High Frontier, Interstellar Highway, Saigon, The Sun set behind a Mountain, The Three Eagles, The Guiding Light, Blocking Action, Civis Americanus Sum, Unorganized Militia, Vengeance is Mine, A Matter of Returns,Ten Plagues, A Dish

I love the whole The Big One universe, but does that really qualify for a SDNet award? Stuart's home board is History, Politics, and Current Affairs, and that's where all the stories have been posted except for the Interstellar Highway teaser.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2005-02-07 11:08pm

RedImperator wrote:I love the whole The Big One universe, but does that really qualify for a SDNet award? Stuart's home board is History, Politics, and Current Affairs, and that's where all the stories have been posted except for the Interstellar Highway teaser.

It's been extensively linked to and discussed on this board, and has gained a sizeable following. The reason it remains on HPCA is so that Stuart can control the intellectual rights to the story, he IS trying to get it published.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-02-08 12:44am

MKSheppard wrote:
RedImperator wrote:I love the whole The Big One universe, but does that really qualify for a SDNet award? Stuart's home board is History, Politics, and Current Affairs, and that's where all the stories have been posted except for the Interstellar Highway teaser.
It's been extensively linked to and discussed on this board, and has gained a sizeable following. The reason it remains on HPCA is so that Stuart can control the intellectual rights to the story, he IS trying to get it published.

Wait, he's trying to publish it, and he's got it posted publically?

EDIT: And just because it's linked and discussed here doesn't mean it's OF here. No disrespect meant to Stuart, but we discuss and link to lots of fiction here, commercially published and otherwise. I'm just not sure TBO and its companion pieces qualify for a GSFA just because it's popular with SDN members.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2005-02-08 12:45am

RedImperator wrote:Wait, he's trying to publish it, and he's got it posted publically?

I assume that when he actually gets a line on someone willing to pick it up, TBO disappears from the internet.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-02-08 12:53am

Pablo Sanchez wrote:
RedImperator wrote:Wait, he's trying to publish it, and he's got it posted publically?
I assume that when he actually gets a line on someone willing to pick it up, TBO disappears from the internet.

Oh, absolutely it will. It will have to. The thing is, I know for a fact some magazines consider posting something on the internet to be a first publication, and those same magazines won't buy a story if they don't get first publishing rights. I'm not sure how it works in book publishing--James Lileks had a lot of material that eventually went into Interior Desecrators and The Gallery of Regrettable Foods available for free on his website before he got published, and Jeff Vogel over on IronyCentral had The Story of the Baby up for free on his website before someone offered to buy it, but none of those books are original fiction.

I know for my own protection, I never post any of my original work on the Internet. It's possible there's no problem, or Stuart has already looked into it and found out he's cool, but it might be worth his time to find out if he hasn't.

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-02-08 05:56am

aerius wrote:The Unnamed Porno Fanfic

UPF is ineligible since it has won awards in the past.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2005-02-08 07:00am

Dalton wrote:
aerius wrote:The Unnamed Porno Fanfic
UPF is ineligible since it has won awards in the past.

Sure, discount the new awesome Fanboy written chapters seeing as how now that i've become official! *cries*

And I was so proud of that Hutt trilogy mind you.....*sobs*

Well you can all nominate more of my great awesome super fics just...

*DF is carted away by the GSDA Gestapo and beaten with sticks.*

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2005-02-08 07:01am

nomination for the Drakafic writers for a special collaboration award. Never seen any group of authors team up like that.

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-02-08 08:10am

Darth Fanboy wrote:
Dalton wrote:
aerius wrote:The Unnamed Porno Fanfic
UPF is ineligible since it has won awards in the past.
Sure, discount the new awesome Fanboy written chapters seeing as how now that i've become official! *cries*

And I was so proud of that Hutt trilogy mind you.....*sobs*

Well you can all nominate more of my great awesome super fics just...

*DF is carted away by the GSDA Gestapo and beaten with sticks.*

Well, IIRC you did contribute to it in the past, yes? Maybe you can consider the older awards part yours as well? *shrug*

I just want to give others a chance.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2005-02-08 10:05am

Blood of Heroes by Chuck (Paradise lost was nominated last year but not BoH)

Battle of the Hymm by Knife (IIRC)

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2005-02-12 03:11am

Steves fic "Timelines" should be nominated, good ST fic.

SeebianWurm · Post by **SeebianWurm** » 2005-02-12 12:46pm

My underdog list. All of these don't succeed just as fanfics - I can see them as actual literature, too, which is my personal hallmark of success.

"Anabasis" by Pablo. A very solid fic that seems to escape all the more mediocre conventions of the industry. Also, did "Le Mort Homme" win anything last year? If it didn't, it deserves it now.

The Black Cell by Stas Bush. This piece is perhaps the most unusual fic ever posted here. Its style is spartan, and it is a good example of reducing your story to just the necessary elements. I'll be damned if that doesn't win something.

And the VictorHadin list:

*Speculative Trading
*Echo
*Ambassadors
*Cassie

There's more, but those are the 2004s. Frankly it's about damn time we recognize Victor -- he is never a letdown and never recieves much feedback on his superb works. I don't want him to stop posting his stuff, and neither should you.

Also, Singular Quartet is a very capable author, but he apparently hasn't posted any fics in 2004. Which makes it hard to nominate him.

I'm also sure there are more really damn good authors I haven't read on here, because even I can't read them all.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2005-02-12 05:06pm

I also recommend The truth of a Radical by Kuja. Short but sweet, andit's also been fnished.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2005-02-12 05:48pm

SeebianWurm wrote:"Anabasis" by Pablo. A very solid fic that seems to escape all the more mediocre conventions of the industry. Also, did "Le Mort Homme" win anything last year? If it didn't, it deserves it now.

I completely forgot the name of Anabasis, thank you for posting it. Someone, Nominate that now! I command you to!

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2005-02-12 05:49pm

I feel kind of bad that I haven't read that many fic's this year. Stofsk's Federation and Empire is a very good start of a story though, if I could get my Outlook express to work properly, I'd give it a nod.

I think it was Steve who wrote the start of a Star Trek/ his own universe *WWII-esque* fic and it was really good.

[shameless plug] I've got two that should qualify maybe three.

I would imagine though that the 'Draka' fics dominated this year both in volume and intensity. I never really got into it but..........to each his/her own.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2005-02-12 05:49pm

2000AD wrote:Blood of Heroes by Chuck (Paradise lost was nominated last year but not BoH)

Battle of the Hymm by Knife (IIRC)

Yay.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-02-12 07:25pm

I have to say that I'm a little confused about the eligibility of A Prelude to War. It was last nominated for the 2002-2003 GSDAs and escaped notice during the 2003-2004 GSDAs, and also hasn't won any awards.

At any rate I should be finished with APTW and (re)start on its sequel Twilight in Two Galaxies before summer of this year, so TTG will certainly be eligible for next year's GSDAs.

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-02-13 02:10am

Well...I'd have to say it's not eligible since it's already been nominated. I'm trying to do it Oscars-style so others have a chance.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2005-02-13 06:25am

So since Animatrix: Cain and Abel was nominated for one award last year that makes it ineligable now? That sucks a bit.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2005-02-16 03:06pm

Two questions:

1) Where do I send the nominations?

2) Is The Big One eligible?

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-02-16 08:07pm

Stormbringer wrote:Two questions:

1) Where do I send the nominations?

Since you're to lazy to check the "GSDA 2004 Nominations Period" thread, I'll be nice and tell you: rpd (at) daltonator (dot) net

2) Is The Big One eligible?

Only if the writer posts The Big One either here or on ASVS.