| The Sir Julius Vogel awards are fan voted awards for various
endeavours in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields. Professional nominations can
be for novels, short stories, art and others. Fan nominations can be for fanzine, writing,
art, Services to Fandom, Services to Science Fiction and more. Voting on the Sir Julius
Vogel Awards takes place before and at the National Science Fiction convention each year.
You are eligible to vote if you are a member of SFFANZ, OR a member of the National
Science Fiction convention that year. You are only entitled to one vote, even if you
belong to both.
Sir Julius Vogel was a Prime Minister of New Zealand, and wrote in 1889 what was
probably the first full length Science Fiction novel by a New Zealander, Anno Domini
2000 - A Woman's Destiny.
This book was strongly centred around New Zealand, and was a utopian view of the future
in which women would hold many positions of authority. "Predictions" which have
come true...
At OdysseyCon in 2001, the proposal was made to have the fan awards called the Sir
Julius Vogel Awards. The vote by the fans was near unanimous in favour of the name. |
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Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2009
On Sunday, 31st May, the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2009 were announced A full list of
the winners and nominees can be found here.
Voting this year took place at the 2008 National Science Fiction convention, Conscription. |
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| Nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2009 for science fiction and fantasy works
first published or released in the 2008 calendar year have now closed. The list of
nominees is available here. You can find full
details about the nomination procedures and rules, including eligibility criteria here. These rules can be downloaded as a
PDF document here.
A detailed nomination FAQ can be found here.
The voting will occur at Conscription,
the national science fiction convention being held in Auckland, New Zealand over Queen's
Birthday, 27 May - 1 June 2009. |
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| On Sunday, 23rd March, the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2008 were
announced A full list of the winners and nominees can be found here.
Voting this year took place at the 2008 National Science Fiction convention, Conjunction.
If you would like to see some suggestions and guidelines on how to make nominations,
you will find a useful document here. |
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| Rules and Criteria for
the Sir Julius Vogel Awards |
| Rules and Criteria for the
Sir Julius Vogel Awards (PDF) |
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At the 2008 AGM of SFFANZ, the rules for the SJVs were accepted by a vote
of the membership.
The members have also asked for further public discussion of the rules in order to clarify
various issues that have arisen over the last 7 years. The SFFANZ board are currently
deciding on the best way to carry out this discussion. It is likely that a combination of
email and webpages will be used. We are concious of providing options for people in
how they want to take part in the discussion. We will provide details on how to take
part in this discussion shortly. Members will be contacted directly, and the details will
be made public here.
The discussion can be viewed at sffanz_discuss. |
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