Hugo Award to Jeff Prucher

[Mark Mandel]

What he said.

Mark A. Mandel, proprietor, Cracks and Shards
http://www.cracksandshards.com
a Steven Brust fan website

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You damn the award with faint praise, Grant. The Hugo, named for Hugo
> Gernsbach, the father (of the modern, American school) of
> science-fiction, is the Oscar of SF, not merely a "prize."
>
> I'm *very* impressed, even though he left out one of my own favorite quotes:
>
> "[A sergeant] is the one who tells the telling to the ones who do the doing."
>
> -Eric Frank Russell
> And Then There Were None; Astounding SF cover-story, June 1951
>
> -Wilson

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