Afterword to Aftermath

Posted by Colin Harvey Sep 29, 2009

It was a good con. What made it even better, and which I forgot to mention at the time (and the list of thank you's made the blog eough of an epic) was that I won a prize.

I never win prizes.

But I won a prize!!

The competition was 'Guess the Weight of the Hugo.' I put my one pound entry fee in and said 4.05kg (Cheryl wanted it exact to avoid a tie) and lo and behold, the weight was 3.6kg. The next nearest was 50g further away from me, and had already gone, so I couldn't even give my prize away.

For the record, the prize was a copy of...

Slights by Kaaron Warren

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

The Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson

Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner

Kell's Legend by Andy Remic

Angel of Death by J. Robert King

Yep, that's right. I won the Angry Robot set. Not that there's anything wrong with such a fine set of titles, but I'm sure I heard some muttered comments of 'fix!' and besides, I already have some of them.

So I'll get Rem to sign his at Forbidden Planet on October 10th, and the whole set -- plus my ARC of Winter Song-- will go into the charity auction at either Micrcon in Exeter, or Phoenix-Con in Dublin, depending which one happens first. There! Can't say fairer than that, can we? (That was a rhetorical question, btw, a concept that seems to have passed some of my more literal-minded readers by).

Back to school later on today, so I'd better wrap up now.

Only two days to launch....