Now… as long as you’re nominating things for Hugos, you should know that you can nominate up to five works for each category. My purpose in this exercise is to ensure that those who can vote know what’s eligible, and have the opportunity to easily review it. Obligatory Ethical Note: I feel confident that my web presence and active fanbase will NOT result in ballot-stuffing, since the right to nominate costs a minimum of $50. In order to nominate works for the Hugos you must have an Attending membership to either Denvention or Anticipation (WorldCon 66 from ’08 or WorldCon 67 in ’09), or a Supporting membership. It is a 35mb download, but it should be much more convenient than re-reading the archives on the web.

This year there is an additional category, a one-time-only Award for “Best Graphic Story,” and after a careful perusal of the rules it appears that Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic is eligible for nomination.īut is it worthy? I invite you to re-read it! And for your convenience, here is Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic as a PDF.

Leantio is taken up by Livia.Voting is open for the 2009 Hugo Awards, the World Science Fiction Society‘s annual bestowal of honor, and the most prestigious awards in Science Fiction.

Bianca leaves her husband to become the Duke's mistress. Bianca's story is mirrored by that of Isabella, who is being ‘sold’ into marriage with a rich fool and is tricked into an incestuous relationship with her uncle Hippolito. A wealthy neighbour, the widow, Livia, aids him in this, luring Bianca and the mother to her house where Bianca is raped by the Duke. Despite her husband's exhortations to keep herself private, Bianca is spotted by the Duke of Florence, who determines to make her his. They elope and live in secrecy with Leantio's mother. Leantio, a clerk, falls in love with Bianca, a rich man's daughter. Middleton sets out a moral fable on the corrupting nature of desire and greed. There are a number of differences, but also points of connection between Barker's version and Middleton's Jacobean tragedy. This version was published and staged as a collaboration between the Jacobean and the modern playwright. In 1986 Howard Barker abridged Thomas Middleton's tragedy Women Beware Women and wrote a new ending.

The Body Politic by Howard Tayler