not the Nebulas controvery

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By now, most readers from the SF community will have heard about the Great Blooper at last weekend's Nebulas, where somehow the schedule omitted a special honor that had been intended for Frank M. Robinson. Frank was too ill to be there, but the omission certainly cheesed off the intended acceptor, who had made a special effort to attend.

Something like that happened to me once. This was when I was Mythopoeic Awards administrator, and Mythcon was subsumed into the big tent of the Tolkien Centenary Conference in Oxford. The awards were announced at a subsidiary event early in the conference, but I found I was able to get John M. Ford, a name of some significance, who was in England at the time, to come to the main banquet to accept the children's award for Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories - as I recall, they shared a UK publisher.

The organizers agreed to make a little space for this on the banquet program, but I guess they forgot and it didn't happen. I should have double-checked, but I hadn't yet been burned often enough by experience to know that this needs to be done. I sat there at a table with Mike Ford, feeling more and more embarrassed as the program went on and I wasn't called on, and at the end, as everyone was getting up and leaving, I apologized to him, shook his hand, and gave him the statuette, which he slipped into his backpack before heading back to London. And that was the last I ever heard of the incident.

But that's not what I'm writing about. What I'm wondering is: did the Nebula Weekend in San Jose have a restaurant guide? You see, members of the committee had seen my Potlatch restaurant guide and asked if they could use it. I had said sure, provided that I was given the chance to update it - as restaurants can come and go like mayflies, and this was 3 months later - for which I'd need to know their deadline. But they never got back to me, and in the press of other duties I let it pass.

So now I wonder what was the result. I couldn't find any trace of a local guide at all on the website. Did they have one? Did they refer people to the online edition of my Potlatch guide, and, if so, did they give the warning that it was out of date? I don't want to ask them now; I'm sure they're very busy with their cleanup, and I don't want to nag them with a now-moot question; but I am curious.

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