10 Years of Index to SF Awards

The Locus Index to SF Awards is just past its 10th anniversary online, I just noticed, as I finished the latest update and started uploading files. The first posting was quite modest — only the 10 or so ‘major awards’. It’s expanded over the years, and of course I’ve been planning to expand it even further almost since the beginning, as longtime attentive readers of this blog will recall. At the risk of repeating unfulfilled promises, I really do still plan to implement those expansions, and I’m more confidant in the near-term prospect of doing so by the recent success in managing to updat the main Locus Online site on a regular, daily basis. (In part, that has to do simply with project management tricks of breaking big tasks into teeny-weeny tasks, planning to do at least some task *every day*, and setting up a system to take credit for each and every task in a positive-feedback, self-reinforcing loop.)

On the other hand, I’m not sure that I’ll ever produce a version on CD ROM, as advertised on the Awards Index homepage. Bill Contento does this with his Locus Index to Science Fiction, and he sells a handful of copies a year (so far as I can gather), but then he doesn’t post the entire index online for free, as I still do with the awards index…

2 Responses to 10 Years of Index to SF Awards

  1. You mention that Bill Contento “sells a handful of copies a year” of his indexes on CD-ROM. I’ve bought some of them in the past myself, but when I click on the ‘Indexes on CD-ROM’ link now, all I get is a File Not Found error…

  2. And now it’s fixed.