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Local author Daniel Kimmel up for Hugo Award

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 10, 2012

Daniel M. Kimmel , former president of the Boston Society of Film Critics, said he was getting ready for his Passover seder on Saturday when he was informed that he’d been named a finalist for the Hugo Award for his book “Jar Jar Binks Must Die. . . and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies.’’ Kimmel told us by email on Monday: “They had live streaming video online of the . . .

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