I guess everyone who cares already knows by now, but the Hugo awards in the fiction categories were:
Best Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon, which had already won the Nebula; another to add to my list of joint winners once I have proper internet access again.
Best Novella: "All Seated on the Ground", by Connie Willis, which I didn't especially like but I see how it appeals to fannish humour. That makes her the first person to get her tally of Hugo awards for fiction into double figures
Best Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", by Ted Chiang. This also won the Nebula so is also on my list of double winners. I liked it a lot, though I liked "The Cambist and Lord Iron" even more.
Best Short Story: "Tideline", by Elizabeth Bear. I thought this was by far the best of the short story nominees - indeed, this was the only category (among written fiction) where I voted for the winner. Bear is only the second Hugo winner to have been born in the 1970s (and no Nebula has gone to anyone born since 1969).
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long):Stardust. This was the only one I had seen, but I really enjoyed it.
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short): "Blink" (Doctor Who). Steven Moffat makes it three in a row. People still talk of this as perhaps the best Who story ever, and in my poll it came only narrowly behind "Genesis of the Daleks". The runner-up in the Hugo vote was Paul Cornell's "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".
Congrats to all the winners, including in categories I haven't listed.
Best Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon, which had already won the Nebula; another to add to my list of joint winners once I have proper internet access again.
Best Novella: "All Seated on the Ground", by Connie Willis, which I didn't especially like but I see how it appeals to fannish humour. That makes her the first person to get her tally of Hugo awards for fiction into double figures
Best Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", by Ted Chiang. This also won the Nebula so is also on my list of double winners. I liked it a lot, though I liked "The Cambist and Lord Iron" even more.
Best Short Story: "Tideline", by Elizabeth Bear. I thought this was by far the best of the short story nominees - indeed, this was the only category (among written fiction) where I voted for the winner. Bear is only the second Hugo winner to have been born in the 1970s (and no Nebula has gone to anyone born since 1969).
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long):Stardust. This was the only one I had seen, but I really enjoyed it.
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short): "Blink" (Doctor Who). Steven Moffat makes it three in a row. People still talk of this as perhaps the best Who story ever, and in my poll it came only narrowly behind "Genesis of the Daleks". The runner-up in the Hugo vote was Paul Cornell's "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".
Congrats to all the winners, including in categories I haven't listed.
- Mood:unsurprised
Well, I see that the Philip K Dick award went to Spin Control by Chris Moriarty, which I thought a respectable enough nominee, though at least they gave a special commendation to Elizabeth Bear's Carnival which was the book I would have voted for.
(Anyone want to see how the First Doctor met Henry VIII? Movin' swiftly on...)
(Anyone want to see how the First Doctor met Henry VIII? Movin' swiftly on...)
My review of this year's Philip K Dick shortlisted novels is up at Strange Horizons.
It may or may not be significant that five of the seven novels are published by Bantam Spectra. It may or may not be significant that five out of the seven authors are women. It is probably not significant that five of the seven have one-word titles.Comments turned off on this entry to encourage people to comment over there.