{"id":538,"date":"2006-08-27T07:44:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/27\/hugo-awards-2006-1\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T07:44:04","slug":"hugo-awards-2006-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/27\/hugo-awards-2006-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Hugo Awards (either the Oscars of the Golden Globes of the science fiction\/ fantasy field, depending on who you ask) were announced last night<\/a> at the Worldcon in LA. Pleasant surprises abound:<\/p>\n

1) Spin<\/cite> by Robert Charles Wilson won the Best Novel Hugo. As I’ve said before<\/a>, I think it was far and away the best book in the field, but I didn’t think it would win<\/a>. They’ve made a lot of bad calls in recent years, but this one, I like.<\/p>\n

2) The Best Professional Editor Hugo goes to David Hartwell. This is nice to see not just because David is a nice guy, and does good work, but because there’s been a historical tendency for this award to only go to magazine editors, not book editors (they’re actually splitting the category into “short form” and “long form” next year for just this reason). As I read more novels than short fiction, I always pull for book editors, and it’s nice to see one win.<\/p>\n

3) The John W. Campbell Not a Hugo for Best New Writer goes to John Scalzi<\/a>. OK, that one’s not terribly surprising, but I do like the result.<\/p>\n

A complete list of the results is below the fold, for those who care (and who don’t want to click through to the list at the Locus<\/cite> site…). I’ll provide a few comments (in italics<\/i>) as appropriate.<\/p>\n

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Best Novel: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) <\/p>\n

Best Novella: “Inside Job” by Connie Willis (Asimov’s January 2005) <\/p>\n

This was more or less inevitable…<\/i><\/p>\n

Best Novelette: “Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy & Science Fiction October\/November 2005) <\/p>\n

Haven’t read the story, but I like his other work. <\/i><\/p>\n

Best Short Story: “Tk’tk’tk” by David D. Levine (Asimov’s March 2005) <\/p>\n

Best Related Book: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop by Kate Wilhelm (Small Beer Press) <\/p>\n

Go, Small Beer Press…<\/i><\/p>\n

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Serenity Written & Directed, Joss Whedon. (Universal Pictures\/Mutant Enemy, Inc.)<\/p>\n

And this year’s award for “Least Surprising Award” goes to…<\/i><\/p>\n

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who “The Empty Child” & “The Doctor Dances” Written, Steven Moffat. Directed, James Hawes. (BBC Wales\/BBC1) <\/p>\n

Best Professional Editor: David G. Hartwell (Tor Books; Year’s Best SF) <\/p>\n

Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola <\/p>\n

Best Semiprozine: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi <\/p>\n

Has a magazine other than Locus ever won this award?<\/i><\/p>\n

Best Fanzine: Plokta edited, Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott <\/p>\n

Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford <\/p>\n

Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu<\/p>\n

Other Awards presented before the Hugo Ceremony:<\/p>\n

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: John Scalzi <\/p>\n

First Fandom Hall of Fame Award: Joe L. Hensley<\/p>\n

Seiun Foreign Long Story: Diaspora [Diasupora] by Greg Egan\/Trans. Makoto Yamagishi<\/p>\n

Seiun Foreign Short Story: “The Human Front” (“Jinrui Sensen”) by Ken MacLeod\/Trans. Youichi Shimada <\/p>\n

Big Heart Award: Forrest J Ackerman <\/p>\n

Special Committee Award: Betty Ballantine <\/p>\n

Special Committee Award: Robert Silverberg<\/p>\n

I’m not actually sure about that last one– I copied the list from the SFWA site<\/a>, because it was a little cleaner, and they have Silverberg down as the winner, but Locus<\/cite> says it was Harlan Ellison. I’m not sure which is correct, or how you confuse those two, but I also don’t care all that much.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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