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2012 Hugo Award Nominees to be Announced Tomorrow – Live
The 2012 Hugo Award nominees will be announced tomorrow on a live stream that starts at 3 p.m. CT. In an impressive display of technological competence, they will stream simultaneously at five conventions in the US and Europe. We will, of course, post the results here on the blog, in BookTrackr, and on our Twitter feed as soon as the results are announced.
In case you’d like to know even (seconds) earlier, here are the five streams where you can catch the nominating action live (lifted from chicon.org):
- Norwescon 35: one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier science fiction and fantasy conventions, at Seatac, WA (1 p.m. PDT). With Special Guest John Picacio. Ustream channel www.ustream.tv/channel/hugo-nominee-announcement-live-from-norwescon.
- Leprecon 38: Arizona’s annual science fiction and fantasy convention, at Tempe, AZ (1 p.m. MST). With Special Guest Joe Haldeman. Ustream channel www.ustream.tv/channel/hugo-nominee-announcement-live-from-leprecon.
- Minicon 47: Minnesota’s longest-running science fiction convention, at Bloomington, MN (3 p.m. CDT). Ustream channel www.ustream.tv/channel/hugo-nominee-announcement-live-from-minicon.
- Marcon 47: the Midwest’s largest annual convention, at Columbus, OH (4 p.m. EDT). Ustream channel www.ustream.tv/channel/hugo-nominee-announcement-live-from-marcon.
- Olympus 2012: the British National Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon) (9 p.m. BST). With Chicon 7 Chair Dave McCarty and Special Guest George R.R. Martin. Ustream channel www.ustream.tv/channel/hugo-nominee-announcement-live-from-eastercon.
Hugo Winner Announced!
The winner for 2011’s Hugo Award is Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. Here’s a synopsis from the WWEnd database entry:
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz.
But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.
Congratulations to Connie Willis on winning this year’s Hugo!
2011 Hugo Voter Packet
I saw this posted over on Whatever and thought I’d mention it here. The 2011 Hugo Voters Packet it now available for members of Renovation, The 69th World Science Fiction Convention. The packet is "an electronic package of nominated works graciously made available to voters by nominees and their publishers."
The packet contains pretty much all the nominated material and includes updates and expansions as they are made available. Take a look at the list of stuff you’ll get in your packet.
Not going to attend Renovation? No problem, you can still get in on the action. You can sign up as a Supporting Member for $50 and get the packet – valued way more than $50 by the way – and you’ll be eligible to vote. That’s a pretty damn good deal and less than you would have to pay for just the novels alone.
So who’s in?
2011 Hugo Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2011 Hugo Award have been announced at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nevada. They nominees for Best Novel are:
- Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
- Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
- Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
See the press release for the complete list of nominees in all categories. Congratulations to all the nominees.
What do you think of this lineup? The Dervish House makes headlines again this weekend with the Hugo nod to go along with the BSFA win yesterday. It’s looking like I may have to give it a go.
2010 Hugo Winners
The 2010 Hugo Awards were presented last night at Aussiecon 4! Here is the complete winners list from The Hugo Awards website:
- Best Novel: TIE: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
- Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)
- Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
- Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
- Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars” Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
- Best Editor Short Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- Best Editor Long Form: Ellen Datlow
- Best Professional Artist: Shaun Tan
- Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
- Best Fan Writer: Frederik Pohl
- Best Fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
- Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster
And the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines): Seanan McGuire
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
2010 Hugo Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2010 Hugo Award have been announced at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention. They Best Novel category nominees are:
- Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
- The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
- WWW: Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
See the complete list of nominees in all categories on the official Hugo Award website.
What do you think of this lineup? Anybody got a favorite on this list?
2009 Hugo Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2009 Hugo Award have been announced:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
Check ’em out on the Hugo page.
Hugo noms are coming, with new category
It is Hugo nominating time again. If you would like to participate in this year’s nomination process, you’ll need to become a suporting or attending member of Anticipation, which will host the 2009 Worldcon in Canada. You’ll also be able to vote on the 2011 Worldcon location (personally, I hope you vote for Seattle). Once a member, you can nominate up to five works in each category, so get to work!
The big news, however, is the new Best Graphic Story category. Geezers like me might call it the "comic book" category, but I know you afficianados would correct me. Since the Hugo is not technically a science fiction award (fantasy novels also qualify), I wonder how loose the eligibility requirements would be for this one. Is it enough that a work is drawn, or must it be otherworldly? Could Batman receive an award? What about a classy title that isn’t techy or fantastic at all, like Ghost World? Me, I’m rooting for the great one: Asterix!
