WINNERS: 2006 Hugo Awards
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, August 27th, 2006 at
12:32 am
The 2006 Hugo Award winners have been announced:
- NOVEL: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson [SF Signal review]
- NOVELLA: “Inside Job” by Connie Willis [SF Signal Review]
- NOVELETTE: “Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle [SF Signal Review]
- SHORT STORY: “Tk’tk’tk” by David D. Levine [SF Signal Review]
- RELATED BOOK: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop by Kate Wilhelm
- DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONG FORM: Serenity [SF Signal review]
- DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORT FORM: Doctor Who – “The Empty Child” & “The Doctor Dances”
- PROFESSIONAL EDITOR: David G. Hartwell
- PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Donato Giancola
- SEMIPROZINE: Locus
- FANZINE: Plokta
- FAN WRITER: Dave Langford
- FAN ARTIST: Frank Wu
Also presented, the winner of the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer (Not a Hugo) is John Scalzi.
See Locus Online for a list of nominees and here for stats.
[via Nicholas Whyte and Andrew Bertke]
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- NOMINEES: 2006 Aurora Awards
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For me, the Hugo for best novel was a race between Spin and Old Man’s War, with Old Man’s War taking the honors. Sure, Spin was a find hard SF novel, with interesting ideas and a great expansion of scope at the end, but Old Man’s War was a great SF novel in the early Heinlein tradition and was, for me, a more fun book to read. And also a more accessible SF book. Now if only I could have purchased a few thousand tickets to WorldCon, and OMW could have run away with the award….