WINNERS: 2009 Hugo Awards
The Winners of the 2009 Hugo Award have just been announced via The Hugo Awards Twitter feed:
- BEST NOVEL: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
- BEST NOVELLA: “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008)
- BEST NOVELETTE: “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Mar 2008)
- BEST SHORT STORY: “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two, also: audio version)
- BEST RELATED BOOK: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)
- BEST GRAPHIC STORY: Girl Genius, Volume 8: “Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones” Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM: WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM: Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon, & Maurissa Tancharoen, writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)
- BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM: Ellen Datlow
- BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM: David G. Hartwell
- BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Donato Giancola
- BEST SEMIPROZINE: Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal
- BEST FAN WRITER: Cheryl Morgan
- BEST FANZINE: Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
- BEST FAN ARTIST: Frank Wu
Additionally, The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer went to David Anthony Durham.
Congratulations to all the winners!
See also:
- This year’s nominees
- This year’s final ballot and nominee details. (Thanks to all who voted for SF Signal!)(UPDATE: And thanks to all of those folks who voted for me as Best Fan Writer! I can’t believe I’m just finding out about this days later…)
- Past winners.
Yes indeed, congrats to the winners! I’m sure the debate will rage on privately, if not publicly, about the relative merits of the awards. I personally am happy that Gaiman won for The Graveyard Book because I think the book itself is a great story, and I’m also happy for Ted Chiang. I read Exhalation earlier in the year in Eclipse Two and was very impressed. One of the best stories in the anthology.
All of those are good picks. I have to say, as happy as I am for Mr. Gaimen, my favorite novel was Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Also, even though I’m a huge fan of Ted Chiang I have yet to read Exhalation. Something to look forward too I guess.