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posted Saturday August 09, 2008 07:59pm EDT

Hugo Award Winners

Pablo Defendini

[Best Fan Writer Hugo winner John Scalzi with Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.]

The 2008 Hugo Awards Ceremony is taking place tonight, at the 66th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, in Denver, CO. The ceremony starts at 9:30PM EST, and through the magic of the internets we’ll be posting the winners here as they’re announced. Keep refreshing this post for the latest news.

Also tune into John Joseph Adams’ Twitter feed, as he’s live-twittering the ceremony.

Best of luck to all the nominees!

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer

WINNER: Mary Robinette Kowal

Best Fanzine

WINNER: File 770

Best Fan Writer

WINNER: John Scalzi

Best Fan Artist

WINNER: Brad Foster

Best Professional Artist

WINNER: Stephan Martiniere

Best Semiprozine

WINNER: Locus

Best Related Book

WINNER: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

WINNER: Doctor Who “Blink”

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

WINNER: Stardust

Best Professional Editor, Short Form

WINNER: Gordon Van Gelder

Best Professional Editor, Long Form

WINNER: David G. Hartwell

Best Short Story

WINNER: “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear

Best Novelette

WINNER: “The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate” by Ted Chiang

Best Novella

WINNER: "All Seated on the Ground" by Connie Willis

 

Best Novel

WINNER: The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

Congratulations to all the winners!

Update: The final vote breakdowns can be found here (PDF link).

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22 comments
Pablo Defendini
2.  pablodefendini
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 10:25pm EDT
Well, it's not like they stand up there, say 'hi', read off a list, and call it a night. There's a certain amount of ceremony, since it's, you know, a ceremony...
They're starting to roll in, though.
Chuk Goodin
3.  Chuk
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 10:58pm EDT
Sorry, that probably should have had a smiley. But 50 minutes? Ouch.

I was kind of hoping for The Arrival to win. Interesting to see that result for the Best Dave Langford award...
Christine Evelyn Squires
4.  ces
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 11:03pm EDT
So Martiniere won! And he's not even there.
Pablo Defendini
5.  pablodefendini
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 11:06pm EDT
@Chuk #3-- me too. The Arrival kicks ass.
Liam Kruger
6.  Malebolge
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 11:16pm EDT
Interesting choice of Stardust for best long form dramatic; I mean, I thought it was a perfectly sound film, but it didn't stand out and do backflips for me. But perhaps that's just in light of arguably unfavourable comparison to the book.
Paul Weimer
7.  Jvstin
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 11:28pm EDT
Very pleased that Bear won. Pleased that Martiniere won.

Not surprised that Chabon won. I suppose I really am going to have to read it now that it's swept the Hugo, Nebula, Sidewise and Locus awards.
Chuk Goodin
8.  Chuk
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday August 09, 2008 11:33pm EDT
Yeah, Chabon is well worth it. I would have put it first, too, with Brasyl and Halting State a couple of notches down, Last Colony a small notch below those, and Rollback a couple more down -- good enough book, but not up to the others IMHO.
Matthew Sanborn Smith
9.  Matthew Sanborn Smith
Saturday August 09, 2008 11:41pm EDT
Thanks!
Liza .
10.  aedifica
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 12:42am EDT
Hooray for Bear and "Tideline"!

I'm looking forward to reading Yiddish Policemen's Union when I next start reading new books (I'm in a spurt of re-reading right now).
Joe Sherry
11.  jsherry
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 12:57am EDT
Congrats to all!! (Especially Bear and MRK!)
Clifton Royston
12.  CliftonR
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 03:42am EDT
Wow, Scalzi won the best Langford?

Congrats to all.
Rob Hansen
13.  RobHansen
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 07:23am EDT
Congrats to Steven Moffat on making it a hat-trick with 'Blink'. I enjoyed this year's Doctor Who well enough but I don't think there was a sufficiently stanout story this time for the show to secure a Hugo next year as well.
eric orchard
14.  orchard
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 08:00am EDT · amended on Sunday August 10, 2008 08:36am EDT
Congratulations all!
Jeffrey Richard
15.  neutronjockey
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 11:18am EDT
You know...getting multiple updates via twitter live was pretty farkin' schnazzy---ALMOST like being there (minus the parties, and the bar, and the people...).

Congrats to all (esp. eBear, MRK, J.Scalzi and to all the noms for John Klima --- who is obviously doing something right!).
Tzut Tzut
17.  WillieMcBride
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 12:10pm EDT
I still can't understand how Richard Morgan wasn't nominated for Black Man/Thirteen (and didn't win)...
Mark McKibben
18.  Manzabar
VIEW ALL BY · Sunday August 10, 2008 10:44pm EDT
Congrats to all the winners! Though I do feel disappointed that Chabon got the Hugo for best novel. Yes, it was a good book but it hardly qualifies as Sci-Fi or Fantasy.
Arachne Jericho
19.  arachnejericho
VIEW ALL BY · Monday August 11, 2008 04:35am EDT
@Manzabar - It qualifies as Alternative History, which falls into the SF/Fantasy ranks. And I'd argue the potential Messiah stuff strongly leans it towards Fantasy regardless of anything else.
Mark McKibben
20.  Manzabar
VIEW ALL BY · Monday August 11, 2008 10:16am EDT
@Arachnehericho - Meh. It's a murder mystery/crime drama. The alternative history makes little to no impact on the actual story, this could have been set anywhere/when with no major changes to the story. If it's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy book, then the elements which make it Sci-Fi/Fantasy shouldn't be so incidental.

As for the Messiah stuff, I'll grant it has been a couple of months since I read the book, but those bits felt really tacked on. And from what I recall, we never "saw" the "Messiah" do anything; it was all "second-hand accounts" from various characters. Which makes those bits suspect, sort of like the red-herrings some mystery writers will put in their books to try & keep you from guessing the ending before you get there.
Soon Lee
21.  SoonLee
VIEW ALL BY · Monday August 11, 2008 06:48pm EDT
Congratulations to the winners.
Arachne Jericho
22.  arachnejericho
VIEW ALL BY · Monday August 11, 2008 11:53pm EDT
@Manzabar - The murder mystery was pretty much an excuse to hang upon its framework the exploration of an alternate history---and yeah, it's a subtle alternate history.

Frankly I don't know why YPU would win a mystery award. The mystery is rail thin and non-existent.

And the second-person accounts were not told by the characters involved---they were straight-out narrated, not told as a character-in-a-story-told, which means they were true, even in the mystery genre---but what to read between the lines of cold truth is hazed by the Messiah.

But people disagree with both of us, and we disagree with each other, so I'll just leave it at that on my end.
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