The Hugos have been awarded. For the second year running, a “For Fans’ Eyes Only” sort of novel has won. Frequent nominee Pat Cadigan also takes her first Hugo, while Mur Lafferty, whose first novel we recently reviewed, received the Campbell Award. All winners (and some Con video) below.
Best Novel: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
Best Novella: The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
Best Novelette: “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan
Best Short Story: “Mono no Aware” by Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese)
Best Related Work: Writing Excuses Season Seven by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler and Jordan Sanderson
Best Graphic Story: Saga, Volume One written by Brian K. Vaughn, illustrated by Fiona Staples
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: The Avengers
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Game of Thrones: “Blackwater”
Best Editor, Short Form: Stanley Schmidt
Best Editor, Long Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Best Professional Artist: John Picacio
Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld
Best Fanzine: SF Signal
Best Fan Writer: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Best Fan Artist: Galen Dara
Best Fancast: SF Squeecast
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Mur Lafferty
Not much video yet from WorldCon, but here’s a “Doctor Who Thingy” (Dalek)…
…And some video from DragonCon, also happening this weekend:
The text and audio version of “Mono no Aware” is available for free on Escape Pod.
They have a few other of the Hugo nominated short stories, if you’re interested.
I don’t know how many of the nominated novels this year would compare favorably with the better short SF I’ve read lately– like “Mono no Aware.”