2010 Hugo Winners Announced

From the Aussiecon 4 press release:

The Hugo Awards are the premier award in the science fiction genre, honoring science fiction literature and media as well as the genre’s fans. The first Hugos were awarded at the 1953 World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia (Philcon II), and have honored science fiction and fantasy notables such as Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman and many others.

BEST NOVEL

[Tie for first place]
The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

BEST NOVELLA

“Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace; Orbit)

BEST NOVELETTE

“The Island” by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)

BEST SHORT STORY

“Bridesicle” by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)

BEST RELATED WORK

This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”)
by 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, LONG FORM

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

BEST EDITOR, SHORT 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

THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Seanan McGuire

A photo of the physical award and base, which was designed by Australian artist Nick Stathopoulos, is here at TheHugoAwards.org.

7 thoughts on “2010 Hugo Winners Announced

  1. For the first time since 1975, we’ve had four different winners of the Best Hugo for Fanzine in four sequential years.

    From 1972-1975, we had Harry Warner, Jr., Terry Carr, Susan Wood Glicksohn, and Richard Geis.

    From 2007-2010, we had Dave Langford, John Scalzi, Cheryl Morgan, and Fred Pohl.

    The longest sequential run without repeats was from 1967-1971 (Alexei Panshin, Ted White, Warner, Wilson Tucker, Geis) and 1970 to 1974 (Tucker, Geis, Warner, Carr, Wood Glicksohn).

  2. Half these results seem quite reasonable.

    As for the other half, to quote Popeye, “I am disgustipated.”

  3. Taral: “disgustipated”? Are you sure you’re not quoting our last U.S. president? I’d hate to think I were agreeing with him for the first time…

  4. Dave Locke: “Disgustipated” is in fact from Fleischer Brothers animated Popeye cartoons, not George W. Bush. I’ve been known to use the expression myself.

    I’ve known it since childhood, watching Popeye hosted by Cookie (the late Jim Bolen) and the Captain (whose name I never have been able to remember) every weekday afternoon and some Saturdays and some Sundays on what was then KMOX-TV (now KMOV-TV) in St. Louis.

  5. One might footnote that there have been cases of nominees withdrawing; I don’t have a list off the top of my head, and don’t feel like Googling, but I recall Harlan Ellison removing his name after being nominated for Best Fan Writer in one of the late Sixties years.

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