2015 Hugo Award Winners

Sasquan announced the Hugo Award winners on August 22 at a ceremony hosted by Tananarive Due and David Gerrold.

Best Novel
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu translator (Tor Books)

Best Novella
No Award

Best Novelette
“The Day the World Turned Upside Down” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Lia Belt translator (Lightspeed, 04-2014)

Best Short Story
No Award

Best Related Work
No Award

Best Graphic Story
Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt, (Marvel Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Guardians of the Galaxy, written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman, directed by James Gunn (Marvel Studios, Moving Picture Company)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”, written by Graham Manson, directed by John Fawcett (Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America)

Best Editor, Short Form
No Award

Best Editor, Long Form
No Award

Best Professional Artist
Julie Dillon

Best Semiprozine
Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant

Best Fanzine
Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Colin Harris, Alissa McKersie, and Helen J. Montgomery

Best Fancast
Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)

Best Fan Writer
Laura J. Mixon

Best Fan Artist
Elizabeth Leggett

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Wesley Chu

A complete breakdown of the voting information may be found here.

 

50 thoughts on “2015 Hugo Award Winners

  1. Just to go on the record:

    I read all of the nominees.

    I found many of the slated Puppy nominees wanting, and voted accordingly. They were not the best SF of the year. At best, they were alright SF, and at worst, were actively harmful and awful.

    I voted accordingly.

  2. @Will R

    In before Henley!

    @Paul

    +1. I read, I judged, I found wanting. The difference between voting on merit and voting against slates was negligible. Interestingly, the full stats show that the better Puppy works, such as Totalled and Triple Sun, did relatively better, despite not beating NA. I assume this was a combo of people finding them good enough to go over NA, and placing them just below No Award, showing that people were considering merit even though NA was the end result.

  3. Beyond thrilled for Ms Marvel’s win. It is so utterly charming and amazing and lively and wonderful and just fun. Also happy for Guardians, although I feel like Winter Soldier had more to say and said it just as well.

    Went out and bought ‘Lives of Tao’ based solely on Wesley Chu’s acceptance speech.

  4. I also read the packet and voted on what I thought was award worthy. In many cases that ended up being No Award, except for categories where I didn’t feel I knew enough of the subject in which I didn’t submit a vote at all.

    Congrats to the winners, and for the hosts doing a marvelous job being both positive and entertaining during a night that more eyes were probably watching than ever for something to go wrong. Woot Three Body Problem!

    Is there a list of Alfie Award winners?

  5. Once the EPH folks have time to run the raw data through their program, I’d be very interested in seeing what it comes up with. I’d especially like to know how the ballot would differ from the “knock off the slated works and take whatever’s comes in after they’re gone” type ballot construction currently going on.

    Also, I’d be interested to know if things like The Flash Pilot episode and the chosen GoT episode would have done better in the final vote if they hadn’t been on a slate, but there’s no way of knowing.

  6. Is there going to be a roundup of various reactions from across the blogosphere? The usual suspects have by and large all posted their takes, and there are a couple pieces over at TeleRead that you’ll probably run across anyway, given that you’ve found all the previous ones I’ve done. 🙂

  7. @Mike Kerpan: “Once the EPH folks have time to run the raw data through their program, I’d be very interested in seeing what it comes up with. I’d especially like to know how the ballot would differ from the “knock off the slated works and take whatever’s comes in after they’re gone” type ballot construction currently going on.”

    Count me in for a piece of that. I’m also interested in how the 5% threshold would have been affected, both by EPH and by the absence of slate voters. (I am of the opinion that with EPH, we don’t need to retain the 5% floor… but then, I also believe it eliminates the need for a per-voter nomination ceiling. Both opinions are subject to change according to actual data.)

  8. I read a claim on Twitter that nobody at Sasquan saved the Hugo Awards ceremony livestream.

    Hope that’s not true. I could’ve recorded it myself while I was watching had I known that was a possibility.

  9. I’d be shocked if the livestream wasn’t saved. That would be a huge oversight if true.

  10. [I’ve already posted a version of this in an older thread, but someone pointed out that Bellett and Kloos were worth mentioning as withdrawals. Mike, hopefully it’s okay to repost here, but if not feel free to squash it]

    Considering the alternative/slate-free 2015 nomination list and the discussion of Asterisks, it occurred to me that work from those authors who non-slaters liked last year might be of interest to people looking for work eligible for 2016. Therefore here is a list of the authors of the top-5 non-slated works in the fiction categories, with their 2015 works. Obviously excluding those who actually got a nom this year, and adding those who declined a nomination.
    (Not guaranteed to be either accurate or comprehensive, but I tried!)
    Campbell Award for Best New Writer

    Andy Weir
    – Some movie coming out this year, apparently!

    Alyssa Wong

    – (Forthcoming) Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers in Nightmare Magazine’s special issue, Queers Destroy Horror!

    Carmen Marchado
    I Bury Myself
    Descent
    Transcription of An Eye in Watchlist.
    – (Forthcoming) “The Old Women Who Were Skinned.” The Fairy Tale Review.

    Django Wexler
    The Shadow of Elysium (The Shadow Campaigns)
    The Price of Valour (The Shadow Campaigns)

    Best Short Story

    Ursula Vernon
    Pocosin

    Aliette de Bodard
    THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS

    Amal El-Mohtar
    Madeleine
    Pockets

    Eugie Foster – sadly, none.

    Max Gladstone
    Last First Snow
    Badge, Book and Candle in Bookburners

    Annie Bellett (Withdrawal)
    Heartache
    – (Forthcoming) Thicker Than Blood
    Goodnight Earth in The End has Come

    Best Novelette

    Seanan McGuire (AKA Mira Grant)
    A Red-Rose Chain
    Pocket Apocalypse
    Survival Horror in Press Start to Play
    The Moon Inside in Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed
    Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (as Mira Grant)
    Resistance in The End Has Come
    The Happiest Place… (as Mira Grant) in The End Has Come,
    Rolling in the Deep
    In Skeleton Leaves in Operation Arcana
    There is No Room For Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold in The Doll Collection
    – Also some in-universe short fiction.

    Kai Ashante Wilson
    – (Forthcoming) The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

    Ruthann Emrys
    The Deepest Rift

    Tom Crosshill
    – Appears to have a 2016 novel forthcoming, and working hard on the next

    Best Novella

    Pat Rothfuss
    – Apparently nothing. Write faster, man!
    Ken Liu
    The Grace of Kings

    Nancy Kress
    Why I Hate Earth in THE END HAS COME
    Blessings in 2015 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide

    Rachel Swirsky
    – (Essay) All Your Fic Are Belong to Us in Lightspeed

    Mary Rickert
    – (Forthcoming) You Have Never Been Here

    Best Novel

    John Scalzi
    The End of All Things (Novel, also the constituent novellas)
    Robert Jackson Bennet
    – (Forthcoming 2016) City of Blades
    – Nothing 2015 that I can find
    Marco Kloos (Withdrawal)
    – Angles of Attack

  11. rcade, I saw over on Making Light that someone said it always takes days (or weeks!) to release the Hugo Award ceremony video, so don’t despair just yet. (No cite; can’t remember who said it.)

  12. The real i teresting thing is if all the slate assholes had just signed up and voted for what they like who would have been nominated? No slate just involvement. The heinlein biography probably, Chuck Gannons book. Jim Butcher likely would have gotten a deserved and legitimate nomination. Maybe some better shorter works that conservatives liked would get nominated?

    They keep complaining that Toni Weisskopf never got nominated before…. It only takes 50 votes to get her nominated. Why didnt they care before?

  13. @ Mark: Interesting roundup of what those who were kept off the ballot are up to. One thing I plan on doing more of this year is reading more shorter fiction. There’s got to be plenty of fun, superbly-crafted short fiction out there and I’d love to see more of it on the ballot. Maybe I’ll start reading the magazines and reviewing stories online…

    @Guess:
    Weisdkopf HAS been nominated before. Several times. She’s never won, though.

  14. Having read the packet and the commentary, the puppies struck las people who were blown away when Pearl Jam came on the scene, but then couldn’t understand why Nickleback never got a Grammy. What makes it weirder is I don’t think anyone actually doesn’t understand why Nickleback has never won a Grammy.

  15. @rcade:

    I read a claim on Twitter that nobody at Sasquan saved the Hugo Awards ceremony livestream.

    Sasquan’s official Twitter feed was saying that, but Meg Frank said that Ops had a copy. So hopefully it will be up on UStream soon.

  16. Mark, thanks for that link to Buckell. I now have a bunch of new names to investigate. Based on their honorable actions, I bought novels by Bellet and Kloos. Started the latter’s first novel. It is quite good, and I’m not an avid fan of milsf. Kloos has a bright future ahead.

  17. I knew nothing about George R.R. Martin as a person before this whole show began, so it’s been a pleasure to see him in action throughout all of this — from his history with WorldCon and the Hugo that he argued for so passionately, intelligently, and civilly to that fantastic party he threw on award night.

    File770 has been a blast.

    Also, I just read Jackalope Wives. Wow. What a great story!

  18. @Paul, does that high and mightiness extend to Weisskopf and Gilbert or were they just acceptable collateral damage in the battle against “harmful and awful”?

  19. There was a proposal this year to drop the 5% rule. It passed. Like other proposals, it needs to be ratified next year, but I don’t believe there was much controversy over it, and suspect it will be ratified with no problem.

    (And count me among those who would really really like to see what this year’s shortlist would have looked like if EPH were already in place.)

  20. Of course Mike (g)LIAR of VILE 770 fails to acknowledge in his post that this year’s Hugo Awards were HUGELY CONTROVERSIAL! And marked by controversy! I guess admitting this would interfere with the narrative Mister Hayden laid out for him to follow.

  21. Congrats to the winners. Commiserations to those who lost, and who were kept off by a slate or two.

    While I would’ve loved for TGE to have won, 3BP was an eminently worthy winner, and congratulations to Liu Cixin.

    A special thanks to Annie Bellet, Marko Kloos, Black Gate, Matt Surridge, and to Edmund Schubert for having the integrity to withdraw after being slated (did I miss anyone out?).

    Kudos to GRRM as well for reallllly being a mensch with the Alfies.

    And of course, thanks to Mike for letting us never ending stream of Dwarves into your Hobbit hole,and for all the work he did reporting on this, and other kerfuffles. I’m not sure if my book budget and schedule will survive the introduction though (::side eyes Mark’s list:: Gee thanks Mark.) ….

  22. As of the Business Meeting Sunday morning, neither the 2015 nor 2014 anonymized ballot results had been received. I haven’t communicated with Keith Watt since he left, so I don’t know whether he has received them in the meantime. I am hoping to assist with the normalization (standardization of entries so they are counted accurately) process, so can hopefully update you when the anonymized data is in-hand.

    I am sure that once this data has been run through EPH, the results will be posted at Making Light and on here.

  23. does that high and mightiness extend to Weisskopf and Gilbert or were they just acceptable collateral damage in the battle against “harmful and awful”?

    Please tell us what, specifically, Weisskopf edited in 2014.

  24. @snowcrash
    A special thanks to Annie Bellet, Marko Kloos, Black Gate, Matt Surridge, and to Edmund Schubert for having the integrity to withdraw after being slated (did I miss anyone out?).

    Larry Correia, of course. He’s such a mensch.

    Hope that helps.

  25. FWIW, I voted for Gilbert. She didn’t need the slate, she disavowed the slate, and she edits a lot of work that I like a lot. The Puppies weren’t stealing that vote from me.

    As for Weisskopf, she simply didn’t include enough in the packet to make any sort of judgement, plus I’ve read quotes from Baen about “team editing” and how they don’t really do much editing because they don’t want to get between the author and what they mean to write… so I’m not sure how I was supposed to vote for her as an editor.

  26. FWIW, I voted for Gilbert. She didn’t need the slate, she disavowed the slate, and she edits a lot of work that I like a lot.

    So did I. I was sorry she didn’t get more votes.

  27. Gabriel F — I concur. Gilbert gave me something in the packet to look at and evaluate, and I *DID* put her above “No Award.”

    Weisskopf’s shop apparently doesn’t bother to even run “spellcheck” over their manuscripts or maybe they can’t afford a copy editor, and I’m getting damn tired of finding typos in every Baen book I read. That standard of slovenliness earns her a “No Award” in my book.

    I tried to read everything, and some of the stuff (Related Works, I’m looking at YOU) I just bounced off of — so if I couldn’t read it, I didn’t rate it, and in most cases even if I managed to read it, the story wasn’t good enough to win a Hugo. In many cases the only thing that got a rating was “No Award” and that meant that was the only thing on my ballot for that category.

    FWIW — if it doesn’t blow me away, you ain’t getting above “No Award.” My measuring sticks are Asimov’s Nightfall, Arthur C. Clarke’s Nine Billion Names of God, and Roger Zelazny’s A Rose for Ecclesiastes…

  28. @Lori Coulson,
    You’re a tough grader. Me, I compare a given finalist with the sorts of works that have made the final ballots in previous (Puppy-free) years and if they can stand unshamed & unbowed alongside previous finalists, they get ranked above No Award. Because a “Dune” doesn’t turn up every year.

  29. Larry Correia, of course. He’s such a mensch.

    Heh. Yes he is. Left him out rather specifically, as if he was in any way sincere, he would’ve withdrawn his name back when he was busy organising the slate with the rest of his cabal.

  30. If one felt that, say, Liz Gorinsky, Beth Meacham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Lee Harris or Anne Perry (who were kept off the ballot by the slates) were more deserving of Best Editor (Long Form) than any of the finalists, voting “No Award” in that category was the obvious aesthetic judgement.

  31. @Soon Lee, @Lori,
    This was my second ever Hugo, and as I don’t have that much historic context, my metric was that if you didn’t blow me away, you didn’t make my ballot. And in all cases, my ballot ended with No Award – didn’t see the point in ranking anything below that.

  32. Is it wrong that – pleased as I am to see the puppies thwarted – I’m also sneakily relieved that ‘Orphan Black’ beat the dismal-but-bafflingly-popular ‘Listen’ to the dramatic short nod?

  33. Congratulations to the winners! Well done, with stellar work, the lot of you.

    Condolences to the non-winners. Many of you did marvelous work.

    Congratulations to the voters for voting honestly with your hearts and best judgement.

  34. @snowcrash

    You overlooked Jennifer Wade and Dave Creek, who IIRC pulled out of the slate early, before the nominations were closed; back when nobody knew how big this would get and they were motivated, as far as I can see purely by a dislike of slates and an unwillingness to profit from the Puppies in any way no matter now small.

    I think they should be added to the Roll of Honor.

    Correia does not, in my opinion, deserve to stand beside them. He started this whole mess. If you empty a dumptruck of tar on my lawn and then come back with a shovel and remove one shovelfull, you do not get credit for that.

  35. Five major categories with no award? Is this a first?

    (I am obviously aware certain contenders pulled out of the race, but this may not be so clear to people reading the officical Hugo history in, say, twenty years.)

  36. snowcrash: A special thanks to Annie Bellet, Marko Kloos, Black Gate, Matt Surridge, and to Edmund Schubert for having the integrity to withdraw after being slated (did I miss anyone out?).

    Richard Brandt: Larry Correia, of course. He’s such a mensch.

    snowcrash: Heh. Yes he is. Left him out rather specifically, as if he was in any way sincere, he would’ve withdrawn his name back when he was busy organising the slate with the rest of his cabal.

    The only “credit” Correia gets is for recognizing early on that a Hugo nomination this year was going to have very little meaning for a slated Puppy, and getting himself the hell out of the way before he shared VD’s claim to fame of being No Awarded by the Hugo voters.

    Correia knows how the voting system works (differently from, and a lot less gameable than, the nominating system) — and I think he damn well knew this was going to happen and chose to let Torgersen and company take the fall.

    If I were Torgersen, I’d be pissed as hell at Correia abandoning me out there with my drawers down — but I don’t think BT is smart enough to realize just how thoroughly he got played by his buddies VD and LC.

  37. Steve Green:

    Five major categories with no award? Is this a first?

    (I am obviously aware certain contenders pulled out of the race, but this may not be so clear to people reading the officical Hugo history in, say, twenty years.)

    What’s a “major category”? More to the point, what’s a “minor category”? Think carefully before you answer.
    In any case, yes, this is a first; this year the total number of No Awards in the history of the Hugos was doubled. There is another way that it’s not a first; it continues the historical pattern of Hugo voters No Awarding block-nominated works, like the L. Ron Hubbard book in the ’80s.

  38. @Cat

    You overlooked Jennifer Wade and Dave Creek, who IIRC pulled out of the slate early, before the nominations were closed;

    You’re absolutely correct of course, thanks.

  39. That would be Juliette Wade and Dave Creek — and yes, kudos to them for standing up very early on.

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