Congratulations to Jo Walton on her Hugo-winning novel Among Others, one of 16 nominees collecting rockets during tonight’s ceremonies at Chicon 7.
Best Novel
Among Others by Jo Walton
Best Novella
The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson
Best Novelette
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders
Best Short Story
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
Best Related Work
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition, edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight
Best Graphic Story
Digger by Ursula Vernon
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Game of Thrones (Season 1)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
“The Doctor’s Wife” Doctor Who written by Neil Gaiman
Best Editor – Short Form
Sheila Williams
Best Editor – Long Form
Betsy Wollheim
Best Professional Artist
John Picacio
Best Semiprozine
Locus
Best Fanzine
SF Signal
Best Fancast
SF Squeecast
Best Fan Writer
Jim C. Hines
Best Fan Artist
Maurine Starkey
Other non-Hugos presented this evening:
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
E. Lily Yu
Specal Committee Award
Robert Weinberg
Big Heart Award
Juanita Coulson
Reportedly the UStream coverage of the event was shut down during Neil Gaiman’s acceptance speech, and replaced with a notice about copyright infringement – presumably related to the movie and tv clips that had just been shown.
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I heard a report that it was the clip from NBC’s Community that was the culprit.
Increasingly the Hugo, once an sf award, is a fantasy award–like all the others…
Thanks to David Klaus for alerting me to io9’s story “How copyright robots killed the Hugo Awards”.
Immediately after the feed was killed I checked contact information at Ustream’s website and sent this tweet to Brad Hunstable, the company’s Founder:
eFanzines @efanzines
@bhunstable Epic failure – shutting down the Worldcon feed for showing clips of nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo.
This morning I received a reply from Mr Hunstable:
Brad Hunstable @bhunstable
@efanzines we are aware and I will resolve. I’m not happy about this.
Not very useful after the fact, but at least he took the time to respond.
The official apology from Ustream . . .
http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2012/09/03/hugo-awards-an-apology-and-explanation/?rmalang=en_US
Gregory Benford is channeling Hugo Himself.
At this year’s Hugo ceremony something occurred that has not happened in a very long time, in every category (Hugo + Campbell) at least one of the winners was there to accept the award. I am willing to bet that this has not happened for at least 50 years when the Best Dramatic Presentation category was created.
Does anyone out there know that lat time this happened?
At Chicon Scott Edelman was handing out this ribbon: “Hugo Whiner”. I added it to the various ribbons on my badge.
If he creates a virtual ribbon I’m confident I’ve earned one here!