The Principles proprietor is currently at WorldCon where the Hugo awards are given out. This year's winners are available (among many other places, I'm sure) at Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog. I wasn't a huge fan of Rainbows End myself. I did like "The Girl in the Fireplace", a Doctor Who episode. The writer, Steven Moffat, also wrote "Blink", this season's best episode.
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As Kate and I are planning to attend the Worldcon this year, we're eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards, which are sort of SF's version of the Oscars, or maybe the Golden Globes (the Nebula Awards being the other). This is only the third time I've had this opportunity, and it's always kind of…
The Hugo Award Nominees for 2007 have been officially announced. The one award I usually watch closely is Best Novel, and this year's nominees are:
Eifelheim, Michael Flynn (Tor)
His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Ace)
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)…
The 2010 Hugo Award Winners were announced on Sunday night. Of course, this being a science fiction award, it's only appropriate that they be announced from THE FUTURE, so the results were available early this morning, US time.
It turns out that I voted for 1.5 of the fiction award winners: China…
This year's Hugo Awards (either the Oscars of the Golden Globes of the science fiction/ fantasy field, depending on who you ask) were announced last night at the Worldcon in LA. Pleasant surprises abound:
1) Spin by Robert Charles Wilson won the Best Novel Hugo. As I've said before, I think it was…
Rainbows End Hurrumph.
The best Novella and Novellete were pretty good, though.
Patricia and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Goodness. I believe you want to restore the male form of the first of those names.
Eek. Fixed.
By superdupersymmetry, in some alternate cosmos of the multiverse, it is:
Patricia and Terence Nielsen Hayden
and their blog is called: "Making Dark."
By the way, they are great editors, convention panelists, and taught me what little I know of blog etiquette.
NOVEL
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
NOVELLA
"A Billion Eves", Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2006)
NOVELETTE
"The Djinn's Wife", Ian McDonald (Asimov's Jul 2006)
SHORT STORY
"Impossible Dreams", Tim Pratt (Asimov's Jul 2006)
RELATED BOOK
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's)
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: LONG FORM
Pan's Labyrinth (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Picturehouse.)
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: SHORT FORM
Doctor Who (Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Euros Lyn. BBC Wales/BBC1.)
EDITOR, SHORT FORM
Gordon Van Gelder (F&SF)
EDITOR, LONG FORM
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor)
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Donato Giancola
SEMIPROZINE
Locus, Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong & Liza Groen Trombi
FANZINE
Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, Lee Hoffman, Geri Sullivan & Randy Byers
FAN WRITER
Dave Langford
FAN ARTIST
Frank Wu
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo]
Naomi Novik
A good place to start understanding the Hugo Awards voting this year:
http://locusmag.com/2007/09_HugoWinners.html
That links to, for instance:
The official Hugo Awards website includes a photo of the award trophy, the voting breakdown [pdf], and the nomination counts [pdf].
» Science Fiction Awards Watch has this analysis of the results, category by category.