This year’s Hugo Awards are being given out tonight at Anticipation, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We’re presenting the winners here in near-real-time in the order they are announced, so keep refreshing the page to see the latest.
First, the non-Hugo Awards:
The Big Heart Award goes to Andrew Porter. (The Big Heart is given for service award in the science fiction community, for good work and great spirit long contributed. Magnanimity is among the highest virtues.)
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: David Anthony Durham
The Campbell is considered like a Hugo (the Big Heart is not voted on), but now we start the actual Hugos.
Best Fan Writer: Cheryl Morgan
Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
Best Fanzine: Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
Best Semiprozine: Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal
Best Related Book: Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: WALL-E story by Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter; screenplay by Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon; directed by Andrew Stanton (Pixar/Walt Disney)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: “Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” written by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen; directed by Joss Whedon (Mutant Enemy)
Best Editor, Long Form: David G. Hartwell
Best Editor, Short Form: Ellen Datlow
Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
Best Short Story: “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2008)
Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress (published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2008)
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
And that should wrap up the evening’s festivities. Congratulations to the winners; commiseration with the other nominees. Thanks for reading along with us here at SFScope.