This year’s Hugo Awards were announced last night at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, in Melbourne, Australia.
For only the third time since the Hugos debuted in 1953, there was a tie for the Best Novel award. The two previous ties were in 1966 (Frank Herbert’s Dune and Roger Zelazny’s …And Call Me Conrad) and in 1993 (Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book).
This year’s winners are:
Best Novel (tie): The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (published by Night Shade)
     The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
Best Novella: “Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (published in Wireless)
Best Novelette: “The Island” by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
Best Short Story: “Bridesicle” by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
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; colors 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 Fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
Best Fan Writer: Frederik Pohl
Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Seanan McGuire
The full list of nominees was published in this article.