This year’s Hugo Awards were announced last night at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, in Reno, Nevada.
This year’s winners are:
Best Novel: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
Best Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
Best Novelette: “The Emperor of Mars” by Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2010)
Best Short Story: “For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2010)
Best Related Work: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea (Mad Norwegian)
Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse written by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Inception written and directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang” written by Steven Moffat; directed by Toby Haynes (BBC Wales)
Best Editor, Short Form: Sheila Williams
Best Editor, Long Form: Lou Anders
Best Professional Artist: Shaun Tan
Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, Sean Wallace; podcast directed by Kate Baker
Best Fanzine: The Drink Tank edited by Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon
Best Fan Writer: Claire Brialey
Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer: Lev Grossman
The full list of nominees was published in this article.
I still think it’s a crying shame that there is still no Hugo category for young adult fiction. Fans can’t even vote for best science fiction aimed at our next generation? Without some kind of recognition from the field, young adult science fiction will degenerate into Twilight knockoffs. We need something that will recognize the next Heinlein, the next Andre Norton, the next J. K. Rowling or Suzanne Collins. It’s ridiculous to fail to recognize that adult and YA genre fiction are aimed at, and serve, different audiences.