2010 Hugo Award Winners

Designed by/Photo: Nick Stathopoulos

The results are in from Aussiecon4, and they make interesting reading. It was predictable that the best novel was novel was going to be one of The City & The City, The Windup Girl, and Boneshaker, with the first winning the Arthur C Clark award, the second the Nebula and the third "only" a US steampunk zombie story, it was going to be between China Miéville and Paolo Bacigalupi.


Best Novel: TIE: The City & The City, China Miéville; The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross. Read online at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/palimpsest-intro.html

Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2). Read online at http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_TheIsland.pdf

Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09). Read online at http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_1003/art/bridesicle.pdf

Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), Jack Vance

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; Colours by Cheyenne Wright. Read online at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090116

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars” Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper

Best Editor Short Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Best Editor Long Form: Ellen Datlow

Best Professional Artist: Shaun Tan

Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan

Best Fan Writer: Frederik Pohl

Best Fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith

Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster

Information from http://www.thehugoawards.org/ and AussieCon4