2009 Hugo Winners

[filkertom]

Oh yeah:

• Best Novel: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
• Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus”, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008)
• Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Mar 2008)
• Best Short Story: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
• Best Related Book: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008, John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)
• 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 Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)
• Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon, & Maurissa Tancharoen, writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)
• Best Editor Short Form: Ellen Datlow
• Best Editor Long Form: David G. Hartwell
• Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
• Best Semiprozine: Weird Tales, edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal
• Best Fan Writer: Cheryl Morgan
• Best Fanzine: Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
• Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu

And the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines): David Anthony Durham

Congratulations to all the winners, and especially matociquala, kajafoglio and philfoglio! And WHOO HOO on Wall-E and Dr. Horrible winning! YEAH!

Comments

[hms42]

I was walking past the hugos as the Wall-E hugo was announced. Really loud noise in the hallway. (I was walking from Peggi's concert to the open filk at the hotel a few blocks away.)

[spotshouse.livejournal.com]

and WooHoo on the Graveyard Book! So awesome!

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Ok, what is "Best Related Book"?? I don't understand that category designation.

Great news about WALL*E and Girl Genius!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I believe it's a catch-all for compilations, non-fiction, essay collections, etc. The book in question (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SP&Product_Code=scalzi07) is a collection of posts from Scalzi's blog, Whatever (http://whatever.scalzi.com/).

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I am extremely happy to see Dr Horrible win the Hugo, and very happy to see Girl Genius get the nod it has deserved for a long time. I have never heard of "Shoggoths in Bloom", but from the title alone I want to read it :-)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Your wish is my etc (http://www.elizabethbear.com/shoggoths.html).

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That was very, very powerful. Thank you.

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

I guess I was more surprised than anything about Dr. Horrible because it wasn't something shown on TV or in the movies per se. That being said, I was also surprised at least year's nomination list when New Voyages' "World Enough and Time" was nominated in the long-form category. It also came in last. Maybe things have turned around for internet-done video stuff. Now, if we could do something about the internet audio stuff out there.........

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Neil G's win was certainly well deserved.

Special conga-rats to philfoglio, whom I killed once (by dropping a 16 ton weight on him at WindyCon XXI).

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased about Dr. Horrible and Wall-E, of course. They were both examples, not of the kind of intellectual cleverness and cute plot twists that literary SF is famous for, but of stories centered around solid and appealing characters. And I might mention that much of it was not communicated verbally. Wall-E didn't talk much, and Dr. Horrible was singing most of his feelings, which constrained him to rhyme and meter.

I also think it would be nice if the Hugos added categories for Internet audio drama (ever hear Seminar from www.pendantaudio.com ?)

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

Man, I liked Doctor Horrible, but Stephen Moffatt was robbed -- this year's Doctor Who two-parter was the best he's written yet, and had a lot more science-fiction in it than any of his previous episodes. There were parts of it that drew you in and then kicked you in the emotional nutsack and left you crying on the floor. I guess people like musicals, though...

(And at least it wasn't fucking Dollhouse)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Re: Moffat -- "Spoilers!" has become a permanent part of our family vocabulary.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

First, let me commend the folks at Anticipation for an extremely well-run and well-paced Hugo ceremony. It started a few minutes after 8, and was over by about quarter to 10. And this year's base is fantastic.

I voted in seven categories. Of those, "The Erdmann Nexus", in Best Novella, was the only winner that I put in first place. Still, in almost every case, the award went to the one I placed second or third, and that's cool.

I voted WALL*E second because, much as I loved it, I thought it had one major flaw. I didn't for a moment believe the way it treated human physiology. My first place vote went to Hellboy II.

I'm glad Phil and Kaja won, but my first place vote went to Fables, for the very simple reason that the Fables volume was highly significant within the series, while the Girl Genius volume, good as it was, was all middle.

And I hate to say it, but my biggest disappointment was the Best Novelette category. By all accounts, Elizabeth is a lovely person (which is irrelevant to the quality of the stories anyway), but "Shoggoths in Bloom" just didn't connect with me for some reason. And I thought that "The Ray Gun: A Love Story" was the best story among all the short fiction nominees.