Aug 22 2018

Hugo awards

Rosemary

I find it impossible to believe that you haven’t already seen the list of this year’s Hugo Award winners somewhere else… It’s all over the Internet, of course.  However, just in case this is your only contact with the world of SF/F fandom and publishing, here are the winners:

Best Novel : The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)

Best Novella : All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Novelette: The Secret Life of Bots,” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, September 2017)

Best Short Story: Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™,” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex, August 2017)

Best Series: World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Harper Voyager / Spectrum Literary Agency)

Best Related Work: No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Best Graphic Story: Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, written by Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Wonder Woman, screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, directed by Patty Jenkins (DC Films / Warner Brothers)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem,” written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Holland (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)

Best Editor, Short Form: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Best Editor, Long Form: Sheila E. Gilbert

Best Professional Artist: Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine: Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Julia Rios; podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine: File 770, edited by Mike Glyer

Best Fancast: Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

Best Fan Writer: Sarah Gailey

Best Fan Artist: Geneva Benton

And the non-Hugo Awards also presented at the ceremony:

Award for Best Young Adult Book: Akata Warrior, by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Rebecca Roanhorse

For a list that includes all the nominees, head over to the official Hugo Awards website where they also have a link to the detailed voting results.

Or you could pop over to Tor.com, where the comments stream also has some interesting info.

And as you probably also already know (but just in case you don’t) N.K. Jemisin just made history by being the first person to ever win the Hugo for Best Novel three years in a row.

And here’s her acceptance speech, which made me cry:

 

I had planned to watch a live stream of the Hugo ceremony on Sunday, but  forgot to set an alarm.  Somewhere along about 2AM I looked up from my work and said, “Wait — did I miss it?”  And yes, I had.

On the one hand, alas; on the other (as Ms. Jemisin states most definitely, above) the way to get ahead is to work your ass off.  So, I regret nothing.  Well, I do, a bit.  But it was a good night of work, so it was worth it.

And I should get back to it.  I’m going to be at a four-day social event starting on Friday, and I need to rack up enough word-count to justify the inevitable resulting word non-count.