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And the Hugo envelope please...

Best Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Novella: "The Concrete Jungle" by Charles Stross

Best Novelette: "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link

Best Short Story: "Travels with My Cats" by Mike Resnick

Best Related Book: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: The Incredibles, written & directed by Brad Bird

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: "33" -- Battlestar Galactica, written by Ronald D. Moore and Directed by Michael Rymer.

Best Professional Editor: Ellen Datlow

Best Professional Artist: Jim Burns

Best Semiprozine: Ansible, edited by David Langford

Best Fanzine: Plokta, edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies and Mike Scott

Best Fan Writer: David Langford

Best Fan Artist: Sue Mason

Best Web Site: SciFiction, edited by Ellen Datlow. Craig Engler, general manager

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo Award): Elizabeth Bear

Special Interaction Committee Award (not a Hugo Award): David Pringle

And the full nominee list, for the curious and nitpickers. Also with links to many of the nominees online. I don't think the big British book with faeries in it deserved to win against Banks and Mieville, but that's me. Wow, and that's an amazingly tough field for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Heh. Mike Resnick has five Hugos. The record for Hugos for fictional writing is Connie Willis, with eight. More here, not updated with this years wins as of the time of this writing.

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I no longer need to come up with my own RPG campaign ideas. E.g.:

"The PCs are futuristic ninjas in a large corporation who, with their bare hands, fight corporate wrongdoers for gold in the Renaissance." Sure, I can run that. The ninjas don't get to bring their technology back and... the time machine went bad, so the plot arc is them trying to save money to bootstrap technology so they can rebuild.

"The PCs are mystic lawyers in New England who, with captured animals, fight aliens for purposes of fulfilling prophecy in the near future." Yes. Yes they are.