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[bryant]

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.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

w00t for Jonathan Strange! I am happy. :)

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Blah, yet again the rpesence of a thick novel heavily trumpeted by an excellent publicity campaign trumps good writing.

[head58.livejournal.com]

For once I agree with Jere. JS & MN and Concrete Jungle were 2 of the worst things I'd read all year.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Whats the Concrete Jungle? If its as bad as JSMN I'm frightened.

[head58.livejournal.com]

It's the second novella in Charlie Stross's Atrocity Archives. I talked about it here. I didn't hate it or find it boring so much as it felt Mary Sueish and just didn't click for me. I I liked the other story in that volume better.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I've put Stross in the do-not read category. His idea of good fiction and mine are too far apart.

[tryslora]

This is the first year in a LONG time where I haven't read any of the nominated novels. But Jonathan Strange is the one I heard the most about, and not through any marketing media. I heard it because other writers I knew were talking about it. They were talking about what it did right as a literary novel, and why they loved it, and there were a lot of people impressed with it for technical reasons as much as story.

I'm still bouncing that eBear won. *grins*

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. At least, though, we both read a different book by a novelist who was nominated. (Stross). I've yet to try his hard SF, and I still have to get that second "Family" book.

[alex-victory.livejournal.com]

Very happy with the Battlestar Galactica win... that episode was brilliant.