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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Hugo Awards 2008 – the winners
Via SF Signal, here are the winners of this year’s Hugo Awards:
- BEST NOVEL: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)
- BEST NOVELLA: “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis (Asimov’s Dec. 2007, Subterranean Press)
- BEST NOVELETTE: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang (F&SF Sept. 2007)
- BEST SHORT STORY: “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s June 2007)
- BEST RELATED BOOK: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher (Oxford University Press)
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM: Stardust Written by Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn; based on the novel by Neil Gaiman; directed by Matthew Vaughn (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM: Doctor Who “Blink”; written by Stephen Moffat; directed by Hettie Macdonald (BBC)
- BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, SHORT FORM: Gordon Van Gelder
- BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, LONG FORM: David G. Hartwell
- BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Stephan Martiniere
- BEST SEMIPROZINE: Locus
- BEST FANZINE: File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
- BEST FAN WRITER: John Scalzi
- BEST FAN ARTIST: Brad Foster
- JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER: Mary Robinette Kowal
Very few surprises there, I think it’s safe to say. Ted Chiang’s victory was a given long before the nominations were announced, for example; Van Gelder is a shoo-in based on subscriber figures alone, and likewise Scalzi.
The only vague surprise is Chabon taking the Best Novel – not because it’s an undeserving book, as I’m assured it’s excellent, but because its definition as sf has been such a controversial issue elsewhere.
How would you rewrite this list if you had control of sf fandom for the day?
Friday Free Fiction for 8th August
It’s Friday, and that can mean one thing and one thing only – it’s free fiction time! Let’s see what we’ve got in the magic bag of RSS this week…
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A couple from Manybooks.net:
- “The Machine That Saved the World” by Murray Leinster
- “The Success Machine” by Henry Slesar
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A couple at FeedBooks:
- “Citadel” by Algis Budrys
- “A Choice of Miracles” by James A Cox
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And a couple at Gutenberg:
- “Pandemic” by Jesse F. Bone
- “Next Door, Next World” by Robert Donald Locke
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Via Klima’s Weekend Getaway at Tor.com:
I had suggested that people read stories from a generation different from the one they belonged to. To that end, we have:
“The First Commandment” by Gregory Benford
“The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small” by Chris Roberson
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If I’m not very much mistaken, Peter Watts is sneaking out microfiction at his blog again. Much like Futurismic‘s very own Mac Tonnies, Watts is “Loving the Alien“:
We sleep. The chimp makes grudging corrections to a myriad small trajectories. I set the alarm to wake me every few weeks, burn a little more of my candle just to check up on it; but it doesn’t seem to be trying to slip anything past me this time.
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Here’s issue 4 of Oddlands Magazine:
Short Fiction
TTA Press launches Transmissions From Beyond podcast site
TTA Press – publishers of long-running UK science fiction magazine Interzone – have stepped into the podcast arena with the launch of Transmissions From Beyond.
Transmissions From Beyond will republish stories from the TTA stable of magazines, Interzone included, in audio format for you to listen to for free. The first selection includes the excellent Tim Akers story “The Algorithm” – well worth stuffing onto your MP3 player for next week’s commute.
Vicarious WorldCon!
Wishing you were hobnobbing with the great and the good of science fiction at Denvention this weekend? Yeah, me too.
But the wonderful world of the blogosphere means you can experience it at a few removes… among the many people blogging from the scene is Futurismic‘s very own Edward Willett, so pop on over to Hassenpfeffer to see what he’s been up to.
He’s got a photoset going on Flickr, too – I guess missing out on the mammoth queues is one plus point to being stuck at home:
Of course, it’s quite possible to find experiencing Worldcons through the medium of blogging to be rather dull and tedious… your mileage may vary. 😉
[Image courtesy Edward Willett – all rights reserved]