2012 Hugo Award winners announced
by Doc on Sep.03, 2012, under Awards, Books, Conventions, Movies, Television
The winners of the 2012 Hugo Awards were announced last night at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention. Neil Gaiman, with several Hugos already, picked up another – but instead of getting Best Novel, he won the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form award for the Doctor Who episode, “The Doctor’s Wife”.
Here is a list of the winners:
Best Novel: [asin=0765331721]Among Others[/asin] by Jo Walton (Tor)
Best Novella: [asin=1597803456]“The Man Who Bridged the Mist”[/asin] by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, September/October 2011)
Best Novelette: [asin=B004YD69Q8]“Six Months, Three Days”[/asin] by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)
Best Short Story: “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011)
Best Related Work: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight (Gollancz)
Best Graphic Story: [asin=0976921227]Digger[/asin] by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): [asin=B008CLI3TE]Game of Thrones (Season 1[/asin]), created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss; written by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, and George R. R. Martin; directed by Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Tim van Patten, and Alan Taylor (HBO)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form): “The Doctor’s Wife” (Doctor Who), written by Neil Gaiman; directed by Richard Clark (BBC Wales)
Best Editor (Short Form): Sheila Williams
Best Editor (Long Form): Betsy Wollheim
Best Professional Artist: John Picacio
Best Semiprozine: Locus edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.
Best Fanzine: SF Signal edited by John DeNardo
Best Fan Writer: Jim C. Hines
Best Fan Artist: Maurine Starkey
Best Fancast: SF Squeecast, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente
The John W. Campbell Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2010 or 2011, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award): E. Lily Yu