- 2010 Hugo Award - Photographer Unknown
The 2010 Hugo Awards were presented at Aussiecon4 in Melbourne.
- Best Novel: TIE:
- The City & The City , China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK);
- The Windup Girl , Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
- Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)
- Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
- Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
- Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars” Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
- Best Editor Short Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- Best Editor Long Form: Ellen Datlow
- Best Professional Artist: Shaun Tan
- Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
- Best Fan Writer: Frederik Pohl
- Best Fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
- Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster
And the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines): Seanan McGuire
Hugo Award Winning Novel Ties
The tie for Best Novel is the first in seventeen years, and the third for Best Novel (for the record, the previous ties were in 1966, between Dune and Roger Zelazny's, And Call Me Conrad, and in 1993 between Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep) and only the sixth in fiction Hugo history.
In becoming the twentieth novel to win both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Paolo Bacigalupi's The Wind-Up Girl is only the fourth novel to win the trinity of Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Award; the others are Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, Frederik Pohl's Gateway and Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace.
Paolo Bacigalupi is the first author in twenty-five years and only the third to win Hugo and Nebulas for his first novel; The Wind-Up Girl joins Joe Haldeman's The Forever War and William Gibson's Neuromancer in that particular bracket.
Best Dramatic Presentation
In winning the short form Best Dramatic Presentation, theDoctor Who episode “The Waters of Mars,” which was written by the out-going showrunner Russell T Davies, gave the show its fourth Hugo in five years.
Best Fan Writer
Over 75 years after attending his first meeting of an embryonic Science Fiction League, Frederik Pohl has been voted Best Fan Writer. It seems a singularly symmetrical bookmark to a career that has taken in 3 pervious Hugos for his fiction, and a Retro Hugo as Best Editor.
Best Related Work
Frederik Pohl's tenure as oldest living Hugo winner at 90 years 10 months lasted bare minutes before being overhauled by a writer who sold his first short story in 1945. It has been 43 years since Jack Vance last won a Hugo (for 'The Last Castle,' published with beautiful synergy in Fred Pohl's Galaxy magazine), and a week after his 94th birthday, Vance won a Hugo a week after his 94th birthday.
2011 Hugo Awards
The 2011 Hugo Awards will be presented in Reno, Nevada on Saturday August 20th, 2011
Colin Harvey - Author six novels, and editor of four anthologies; professional reviewer since 2003, including six years at Strange Horizons. Member of ...
