Hugo Results !

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*Best Novel - Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
*Best Novella - "The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge :
http://www.analogsf.com/0406/cookiemonster.shtml
*Best Novelette - "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0406/legionsintime.shtml
*Best Short Story - "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman
http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/StudyinEmerald.asp
*Best Related Book - The Chesley Awards for Science Fictiion and Fantasy
Art:
A Retrospective by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, and Pamela D. Scoville
*Best Professional Editor - Gardner Dozois
*Best Professional Artist - Bob Eggleton
*Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form - The Lord of the Rings: The Return
of
the King
*Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the
2003 MTV Movie Awards
*Best Semi-Prozine - Locus, Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, and Kirsten
Gong-Wong, eds.
www.locusmag.com
*Best Fanzine - Emerald City, Cheryl Morgan, ed.
www.emcit.com
*Best Fan Writer - Dave Langford
*Best Fan Artist - Frank Wu
*John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer - Jay Lake
*Special Noreascon Four Committee Award - Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss

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1954 Retro Hugo Winners
*Best Novel - Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
*Best Novella - "A Case of Concsience" by James Blish
*Best Novelette - "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish
*Best Short Story - "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
*Best Related Book - Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred L.
Whipple & Willy Ley
*Best Professional Editor - John W. Campbell, Jr.
*Best Professional Artist - Chesley Bonestell
*Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - The War of the Worlds
*Best Fanzine - Slant, Walter Willis, ed.; James White, art editor
*Best Fan Writer - Bob Tucker



And one more for Bujold. That's what, her sixth ? *is amused* Well, Paladins of Souls isn't her worst novel, and was very interesting on some aspect (original female character for one) and compared with Harry Potter, my, it's a very worthy books :p (could never forgive Harry Potter for snatching GRRM's well deserved Hugo award for A storm of sword which JK Rowling never even went to recieve)

And a happy (belated) birthday to arethusa2

Only two exams left tomorrow.

Crackful RP threads between Seishirou, Syaoran, Sakura and Kero-chan at Clamp 1999

Comments

why is it the 1954 novels seem so much better?

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Hugo results are sort of predictable, but none too bad, I got enough trust in Bujold, Gaiman and Vinge to think it unlikely any of these winners is a stinker, though nothing I heard of them made me go out and buy it. I will get to PoS. eventually! But going for all reports of PoS, Fahrenheit 1954 it is not. But then again not much is. I feel like an old crank, but are not the 1954 retro awards impressive? Maybe hindsight makes giving out awards juster, faires somehow?

About awards some I think interesting, meaning I try to check out books which won it just because they won it, is the World Fantasy Awards. Tanith Lee won lots of those in different categories, you will be glad to know.

Re: why is it the 1954 novels seem so much better?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

No, it's not really comparable to Fahrenheit 1954. However, it's very hard to compare a recent book to a classic, and a classic Fahrenheit is. It do think the time in between is very important. It means it's already cribbled the popular fluff from the regular stuff that stays. It means the book has already found within it to touch several generations deeply. So yeah, in hindsight, it's easier. I don't think at all books written today are less good than those written in the fifties and sixties. However, the field of SF (in the Bourdieu sense of the world "field" if that makes any sense to you) has changed. There's more books, for one, being written, and strategies to sell it is probably totally different. Whole genres exist nowadays that didn't exist now. (Among fellow fans in France, lots of rabid pure SF lovers are really set up against fantasy which is written by women, is full of mediocre sentimental stories, princess in strings etc. or so are the criticisms I often hear. Obviously back in the days writers like Zelazny mixed fantasy and SF without a shred of self-consciousness)
I'll have to check the world fantasy award listthen ^^ actually I don't think i've ever looked at a list like that and bought books because they were on it.

It´s easier in hindsight

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

I never bought a book because it won a award, but I have checked it out in amazon ;) just to see blurbs and reviews ( good and inane, both say something about who likes or dislikes a certain book).

Agree about in hindsight being easier. Certain books can be great, no matter when they were written, but I guess the 50s and even 60s there was more new stuff still left to be done.

(Among fellow fans in France, lots of rabid pure SF lovers are really set up against fantasy which is written by women, is full of mediocre sentimental stories, princess in strings etc. or so are the criticisms I often hear. Obviously back in the days writers like Zelazny mixed fantasy and SF without a shred of self-consciousness)

oh, boy, the cooties problem. Books read and/or written by women are obviously tainted and can not be enjoyed by any "real" male or are obviously junk because it is known all women read and write are Harlequin romances ( and of course said Harlequin romances are junk because read and written by women). Rolls-eyes.

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

Thanks, etrangere!

Paladin

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

I just saw this had won last night, and both my daughter and I were gobsmacked. (I'm a friend of generalblossom's, btw, hope you don't mind my jumping in here!) She read it after I did and called it a 'trash novel' - her definition being a book that you really enjoy and can't put down but know all along that it's not very well-written. She'd be killed if she said it in public no doubt! ;) I just thought that Bujold's editors had reached the point of thinking they daren't make the tiniest correction to her slightest word. I got so sick of all the descriptions of Dy Cabon's fatness: 'his ample girth' and (multiple) 'his pudgy fingers' and his 'suety complexion'. Enough already - we got the picture - he's fat!

Did love Ista though.