2012 Hugo Award Winners

DMcCunney · 09-03-2012, 02:21 AM

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), is pleased to announce the 2012 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award Winners. 1922 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot.

Best Novel: Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor)

Best Novella: "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's, September/October 2011)

Best Novelette: "Six Months, Three Days" 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: Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): Game of Thrones (Season 1) (HBO)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form): "The Doctor's Wife" (Doctor Who) (BBC Wales) (Written by Neil Gaiman, and accepted by him.)

Best Editor (Short Form): Sheila Williams (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine)

Best Editor (Long Form): Betsy Wollheim (DAW Books)

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
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Dennis

kennyc · 09-03-2012, 08:20 AM

Thanks for posting the results!

DiapDealer · 09-03-2012, 08:33 AM

Still no Hugo for George (the written George, anyway).

I wasn't that nuts over any of the selections for Best Novel, to tell the truth. Out of all the nominations, I enjoyed Leviathan Wakes the most, but I still probably wouldn't have labeled it award-worthy.

DrNefario · 09-03-2012, 09:24 AM

I really liked (and voted for) the eventual winner, Among Others.

Apart from that, Game of Thrones and the Encyclopedia of SF are the only other winners I gave my top vote to.

Ninjalawyer · 09-03-2012, 10:41 AM

I haven't read this year's winning novel, but I'm not sure if I will; it's been several years since I went out of my way to read a Hugo winner, and more than that since I thought a book that won deserved the praise.

DiapDealer · 09-03-2012, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer

it's been several years since I went out of my way to read a Hugo winner, and more than that since I thought a book that won deserved the praise.

All the more reason to try the runner-ups, then.

Namekuseijin · 09-03-2012, 11:03 AM

Game of Thrones, Hunger Games, games everywhere for the videogame generation of readers.

DMcCunney · 09-03-2012, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennyc

Thanks for posting the results!

You're welcome.

Parenthetically, the awards ceremony was caught in an interesting glitch. Chicon was live streaming the event via Ustream. The stream was abruptly terminated, and the worldcon channel was banned for copyright violation. The termination occurred as Neil Gaiman was accepting the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Hugo for the Doctor Who episode, "The Doctor's Wife" which he wrote. The apparent trigger was that Chicon had shown brief clips of the nominated shows as the nominees were announced, before the announcement of the winner.

The clips were clearly covered by fair use, so the reason for the takedown is unclear. Best guess is that the takedown request was issued by a bot monitoring likely places for violations. Three of the five nominees were Doctor Who episodes, one was Chris Garcia's acceptance speech for the Best Fanzine award last year, and the last was an episode of Community, an NBC series. NBC being overly touchy after the Olympics is a fair guess, and UStream had apparently had previous problems with copyright violations and has adapted a "shoot first and ask later" approach. (Renovation, last year's Worldcon, live streamed the ceremony over UStream without issue, including the clips.)
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Dennis

j.p.s · 09-03-2012, 07:22 PM

The plug was pulled on the live webcast of the awards ceremonies because of incorrectly alleged copyright infringement.

http://io9.com/5940036/how-copyright...he-hugo-awards

DMcCunney · 09-03-2012, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j.p.s

The plug was pulled on the live webcast of the awards ceremonies because of incorrectly alleged copyright infringement.

http://io9.com/5940036/how-copyright...he-hugo-awards

Yep. The culprit seems to have been a copyright bot used by UStream. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471213 for a discussion.
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Dennis

kennyc · 09-03-2012, 07:39 PM

I didn't realize it was being streamed, I would have watched. A lot of my friends from the writers group here were there...

kennyc · 09-03-2012, 07:41 PM

The Paper Menagerie is a great story, only thing I've read that was nominated. Among Others is on my wish list.

DiapDealer · 09-03-2012, 08:50 PM

The whole automated, bot-prompted take-down of the live Hugo awards video stream for copyright infringement is hilariously, crazy, stupid, scary. Even scarier is having absolutely no recourse once it happened.

DMcCunney · 09-03-2012, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

The whole automated, bot-prompted take-down of the live Hugo awards video stream for copyright infringement is hilariously, crazy, stupid, scary. Even scarier is having absolutely no recourse once it happened.

UStream just posted a formal apology: http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2012/09/0...d-explanation/

They've currently taken their content validator out of the loop for "recalibration". (A fix that would let them more promptly restore an improperly blocked feed would be a good idea as well.)
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Dennis

charlesatan · 09-04-2012, 05:58 AM

The tragedy was they had no problems with Ustream the year before.

Interesting to note was that A Dance With Dragons got the lowest votes in the final tallies. And happy for the novellas (though the other nominees could easily have won it as well), novelette (my first choice), and short story (first choice too) category.

Much-deserved congrats to John Picacio, who's a wonderful and humble artist (he did the Song of Ice and Fire Calendar last year as well as the Del Rey re-issues of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books), and Jim C. Hines for fan writer. Big fan of all the podcasts and it was a tough decision.

09-03-2012, 02:21 AM	#1
DMcCunney New York Editor Posts: 6,384 Karma: 16540415 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7	2012 Hugo Award Winners Sunday, September 2, 2012 Chicago, Illinois, USA - Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), is pleased to announce the 2012 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award Winners. 1922 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot. Best Novel: Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor) Best Novella: "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's, September/October 2011) Best Novelette: "Six Months, Three Days" 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: Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press) Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): Game of Thrones (Season 1) (HBO) Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form): "The Doctor's Wife" (Doctor Who) (BBC Wales) (Written by Neil Gaiman, and accepted by him.) Best Editor (Short Form): Sheila Williams (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine) Best Editor (Long Form): Betsy Wollheim (DAW Books) 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 ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 09-05-2012 at 07:47 PM.

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09-03-2012, 08:20 AM	#2
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,930 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	Thanks for posting the results!

09-03-2012, 08:33 AM	#3
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,891 Karma: 207182180 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Still no Hugo for George (the written George, anyway). I wasn't that nuts over any of the selections for Best Novel, to tell the truth. Out of all the nominations, I enjoyed Leviathan Wakes the most, but I still probably wouldn't have labeled it award-worthy.

09-03-2012, 09:24 AM	#4
DrNefario Wizard Posts: 2,227 Karma: 12029046 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch	I really liked (and voted for) the eventual winner, Among Others. Apart from that, Game of Thrones and the Encyclopedia of SF are the only other winners I gave my top vote to.

09-03-2012, 10:41 AM	#5
Ninjalawyer Guru Posts: 826 Karma: 18573626 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Nexus 7 (2013)	I haven't read this year's winning novel, but I'm not sure if I will; it's been several years since I went out of my way to read a Hugo winner, and more than that since I thought a book that won deserved the praise.

09-03-2012, 11:03 AM	#7
Namekuseijin affordable chipmunk Posts: 1,290 Karma: 9863855 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brazil Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite	Game of Thrones, Hunger Games, games everywhere for the videogame generation of readers.

09-03-2012, 07:22 PM	#9
j.p.s Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,842 Karma: 105494725 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: pb360	The plug was pulled on the live webcast of the awards ceremonies because of incorrectly alleged copyright infringement. http://io9.com/5940036/how-copyright...he-hugo-awards

09-03-2012, 07:39 PM	#11
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,930 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	I didn't realize it was being streamed, I would have watched. A lot of my friends from the writers group here were there...

09-03-2012, 07:41 PM	#12
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,930 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	The Paper Menagerie is a great story, only thing I've read that was nominated. Among Others is on my wish list.

09-03-2012, 08:50 PM	#13
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,891 Karma: 207182180 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	The whole automated, bot-prompted take-down of the live Hugo awards video stream for copyright infringement is hilariously, crazy, stupid, scary. Even scarier is having absolutely no recourse once it happened.

09-04-2012, 05:58 AM	#15
charlesatan Addict Posts: 230 Karma: 3799024 Join Date: May 2012 Device: iPad	The tragedy was they had no problems with Ustream the year before. Interesting to note was that A Dance With Dragons got the lowest votes in the final tallies. And happy for the novellas (though the other nominees could easily have won it as well), novelette (my first choice), and short story (first choice too) category. Much-deserved congrats to John Picacio, who's a wonderful and humble artist (he did the Song of Ice and Fire Calendar last year as well as the Del Rey re-issues of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books), and Jim C. Hines for fan writer. Big fan of all the podcasts and it was a tough decision.