The Hugo Awards ceremony was last night, and Locus provides us with the winners. I’m surprised by the Best Novel; I enjoyed Hominids, but it was a very strong year for this category and I would have given The Scar the nod.
Novel
Bones of the Earth, Michael Swanwick
Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
Kiln People, David Brin
The Scar, China Miéville
The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
Novella
“Breathmoss”, Ian R. MacLeod
“Bronte’s Egg”, Richard Chwedyk
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
“In Spirit”, Pat Forde
“The Political Officer”, Charles Coleman Finlay
A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo
Novelette
“Halo”, Charles Stross
“Madonna of the Maquiladora”, Gregory Frost
“Presence”, Maureen F. McHugh
“Slow Life”, Michael Swanwick
“The Wild Girls”, Ursula K. Le Guin
Short Story
“Creation”, Jeffrey Ford
“Falling Onto Mars”, Geoffrey A. Landis
“‘Hello,’ Said the Stick”, Michael Swanwick
“Lambing Season”, Molly Gloss
“The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport”, Michael Swanwick
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Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
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Firefly, “Serenity”
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Star Trek: Enterprise, “A Night in Sickbay”
Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Professional Editor
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Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Stanley Schmidt
Gordon Van Gelder
Professional Artist
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Bob Eggleton
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Speculations, Kent Brewster, ed.
Fanzine
Challenger, Guy H. Lillian III
Emerald City, Cheryl Morgan
File 770, Mike Glyer
Mimosa, Rich & Nicki Lynch
Plokta, Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott
Fan Writer
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Fan Artist
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Teddy Harvia
Sue Mason
Steve Stiles
Frank Wu
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Charles Coleman Finlay
David D. Levine
Karin Lowachee
Wen Spencer
Ken Wharton
2 Comments
The Scar? Really? Ugh, that was the worst China Mieville novel to date, in my opinion. Sure, it had its interesting bits–cool floating city, giant extraplanar shrimp, the New Corbuzon Armada–but the characters were thoroughly two-dimensional, and the plot was only so-so. I feel like he pulled off Perdido Street Station with much more flare, and with much better writing and characterization.
Yeah, in that I liked it better than the other nominees, and I liked it in general. It’s really different in tone than Perdido Street Station — more of the turn of the century travelogue than the social realist novel.