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2007 Hugo Award Winners Announced
jX writes "This year's Hugo Award Winners have been announced at the recently launched Hugo Award official website. Some winners that should be familiar to any well read/watched geek are Vernor Vinge for Best Novel, Doctor Who for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form), and last years hit movie Pan's Labyrinth for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Of course, a complete list of this year's nominees and winners is also available."
The Pale Man sequence in Pan's Labyrinth, scared the living shit out of me. A must see movie.
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who did not know what the Hugo Award was (like myself): Wikipedia article.
Basically it is an award for the best science fiction or fantasy work.
No. The 2007 Hugo is for a book published in 2006. (Although there's some leeway for which date to pick for books which were first published outside the USA.)
Curious to see that the print journals (and Asimov's in particular) still rule. I don't read SF as much as I used to, but I would assume that there is a lot of work online and probably a lot of good online magazines for it to appear in. At least, that's how it is in my own niche, poetry, where online journals these days publish a non-negligible fraction of the work that wins contemporary awards in the "industry."
Are the Hugo readers still a little too snobby for the web?
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Not to take anything away from Vinge and Rainbows End, but Blindsight was just simply amazing. From the characters to the technology to the plotting style, it took everything good about a first contact story, and then added to it. If you haven't read it, you owe it to yourself to (and the associated Vampire Domestication presentation.) Best of all, Peter Watts has made it, and his previous Rifters trilogy, available online under a Creative Commons license at his website, and it's well worth just downloading and checking it out. I read it CC, and then bought the book. Haven't bought the Rifters set yet, but I probably will my next Amazon order.
Seriously, Blindsight took vampires, transhumans, uploaded minds, and alien contact, and made it into something incredible with the narrative devices, character development, setting and dialog. You need to read the book, and since the first one is free, why not?
Anyways, are they really canceling this show after next season?
No, thank goodness! It's going on semi-hiatus in 2009, with three specials instead of a full season. No news as to whether David Tennant will return in 2010, though.
-Stephen
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Most of them anyway - the Stross is a link to buy the ebook for a silly price, so why not try Accelerando instead, which is free, or any of a bunch of stories on his site.
Who is Jim Baen? He ain't Asimov, that's for sure! (And I believe Asimov had to be cajoled into letting his name be used as the magazine's title.)
Jim Baen is the publisher (or was, since he recently passed away). Baen Books is huge in their niche market of military science fiction and space opera. Many of the books they publish are also available as DRM-free ebooks. Quite a few are at the Baen Free Library for free and a lot of the newer hardcover books come with CDs containing other works by the author. These CDs can be freely distributed.