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2007 Hugo Award Winners Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the come-on-down dept.

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."

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  1. Pan's Labyrinth by lastninja · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Pale Man sequence in Pan's Labyrinth, scared the living shit out of me. A must see movie.

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  2. For those of you by saibot834 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:For those of you by gkhan1 · · Score: 5, Informative

      One should also mention the Nebula, which is the other major sci-fi-award. Winning both the Hugo and the Nebula is the grand slam of sci fi, and the list of those who did it is an austere one. Some novels go even further and wins the Hugo, the Nebula and the Philip K Dick Award. That's sci-fi royalty, that is.

  3. Re:You mean... by savala · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.)

  4. no online short story winners? by sdedeo · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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