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."

Comments

Rainbows End

[savala]

I read Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End last year, and wrote the following about it:

I expected it to be good, but it's gone way far above and beyond any expectations I harboured. Everything it did, it did perfectly right. The people living this story have become gloriously real, the story captivated me more and more with each passing chapter (building up to an awesome conclusion), there were real emotions, chillingly shocking and yet hopeful visions of the future as it could be, and through it all, the sense that everything in this book was written by someone who really knows what he's talking about.

The technology predictions in this book won't stand the test of time. Two years from now they'll still be valid, but five years from now they'll already be decidedly quaint. Still, as someone very famous once said, science fiction isn't about the future, it's about the present. And I think there's very few people who understand the present as well as Vinge does. And I can pretty much guarantee that even when the technology predictions are considered not just quaint but hilariously outdated, this book will still be read and enjoyed - simply because it's an awesome book with an awesome story.

You're looking at the clear winner of next year's Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Ok, so I was wrong about the Nebula. Can't win them all. :)

I can also highly recommend this book to everyone here at slashdot. It's the kind of book most of us will be able to relate to. A book by a geek who understands not only technology, but also the social implications thereof.

Blink!

[radarsat1]

I thought "Blink" was by far the best Dr. Who episode this season.. can't believe it wasn't listed there.
Anyways, are they really canceling this show after next season?? I do hope it continues.

They need some new categories.

[foniksonik]

There should be:

Best Video Game - Console/PC

Best Video Game - Web

Best Machina - Short

Best Machina - Long

Best Interactive - Website

Best Interactive - Microsite

Essentially there are a lot more formats available for Sci-Fi/Fantasy creative works than there used to be. Let's give those people awards for their contributions.

Re:Pan's Labyrinth

[Briareos]

Am I the only one to think that every movie that was nominated besides Pan's Labyrinth was a lot better and should've won instead?

In my book, Pan's Labyrinth was a jumbled, incoherent mess of a story that ultimately went nowhere. Sorry, but WW2 war stories and that kind of fairy tale fantasy just don't mix well, and Pan's Labyrinth was hopping from being one to the other all the time and in the end fell flat on both accounts.

All the other movies at least told their story well, but when I watched Pan's Labyrinth in the cinema it was just one big "Huh?" distributed over 2 hours. Granted, it wasn't "Night Watch" *shudder* bad, but bad nonetheless... :(

(And scary? What the freak was scary about it?)

np: Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - Showroom Dummies (Cha-Cha-Cha) (El Baile Alemán)

Re:Pan's Labyrinth

[Don_dumb]

British, as much as we scorn at American culture, we aren't much better. If at all.

Re:Pan's Labyrinth

[Don_dumb]

Am I the only one to think that every movie that was nominated besides Pan's Labyrinth was a lot better and should've won instead?

In my book, Pan's Labyrinth was a jumbled, incoherent mess of a story that ultimately went nowhere. Sorry, but WW2 war stories and that kind of fairy tale fantasy just don't mix well, and Pan's Labyrinth was hopping from being one to the other all the time and in the end fell flat on both accounts.
You're not thinking at all, it was about the Spanish civil war, not WW2. So I would assert that the film was intellectually above you. I am not going to explain why the two stories make sense together because that would spoil the film for those who are just reading this thread. But I suggest you read the imdb.com summaries.