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

Charles Stross

[grassy_knoll]

I'm disapointed that he didn't win the best novel category. I'm a huge fan of his Laundry books ( think HP Lovecraft + Dilbert in a spy novel ).

I didn't like Rainbow's End

[Henry V .009]

I am normally a big Vinge fan, but I wasn't too impressed by Rainbow's End. I thought that the schooling part of the story was mostly silly. Success isn't really about schooling, it's about intelligence. (Although big impressive credentials are important and its hard to get those without schooling.) Unlike Vinge's imagining, high school computer class in the future will be just as silly as it was 10 years ago, just as silly as it is now. Even if the technology improves, the teachers and students will not. If you are a genius poet from the past, the place to learn about computers is not high school.

The technology was interesting and well thought out, but Vinge didn't really have an impressive plot to go with them. He concentrated on characters, not Vinge's forte, to the detriment of plot, which is Vinge's forte.

Maybe I should re-read Fire Upon the Deep and True Names to get the taste of Rainbow's End out of my mouth.

Re:Doctor Whaaa?

[Anonymous Coward]

Long time Doctor Who fan here. I wouldn't give you 2c for Eureka, Heroes or Jericho. (They're all too 'Dawson's Creek' for my taste.) But, I also wouldn't nominate Doctor Who either. The writing's been far too often sloppy and the "science" has been laughable. The Doctor being recast from David Tennant to Dobbie the House Elf in the final episode of this season was also pretty risable. If there's a series that deserves an award for quality writing and well realised sci-fi drama, it's been Battlestar Gallactica. No question.

Re:Blindsight should have won

[QuantumET]

It was explained with plenty of hard science fiction - a human subspecies missing the ability to produce a key biological compound, leading to a host of other adaptations to allow the vampires to successfully hunt regular humans, including different brain wiring, hibernation ability, and an unfortunate mental glitch having to do with right angles, which lead to them going extinct way before modern times. They were then brought back through some genetic archeology work.

Re:Pan's Labyrinth

[SETIGuy]

You're not thinking at all, it was about the Spanish civil war, not WW2.

I'm not sure what movie you were watching, but it was "about" the trauma women (or at least some of them) go through when losing their virginity. The whole Spanish civil war + mythical beings thing was there to make you think it was about something else.

Or did you miss the giant representation of the female reproductive system on the movie poster?

Although I can understand how the point might be lost on the slashdot crowd.