As noted at Locus Online yesterday, the Hugo Award Winners were announced at this year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Denver, Colorado over the weekend. Some of the award categories and recipients are:
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- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
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- “All Seated on the Ground”, Connie Willis (Asimov’s Dec 2007; Subterranean Press)
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- “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, Ted Chiang (F&SF Sep 2007)
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- “Tideline”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Jun 2007)
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- Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher
A full list of award winners can be found at: www.thehugoawards.org.
Also at Worldcon, the winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer was announced as Mary Robinette Kowal.
Locus also announced the nominations for the World Fantasy Awards, which will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, held this year from October 30 – November 2, 2008. Some of the nominees include:
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- Fangland, John Marks (Penguin)
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- The Gospel of the Knife, Will Shetterly (Tor)
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- The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
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- Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
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- Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)
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- “Cold Snap”, Kim Newman (The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club)
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- Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
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- “The Master Miller’s Tale”, Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF May 2007)
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- The Mermaids, Robert Edric (PS Publishing)
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- “Stars Seen through Stone”, Lucius Shepard (F&SF Jul 2007)
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- “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics”, Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea)
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- “The Church on the Island”, Simon Kurt Unsworth (At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press)
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- “Damned If You Don’t”, Robert Shearman (Tiny Deaths)
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- “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change”, Kij Johnson (The Coyote Road)
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- “Singing of Mount Abora”, Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)
For a full list of the World Fantasy Award nominees, visit: www.worldfantasy.org/awards.
