2010 Hugo Award Winners Announced September 6, 2010
Posted by showmescifi in scifi.Tags: 2010 Hugo Awards, China Miéville, Hugo awards, Paolo Bacigalupi, science fiction, scifi, The Windup Girl
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Want to know what the ‘best’ stuff is in scifi for the past year?
Look no further than the 2010 Hugo Awards.
The Hugo Award was named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, “The Father of Magazine Science Fiction,”. The award is is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
No, we haven’t read everything on this list (yet). But the Hugo Awards list does help to serve as our ‘To Read’ list in any given year.
So without any further ado.. the 2010 Hugo Awards:
* Best Novel: TIE: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
* Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)* Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
* Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
* Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
* Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)* Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars” Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
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For more information on Hugo Gernsback check out a recent biography available on Amazon.
I found this document when we closed down Gernsback Publications in 2003. It was an old ms that I edited and produced as a book.
Follow the link and you can go to the book and thanks to Amazon’s “look inside” feature, you can even get an idea of what it covers.
http://www.amazon.com/Hugo-Gernsback-Well-Ahead-Time/dp/1419658573/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264627577&sr=1-3
Also at http://CreateSpace.com/3119407
Hope you find it interesting.
The book is also available as an E-book for the Kindle or your PC or Mac at Amazon. Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Hugo-Gernsback-Well-Ahead-ebook/dp/B0032AMDL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1264627427&sr=8-1
Other Hugo Gernsback Titles available at Amazon as e-books for Kindle or your PC:
100 Radio Hookups E-book
http://www.amazon.com/100-Radio-Hookups-ebook/dp/B0036FU0YW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1265394338&sr=8-3
The Collected Works of Mohammed Ullyses Fips
A collection of April Fools Articles by Hugo Gernsback
https://www.createspace.com/3429205
1933 Official Auto Radio Service Manual
https://www.createspace.com/3433727
Coming soon:
Radio Service Man’s Handybook
Radio-Cracy & Mini Radio Craft
100 Radio Hookups
French Humor & Tidbits
For more information feel free to contact me, Larry Steckler, at PoptronixInc@aol.com