2009 Hugo Award Winners Announced August 10, 2009
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Over the weekend the Hugo Awards were given out at the 2009 Worldcon conference in Montreal.
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)
The Hugo Award, first presented in 1953, celebrate the best in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Recipients are chosen by members of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS).
And the winners are:
Best Novel
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)Best Novella
* “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008)Best Novelette
* “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Mar 2008)Best Short Story
* “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)Best Related Book
*Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)Best Graphic Story
* Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
* WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
* Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen , writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)Best Editor, Short Form
* Ellen DatlowBest Editor, Long Form
* David G. HartwellBest Professional Artist
* Donato GiancolaBest Semiprozine
* Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. SegalBest Fanzine
* Electric Velocipede edited by John KlimaBest Fan Writer
* Cheryl MorganBest Fan Artist
* Frank WuThe John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* David Anthony Durham*
Chad Vader Season 2 Episode 6 – Chad gets LIbby July 24, 2009
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Finally! another Chad Vader Season 2 episode.
This one isn’t terribly funny but it’s still good fun and is clearly the setup for Chad’s removal from Empire Markets
Star Wars The Old Republic will be FULLY VOICED!! July 18, 2009
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Doesn’t it always suck when you’re playing a game and you have to read the text the character is supposed to be saying?
It kills the mood of the game doesn’t it?
That won’t be the came with Star Wars the Old Republic – the whole shebang will be fully voiced!
Bioware has a new documentary vid about the voice stuff – in which they show some new gameplay footage too. Looks great!
Star Trek : Losing the Peace – 1 word review: AWESOME July 14, 2009
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The Star Trek Destiny series ripped apart the Star Trek universe leaving billions dead and billions more homeless…
This isn’t a Federation vs SOMEONE ELSE book, this is a Federation against itself book as it tries to deal with massive refugee movements and politics.
At first I was a bit skeptical — but once I got into this book I found it totally engaging. The characters are true – Worf has the right dialogue as does Picard — the author has done a brilliant work capturing the real essence of what always has made TNG work.
The basics of the story were interesting but it is the storytelling and the characters that make this book Awesome.
In a lot of ways, we found this book to be even better than the first Star Trek Destiny fallout book – A Singular Destiny – though that’s a great book too.
We like where the Star Trek universe is heading – this is the rich complexity of environments, characters and plots that only great storytelling and masterful authors can deliver. Losing the peace was great, my only complaint now is what’s next? How many months (years?) will we have to wait until the next great Star Trek TNG book?
Chad Vader is your Father June 19, 2009
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It’s Father’s day weekend and everyone favorite SciFi dad – Darth….err i meant Chad is out with a special fathers’ day vid.
typical stuff and still funny!
Dollhouse Season Two (2) back on September 18th June 17, 2009
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Dollhouse is back on Friday Sept. 18 at 9 p.m.
This new second season should start off with a real bang as Echo is still out on the run with Alpha..
and oh yeah Agent Ballard is now working for the Dollhouse (for now).
We don’t have to wait until september to get our first new dollhouse episode though – the word is that the season one DVD (now available for pre-order from Amazon) will include a missing 13th episode.
Chad Vader Season 2 Episode V June 15, 2009
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The new/old employee – not a great episode…but i guess it advances the plot a little?
Chad gets a new apprentice as the old apprentice is primed for…?
Chad Vader Season 2 Episode IV June 15, 2009
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We’ve been a bit busy lately and missed this episode when it first got uploaded – but here it is.
Chad deals with his demon robots in the basement – great fun!
Terminator Salvation The Machinima Series – Looks Hot with Blair June 12, 2009
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Yeaah Terminator Salvation as a movie was kinda lame – but Blair the A-10 Warthog pilot was kinda hot..
And she’s BAAACK! Well at least the animated version of her in the Terminator Salvation Machinima series. You can get the whole series from Amazon, but check out the Episode 1 preview below…
The animation is pretty slick, the story not too shabby and overall it’s good Terminator fun.
Star Wars Legacy #35 Cade is a SCUMBAG May 15, 2009
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After all he’s been through, Cade Skywalker is still scum.
He defeated Darth Krayt, was hailed as a savior of the Jedi Order and maybe even the Galactic Alliance itself but in the end Cade is a troubled man.
When we first met Cade way back in the first issue of this series he was hiding who he was and living out his life as a bounty hunter.
Then over the course of the last three years he has revealed who he really is, his friends have found out who he really is but none of that matters.
At the core of his being Cade Skywalker is bounty hunter scum.
In this issue he ends up starting a bar fight and nearly turns to the dark side to kill his cousin.
For what??
It’s his nature. Cade is no Jedi hero. He is a Skywalker but he is not the heir to the Luke Skywalker legacy.
That’s fine by us and what makes Legacy one of the best Star Wars storylines of all time.
It would have been easy for this series to be just about the transformation of Cade from bounty hunter to Jedi hero. But life is never that easy and neither is this series. It’s a complex series where heroes are villains and there are no clear answers.
At the end of this issue, Cade returns to the life he had where this series began. A disreputable scum bag on the run.
Fringe Season Finale Shocker, Peter is really dead May 14, 2009
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Alright not a spoiler anymore the show was on tuesday night…
Peter is really dead. How about that!! Walter had to pull him over from an alternate reality…but doesn’t that mean that someone else is missing Peter?
Neat to see Leonard Nimoy – albeit briefly and kind of eerie to have his office in the World Trade Center.
But hey we know this show has been renewed so in a few short months we’ll know what the frak is going on!
Battlestar Galactica Caprica is Awesome May 11, 2009
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Finally got the chance to watch Caprica and it sure is a worthy addition to the Battlestar Galactica canon.
The show is deep and complex, with great characters and fine actors.
The challenge of mono-theism vs polytheism is something that the regular Battlestar Galactica never really explored..It’s a very interesting take about prejudice too. It’s not what I had expected — it was better.
The whole holoband concept was also something un-expected and very entertaining.
The weird part from a connectivity point of view though – is the cylons predate Daniel Greystone by thousands of years according to BSG. So is Daniel really one of the final 7? He isn’t really inventing the Cylons but rather re-inventing them right?
Overall a really great start and a show that we are very much looking forward to watching weekly soon!
Dollhouse Season (Series?) Finale Omega REVIEW May 10, 2009
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The season finale (episode 12) of Dollhouse was an interesting – if not confusing- episode.
After chasing the dollhouse for 11 TV hours, Agent Ballard is now a dollhouse contractor.
We find out the Doctor is really a doll herself and that Alpha was a messed up dude from very early on.
What we didn’t have is a proper cliffhanger or even an ending for this show ..it just kinda ran out of time didn’t it?
Will they find Caroline? maybe but is that the chase? find alpha? I guess that’s neat. Considering that FOX is now apparently considering cancelling Dollhouse, Omega
There is a 13th episode that apparently will only be available on the Season One DVD..let’s hope that FOX pulls itself together, shows the 13th episode and renews Dollhouse for Season Two.
Fringe : Harris works for ZFT May 6, 2009
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Last night’s episode of Fringe, The Road Not Taken
got rid of Olivia’s closest enemy agent Harris.
We had him pegged for being a douche but we didn’t see it coming that he was ZFT.
The whole firestarter thing was really cool too, i wonder if Olivia can do the same thing? Notice how in the room where they ignited the twin there was one of those light boards that ZFT uses to test recruits…so we’ll have to see
And nice shout out to Spock / Star Trek in this episode too…next episode Nimoy himself will finally appear.
Not sure how the Watcher fits in..but clearly Walter was expecting him.
Fringe Renewed for Season Two!! Proof that FOX Knows a great show when they see one May 5, 2009
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Without a doubt Fringe is the best new SciFi show of the past year. The characters are interesting, deep and entertaining. The plots are well constructed and full of twists.
The pacing of the shows is great, without too much dead weight or prancing around.
We all love Walter and Olivia is well she’s just awesome.
Now Fox has officially announced that they have renewed Fringe for a second season..which is great news.
Fringe is not Sarah Connor Chronicle which isn’t a good show and likely will get cancelled by Fox.
Dollhouse on the other end is an excellent show and we here at ShowMeSciFi have our fingers crossed that Fox sees the light and doesn’t destroy another Joss Whedon production.
Knights of the Old Republic #40 Dueling Ambitions part 2. Zayne is still a hero May 4, 2009
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No he’s not a Jedi padawan anymore and he’s not a fugitive either..
but it sure does seem like Zayne is on the run in this issue..
This is the middle issue in this new story arc where Zayne is part of a live swoop sporting event where he’s trying to save himself and a few others.
We still don’t know what the deal is with Jarael and her force abilities..clearly that’s the big mystery that this series will continue to draw out.
How is this going to end? We’ll see in 30 days..
Dollhouse : Alpha Revealed !! It’s Firefly’s Wash! May 1, 2009
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What a great episode of dollhouse. Agent Ballard finally finds the Dollhouse with the help of
ALPHA!!
We did not see that coming, it wasn’t until Alpha slashed Victor that we even had a clue.
The twist with data key sending Sierra to Tucson was a little odd and didn’t really make much sense though..
And why wouldn’t Topher have known what Alpha looked like?
And which personality did Alpha imprint on Echo??
Lots of questions in this first episode of Dollhouse yet that did not have a clean ending.
Fringe : Midnight spinal fluid April 29, 2009
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So ZFT is run by William Bell? RLY??
That was the big revelation in last night’s episode Midnight
, but another fine freak’ish scientific mix too.
The only cure for the vampire is spinal fluid..that’s one that i hadn’t heard off before.
Clearly this show is headed toward one massive season finale.
Klingons cut from Star Trek XI! jatlhwI’pu’ !! April 28, 2009
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J J Abrams is so keen on having his vision of Star Trek – 90210’ish that he’s cut Klingon from the movie.
Yup that’s right. A classic era trek film where there is no spoken Klingon.
It’s total FRAKKIN BS.
“We actually had a sequence that ended up getting cut from the movie that took place on Rura Penthe, in a Klingon prison,” co-writer Alex Kurtzman told SCI FI Wire, explaining the deletion. “And there was definitely Klingon spoken in the movie, and it ended up getting cut.”
So while this new movie might look slick, by cutting out the Klingon this new film is cutting out the Warrior heart of the Star Trek Universe.
If they end up making Star Trek XII let’s sure hope it’s a full on Klingon Federation war!
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Dollhouse : Haunted or how Dolls can let people experience life after death! April 25, 2009
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So now Dolls can be used to let people come back after they’re dead? That’s what happened in last night’s episode Haunted
What a concept! Just scan a person regularly and they there will be a ‘copy’ of them ready to implant into another body.
Overall a really interesting episode, I didn’t pick the son as the killer and we really didn’t know till the last 10 minutes. That’s a sign of a brilliant writer ..with a story that keeps us entertained and guessing.
What was the deal with Topher though? Is he frakking Sierra too?
What about Agent Ballard? He knows Milly is a doll yet he can’t do much about it or can he?
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