The Award: Every year, they are given to the last year's best sci-fi, horror, or fantasy works.
The 2014 Hugo Award winners:
The Committee: People in the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS)
The Decision Process:
Rules:
Types of Categories:
Categories:
Ones that Look Interesting to Me:
For more information, please visit: http://www.thehugoawards.org/
The 2014 Hugo Award winners:
- BEST NOVEL: Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Orbit US / Orbit UK)
- BEST NOVELLA: “Equoid” by Charles Stross (Tor.com, 09-2013)
- BEST NOVELETTE: “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinettekowal.com / Tor.com, 09-2013)
- BEST SHORT STORY: “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu (Tor.com, 02-2013)
- BEST RELATED WORK: “We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative” by Kameron Hurley (A Dribble of Ink)
- BEST GRAPHIC STORY: “Time” by Randall Munroe (xkcd)
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM: Gravity written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Esperanto Filmoj; Heyday Films; Warner Bros.)
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM: Game of Thrones “The Rains of Castamere” written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by David Nutter (HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions)
- BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM: Ellen Datlow
- BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM: Ginjer Buchanan
- BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Julie Dillon
- BEST SEMIPROZINE: Lightspeed Magazine edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki
- BEST FANZINE: A Dribble of Ink edited by Aidan Moher
- BEST FANCAST: SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester
- BEST FAN WRITER: Kameron Hurley
- BEST FAN ARTIST: Sarah Webb
The Committee: People in the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS)
The Decision Process:
- Nominations - people can nominate no more than five works in each category. In each category, the five with the most votes move on to the final voting round.
- The five with the most votes are ranked by voters.
Rules:
- Article 3: http://www.lonestarcon3.org/wsfs/constitution.pdf
- And here: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-categories/
Types of Categories:
- Individual works
- People
- Serial publications
Categories:
- Best Novel
- Best Novella
- Best Novelette
- Best Short Story
- Best Related Work
- Best Graphic Story
- Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
- Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
- Best Editor (Long Form)
- Best Editor (Short Form)
- Best Professional Artist
- Best Semiprozine
- Best Fanzine
- Best Fancast
- Best Fan Writer
- Best Fan Artist
Ones that Look Interesting to Me:
- BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM (2014): Game of Thrones “The Rains of Castamere”
- BEST GRAPHIC STORY (2011): Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, written by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
- BEST NOVEL (1993): A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge [Tor, 1992]
- BEST NOVEL (1993): Doomsday Book by Connie Willis [Bantam Spectra, 1992]
- BEST NOVEL (1980): The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke [Gollancz, 1979; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979]
- BEST SHORT STORY (1980): “The Way of Cross and Dragon” by George R. R. Martin [Omni Jun 1979]
For more information, please visit: http://www.thehugoawards.org/