Hugo Award Winners
(Visited 4991 times)Aug 102008
Tor.com has the list of this year’s winners, including
- Best novel to Michael Chabon for The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel
- Best film goes to Stardust
- Best short form dramatic goes to a Doctor Who episode, “Blink”
- Ted Chiang’s novella The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
Oh, and that Scalzi guy won something too. 😉
5 Responses to “Hugo Award Winners”
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Stardust, really? That makes me dubious of the other Hugo winners.
The other nominees were the first season of Heroes, the latest Potter movie, Enchanted, and the Golden Compass movie. I would have given the nod to Heroes, myself, but Stardust would certainly be in my second slot.
And don’t forget, people LOVE Neil Gaiman’s stuff. I am guessing many might have voted for it out of affection for the book.
For the best novel nominees that would have been my fifth choice. I just found it totally unreadable. Last Colony would have been my first choice, then Brasyl, then Halting State. I didn’t read the other one, but I’d have voted for it ahead of the one that won because I can’t imagine I’d have liked it less.
Wow, that’s a pretty weak set of nominees for the movie category. I realize there isn’t a lot to choose from but it really makes the movie category seem superfluous when you have to nominate a movie like the Golden Compass (with its whopping 41% Rotten Tomatoes / 51% Metacritic).
I like the Hugos because they highlight sci-fi/fantasy literature. Their movie nominees seem incredibly fluffy by comparison. I can’t think of a year when five quality sci-fi/fantasy movies were released. Why bother?
–matt
That GAWD “Blink” won…that episode still scares the bajeezus out of me.