The complete, uninterrupted 2013 Hugo Awards Ceremony is now available for replay on Ustream.
The original live broadcast on September 1, 2013 was adversely affected by technical problems with LoneStarCon 3’s equipment. The problems were not with the Marriott’s internet feed or with Ustream itself, and LoneStarCon 3 has apologized for not being able to provide the live feed as intended. However, you can now watch the entire event the way it unfolded live in San Antonio.
LoneStarCon 3 posted on it’s website earlier today the following announcement:
LoneStarCon 3 apologizes for the interruptions to the live broadcast of the 2013 Hugo Awards Ceremony. These problems were caused by issues with the convention’s equipment that caused failures in the feed to Ustream. LoneStarCon 3 wishes to make it clear that these technical difficulties were in no way due to Ustream Inc or the Marriott hotel, who have both provided excellent support throughout this year’s event.
LoneStarCon 3 has retained the master data for the broadcast and we expect to upload this within 1-2 weeks to enable fans around the world to appreciate the ceremony in full.
We will announce here when the full recording of the Hugo Awards ceremony is made available.
LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the 2013 Hugo Award winners. 1848 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot.
BEST NOVEL
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, John Scalzi (Tor)
BEST NOVELLA
The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon Publications)
BEST NOVELETTE
“The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”, Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity, Solaris)
BEST SHORT STORY
“Mono no Aware”, Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese, VIZ Media LLC)
BEST RELATED WORK
Writing Excuses Season Seven, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler and Jordan Sanderson
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
Saga, Volume One, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM
The Avengers, Screenplay & Directed by Joss Whedon (Marvel Studios, Disney, Paramount)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM
Game of Thrones, “Blackwater”, Written by George R.R. Martin, Directed by Neil Marshall. Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (HBO)
BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM
Stanley Schmidt
BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
John Picacio
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Jason Heller, Sean Wallace and Kate Baker
BEST FANZINE
SF Signal, edited by John DeNardo, JP Frantz, and Patrick Hester
BEST FANCAST
SF Squeecast, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente (Presenters) and David McHone-Chase (Technical Producer)
BEST FAN WRITER
Tansy Rayner Roberts
BEST FAN ARTIST
Galen Dara
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2011 or 2012, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).
Mur Lafferty
The 2013 Hugo Award winners were announced on Sunday evening, September 1, at the at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The ceremony was hosted by LoneStarCon 3 Toastmaster Paul Cornell. Text-based CoverItLive coverage of the ceremony was provided through the Hugo Awards web site. Video streaming coverage was provided by Ustream. LoneStarCon 3 posted a notice on their web site shortly after the ceremony stating that “LoneStarCon 3 apologizes for the interruptions to the live broadcast of the 2013 Hugo Awards Ceremony. These problems were caused by issues with the upload stream from the Convention to Ustream. LoneStarCon 3 wishes to make it clear that these technical difficulties were in no way due to Ustream, who have provided excellent support throughout this year’s event.”
The 2013 Hugo trophy base was designed by artist Vincent Villafranca.
See the Final Ballot Details for a full breakdown of votes, subsequent placements, and nomination counts.
The Hugo Awards will be announced tonight at a ceremony at LoneStarCon 3, the 2013 World Science Fiction Convention, in San Antonio, Texas. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 8 PM CDT. We’ll be on the air around 7:45 PM with our live text-based coverage of the awards ceremony. The window to our call of the ceremony is below.
Live video coverage of the ceremony will be on the Hugo Awards UStream Channel. We’ve been reassured that Ustream has “whitelisted” the broadcast and is fully aware of the planned event, so expect no repetition of the unfortunate interruption that affected last years’s broadcast.
Note that the video and text-only coverage streams are not synchronized, and based on past experience, are likely to get out of synch with each other.
