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2008 Hugo Award Ceremony

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Are you coming to this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, Denvention 3? Come to the 2008 Hugo Awards Ceremony. Denvention 3 Toastmaster Wil McCarthy will host fandom’s biggest awards event. Expect a few surprises along the way! This year’s Hugo Ceremony will be Saturday, August 9, beginning at 7:30 pm in the Wells Fargo Theater. As this theater has 5,000 stadium-style seats, finding a comfortable seat with a great view of the stage will be no problem.

The Hugo presenters this year will be Denvention 3 Artist Guest of Honor Rick Sternbach, Fan Guest of Honor Tom Whitmore, past Hugo winners Connie Willis and Robert Silverberg, Nebula winner Ed Bryant, TAFF winner Chris Garcia, DUFF winners Sue and Steve Francis, and Denvention 2 Fan GoH Rusty Hevelin. We’re also featuring a short performance by Denvention 3’s Music Guest Kathy Mar.

2008 Base Design Competition

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Denvention 3, the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention, has announced a competition to find a designer for its Hugo Award trophy base. As usual, the trophy design must include the standard Hugo rocket.

The rules of the competition are available on Denvention 3’s web site, and an archive of past trophies can be found on this site.

All inquiries regarding the competition should be directed to Denvention 3, not to WSFS.

Update, January 2, 2008: The competition closed December 31, 2007.

2007 Hugo Awards Announced

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2007 Hugo Award Trophy
The results of the 2007 Hugo Awards, as announced at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention, in Yokohama, Japan, on September 1st 2007, are as follows:

  • Best Novel: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge [Tor, 2006]
  • Best Novella: “A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed [Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2006]
  • Best Novelette: “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald [Asimov’s July 2006]
  • Best Short Story: “Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt [Asimov’s July 2006]
  • Best Related Non-Fiction Book: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon by Julie Phillips [St. Martin’s Press, 2006]
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Guillermo del Toro [Picturehouse]
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who – “Girl in the Fireplace” (2006) Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Euros Lyn [BBC Wales/BBC1]
  • Best Editor, Long Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Best Editor, Short Form: Gordon Van Gelder
  • Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
  • Best Semiprozine: Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
  • Best Fanzine: Science-Fiction Five-Yearly ed. by Lee Hoffman, Geri Sullivan, and Randy Byers
  • Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
  • Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu

The winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines and administered on their behalf by the World Science Fiction Society, is:

  • Naomi Novik

Full details of the nominees and voting figures can be found here.