2013 Hugo Winners

Best Novel: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (Tor)

Best Novella: "The Emperor's Soul" by Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon Publications)

Best Novelette: "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity, Solaris)

Best Short Story: "Mono no aware" by Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese, VIZ Media LLC)

Best Related Work: Writing Excuses, Season 7 by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Jordan Sanderson

Best Graphic Story: Saga, Volume 1 written by Brian K. Vaughn, 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

The John W. Campbell 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

                Total   Female   Male    Mu       F/T
Winners           17	5.62	11.38            0.33
Nominees          83   30.43    52.46	0.11	 0.37

Clarkesworld Podcast July 2009: Placa del Fuego (Tobias S. Buckell)

Placa del Fuego (Tobias S. Buckell)

Read by Mike Allen, who needs not to be so close to the mike for his sibilants.

A street kid gets caught up in what is to him the biggest adventure of his life, one featuring characters out of legend. To the rest of the universe it's nothing much but that is true of all human activity.

Buckell is, of course, the guy who gets hate mail for including black characters in his SF and with passages like

He'd gotten a brief glimpse of her before the running started: tall, dark eyes, dark skin, dark leather jacket and microfibre pants, careful dreadlocks pulled back into a pony tail.

I imagine he got some for this.

Elements of this reminded me of Vance, not an author I associate with Buckell.

Learn from my fail

I think of what I say as text livestreamed so the possibility of me using the verb salt in the future tense while waving a sharp object around could be open to misinterpretation never occurred to me.

Fire destroys St. Jacobs Market building

ST. JACOBS — Waterloo and area fire crews were called out overnight to battle a major blaze at the St Jacobs Market.

Should there be

A best fanfic Hugo?

Another Hugo thing

To keep the number of awards from spiraling out of control, should the Hugo start using relegation, where the category with the least number of votes is dropped, to be replaced by a category that might engage the voters' interest more?

Given a new design for the "The Problem with Defending the Purity of the English Language" shirts

Would that version be eligible for a Best Related Work Hugo?

Today's fanfic

"Now and forever, I am THE DARK PHOENIX" proclaimed the former Little Orphan Annie.

I assume someone thought of that already and there's art of it. I mean Jean Grey > Annie, Xavier > Daddy Warbucks and Wolverine > Sandy is obvious.

Frederik Pohl (1919 -2013)

Emily Pohl-Weary has tweeted that noted author Frederik Pohl has died.

On less somber note

So I was killing time rolling up Icons characters and I got this guy:

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