2015 HUGO Award Winners Announced

The 2015 Hugo Awards were announced at “Sasquan” The 73rd World Science Fiction Convention Spokane, Washington, USA.

A full list of the nominees can be found here, and a breakdown of how the voting went is available here. The Hugo Awards tend to suffer from some sort of controversy, and this year was no different. Special interest groups got together this year to block-nominate certain writers, editors and creators. Fans responded by nominating certain categories as ‘No Award’. This can be seen in the results.

BEST NOVEL

The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu translator (Tor Books)

BEST NOVELLA

No Award

BEST NOVELETTE

“The Day the World Turned Upside Down”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Lia Belt translator (Lightspeed, 04-2014)

BEST SHORT STORY

No Award

BEST RELATED WORK

No Award

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt, (Marvel Comics)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

Guardians of the Galaxy

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM

No Award

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM

No Award

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Julie Dillon

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant

BEST FANZINE

Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Colin Harris, Alissa McKersie, and Helen J. Montgomery

BEST FANCAST

Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)

BEST FAN WRITER

Laura J. Mixon

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elizabeth Leggett

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer*

Wesley Chu

* This award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2013 or 2014, is technically not Hugo Award, but presented and arranged by the same organisation.

Congratulations to all the winners

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