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DENVENTION 3 CONGRATULATES the 2008 HUGO AWARD CREDITS WINNERS the 2008 Hugo Award Was BEST NOVEL Designed by Lee Kuruganti H Saturday, August 9, 2008 Hugo Edition DENVENTION 3 CONGRATULATES THE 2008 HUGO AWARD CREDITS WINNERS The 2008 Hugo Award was BEST NOVEL designed by Lee Kuruganti. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 2008 Hugo Award Administrators: BEST NOVELLA Mary Kay Kare “All Seated on the Ground” Jeff Copeland by Connie Willis Liz Copeland BEST NOVELETTE 2008 Hugo Ceremony: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” Laurie Mann by Ted Chiang Gay Ellen Dennett BEST SHORT STORY 2008 Hugo Ceremony “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear Program Designed By: Geri Sullivan BEST RELATED BOOK Laurie Mann Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST Michael Chabon, author of this year’s Stephan Martiniere Best Novel The Yiddish Policemen’s BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, Union, will be interviewed Sunday LONG FORM BEST SEMIPROZINE evening on National Public Radio’s Stardust Locus All Things Considered. Please see written by edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten www.npr.com for details. Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn Gong-Wong & Liza Groen Trombi directed by Matthew Vaughn HOW YOU VOTED BEST FANZINE BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, File 770 SHORT FORM edited by Mike Glyer There were 972 final ballots received, of Doctor Who: “Blink” which 895 were valid. Most of the invalid written by Steven Moffat BEST FAN WRITER final ballots were electronic ballots with errors in voting, which were corrected by directed by Hettie Macdonald John Scalzi later resubmission by the members— only the last received ballot for each BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, BEST FAN ARTIST LONG FORM Brad Foster member was counted. David G. Hartwell JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR Full reports on the voting statistics can be found online at: BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, BEST NEW SCIENCE FICTION www.denvention.org/hugos/08finalresults.pdf SHORT FORM WRITER Gordon Van Gelder Mary Robinette Kowal Issue Number H Saturday, August 9 Hugo Edition FINISHING ORDER BEST RELATED BOOK BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST The nominations for each category are listed Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Stephan Martiniere below in finishing order. Full nominating and Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher John Picacio voting statistics can be found online at: Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Bob Eggleton www.denvention.org/hugos/08finalresults.pdf Last Millennium by Barry Malzberg Phil Foglio The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and John Harris BEST NOVEL J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community Shaun Tan The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Diana Glyer No Award by Michael Chabon Emshwiller: Infinity x Two by Luis Ortiz The Last Colony by John Scalzi The Arrival by Shaun Tan BEST SEMIPROZINE Halting State by Charles Stross No Award Locus Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer Interzone Brasyl by Ian McDonald BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, The New York Review of Science Fiction No Award LONG FORM Ansible Stardust Helix BEST NOVELLA Heroes (Season 1) No Award “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix “Recovering Apollo 8” Enchanted BEST FANZINE by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Golden Compass File 770 “The Fountain of Age” by Nancy Kress No Award PLOKTA “Memorare” by Gene Wolfe Challenger “Stars Seen Through Stone” BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, Argentus by Lucius Shepard SHORT FORM Drink Tank No Award Doctor Who “Blink” No Award Doctor Who BEST NOVELETTE “Human Nature” / “The Family of Blood” BEST FAN WRITER “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” Battlestar Galactica “Razor” John Scalzi by Ted Chiang Torchwood “Captain Jack Harkness” David Langford “The Cambist and Lord Iron” Star Trek: New Voyages Cheryl Morgan by Daniel Abraham “World Enough and Time” Steven H Silver “Dark Integers” by Greg Egan No Award Chris Garcia “Glory” by Greg Egan No Award “Finisterra” by David Moles BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, No Award LONG FORM BEST FAN ARTIST David G. Hartwell Brad Foster BEST SHORT STORY Patrick Nielsen Hayden Sue Mason “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear Beth Meacham Steve Stiles “A Small Room in Koboldtown” Ginjer Buchanan Teddy Harvia by Michael Swanwick Lou Anders Taral Wayne “Last Contact” by Stephen Baxter No Award No Award “Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359” by Ken MacLeod “Distant Replay” by Mike Resnick BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST No Award SHORT FORM NEW SCIENCE FICTION WRITER Gordon Van Gelder Mary Robinette Kowal Denvention 3 would like to thank everyone Sheila Williams Scott Lynch who participated in the nominating and voting Ellen Datlow David Louis Edelman process for the 2008 Hugo Awards. Stanley Schmidt Joe Abercrombie Jonathan Strahan Jon Armstrong Mary Kay Kare No Award David Anthony Durham 2008 Hugo Awards Administrator No Award Necessity: The Mother of Denvention © 2008 Denvention 3 Kent Bloom, Chairman; Helen Montgomery, Publisher; Sam Lubell, Editor; Gary Blog, Printer Staff: Kate Barnes, Jan van’t Ent, Chris Garcia, Cent Gokce, Cathy Green, Danny Low, Howard Tayler .
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