HUGO-Awards 2003

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Heute nacht ist es wieder soweit - in Toronto werden die 50. Science Fiction Achievement Awards, auch bekannt als HUGOs, verliehen.

Das sind die nominierten Romane:

"Bones of the Earth" von Michael Swanwick
"Hominids" von Robert J. Sawyer
"Kiln People" von David Brin
"The Scar" von China Mieville
"The Years of Rice and Salt" von Kim Stanley Robinson

Schwer zu sagen, wer da das Rennen machen wird. Mein Favorit wäre ja Robert J. Sawyer (er ist ja auch Kanadier), aber ich denke mal, jeder andere hat auch sehr gute Chancen. Nur ein Sieg von David Brin scheint mir etwas unwahrscheinlich...

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Frisch aus Toronto - die Gewinner!

The 2003 Hugo Award Winners

Bester Roman
"Hominids" von Robert J. Sawyer (Analog 1-4/02; Tor)

Beste Novelle
"Coraline" von Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

Beste Erzählung
"Slow Life" von Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)

Beste Kurzgeschichte
"Falling Onto Mars" von Geoffrey A. Landis (Analog 7-8/02)

Bestes Sachbuch
"Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril" von Judith Merril und Emily Pohl-Weary (Between the Lines)

Beste Serienepisode (Best Short Form Dramatic Presentation)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Conversations With Dead People"
(20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Inc.)
Directed by Nick Marck; Teleplay by Jane Espenson & Drew Goddard

Bester Kinofilm (Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(New Line Cinema)
Directed by Peter Jackson; Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens,
Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson; based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

Bester Profi-Herausgeber/Redakteur
Gardner Dozois

Bester Profi-Illustrator
Bob Eggleton

Bestes Semiprozine
Locus
Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, and Kirsten Gong-Wong, eds.

Bestes Fanzine
Mimosa
Rich and Nicki Lynch, eds.

Bester Fanautor
Dave Langford

Bester Fan-Illustrator
Sue Mason


John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
(sponsored by Dell Magazines)

Wen Spencer


Quelle: http://www.torcon3.on.ca/ballots/HugoFi ... nners.html

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Frisch aus Toronto - die Gewinner!

Beste Erzählung
"Slow Life" von Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)

Hm, hatte mich anno dazumal über "Der Mond ist eines Greifen Ei" (oder so ähnlich) entsetzt + das Buch nicht mal zu Ende gelesen. Sollte der Mann sich derart berappelt haben?

G.

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Keine Ahnung - lies die Geschichte von Michael Swanwick doch einfach mal:
http://www.analogsf.com/Hugos/slowlife.shtml

Aber Du solltest Dich beeilen, denn lange wird sie da nicht mehr online sein.

[heino]

ich habe mich sogar zweimal an Swanwick versucht, fand aber weder "Eines Greifen Ei" noch "In Zeiten der Flut" sehr interessant. Gute Grundideen, aber die Ausführung fand ich zäh und langatmig.

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Keine Ahnung - lies die Geschichte von Michael Swanwick doch einfach mal:
http://www.analogsf.com/Hugos/slowlife.shtml

Aber Du solltest Dich beeilen, denn lange wird sie da nicht mehr online sein.

Gracias. Habe ich gleich gebunkert. Man sollte den Leuten eine zweite Chance geben.

G.

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Hier die Dankesrede, die Robert J. Sawyer auf dem WorldCon hielt. Ich finde sie liest sich doch sehr nett...

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:58:03 -0000
From: "robertjsawyer" <sawyer@sfwriter.com>
Subject: Rob's Hugo Award acceptance speech

My Hugo Award acceptance speech:

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First off, I'd like to thank J. K. Rowling for being late delivering
the manuscript of The Order of the Phoenix, so that it didn't come out
until 2003.

I guess since there was no Harry Potter on the ballot, a hairy Ponter
was the next-best thing ...

I'd also like to thank the Hugo administrators for deciding that Neil
Gaiman's book Coraline was really a novella rather than a novel. I've
never been so thrilled by a word-count statistic in my life.

Seriously, though, I'd very much like to express to my fellow nominees
-- Dave, Stan, Michael, and China. What an honour it's been for the
last few months to share a ballot with you guys.

My thanks go, of course, to Stanley Schmidt, Sheila Williams, and
everyone at Analog, where Hominids was first published, in the form of
a serial.

My thanks also go to Tor Books, particularly my publisher Tom Doherty,
editors David G. Hartwell and Moshe Feder -- plus art director
Jennifer Gallo and artist Donato, who were responsible for the
wonderful covers for my Neanderthal books.

And of course, thanks to my agent, Ralph Vicinanza, who does
everything in his power to put the screws on my behalf to those kind
people at Tor.

Here in Canada, my books do better than I would have ever thought
possible, thanks to Tor's Canadian distributor, H. B. Fenn and Company.

My thanks to Harold and Sylvia Fenn, Rob Howard, Heidi Winter, Melissa
Cameron, David Leonard, Steve St. Amant, David Cuthbertson, Leo
McDonald, and everyone else who works there.

Most of all, though, I want to thank science-fiction fandom.

Everything good in my life I owe to fandom.

All the best friends I've had came from fandom, including the members
of my high-school science fiction club, NASFA, some of whom are here
tonight -- hi, Ted and Gillian!

It was also at a fannish events that I first got to know my mentors
and colleagues, John Robert Colombo, Terence M. Green, Andrew Weiner,
and Edo van Belkom.

And many thanks for the wonderful support to the members of the fan
group I'm currently a proud member of, the USS Hudson Bay.

It was also through fandom that I met Sally Tomasevic and Marcel
Gagné, the two dudes to whom Hominids is dedicated.

Most important of all, though, I also met my wife Carolyn Clink
through fandom.

Without her, I'd be just a fat, bald, geek who knows way too much Star
Trek trivia. Okay -- even with her, I'm just a fat, bald, geek who
knows way too much Star Trek trivia, but it's a lot more fun having
her along for the ride. Carolyn, I love you totally and completely.

Along with Carolyn came her family -- David, Pat, Melissa, and Megan
are here tonight.

And .. and ... I -- I only wish my mother could have seen this ... but
... but ... but it's over a hundred bucks for a day pass to the con!

Seriously, though, fandom also lets me have the best job in the
universe: writing science fiction. And now it's given me the single
greatest honour of my life. Thank you all, very, very much!