Hugo Awards
Sep. 3rd, 2002 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentThe winners are here. Neil Gaiman won best novel for American Gods, which gives me one more reason to get around to reading it.
The winners for novella - Vernor Vinge's 'Fast Times At Fairmont High' - and novellette - Ted Chiang's 'Hell Is The Absence Of God' - were both published in short story collections, rather in magazines, so I haven't read them. I was mildly annoyed about this, but then I discovered that most of the shortlist is available online. Some of them can be downloaded for free as ebooks, although you have to register. This is a damn fine idea, and I now know what I'll be doing this afternoon...
The winners for novella - Vernor Vinge's 'Fast Times At Fairmont High' - and novellette - Ted Chiang's 'Hell Is The Absence Of God' - were both published in short story collections, rather in magazines, so I haven't read them. I was mildly annoyed about this, but then I discovered that most of the shortlist is available online. Some of them can be downloaded for free as ebooks, although you have to register. This is a damn fine idea, and I now know what I'll be doing this afternoon...
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Date: 2002-09-03 10:40 am (UTC)It's reminded me I really should get round to going registering at the library, and maybe reading some Vernor Vinge. Well, that's tomorrow's entertainment sorted.
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Date: 2002-09-03 12:03 pm (UTC)I think everyone's lost count. :)
reading some Vernor Vinge.
A Fire Upon The Deep! And True Names for (I think) the first mention of the Singularity.
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Date: 2002-09-03 11:20 am (UTC)Oh, and OMWF got 4th place for 'best dramatic presentation', although, according to some who attended, it got the second largest cheer after LotR (the, duh, winner). Buffy fans, eh?
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Date: 2002-09-03 11:49 am (UTC)See here, for example.
Can't help thinking this is a good thing, too - TV and film are as different as short story and novel.
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Date: 2002-09-03 12:05 pm (UTC)Time runs differently in my universe, you understand.
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Date: 2002-09-03 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-03 01:05 pm (UTC)I've driven Niall insane, really.
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Date: 2002-09-03 12:36 pm (UTC)I'll stick with Project Gutenberg.