2014 Hugo Awards presented to Ann Leckie, Tor.com

This year’s Hugo Awards – the annual prizes recognising achievement in science fiction and fantasy – were presented last night at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London’s ExCel, with a majority of the categories focusing on the genres’ literary representation. The ceremony’s headline award – Best Novel – went to Ann Leckie for her debut, Ancillary Justice, the first book in a planned space opera trilogy published by Orbit.

It was a big night for Tor.com, the online sci-fi magazine and imprint of Tor Books, which laid claim to three winners: Charles Stross’ “Equoid”, Mary Robinette Kowal’s “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” and John Chu’s “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” were named respectively Best Novella, Best Novelette and Best Short Story.

Doing almost as well was Aidan Moher’s sci-fi and fantasy blog A Dribble of Ink, which took two awards: Best Fanzine and Best Related Work for Kameron Hurley’s essay “We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative”. Hurley also won Best Fan Writer.

Best Graphic Story went to Randall Munro for “Time”, a particularly innovative instalment of his long-running webcomic xkcd. Ellen Datlow and Ginjer Buchanan were named Best Editor for, respectively, short-form and long-form work. Lightspeed Magazine won Best Semiprozine.

Away from literary matters, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity took Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, whilst the Short Form prize in the same category went to the Game of Thrones episode “The Rains of Castamere”. Julie Dillon was named Best Professional Artist, Sarah Webb Best Fan Artist and Best Fancast was presented to Patrick Hester’s Sf Signal Podcast.

The ceremony also saw the presentation of a non-Hugo award – the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines and given to the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2012 or 2013 – to Sofia Samatar, author of A Stranger in Olondria.

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