Locus Online reports on the winners of this year's Hugo Awards, announced last night at Renovation, the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nev.
Our syllabus is best represented in the novella category. Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects is the winner, and runners-up include Elizabeth Hand's "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" and Geoffrey A. Landis's "The Sultan of the Clouds."
Novelette runners-up include James Patrick Kelly's "Plus or Minus," and short-story runners-up include Peter Watts's "The Things" -- which already won a Shirley Jackson Award, earlier this summer; I was a member of that jury.
Another Hugo novella runner-up, my former Clarion West student Rachel Swirsky's "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window," is in our Jonathan Strahan anthology, though not on our sf syllabus this semester. I'm saving it for the fantasy class in the spring. I think Rachel is my first former student to be a Hugo nominee for fiction; if I'm wrong about that, one of my online cronies will correct me soon enough.
Congratulations to all!
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