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Hugo nominations & BSFA Winners

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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The shortlist nominees for the prestigious science fiction and fantasy Hugo Awards have been announced, taking in novels, short stories, film, television and comics tales from the SF&F genre. Let’s have a look at the main longform prose contenders, which includes China Miéville’s fascinating Embassytown and Mira Grant’s excellent Deadline: Best Novel Among Others by [...]

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Comics for the Hugo awards: ” for your consideration”

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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The Hugo Awards, given out at the annual science fiction worldcon each year, are one of the major SF awards in the calendar; in the last couple of years a graphic category has been added to the awards mix alongside the books and other categories. A problem that some have identified though is that a [...]

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Hugo winners

Monday, September 6, 2010

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The annual Hugos Awards, one of the leading gongs for all things science fiction, were announced at the weekend from the Land Down Under. Unusually the best novel category was a draw this year, being split between Paolo Bacigalupi for The Windup Girl and China Mieville for The City & The City. I’ve never read [...]

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Blast from the past – the 1979 Hugo awards

Monday, January 11, 2010

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Cheryl Morgan posts this fragment from an old BBC documentary Time out of Mind with footage from the 1979 Hugo Awards, given out at the ’79 World Science Fiction Convention, which that year was held in Brighton. Ah, the 70s, when 70s fashions were just fashion (albeit often dreadful!) and not retro-fashion for self conscious [...]

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Hugo Awards

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Convention Reporter kept up a stream of Tweets last night (Canada time, early hours of this morning for the UK) from the weekend’s Worldcon, one of science fiction’s major global annual events, including live updates from the prestigious Hugo Awards. This year the Hugos decided to include a specific category for Best Graphic Story, the [...]

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Convention Reporter

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Cheryl Morgan has significantly expanded on her excellent live blogging coverage of events like this year’s Bristol comics show and is now offering up a very intriguing looking new site – Convention Reporter. She’s been talking to a number of people and now has several contributors who are going to add their feeds to give [...]

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