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Worldcon 2000: The Hugo Nominees
By Jonathan Lipman
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 02:57 pm ET
01 September 2000

The Science Fiction Achievement, or Hugo, Awards are probably the biggest of science fiction’s three major awards, along with the Nebula and Philip K  

The Science Fiction Achievement, or Hugo, Awards are probably the biggest of science fiction’s three major awards, along with the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and the only one of the three awarded by fans. They’re named after Hugo Gernsback, publisher of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.

Space wasn’t really a hot topic for the most popular works of 1999. Only two of the five top novel nominees are set beyond the atmosphere. Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky is set 8,000 years in the future and follows a protracted battle between humans and spider-like aliens. And A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold is a romantic comedy set among interplanetary royalty.


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The only space-based movie on the list is the Star Trek send-up Galaxy Quest, a movie that skewers the fans who nominated it. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, perhaps crippled by the Jar Jar factor, didn’t make the cut.

Below are the nominees for the 47th annual Hugo Awards. The winners will be announced Saturday at a formal event at Chicon 2000. Your friend SPACE.com will be there.

Best Novel

A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson (Avon)
Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear (HarperCollins UK; Del Rey)
A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge (Tor)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury; Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Press)

Best Dramatic Presentation

Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze; written by Charlie Kaufman (Single Cell Pictures/Gramercy Pictures/Propaganda Films)
Galaxy Quest, directed by Dean Parisot; story by David Howard; screenplay by David Howard and Robert Gordon (DreamWorks SKG)
The Iron Giant, directed by Brad Bird; book by Ted Hughes; screenplay by Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (Warner Bros. Animation)
The Matrix, written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski (Village Roadshow Productions/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures)
The Sixth Sense, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (Spyglass Entertainment/Hollywood Pictures)

Best Novella

"The Astronaut From Wyoming", by Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion (Analog 7-8/99)
"Forty, Counting Down", by Harry Turtledove (Asimov's 12/99)
"Hunting the Snark", by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 12/99)
"Son Observe the Time", by Kage Baker (Asimov's 5/99)
"The Winds of Marble Arch", by Connie Willis (Asimov's 10-11/99)

Best Novelette
(Six nominees due to a tie)

"Border Guards", by Greg Egan (Interzone 10/99)
"The Chop Girl", by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's 12/99)
"Fossil Games", by Tom Purdom (Asimov's 2/99)
"The Secret History of the Ornithopter", by Jan Lars Jensen (F&SF 6/99)
"Stellar Harvest", by Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's 4/99)
"10^16 to 1", by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/99)

Best Short Story

"Ancient Engines", by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 2/99)
"Hothouse Flowers", by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 10-11/99)
"macs", by Terry Bisson (F&SF 10-11/99)
"Sarajevo", by Nick DiChario (F&SF 3/99)
"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur", by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 7/99)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Cory Doctorow (2nd year of eligibility)
Thomas Harlan (1st year of eligibility)
Ellen Klages (2nd year of eligibility)
Kristine Smith (1st year of eligibility)
Shane Tourtellotte (2nd year of eligibility)

Best Professional Artist

Jim Burns
Bob Eggleton
Donato Giancola
Don Maitz
Michael Whelan

Best Related Book

Minicon 34 Restaurant Guide, by Karen Cooper and Bruce Schneier (Rune Press)
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano (DC Comics/Vertigo)
Science Fiction of the 20th Century, by Frank M. Robinson (Collectors Press)
The Science of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen (Ebury Press)
Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner (Underwood)

Best Professional Editor

Gardner Dozois (Asimov's Science Fiction)
David G. Hartwell (Tor/Forge; Year's Best SF)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books; Starlight)
Stanley Schmidt (Analog Science Fiction and Fact)
Gordon Van Gelder (St. Martin's Press; Fantasy & Science Fiction)

Best Semiprozine

Interzone, edited by David Pringle
Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown
The New York Review of Science Fiction, edited by Kathryn Cramer, Ariel Hamion, David G. Hartwell and Kevin Maroney
Science Fiction Chronicle, edited by Andrew I. Porter
Speculations, edited by Denise Lee and Susan Fry; published by Kent Brewster

Best Fanzine

Ansible, edited by Dave Langford
Challenger, edited by Guy H. Lillian III
File 770, edited by Mike Glyer
Mimosa, edited by Nicki and Richard Lynch
Plokta, edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies and Mike Scott

Best Fan Writer

Bob Devney
Mike Glyer
Dave Langford
Evelyn C. Leeper
Steven H Silver

Best Fan Artist

Freddie Baer
Brad Foster
Teddy Harvia
Joe Mayhew
Taral Wayne


Who should win the Hugos? For that matter, should SPACE.com run its own science fiction awards? The editor's not punchy. Not at all.


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