September 1, 2007
Posted by Teresa at 06:09 AM * 300 comments
Patrick’s won the Hugo!—for Best Editor (long form), that is. He just phoned from Japan to tell me. I’ll give you more news as it happens—the ceremony is still going on.
Yay, Patrick!
Rocket rocket rocket rocket rocket!
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And the full list of winners is:
Best Novel: Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor)
Best Novella: Robert Reed, “A Billion Eves” (Asimov’s)
Best Novelete: Ian McDonald, “The Djinn’s Wife” (Asimov’s)
Best Short Story: Tim Pratt, “Impossible Dreams” (Asimov’s)
Best Related Book: Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martin’s)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form): “Girl in the Fireplace” (Doctor Who)
Best Professional Editor (Long Form): Patrick Nielsen Hayden (W00t!) (Tor)
Best Professional Editor (Short Form): Gordon Van Gelder (F&SF)
Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
Best Locus: Locus, ed. Charles N. Brown
Best Fanzine: Science-Fiction Five-Yearly (again: W00t!), ed. Lee Hoffman, Geri Sullivan, and Randy Byers
Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
John W Campbell Best New Writer Award: Naomi Novik
[Another image after the jump.]
W00t!
OK, now the Hub is staring at me. I don't usually react to onscreen things by pushing the wheely chair back from the table with my arms in the air, exclaiming, "Yes!"*.
Congratulations, Patrick.
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* I know that this is a character flaw.
Congratulations to him!!!!
Holy Rocket Ships, Batman!!
Way to go!
Of course, the only problem I see is that instead of using the already mouthfulish "Patrick Nielsen Hayden", we will have to refer to him as "The Hugo Award Winning Patrick Nielsen Hayden".
Well, I guess we'll just have to soldier on. :)
Wow! Congratulations, Patrick! For what book did you win?
Justice is served! Way to go!
That's wonderful! Congratulations; I can't wait to hear more!
Congratulations Patrick!
The full winners' list just went up at
http://www.thehugoawards.org/?p=134
Congratulations and ABOUT TIME!!!
Well, of COURSE he won it. He edits such fine authors.
Congrats to all winners, and I really like the award design, referencing as it does Japanese and Euro-American SF traditions.
So he does, John.
Welcome to the ranks of best fanwriter nominees for whom it was an honor just to be nominated.
TNH@17:
Yes, poor Dave Langford. Cursed never to lose that Hugo.
He is awfully good. It's something of a consolation -- not just for the obvious reason, but also because it means the list of people who've won Best Fanwriter when you haven't is much shorter than it would otherwise be.
And hey, at least you get nominated. I've been at this gig so long that no one even remembers I'm eligible. (That's what I tell myself, at any rate.)
(I feel faintly embarrassed -- nay, heretical -- to call a typo in a Teresa post, but the language tic will not back down.)
novelete
Anyhow, absolutely smashing! Hooray for Patrick!
Yay, Patrick! Congratulations!
I'll add my congratulations to the bunch. Well done!
Woot!
That's really well deserved. Pretty good results all round.
And T, you're on the "long list" of runner up nominations for fanwriter, and not so far down it as all that.
I don't know how many years this long-deserved award has been waiting in the wings. It's good to see the split into short- and long-form editors is working :)
Congratulations to Patrick!!
Go Patrick! Go Tor!!
Have a safe trip home.
Hooray! Woo Hoo! Congratulations!
hurray!
A rocketship for Patrick!
Teresa, you should have one, but when ML becomes eligible for whatever category it should be in - fan blog? semi-pro blog? World's Greatest Moderator? - you'd win really easily.
Yaaay!!
And yay for a real movie and yay for Geri and yay for everybody!
I just visited Frank Wu's journal, and I just have to say, this is a really leet year for the sculpture. Double congrats to Patrick.
Congratulations, Patrick! It was a great thrill to be here to see you get it.
Damm well about time.
Congratulations, Patrick.
Yay Patrick! Big congrats!
Woot! Congratulations, Patrick -- it's good to see your name in that list.
It must be true. It's on Wikipedia!
(congratulations!)
Hooray! Congratulations, Patrick! You so deserve it.
(I was also pleased to see that my favorite Doctor Who episode of Season 2 won a rocketship too. And Pan's Labyrinth.)
Wheeeeeeeee! What a wonderful thing to wake up to.
I can't wait to see the object...and the grinning boy holding it.
--claire
Hi, Patrick. CONGRATULATIONS, my friend! Carolyn and I are thrilled for you!
Uh, what's that robot thing standing next to the rocket?
Congratulations, Patrick.
Well deserved.
And now you can enjoy the rest of your stay in Japan as a certified Hugo Winner!
WOOOT!
Thank you all. I appear to be the owner of an impressive statue of Ultraman. Supposedly the concom will ship it home to me if I ask them to. Nothing doing. I'm taking it home myself if I have to carry it on my lap.
What I said at the ceremony:
I'm amazed and a little embarrassed. Thank you.I need to thank a few people who were significant mentors in publishing over the years. The late Terry Carr. David Hartwell. Beth Meacham. Tor publisher Tom Doherty. And most of all I want to thank my co-editor and co-conspirator Teresa Nielsen Hayden, without whom I wouldn't be half the editor I am. Thank you again.What I should have also said:
I also need to thank the extraordinary authors who I've been privileged to publish, people like Maureen F. McHugh, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, Raphael Carter, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Geoffrey Landis, Susanna Clarke, Jo Walton, John Scalzi, and I'm absolutely sure that the longer I go on, the more likely it is that I'll forget multiple people who deserve a ton of credit. Thank you all.
Congratulations, Patrick!
Best Locus: Locus, ed. Charles N. Brown
Oh, that was a nice laugh. Thanks, Teresa. And a well-deserved congratulations to Patrick.
Congratulations, Patrick! I was so pleased to see your name on the winners list as well as several other aspects of the final Hugo results and the full nominations details.
Ultraman looks seriously cool. While I think the MagiCon Hugo base will always be my favorite for sheer design beauty and that piece of real gantry grid that the rocket sits on, this year's Hugo base seems utterly fitting. A rocket and a triff Japanese superhero. Whoohoo!
Many thanks for your w00t!, Teresa. And for the other congratulations here. It truly was an honor to be nominated. This winning stuff is big fun and a huge honor, too.
Huge congratulations, Patrick! Gosh wow, indeed. Apart from boring old me down there among the fans, it's a lovely list.
Two factoids: I really had convinced myself that I couldn't win this year. And I'd completely failed to work out the time difference, so Martin Hoare's politically incorrect email ("Rangfold san wins fanliter Hugo by one vote") didn't even arrive on the day I expected to hear the results.
What is the figure standing next to the rocket? Is that Ultraman?
Durned crossposting. heh. The photo of the award statue is still redacted on the Nippon 2007 website as of a few minutes ago.
Congratulations Patrick (and Dave Langford)
Congratulations !
They should have added a 3 minutes timer to that Ultraman statue, for tradition's sake.
You could have kept it in the kitchen and use it when boiling eggs, to impress the guests.
What wondrous news! Congratuations, sir.
Congratulations, Patrick! A well-deserved award.
I do have to say the addition of Ultraman is seriously hot. Kind of makes it into yer "Two-Fisted Hugo".
And great congratulations to Geri Sullivan as well. And to the others, of course, it's just that I happen to know these two Two-Fisted Hugo winners.
Adrian Bedford @ #9:
My understanding is that the Long Form Editor award is not based on one particular book, but on all the editor's work during the year in question.
(There have been some complaints about this from people who feel that most voters won't have read all the books edited by all the nominees, and thus will not be making informed decisions.)
OMG, that is the coolest trophy ever.
That's great! Congrats to Patrick! :D
Angie
That is indeed Ultraman.
Here's a pic of this year's trophy. Here's Ultraman. And here's Ultraman in combat! Go, Ultraman!
Congrats!
And it looks like you have to be billingual to read the plate on the statue. Cool!
Geri, yeah, the MagiCon Hugo statue is still my favorite Hugo statue.
I recognized the statue on the Japan award as something I SHOULD have known. Jim correctly identified it, which instantly reminded me of why I'd forgotten what it was... ;->
SO awesome. Congratulations!
Congratulations, Patrick! Very handsome picture of you, too.
Congratulation, Patrick! And congratulations to all the winners, even to Charles Brown, who doesn't need another one of those statues because he has shelves full of them.
Have a good trip back.
Congratulations, Patrick; you have deserved it for years!
Wow! Kudos on the Hugo, Patrick! Great photo, too--
Somehow that turned into "Congratulation." How stingy of me. Many, many congratulations!! Multiples of mazel tov! Joy! Woot! Big fun!
That's better.
How entirely splendid! Perhaps Tor could buy the award its own seat on the plane. That would be fitting.
P.
Congratulations, Patrick!
That's a seriously spiffy Ultraman you got there!
What excellent news--and I am glad you got to be there to have it happen in person.
Congratulations!
Wow! Congratulations, Patrick. I've felt you were due to win this award for some time, but I didn't actually think this was the year it was happening, so I'm especially surprised and no less pleased.
Congrats to Patrick! He certainly got a fine looking Hugo, and I hope that he has no problems getting it back home. (I recall carrying home one of Roger Zelazny's Hugos from a WorldCon, it had to go thru the X-Ray machine multiple times, while I resorted to digging out the program book to show the security guards that it really was an award. And that was long before the current security 'protocols').
I'm delighted to see book editors finally get some Hugo respect. They toll and suffer in ways not seen by the general public.
ps - we got the ARCs for INSIDE STRAIGHT Friday and were able to give some to Wild Card writers at Carl Keim's (Melinda Snodgrass' husband) birthday party. Everyone loves the metallic holographic ink enhanced cover art by Michael Komarck (sent separately). A whole new generation of spouses of WILD CARDS writers are now learning that whenever two or more WC writers are gathered, the discussion inevitably turns to the WILD CARDS universe.
*plugs ears as it sounds like an air raid siren's going off in here*
Congrats!
Woohoo! Congratulations, Patrick!
w00t indeed!
Taking a moment from the madness that is my company's Moving Day to catch up on ML, and saw the Good News! Congratulations to Patrick et al !!! Huzzah!
Fantastic! Congratulations, team rocket!
Congratulations, Patrick. (Bring it along to Montreal to show off..?)
P J Evans @ 34: Fan Writer would appear to be a relevant category; blogs and other electronic fora are considered to be valid works for it. I don't know about frm mdrtn per se.
Any time a guy gets compared to Ben Bova is a good day,
PS: I am shocked, shocked to see that apostrophe in Rainbows End (original post). Like Finnegans Wake, it doesn't have one ...
Patrick: Is that a rocket in your lap, or are you just happy to be a winner?
Many many congratulations! The smile on your face says it all, I think.
As to Hugo designs, that is a sweet one indeed. The Fuji in the back of the base (not particularly visible in the photo of Patrick) makes it just that much better; it's reminiscent of the 1996 base.
I haven't seen a 1992 base up close, but that photo looks great.
A design that I really like is 2004's "launch flame"; I even had a chance to hold one (briefly), thanks to Lois McMaster Bujold.
Very cool indeed. Congratulations!
Congratulations, Patrick - what a nice piece of hardware for the mantelpiece!
I add my Whoo Hoo!!! to the chorus of others. There were some really excellent winners this year (despite the dearth of female nominees). I'm surprised and delighted that Pan's Labyrinth won, f'rinstance.
And I'm really pleased that my sometime-editor got a rocket!
I'm taking it home myself if I have to carry it on my lap.
I look forward to hearing how Airport Security feels about that. I wouldn't let go of it for a second until it was home and on the mantel (even if I had to build a mantel to put it on).
I'm sure you're tired of hearing it, but congratulations! It's a long-deserved honor.
Christopher Davis @110:
Thank you. I got as far as preview with a similar comment, but chickened out.
Yay Patrick! Congratulations!
Oh, what excellent news! Congratulations, Patrick!
Congratulations, Patrick! And that's one spiffy-looking award.
Yee Haw! Definitely cause for celebration! And it's especially nice that it's so spiffy-looking..
Congratulations from me too. Well deserved; you've certainly edited some fine books.
This is great, and too long coming.
BTW, the full Hugo voting numbers are already up at The Hugo Awards site (pdf link) -- there were some very close votes.
Congratulations, Patrick! Well deserved, indeed.
Way back at #8, Michael W. said that we now have to refer to PNH as "The Hugo Award Winning Patrick Nielsen Hayden".
It's actually worse--by Chicago Manual style, he should be "The Hugo Award–Winning Patrick Nielsen Hayden", and that hyphen is an en-dash. I don't even know how to type an en-dash into a comment field!
Mazel tov, Mr. The Hugo Award–Winning!
Cool cool cool!
Congrats, and what a neat statue!
Mucho congratulations, Patrick.
I saw the Ultraman standing beside the Hugo rocket and thought, "It comes with an action figure, too? Damn, now I'm really jealous."
(Side note: Hey, there really are Ultraman action figures, in a wide variety of styles.)
(Dang, I posted this a few minutes ago, and it got sent to moderation. Oops, it had a link to Google Images, when I actually meant to include the direct and much shorter link in this version. Teresa, just trashcan the previous comment, thanks.)
"Best Locus: Locus, ed. Charles N. Brown"
I'm thinking there's a dearth of competition on this particular category.
Kevin @126:
It's –, which produces – (an en dash). If you want an em dash, change the n to an m.
"Dear Buddha, Please bring me an Ultraman and a metal rocket."
Congratulations!
Yay Patrick!
Hip, Hip, Horay!
Hip, Hip, Horay!
Hip, Hip, Horay!
and Huzzah! to boot
Congratulations, Patrick!
And the Hugo Awards Voting System is a masterwork. Congratulations to anyone here who had a hand in designing it, and feel free to take a bow.
Hooray! Congratulations, Patrick!
Congratulations, Patrick!! May it be the first of many. :)
Of course, the only problem I see is that instead of using the already mouthfulish "Patrick Nielsen Hayden", we will have to refer to him as "The Hugo Award Winning Patrick Nielsen Hayden".
Why not just refer to him as it does on the statue: パトリック・二－ルセン・ヘイデン
(Yes, I cheated and just plugged "nielsen ヘイデン" into everyone's favorite search engine and then cut-and-pasted)
Congratulations!
That really is a rad statue.
Dratted time zones.
Hurray, huzzah, and well done!
Very well deserved. Congratulations!
When Avedon told me the news my first thought was: "It's about bloody time!"
(And 'Girl in the Fireplace' won, too. Way cool.)
Congratulations, Patrick, and may you happily edit for many years to come.
Congratulations, Patrick!
And since I came here from atrios, it's only appropriate that I should add…
MARS, BITCHES!
i mean
MARS, PATRICK!
There. That's better.
did you notice that Atrios put up a link on Eschaton?
How wonderful! What a frabjous day! Congratulations on a deserved honor.
Congratulations, Patrick. Try not to overdo it with the champagne and karaoke. But, do celebrate well!
Congratulations! That's awesome!
Congratulations! Just thought I'd delurk to tell you that.
Congratulations, Patrick!
I'm taking it home myself if I have to carry it on my lap.
Well, of course! A person has to fondle a statue like that for a while to make sure it's really there, after all; I'm given to understand that part of the joy.
Congratulations Patrick! And congratulations to all the other winners too!
More importantly, does Ultraman's chest light up?
Congrats, Patrick! And god but I adore Vernor Vinge; just last week reread A Deepness in the Sky -- and have already read Fire Upon the Deep at least thrice. Rainbow must be next.
So cool to sort of know you guys!
Adding to the chorus: congratulations!
And good luck with the x-ray machines. If they can think a gold-coloured painted replica of Big Ben looks like a knife, I hate to think what they might make of a Hugo statue.
Congratulations, Patrick. Wonderful news.
Congratulations, Patrick! I live in Tokyo (hence the name:-), and I should be out in Yokohama for this, because I really wanted to meet you and Corey Doctorow, but work intruded...anyway, congrats, local version, follows:
おめでっとございます！
Let me be the 164th to congratulate you (if I'm quick enough to the post).
Chris O'Shea has posted a sequence of photos covering the whole ceremony, including the very amusing Ultraman silliness, here.
Congratulations, Patrick! Long overdue. But what have they done to it? Wasn't it phallic enough? Now there's a volcano as well *and* a tribute to Woody Allen's spermatazoon from All You Wanted To Know About Sex.
Congratulations. This is why we created the award (well, not for you personally. . .)
Well deserved, and a nice trophy too.
Yay PNH! Wonderful news indeed – but happier, I hope, than that link. And congratulations to all the happy winners.
#165 (The Hugo Award-Winning) Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Chris O'Shea has posted a sequence of photos covering the whole ceremony, including the very amusing Ultraman silliness, here.
I am most impressed by the Attack on Tokyo sequence at the beginning. And by the award given to the poor chap who worked for years to bring the convention to Japan, and then had to stay home on doctor's orders.
Not being there, it is hard to know, but my impulse is to give all praise to our comrades in sf from Japan, and to hope that with globalization, more conventions will take place in ever more remote (from the U.S.) locations.
Wouldn't it be great to be alive for the first sf convention held off-Earth?
Michael @ #170: "more conventions will take place in ever more remote (from the U.S.) locations."
My mother said when I told her the news, "Why don't they hold Worldcon in Hawai'i?"
Not knowing the ins and outs of site selection, I demurred.
Probably because conference facilities in Hawaii cost the earth.
Taihen omedeto! (I'm not sure that's the most proper term, but it should be adequate for a gaijin.)
PNH @ #172, Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. OTOH, Tokyo? I used to live near there, and its costs even in 1972-1974 weren't insignificant.
#172 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Probably because conference facilities in Hawaii cost the earth.
Yes, it is my (feeble) understanding that the reason more conventions don't take place far away is because of the expense of either staying or getting there.
We are not a rich tribe, as I understand it. Thus my hope that somehow globalization will somehow make it more affordable for us.
BZ Patrick!
(..and yes, conference facilities on any island in Hawaii (perhaps not Lanai...or Molokai...) would cost the earth)
For grins I looked at the Hawaii Convention Center rates (downloaded the Zipped .pdf file). All 3 Exhibit Halls - $15K. Hall A alone - $6K (B&C are $4,500 each).
Ouch, and that's just room rental. Attendees in hotels are a whole 'nother ball game.
Ok, forget I spoke.
Woohoo! Congrats. The Hugo Rocket AND Ultraman, how cool is that? If the TSA gives you trouble, find the older guy in the crowd of uniforms, point to the statue and say, "It's Ultraman, dude." They're sure to let you pass then.
Congratulations Patrick!
Kate, Ernie and Sarah.
Richly deserved and overdue. Congratulations!
Yeah, facilities in Yokohama aren't cheap, either, but on the other hand there are several thousand fans hereabouts who want there to be a Worldcon in their home area.
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