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.

Way to go!

Well, I guess we'll just have to soldier on. :)

The full winners' list just went up at
http://www.thehugoawards.org/?p=134

Welcome to the ranks of best fanwriter nominees for whom it was an honor just to be nominated.

Yes, poor Dave Langford. Cursed never to lose that Hugo.

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.)

novelete

Anyhow, absolutely smashing! Hooray for Patrick!

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.

Have a safe trip home.

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.

Congratulations, Patrick.

(congratulations!)

(I was also pleased to see that my favorite Doctor Who episode of Season 2 won a rocketship too. And Pan's Labyrinth.)

I can't wait to see the object...and the grinning boy holding it.

--claire

Well deserved.

And now you can enjoy the rest of your stay in Japan as a certified Hugo Winner!

WOOOT!

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.

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.

Oh, that was a nice laugh. Thanks, Teresa. And a well-deserved congratulations to Patrick.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Angie

Here's a pic of this year's trophy. Here's Ultraman. And here's Ultraman in combat! Go, Ultraman!

And it looks like you have to be billingual to read the plate on the statue. Cool!

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... ;->

Have a good trip back.

That's better.

P.

That's a seriously spiffy Ultraman you got there!

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.

Congrats!

w00t indeed!

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.

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.

And I'm really pleased that my sometime-editor got a rocket!

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).

BTW, the full Hugo voting numbers are already up at The Hugo Awards site (pdf link) -- there were some very close votes.

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!

Congrats, and what a neat statue!

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.)

I'm thinking there's a dearth of competition on this particular category.

It's –, which produces – (an en dash). If you want an em dash, change the n to an m.

Congratulations!

and Huzzah! to boot

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.

*\o/*

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)

That really is a rad statue.

Hurray, huzzah, and well done!

(And 'Girl in the Fireplace' won, too. Way cool.)

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.

That's great news :)

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.

More importantly, does Ultraman's chest light up?

So cool to sort of know you guys!

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.

おめでっとございます！

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?

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.

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.

(..and yes, conference facilities on any island in Hawaii (perhaps not Lanai...or Molokai...) would cost the earth)

Ouch, and that's just room rental. Attendees in hotels are a whole 'nother ball game.

Ok, forget I spoke.

Kate, Ernie and Sarah.

And congratulations to Dave Langford!

(Parenthetically, yesterday evening I listened to Mike Resnick say that he'd rather be in Atlanta than spend $11,000 to go to Japan to lose two Hugos.)

I know I'm a little late but CONGRATULATIONS on the Hugo win...and for owning one of the coolest Hugos EVER! Wow!!!!!

Best Wishes,
Chris Barkley

ps: Good luck getting that puppy past Homeland Security and the TSA...8-)

Very good!!

Michael Weholt @ #170 more conventions will take place in ever more remote (from the U.S.) locations Of the last 15 Worldcons, 6 have been outside the US (Winnipeg, Glasgow twice, Melbourne, Toronto, Yokohama.) So non-US Worldcons aren't much of a novelty anymore, and it is pretty hard to get much more distant than Melbourne. What is still rare is Worldcon in non-English-speaking places; that's only three in history so far: Heidelberg 1970, The Hague 1990, Yokohama this year. And the Netherlands hardly counts since one is more likely to bump into somebody with no English at all in California. Montreal now coming up, but legally bilinguala and practically not a place a strict Anglophone is going to have much trouble.

Congrats, Dave!

(I already congratulated Geri twice.)

Teresa, #19, not only were you tied for 8th on Fan Writer, you were 7th on Editor Long Form.

That's two for Stephen Moffat now. I wonder if "Blink" will make it a trifecta? Paul Cornell will give him a run for his money, though.

I noticed that Farthing missed the Best Novel ballot by only 6 nominations. Now I feel really guilty about not having sent in a nominating ballot. (Not as guilty as I'd feel if it had missed by only 1, to be sure!)

Your far away is my nearby, dude. Between us, the Hub and I have managed The Hague, 2x Glasgow, and Baltimore. Even before the inconvenience of children is taken into account, Worldcons are expensive and distant.

Rich McAllister @191:
There is a fair argument for classing Glasgow as non English speaking...

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If you go to Old Town, the most interesting part of Montreal, you might find a few out-of-the way places where English is rarely spoken. Still, get yourself a French/English phrase book and don't be too intimidated. Montreal and Quebec aren't Paris and you probably won't be taunted for speaking poor French.

Hmm... I should start learning French now. Reassurances about English speaking natives not withstanding, I'd feel really bad about not even attempting the local language.

Trs wk.

The statue of Ultraman makes this, I think, the best Hugo ever.

Congratulations to Patrick and to all the Hugo Award winners, and also to Ms. Novik for getting the Campbell and for her wonderful fashion sense. (Thanks for the link to Chris' photos, Patrick.)

PS. *love* for the spelling reference under the html tags in the "Post a comment" instructions.

On the location of conventions: climate change conferences are held on Bali. Yes, a nice place (or was once) but everyone has to take high-carbon-emitting flights to get there.

Congrats, PNH! Or rather, I guess THAWPNH is appropriate, even if it's a mouth(keyboard)ful. Bring that bad boy into the office, I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to bask in the Ultraman-y goodness!

Oh, and Irene won a Chesley! I think a round of beers is in order!

(I haven't got anything much else to say. Just congrats.)

Milo, #216: Holy cow, hello there, nephew!

Laurie, #204: I wouldn't even claim to have any significant "tourist French," and yet Montreal was basically no problem when we visited it twice in late 2006. I'll be there again this coming weekend for Farthing Party 2, and I expect its occasional linguistic challenges to seem completely trivial following Japan.

An advantage of French-for-sign-reading over even rudimentary spoken French is that pronunciation doesn't matter.

Yes, and it was those red octagons that let me figure out what I've since confirmed, that the circumflex 'e' as in 'arrêt' indicates that an 's' has been dropped historically. This may lead you to a cognate (like 'arrest', meaning "stop").

(and c'mon, it's Ultraman. That's the freakin' penultimate Hugo award right there)

I'm happy to hear it, too. (David seemed unusually interested in who had won the site selection when I was checking on the Hugo winners.)

Well, congrats, I'm sure you'll both have a very busy but a swell time. And the best seats in the house when you want them.

(Benjamin is my kid brother, a mere sprat of, what, 44?)

And, um, many happy returns?

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#19: I've been at this gig so long that no one even remembers I'm eligible.

Why, Miss Teresa, are you lusting after Patrick's Ultra-Man-sized phallic object?

congrats!

With Ultraman watching your rocket so closely, you'll have little fear of burglars (or rubber-suited lizard monsters) swiping it.

I'm also pleased to see my former roommate Gordon win, as well as my friend Julie Phillips.

Am I correct in saying that her Tiptree bio is the first work to win both the Hugo and the National Book Critics Circle Award?

...and we rapidly descend into a discussion of Hugo envy. Mr. Scalzi, would you care to comment?

Pretty sure you're right about that.

Earl Cooley, #253: "Has the Worldcon given Hugo recipients advice on how to transport their awards back home without having them confiscated by airport security as potential weapons?"

They've given us an extremely sturdy box complete with fitted paddings, tape, etc. It's the same box in which the award was shipped by its assembler, so I'm reasonably confident it will work out.

From my own recent experience, the TSA gives you a lot more slack if you are obviously a fan. (In my case, explosive residue on my carryon luggage - but Tim Powers novel inside - was fine.) You'll probably get a free upgrade. Especially if you're flying JAL...

That is the coolest Hugo I've ever seen. And you won it! Then again, you are the best editor I know.

Oh, and... congratulations!

(I am just back from a vacation and had not been online at all, so have just seen this.)

Congratulations, Patrick!

And congrats to the winners of the Best Fanzine Hugo...ah, if only.

I'm specially pleased to see Gordon Van Gelder win; he's done a great job with F&SF for years now. And Robert Reed's "A Billion Eves" is one of my favorite novellas in years. He's won a Hugo before, some years ago, but he's also been doing a lot of Hugo-quality work in recent years that's been overlooked.

And thanks for letting us in on your acknowledgments d'escalier*; the words you said were one of those short, impressive Hugo acceptances I'd like to have seen live, and your further consideration is heartwarming.

Again, congrats.

Was that in fact the case, or were there ballots that weren't counted properly? There are a couple of places where it might make a difference.

Well, actually, that's the way the rules say it should be done. Just because it isn't usually done that way doesn't mean it's wrong - it's easier to write the counting program if you ignore the bit about 'anything ranked below Noah Ward doesn't count'.

wrt a Worldcon in Honolulu:
* judging by Rich's comment (even worse than what I'd heard of the Honolulu Westercon), it would be short almost all of the 1,000-2,000 commuters a U.S. Worldcon expects, plus the people who will stay at a hotel if they can drive to the convention. (That can cover a lot of ground -- I once co-drove from Boston to Kansas City -- but not 2000 miles of ocean.)
* $15K/day is not out of line for the space at http://www.hawaiiconvention.com; my very rough recollection is that Noreascon 4 paid $100K to the Hynes, plus $150K to suppliers to turn the empty box into a working space. (Compare with $18K and $27K for Noreascon 2, in 1980, in a much barer and uglier facility.) The shortage of members is what would really hurt the budget.
* whatever fandom there is in Hawaii would have to be \h\g\u\o\n\e\ \y\z\a\r\c sufficiently interested in having an elephant in their backyard to support a bid; carpetbagging tends to cost votes, not to mention all the local assistance that Worldcon attendees like to have.

Xopher@230: I remember that was one of the useful (for cognates) bits I was taught acute (and possibly grave) accents as well; e.g., e'tat matching "state" (lots of preprended 'e' in modern Romance languages). Did you ever get an explanation of why one accent was used rather than another?

PJEvans@274: say what? I don't see anything in the rules stating that votes below No Award don't count; there was someone here a few months ago who reported seeing that suggested in one Worldcon's advice-to-voters, but that's not official.

Ellen Datlow has won a Hugo for Best Editor, and several World Fantasy Awards for Best Anthology, the same category in which I've won one.

Well, twenty years ago, that was how all the explanations read (whether or not the formal rules said it; I'd have to find the things, somewhere in a box) ... but it wasn't how the counting programs worked. Or how they worked in 1972 and 1971 either, because I was reading the source for those years to see how the programs did it. (You can have PL/I back any time you want it.)

It's none of my business, I'm just wondering.

How current? Neil Gaiman's won both, but it looks like his WFA was in 1991.

Not many people, though, that's fo shizzle.

Totally, totally cool on you.

The explanation of the rules at the Hugo Awards web site even makes a point of saying:
However, as we shall see, it is possible to rank nominees below No Award and have an effect on the outcome.

As you said, it's easier to write the program which tabulates the winner if it treats Noah Ward like everyone else. Personally, I think ranking nominee below No Award having an effect on the outcome is a feature, not a bug. You're saying, "I don't think these people deserve an award, but if you must..."

I've always wondered what would happen if we could vote in elections this way. However, I don't think most people would stand for it. Besides, what would happen if Noah Ward won an office?

(Yes, I know about Condorcet and Instand Runoff. Since I follow ISU sanctioned figure skating, voting systems are a hobby of mine. Well, they use a point based system now, which I think is unfortunate...)

Congratulations!

Well, my mother used to describe it as 'doing without' the [questionable] services of the politician in question 'for another four years'.

280/283: Forgetting Ellen's Hugo is annoying, but forgetting Neil's awards when I was there for all three Hugos and still have to deal occasionally with the backwash from his WFA -- I'll just sit in a quiet corner scraping the egg off....

A salient question, indeed! Short answer: At work. Long answer: Probably at home. It's been pointed out that both Ultraman and Howie would go very well with the home mantelpiece which already features Captain Haddock, Gandalf, Kevin Matchstick, Shakespeare, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Professor X, Chipmunk Kachina, Rose Muffin Rabbit, Snuff Bear, and Batman.

PNH--if you are flying home with that on your lap, that is bravery above the call of editorial duty given the length of the flight.

xxxJane

Fixed it for you.

Probably more dangerous for other passengers, especially if Patrick has an aisle seat.

"Excuse me, need to get out, pardon, sorry..."
(turbulence happens)
"Oh, I'm sorry, is this your trophy? It's kind of in my liver."

"It's an impossible award for a woman to carry through an airport."

Clearly she didn't get the nifty shipping box...

W00T!!!!ONE!11!