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Grex Scifi Item 131: 2001 Hugo Awards
Entered by krj on Tue Sep 4 04:39:26 UTC 2001:

Here's a posting from rec.arts.sf.fandom which lists the Hugo Awards.
(Leslie and I skipped out on the con Sunday, so we were not present.)
 
Anybody got a list of the nominations handy?  I didn't bother posting 
them this year.
 
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From: Richard Horton <rrhorton@prodigy.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Hugos (was:Re: RASFF mentioned during Hugos)
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 02:41:24 GMT

((( editorial commentary edited out -- KRJ )))

>From the Millennium Philcon website:

Best Novel:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury;
Scholastic/Levine)

Best Novella
"The Ultimate Earth" by Jack Williamson (Analog Dec 2000)

Best Novelette
"Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Jan 2000)

Best Short Story
"Different Kinds of Darkness" by David Langford (F&SF Jan 2000)

Best Related Book
Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton by Bob Eggleton and
Nigel Suckling (Paper Tiger)

Best Dramatic Presentation
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Best Professional Editor
Gardner Dozois

Best Professional Artist
Bob Eggleton

Best Semiprozine
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Best Fanzine
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

Best Fan Writer
Dave Langford

Best Fan Artist
Teddy Harvia

John W. Campbell Award
Kristine Smith (2nd year of eligibility)



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11 responses total.

#1 of 11 by krj on Tue Sep 4 04:50:54 2001:

My initial reactions are that the awards to Harry Potter and CROUCHING 
TIGER indicate (1) an increasing convergence between fandom and 
mainstream culture, and (2) it might be time to dump the Dramatic 
Presentation award.

#2 of 11 by tpryan on Tue Sep 4 11:28:48 2001:

        Goes to show how fanish CT,HD viewers see it as pure
fantascy.

#3 of 11 by dbratman on Tue Sep 4 16:51:12 2001:

Oh, it's not time to drop the Dramatic Presentation award.  I'm one of 
those in favor of splitting it into two (stand-alones and series, 
basically - which in practice will mean movies and tv), and condensing 
the short fiction awards from three into two.

What the awards Ken mentions say to me is not a convergence with 
mainstream culture, but that fantasy readers are continuing to take 
over SF.  I look forward to much fulmination from the likes of Greg 
Benford and Charles Platt over this.

#4 of 11 by krj on Tue Sep 4 21:02:21 2001:

At the business meeting, which I did not attend, there was 
(reportedly) some work done towards creating what would essentially 
be a Movie Hugo and a TV Hugo, but I don't have the details.
 
I see what you are saying about "fantasy readers continuing to take
over SF," David, but what strikes me about this year's awards is not
that they are fantasy works, but they are very mainstream, mass-success
fantasy works -- they are not works created from within the genre
community -- ok, the movies are never created from within the community
-- and the creators are unlikely to care very much about the honor.

And I think I'm annoyed because the fantasy elements in CROUCHING 
TIGER, while entertaining, are not critical to the story.

(I need to see what else was nominated.)

#5 of 11 by janc on Wed Sep 5 01:43:20 2001:

Nominees are at http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/hugos/2001.shtml

For Best Novel:

  Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
  The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod
  A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor) 

For Best Dramatic Presentation:

  Chicken Run 
  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 
  Frank Herbert's Dune 
  Frequency 
  X-Men 

I haven't read any of the nominated novels, though the Sawyer is in my
"to read" pile.  As for the movies, CTHD was as good a choice as any.

#6 of 11 by gelinas on Wed Sep 5 04:36:27 2001:

I enjoy Rowling's Potter books, but I don't think of them as Hugo material.
I've not read any of the other nominees.  But I'm going to look for RailRoad's
offering.

#7 of 11 by robh on Wed Sep 5 05:05:16 2001:

I'd probably rather have seen the new Dune win it, but I loved
Crouching Tiger, and I'm happy that it won.

#8 of 11 by ashke on Wed Sep 5 17:41:23 2001:

I was actually rather impressed with Frequency.  It was passed off as this
touchey-feely movie about a guy and his dad over the ages and turned out to
be this great suspence movie.

#9 of 11 by polygon on Fri Sep 7 07:32:32 2001:

TWO rockets this year for Dave Langford!

#10 of 11 by krj on Fri Sep 7 23:27:02 2001:

Looks like Dave Langford is up to *20* of the little prizes, placing him
second to Charles Brown, the publisher of LOCUS, in overall awards.
Maybe we should all chip in and buy him a trophy case.

Langford has owned the fan writer category for almost 16 years, with 
wins in 1985, 1987, and then all of them from 1989-2001.
To those 15 fan writer Hugos add four more for Best Fanzine in 
1987, 1995, 1996 and 1999, and now his first fiction Hugo.

(I hope I did not miss anything.  The Locus webpage summarizing Hugo 
winners is a couple years out of date.)

#11 of 11 by dbratman on Mon Sep 17 21:51:46 2001:

Ken wrote, "the fantasy elements in CROUCHING TIGER, while 
entertaining, are not critical to the story."

Depending on one's definition of "critical", that's true of most of the 
best fantasies.

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