Hugo Award Winners Announced

Awards: Hugo Winners

The Hugo Awards winners were announced last night during Loncon 3, the World Science Fiction Convention:

Best Novel: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
Best Novella: "Equoid" by Charles Stross (Tor.com, 9/2013)
Best Novelette: "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinettekowal.com /Tor.com, 9/2013)
Best Short Story: "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" by John Chu (Tor.com, 2/2013)
Best Related Work: "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative" by Kameron Hurley (A Dribble of Ink)
Best Graphic Story: "Time" by Randall Munroe (xkcd)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Gravity, written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Esperanto Filmoj, Heyday Films, Warner Bros.)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Game of Thrones: "The Rains of Castamere" written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by David Nutter (HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions)
Best Editor, Short Form: Ellen Datlow
Best Editor, Long Form: Ginjer Buchanan
Best Professional Artist: Julie Dillon
Best Semiprozine: Lightspeed magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton and Stefan Rudnicki
Best Fanzine: A Dribble of Ink, edited by Aidan Moher
Best Fancast: SF Signal Podcast Patrick Hester
Best Fan Writer: Kameron Hurley
Best Fan Artist: Sarah Webb

Also, the John W. Campbell Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2012 or 2013, sponsored by Dell Magazines: Sofia Samatar

Middle Grade and YA: Where to Draw the Line?

 Something else to help guide our online RA for kids this summer. It's not so much the age, but the individual reader that determines what to recommend. Yeah, easier said than done, I know.





Middle Grade and YA: Where to Draw the Line?