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686.0. "1988 Hugo Awards" by FENNEL::BALS (There goes Totoa) Wed Sep 07 1988 12:20

    Reprinted from Domino Theory 8, The Daily News of Nolacon, the 46th
    World Science Fiction Convention. Monday morning, September 5, 1988
    
    Best Fan Writer:	Mike Glyer
    Best Fan Artist:	Brad Foster
    Best Fanzine:	Texas SF Inquirer, Pat Mueller, editor
    Best Semi-Prozine:	Locus, Charles N. Brown, editor
    Best Professional
    Artist:		Michael Whelan
    Best Professional
    Editor:		Gardner Dozois
    Special Award:	SF Oral History Association
    Best Dramatic
    Presentation:	"The Princess Bride," produced by Rob Reiner
    			and 20th Century-Fox
    Best Other Form:	"WATCHMEN," Alan Moore and David Gibbons,
      			DC Comics and Warner Books
    Best Non-Fiction:	"Worlds of Wonder," Michael Whelan
    Best Short Story:	"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers,"
    			Lawrence Watt-Evans
    Best Novelette:	"Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight,"
    			Ursula K. LeGuin
    Best Novella:	"Eye for Eye," Orson Scott Card
    Best Novel		"The Uplift War," David Brin
    
    Other awards presented at the Hugo ceremonies:
    
    John W. Campbell Award
    for Best New Writer:	Judith Moffitt
    The First Fandom Hall
    of Fame Award:		Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, David Kyle,
    				Charles Hornig, Neal R. Jones 
    				(posthumous)
    
    Sei-Un Awards
    (Japanese equivalent
    to the Hugos)		Best Foreign Novel translated to the
    				Japanese in 1987: "Norstrilia," by
    				Cordwainer Smith (posthumous)
    
    				Best Foreign Short Story translated
    				to the Japanese in 1987: "The Only
    				Neat Thing to Do," 
    				by James Tiptree, Jr. (posthumous)
    
    Big Heart Award:		Andre Norton.
    

    
    The Princess Bride?  A Hugo?
    
    I loved the movie, but that strikes me as stretching it.
    
    DFW

re .1  > The Princess Bride?  A Hugo?

    I loved it, too, and thought it was the best of the lot...and
    understood why this category sometimes gets "No Award."

    -- Linda

    re:.1
    
    Why not? It's fantasy, isn't it?  Or do you often see R.O.U.S.'s
    around?
    
    Of course, The Machine might even qualify it as science fiction...
    
    --- jerry
    
    (Besides, the 1970 Dramatic Presentation Hugo went to the coverage
    of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Now *that* was stretching it.)

    Re .3:
    
    > (Besides, the 1970 Dramatic Presentation Hugo went to the coverage
    > of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Now *that* was stretching it.)
    
    Not necessarily.  It could be a comment about belief in the lunar
    landing.  I know at least one person who thinks it was fiction.
    
    
    				-- edp 

Giving the award to _The Uplift War_ is stretching it even further.  Very
pedestrian, even when compared to its "prequel" (_Startide Rising_).
"No award" could be just as valid for novels.
								paul

    re: .-1
    
    I liked _The Uplift War_ a lot, and I think it deserved a Hugo...
    				- HBM

Re:< Note 686.6 by FORTSC::MESSENGER "Dreamer Fithp" >
>                              -< Dissenting vote >-
>
>    re: .-1
>    
>    I liked _The Uplift War_ a lot, and I think it deserved a Hugo...
>    				- HBM


I think the dissent is on the other side!  I liked it too, couldn't put 
it down!

Tony

	I've seen some talk of the Hugo's in rec.arts.sf-lovers lately,
	but not an actual list of nominees. Is it out yet? Doesn't
	it come out before the Nebula list?
						bh