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Hugo Awards 2014 winners announced

The winners of the 2014 Hugo Awards have been announced. The awards honour the best science-fiction and fantasy titles published in the previous year, as voted by members of the World Science Fiction Convention. The Best Novel was awarded to Ann Leckie’s debut novel Ancillary Justice (Orbit), a space opera narrated by the artificial consciousness of a starship. Best Novella was awarded to Equoid (Charles Stross, Subterranean Press); Best Novelette went to The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor Books); and ‘The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere’ (John Chu, Tor Books) won Best Short Story. American science-fiction, fantasy and horror editor Ellen Datlow was named Best Editor—Short Form and Ginjer Buchanan, Penguin Group US editor-in-chief of Ace Books and Roc Books imprints, won Best Editor—Long Form. The awards were presented at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention Loncon 3 in London. More information on the awards is available here.

 

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