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Science fiction fans pick their favorites
DENVER — An alternate-history Alaska, a journey to the land of faerie and (almost) back, and the frightening truth behind those weeping-angel statues took top honors from science fiction fans Saturday night.
Among the winners of the Hugo Awards, given annually at the World Science Fiction Convention, was the film Stardust, starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes and Robert DeNiro and based on the Neil Gaiman novel about a young man who pursues a falling star into Faerie and finds that it is actually a she.
The TV Hugo went to the “Doctor Who” episode “Blink,” a mind-eating time-travel story in which a woman battles alien hunters disguised as statues.
Among the literary prizes, the Hugo for best novel went to Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a mystery set in a world where Israel does not exist and Jewish refugees gather in an Alaska reservation. Other winners included stories by Connie Willis, Ted Chiang and Elizabeth Bear.
The rocket-shaped Hugo is named after pioneering SF editor Hugo Gernsback. More winners and more information are at the Worldcon Web site.
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By larry steckler
August 11, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
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