********************************** 2003 Hugo Awards Winners ********************************** The Hugo Awards for best science fiction works in 2002 were presented Saturday, August 30 at the 61th World Science Fiction Convention, Torcon 3, in Toronto, Ontario.  Best Novel: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (Analog 1-4/02; Tor)  Best Novella:  Coraline by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)  Best Novelette: "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)

Best Related Book: Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary 

Best Dramatic Presentation: "Conversations With Dead People" (20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Inc.) Directed by Nick Marck; Teleplay by Jane Espenson & Drew Goddard Firefly

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Category:) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (New Line Cinema) Directed by Peter Jackson; Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson; based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien 

Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois

Best Professional Artist: Bob Eggleton

Best Semiprozine: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, and Kirsten Gong-Wong 

Best Fanzine: Mimosa edited by Rich and Nicki Lynch

Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford

Best Fan Artist: Sue Mason
 
 

 Other awards presented prior to the Hugo presentations: 

John W. Campbell Award for New Writer: Wen Spencer 

First Fandom Hall of Fame Award: Philip José Farmer 

Posthumous First Fandom Award: Philip F. Nowlan 

Sam Moskowitz Archive Award: Rusty Hevelin 

E. Everett Evans 'Big Heart' Award: John Hertz 

Seiun Award (Japan): 

• best Translated Novel was Illegal Alien, written by Robert J. Sawyer and translated by Masayuki Uchida 
• best Translated Short Story was "Luminous," written by Greg Egan and translated by Makoto Yamagishi

Ne1l Gaiman

Dave Langford

Nicki Lynch, Rich Lynch
(Toastmaster, Spider Robinson in background)

Many more Hugo Awards photos are at the MidAmerican Fan Photo Archive.

Posted August 31, 2003