2015 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners

Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, held in Spokane, Washington, August 22, 2015.

Best Novel (1,827 nominating ballots)

• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• The Dark Between the Stars, Kevin J. Anderson (Tor)
• Skin Game, Jim Butcher (Roc)
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)

Best Novella (1,083)

• NO AWARD

• “Flow”, Arlan Andrews, Sr. (Analog 11/14)
• Big Boys Don’t Cry, Tom Kratman (Castalia House)
• One Bright Star to Guide Them, John C. Wright (Castalia House)
• “Pale Realms of Shade”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons)
• “The Plural of Helen of Troy”, John C. Wright (City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis)

Best Novelette (1,031)

• “The Day the World Turned Upside Down”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Lightspeed 4/14)

• “The Journeyman: In the Stone House”, Michael F. Flynn (Analog 6/14)
• “Championship B’tok”, Edward M. Lerner (Analog 9/14)
• “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium”, Gray Rinehart (Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show 5/14)
• “The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale”, Rajnar Vajra (Analog 7-8/14)

Best Short Story (1,174)

• NO AWARD

• “On a Spiritual Plain”, Lou Antonelli (Sci Phi Journal #2 11/14)
• “A Single Samurai”, Steven Diamond (The Baen Big Book of Monsters)
• “Totaled”, Kary English (Galaxy’s Edge 7/14)
• “Turncoat”, Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse)
• “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long (1,285)

• Guardians of the Galaxy

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Interstellar
• The Lego Movie

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short (938)

• Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”

• Doctor Who: “Listen”
• The Flash: “Pilot”
• Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper”
• Grimm: “Once We Were Gods”

Best Related Work (1,150)

• NO AWARD

• Letters from Gardner, Lou Antonelli (The Merry Blacksmith Press)
• “The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF”, Ken Burnside (Riding the Red Horse)
• “Why Science is Never Settled”, Tedd Roberts (Baen.com)
• Wisdom from My Internet, Michael Z. Williamson (Patriarchy Press)
• Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth, John C. Wright (Castalia House)

Best Graphic Story (785)

• Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson; art by Adrian Alphona & Jake Wyatt (Marvel Comics)

• Sex Criminals, Volume 1: One Weird Trick, Matt Fraction; art by Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
• The Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate, Carter Reid (self-published)
• Saga, Volume 3, Brian K. Vaughan; art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Rat Queens, Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery, Kurtis J. Weibe; art by Roc Upchurch (Image Comics)
• Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson; art by Adrian Alphona & Jake Wyatt (Marvel Comics)

Best Professional Editor Long Form (712)

• NO AWARD

• Vox Day
• Sheila Gilbert
• Jim Minz
• Anne Sowards
• Toni Weisskopf

Best Professional Editor Short Form (870)

• NO AWARD

• Jennifer Brozek
• Vox Day
• Mike Resnick
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt
• Edmund R. Schubert

Best Professional Artist (753)

• Julie Dillon

• Kirk DouPonce
• Nick Greenwood
• Alan Pollack
• Carter Reid

Best Semiprozine (660)

• Lightspeed

• Abyss & Apex
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Strange Horizons

Best Fanzine (576)

• Journey Planet

• Black Gate
• Elitist Book Reviews
• The Revenge of Hump Day
• Tangent Online

Best Fancast (668)

• Galactic Suburbia Podcast

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing
• Dungeon Crawlers Radio
• The Sci Phi Show
• Tea and Jeopardy

Best Fan Writer (777)

• Laura J. Mixon

• Dave Freer
• Amanda S. Green
• Jeffro Johnson
• Cedar Sanderson

Best Fan Artist (296)

• Elizabeth Leggett

• Ninni Aalto
• Brad Foster
• Spring Schoenhuth
• Steve Stiles

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Award] (851)

• *Wesley Chu

• Jason Cordova
• *Kary English
• Rolf Nelson
• Eric. S. Raymond

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

There were 2,122 nominating ballots received from members of LonCon 3, Sasquan, and MidAmeriCon II.

Several awards for services to SF fandom were presented during Sasquan.

First Fandom Hall of Fame Award

• Julian May

First Fandom Posthumous Hall of Fame Awards

• Margaret Brundage
• Bruce Pelz
• F. Orlin Tremaine

Sam Moskowitz Archive Award

• David Aronovitz

Forrest J Ackerman Big Heart Award

• Ben Yalow

Special Committee Award (chosen by the Sasquan committee)

• Jay Lake