The 2003 Hugo Award Winner Rankings
Best Novel Category
(660 ballots counted)Hominids
Kiln People
Bones of the Earth
The Scar
The Years of Rice and Salt
Best Novella Category
(562 ballots counted. Six nominees on ballot due to a fifth place tie)Coraline
"Bronte’s Egg" by Richard Chwedyk (F&SF 8/02)
"Breathmoss" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 5/02)
A Year in the Linear City
"The Political Officer" by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 4/02)
"In Spirit" by Pat Forde (Analog 9/02)
Best Novelette Category
(529 ballots counted)"Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)
"The Wild Girls" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov’s 3/02)
"Halo" by Charles Stross (Asimov’s 6/02)
"Presence" by Maureen F. McHugh (F&SF 3/02)
"Madonna of the Maquiladora"
Best Short Story Category
(513 ballots counted)"Falling Onto Mars" by Geoffrey A. Landis (Analog 7-8/02)
"‘Hello,’ Said the Stick" by Michael Swanwick (Analog 3/02)
"The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 10-11/02)
"Creation" by Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/02)
"Lambing Season" by Molly Gloss (Asimov’s 7/02)
Best Related Book Category
(432 ballots counted)Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
Bradbury: An Illustrated Life
Dragonhenge
Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Category
(591 ballots counted)Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
Star Trek: Enterprise
Angel
Star Trek: Enterprise
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Category
(752 ballots counted)The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Minority Report
Spirited Away
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spider-Man
Best Professional Editor Category
(566 ballots counted)Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Ellen Datlow
Gordon Van Gelder
Stanley Schmidt
Best Professional Artist Category (520 ballots counted)
Bob Eggleton
Donato Giancola
Jim Burns
David A. Cherry
Frank Kelly Freas
Best Semiprozine Category (549 ballots counted)
Locus
Interzone
The New York Review of Science Fiction
Ansible
Speculations
Best Fanzine Category
(360 ballots counted)Mimosa
File 770
Emerald City
Plokta
Challenger
Best Fan Writer Category
(385 ballots counted)Dave Langford
Mike Glyer
Steven H Silver
Bob Devney
John L. Flynn
Best Fan Artist Category (359 ballots counted)
Sue Mason
Frank Wu
Brad W. Foster
Teddy Harvia
Steve Stiles
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
(not a Hugo Award — sponsored by Dell Magazines)
(417 ballots counted)
Wen Spencer
Charles Coleman Finlay
Ken Wharton
Karin Lowachee
David D. Levine
There was a total of 805 Hugo Awards ballots submitted this year — 478 electronic ballots and 327 paper ballots. Twenty-nine ballots were disqualified for various reasons such as incorrect PINs, being postmarked after the July 31, 2003 deadline, and so forth, which left 776 valid ballots.
Information on the nominations for this year’s Hugo and John W. Campbell Awards, including a list of the top 15 nominees in each category, may be found on the Torcon 3 web site at www.torcon3.on.ca.
We wish to thank everyone who took the time to make nominations and to vote for the 2003 Hugo and John W. Campbell Awards. Members of Torcon 3 are entitled to make nominations for the 2004 Hugo and John W. Campbell Awards next year. Please check the Noreascon 4 web site at www.noreascon.org in January 2004 for more details.
Torcon 3 thanks Jeffrey Copeland for providing the software used to tally the ballots.
Last updated: 30 August 2003
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