Although Saga continues to take home multiple Eisner Awards (see "2014 Eisner Award Winners"), and won the Hugo last year (see "'Saga' Vol. 1 Wins Hugo"), Hugo Award voters took a different view this time around, awarding Time by Randall Munroe, an unusual 3,000+ frame slow-motion animation endeavor published online as single-panel XKCD installments over several months, the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.
The 2014 Hugo Award winners were announced on Sunday night at the World Science Fiction Convention in London.
Time beat fellow nominees Girl Genius, Volume 13: Agatha Heterodyne & The Sleeping City by Phil and Kaja Foglio (Airship Entertainment), The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who written by Paul Cornell and illustrated by Jimmy Broxton (IDW), The Meathouse Man, adapted from the story by George R.R. Martin and illustrated by Raya Golden (Jet City Comics), and Saga, Volume 2 written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image). Saga Volume 1 won the award last year (see "'Saga' Vol. 1 Wins Hugo").
The Game of Thrones episode "The Rains of Castamere" beat out four different Doctor Who-related presentations ("The Day of the Doctor," and "The Name of the Doctor," episodes from the Doctor Who show, as well as The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot and An Adventure in Space and Time, which were both produced for TV as part of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary celebration) and the Orphan Black episode "Variations under Domestication" for the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form award.
Gravity won for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, besting Frozen, The Hunger Games; Catching Fire, Iron Man 3, and Pacific Rim.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie took the top prize for Best Novel, with Equoid by Charles Stross winning for Best Novella, The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal winning Best Novelette, and The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu winning Best Short Story.
The Hugo Awards are presented by the World Science Fiction Society annually, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy.
Announced on Sunday
Posted by ICv2 on August 18, 2014 @ 2:19 pm CT
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