Press Release #26
2002 HUGO AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

CONJOSÉ, THE 60TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
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For immediate release: Thursday 18 April, 10:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time

2002 HUGO AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

ConJosé is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2002 Hugo Awards.

A total of 626 people cast Hugo Nominating ballots this year.

Three categories have six nominees due to ties for the final ballot position.

BEST NOVEL (486 ballots cast)
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (HarperCollins/Eos)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (Macmillan (UK)(2000); Del Rey)
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod (Orbit (UK)(2000); Tor)
Passage by Connie Willis (Bantam)
The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

BEST NOVELLA (300 ballots cast)
"May Be Some Time" by Brenda W. Clough (Analog 4/01)
"The Diamond Pit" by Jack Dann (Jubilee, HarperCollins/Voyager Australia; F&SF 6/01)
"The Chief Designer" by Andy Duncan (Asimov's 6/01)
"Stealing Alabama" by Allen Steele (Asimov's 1/01)
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" by Vernor Vinge (The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, Tor)

BEST NOVELETTE (292 ballots cast)
"Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (Starlight 3, Tor)
"Undone" by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/01)
"The Days Between" by Allen Steele (Asimov's 3/01)
"Lobsters" by Charles Stross (Asimov's 6/01)
"The Return of Spring" by Shane Tourtellotte (Analog 11/01)

BEST SHORT STORY (331 ballots cast)
"The Ghost Pit" by Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 7/01)
"Spaceships" by Michael A. Burstein (Analog 6/01)
"The Bones of the Earth" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales from Earthsea, Harcourt)
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 9/01)
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 10-11/01)

BEST RELATED BOOK (252 ballots cast)
The Art of Richard Powers by Jane Frank (Paper Tiger)
Meditations on Middle-Earth by Karen Haber, ed. (St. Martin's Press/A Byron Preiss Book)
The Art of Chesley Bonestell by Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant III with Melvin H. Schuetz (Paper Tiger)
I Have This Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do With It? by Mike Resnick (Wildside Press)
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey (HarperCollins (UK) (2000);Houghton Mifflin)
Being Gardner Dozois by Michael Swanwick (Old Earth Books)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (452 ballots cast)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1492 Pictures/Heyday Films/Warner Bros.) Directed by Chris Columbus; Screenplay by Steven Kloves; David Heyman, Producer; Michael Barthan, Chris Columbus, Duncan Henderson & Mark Radcliff, Excutive Producers.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema/The Saul Zaentz Company/WingNut Films) Directed by Peter Jackson; Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Phillipa Boyens & Peter Jackson; Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Tim Sanders, Producers; Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, Executive Producers.

Monsters, Inc. (Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures) Directed by Peter Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich. Story by Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston and Jeff Pidgeon. Darla K. Anderson, Producer. John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, Executive Producers.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More, With Feeling" (Fox Television Studios/Mutant Enemy, Inc.) Written & Directed by Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon and Marti Noxon, Executive Producers.

Shrek (DreamWorks SKG/Pacific Data Images). Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman. Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner and John H. Williams, Producers. Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins, Executive Producers.

BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR (382 ballots cast)
Ellen Datlow (SCI FICTION and anthologies)
Gardner Dozois (Asimov's)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books; Starlight anthology series)
Stanley Schmidt (Analog)
Gordon Van Gelder (F&SF)

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (323 ballots cast)
Jim Burns
Bob Eggleton
Frank Kelly Freas
Donato Giancola
Michael Whelan

BEST SEMIPROZINE (283 ballots cast)
Absolute Magnitude, edited by Warren Lapine
Interzone, edited by David Pringle
Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown
The New York Review of Science Fiction, edited by Kathryn Cramer, David Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney
Speculations, edited by Susan Fry, published by Kent Brewster

BEST FANZINE (237 ballots cast)
File 770, edited by Mike Glyer
Ansible, edited by Dave Langford
Challenger, edited by Guy Lillian III
Mimosa, edited by Richard & Nicki Lynch
Plokta, edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott

BEST FAN WRITER (248 ballots cast)
Jeff Berkwits
Bob Devney
John L. Flynn
Mike Glyer
Dave Langford
Steven H Silver

BEST FAN ARTIST (177 ballots cast)
Sheryl Birkhead
Brad Foster
Teddy Harvia
Sue Mason
Frank Wu

BEST WEB SITE (365 ballots cast)
Locus Online, Mark R. Kelly editor/webmaster
SciFi.com, Craig Engler, general manager
SF Site, Rodger Turner, publisher/managing editor
Strange Horizons, Mary Anne Mohanraj, editor-in-chief
Tangent Online, Dave Truesdale, senior editor; Tobias Buckell, webmaster

Each Worldcon has the right to add one special category, good only for that year and not binding upon any future Worldcon committees. ConJosé exercised this right and will award a Hugo Award for Best Web Site.

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER OF 2000/2001 (272 ballots cast)
Tobias S. Buckell (second year of eligibility)
Alexander C. Irvine (second year of eligibility)
Wen Spencer (first year of eligibility)
Jo Walton (second year of eligibility)
Ken Wharton (first year of eligibility)

The John W. Campbell Award, sponsored by Dell Magazines, is not a Hugo Award, but appears on the same ballot as the Hugo Awards and is administered in the same way as the Hugo Awards.

The 2001 WSFS Business Meeting, as authorized by the WSFS Constitution, extended the eligibility of works initially published in 2000 outside the USA and not published in the USA as of the end of January 2001. Several works nominated this year qualify under this extension.

Of the 626 total valid nominating ballots, 371 were cast electronically through the ConJosé web site. Members of ConJosé and of The Millennium Philcon (the 2002 and 2001 Worldcons) were eligible to make nominations for the 2002 Hugo Awards. 389 members of ConJosé (236 voting electronically, 153 by mail) and 237 members of the Millennium Philcon (135 voting electronically, 102 by mail) cast nominating ballots.

Only attending and supporting members of ConJose may vote on the 2002 Hugo Awards. ConJosé will mail Hugo Award ballots to all of its members in Progress Report 4, scheduled to mail by the end of May 2002. A copy of the ballot will be available for download from the ConJosé web site at http://www.conjose.org/wsfs/wsfs_hugo.html shortly. ConJosé plans to offer online voting as it did for the nominating ballots. We will post details of how to vote online on our web site when the online ballot is available. The voting deadline is July 31, 2002.

Through July 31, 2002, an Attending membership in ConJosé is $180 and a Supporting membership is $35. Information about how to join ConJosé is available from our web site at http://www.conjose.org/Member/membership.html.

Voting Statistics Summary

"Ballots" is the number of ballots that included at least one nomination in that category. "Votes" is the total number of nominations cast in that category. "Nominees" is the number of individual works or persons nominated in that category. "Range" is the range between the least number of nominations required to make the final ballot in that category and the most number of nominations any work or person received in that category.

"No Award" will appear as a candidate in each category on the final ballot, as required by the WSFS Constitution.

More detailed statistics, including the number of nominations each person or work received, and the vote counts of the top fifteen candidates or those candidates receiving at least 5% of the nomination ballots cast in each category, will be released after the Hugo Awards Ceremony at ConJosé.

The 2002 Hugo Awards will be announced and presented at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, September 1, 2002 in the San José Civic Auditorium during ConJosé.

Contacts
Hugo Awards: John Lorentz hugos@conjose.org
General: Kevin Standlee info@conjose.org
Press/Media: Bart Kemper press@conjose.org

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