Hugo Award Winners – My Favorites June 27, 2015 June 27, 2015 ishallakam Books Books , Hugo Award , opinion , review One of the first posts I wrote on this blog was about my thoughts on every Hugo Award winning novel . 2015 was a dramatic year for the Hugo Awards, dogged by controversy due to a pair of politicized voting campaigns known as the Sad and Rabid Puppies.. Selection. Here are all the 2015 Hugo Award winners that you can read online, right now, for free. The Hugo award nominations turned into the biggest debate in science fiction this year after two reactionary groups calling themselves “Rabid Puppies” and “Sad Puppies” stuffed the ballot box in the name of defending science fiction from so-called “social justice warriors” and overly “literary” writing. These are the winners. However, when the 2015 Hugo Award winners were revealed this weekend, it became clear that these efforts to change the course of the awards failed. Although women, people of … Hooray! by Joel Cunningham / August 24, 2015 at 10:30 am Share. The winners of the 2015 Hugo Awards have been announced! The 2015 Hugo Awards winners were announced on Saturday during the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention. WorldCon opened this year in Spokane, Washington, amid roiling controversy that’s been brewing ever since Vox Day, editor, publisher, and blogger created a voting slate for the Huge Awards back in February. The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more. The Winners of the 2015 Hugo Awards: Puppies Lose, Translations Win. BEST NOVELETTE " The Day the World Turned Upside Down ," by … The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year. Best Novel (1,827 nominating ballots) The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) 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. (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards.) Among the big winners was Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy… Kat Overland August 25, 2015 June 5, 2017. Uncategorized. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie as happened in 2009. The 2015 Hugo Award Winners. The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (767 nominating ballots) Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2012 or 2013, sponsored by Dell Magazines. As many readers will know, this year there has been a concerted effort by a small but vocal minority to "game" the Hugo awards and try and put science fiction back by a few decades. Check out the full list below. Sofia Samatar* Max Gladstone* Wesley Chu; Ramez Naam* Benjanun Sriduangkaew Hugo Award Winners 2015.