And the Hugo winners are...

Hello from Renovation, the World Science Fiction convention in Reno Nevada.

It's 10:38pm and the Hugo Award ceremony has just ended. I am typing this message from the Tuscany ballroom at the Peppermill hotel.

And the winners are...

Forrest J. Ackerman Big Heart Award. -- Gaye Haldeman

John W. Campbell Award -- Lev Grossman

And the Hugo winners are...

Best Fan Artist. -- Brad W. Foster

Best Fan Writer. -- Claire Briarley

Best Fanzine. -- The Drink Tank, edited by Christopher Garcia and James Bacon

Best Professional Artist. -- Shaun Tan

Best Related Work. -- Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration or Dr. who by the Women Who Love It, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea

Best Short Story -- For Want of a Nail, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Best Novelette. -- The Emperor of Mars, by Allen M. Steele

Best Novella. -- The Lifecycle of Software Objects, by Ted Chiang

Best Novel. -- Blackout/All Clear, by Connie Willis

Best Semiprozine -- Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, and Sean Wallace. Pod Cast directed by Kate Baker

Best Graphic Story. -- Girl Genious, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, written by Phil and Kaja Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright, art by Phil Foglio

Best Editor, Short Form. -- Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form. -- Lou Anders

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. -- Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Toby Haynes

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. -- Inception, written and directed by Christopher Nolan

Where am I?

Well, today, I am at Renovation, the world science fiction convention.

Currently I am waiting for my parents to arrive. They should be here soon.

So far I haven't seen much of the convention or of the hotel or the people I know. Hopefully, that will change soon.

We were supposed to arrive early yesterday, butour flight got bumped, so we finally arrived at the hotel around midnight last night.

I'm hoping my parents will find something interesting once they arrive.

We arrived at the hotel only to find that the room we had rechecked into, complete with refrigerator and microvwave had been given away to someone else, because they wanted adjoining rooms with another party. So, with no refrigerators or microwaves officially left we had to do some wrangling to get them. And in the process we were upgraded to a suite in the Tuscan tower of the Peppermill hotel.

With luck, my parents will also have been upgraded, since I booked both rooms in my name. My guess is they will still be in the standard Peppermill room.