Are starting to appear. So far:

Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
Best Fanzine: SF 5-Yearly
Best Editor, Long Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Further discussion here. Two surprises for me, so far: I really thought Scalzi was going to take Fan Writer, and I expected Jim Baen to pick up the Long Form Editor.

EDIT: And here’s the rest, about which before anything else I have to say OMG GAIMAN LOST.

John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo!): Naomi Novik
Best Semiprozine: Locus
Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
Best Editor, Short Form: Gorden Van Gelder
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who, “Girl in the Fireplace”
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Related Book: James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon by Julie Phillips
Best Short Story: “Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt
Best Novellette: “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald
Best Novella: “A Billion Eyes” by Robert Reed
Best Novel: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

Comments:

• I’ll say it again: OMG GAIMAN LOST. And I’m thrilled for Tim Pratt, too — I’ve been really impressed by his stories over the past year or so, particularly “Cup and Table” in Twenty Epics and “From Around Here” in Logorrhea.
• I have no complaints about novellette, novella, or best related book, either.
• I can’t comment on Rainbows End, largely because I haven’t read it yet; but on the face of it I’m surprised it beat out the commercial success of Temeraire and the buzz-favourite Blindsight. Quite a few people predicted it in Liz’s poll, though, so perhaps I shouldn’t be.
• I’m similarly surprised that Pan’s Labyrinth won, given that it made the ballot with the lowest number of nominations. But it’s a deserving winner — almost anything on the Dramatic Presentation Long Form ballot would have been.

EDIT: And here are the nomination details, as an icky pdf. Highlights:

• There are no Japanese nominees anywhere. Did Japanese members of the con not get sent ballots, or something? [UPDATE: There are a few in Best Artist. But I wish there were more in all categories.]
• Sun of Suns, Farthing, The Jennifer Morgue and The Lies of Locke Lamora were all within 10 nominations of making the novel ballot
• I was wrong to say above that Pan’s Labryinth had the lowest number of nominations — it actually had the second highest (100), compared to 31 for Pirates, so I don’t know how the original ballot got published with Pirates on it. In general the number of nominations in this category was dramatically down, compared to the previous few years.
• The Heroes premiere was one nomination off making the ballot.
• Strange Horizons got nominations in both fanzine and semiprozine; but it wouldn’t have made ether ballot by adding them together. Although if you add in Susan Marie Groppi’s nine nominations for Best Editor, Short Form …

And the final ballot is here:

• Blindsight was last. Last by quite a long way. The race for novel was between Novik and Vinge, with Vinge leading fairly comfortable throughout.
• Editor, Long Form was very close between PNH and Jim Baen; PNH was second for most of the process, then moved into first when Hartwell was eliminated.
• Langford beat Scalzi by one vote — and Scalzi had more first-place votes.
• Naomi Novik crushed all comers in the Campbell.

From Locus Online.

Best Novel

Lisey’s Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

One more reason to get around to reading The Orphan’s Tales. The rest of the list seems solid but not spectacular.

Best Novella

“Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)
“The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train”, Kim Newman (The Man from the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain)
Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance)
“Map of Dreams”, M. Rickert (Map of Dreams, Golden Gryphon)
“The Lineaments of Gratified Desire”, Ysabeau S. Wilce (F&SF Jul 2006)

I’ve read the Ford, the Rickert, and the Wlice, of which my clear favourite is the Wilce although all three are good; I don’t know anything about the other two. Interesting that only one was originally published in a magazine.

Best Short Fiction

“The Way He Does It”, Jeffrey Ford (Electric Velocipede #10, Spr 2006)
“Journey Into the Kingdom”, M. Rickert (F&SF May 2006)
“A Siege of Cranes”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics, All-Star Stories)
“Another Word for Map is Faith”, Christopher Rowe (F&SF Aug 2006)
“Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)

F&SF dominates here, in contrast to Asimov’s‘ domination of the Hugo nominees; make of that what you will. It’s an interesting category — I’ve read all but the Ford, and while I think they’re all nomination-worthy, none of them completely clicked for me.

Best Anthology
Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, eds. (MonkeyBrain and the Fandom Association of Central Texas)
Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling, eds. (Thunder’s Mouth)
Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed. (Subterranean)
Twenty Epics, David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, eds. (All-Star Stories)
Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird)

I’m for Twenty Epics all the way on this one — while I’m a little surprised “A Siege of Cranes” is the story that got picked out for solo shortlisting, that’s only because the overall standard of the book is so high.

Best Collection

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
American Morons, Glen Hirshberg (Earthling)
Red Spikes, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia; Knopf)
Map of Dreams, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)

Surely the standout category. I haven’t read the Hirshberg or the Lanagan, but have heard only good things about both; and the other three range from good (the Clarke) to excellent (the Ford and the Rickert, with the latter ahead in my ranking by a nose).

Best Artist

Jon Foster
Edward Miller
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Jill Thompson

I can’t claim to follow the artist category, but I like what I’ve seen of Shaun Tan and Edward Miller’s work a lot.

Special Award, Professional

Ellen Asher (For work at SFBC)
Mark Finn (for Blood & Thunder: The Life of Robert E. Howard, MonkeyBrain)
Deanna Hoak for copyediting
Greg Ketter for Dreamhaven
Leonard S. Marcus, ed. (for The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Candlewick)

Not as interesting to me as …

Special Award, Non-Professional

Leslie Howle (for her work at Clarion West)
Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian)
Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
Gary K. Wolfe (for reviews and criticism in Locus and elsewhere)

Shameless partisan time: go Susan! (Subliminal message: Strange Horizons’ fund drive ends on Wednesday.) Although, and not for the first time, I’m left wondering what the WFA definitions of “professional” and “non-professional” are. (If Gary Wolfe doesn’t count as a professional, for instance, I’m not sure any reviewer ever could.)

This is getting ridiculous. Recent winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award include Richard Morgan’s Market Forces (which beat among other things Geoff Ryman’s Air) and Robert J. Sawyer’s Mindscan (which beat among other things Charle Stross’ Accelerando, Ian R. MacLeod’s The Summer Isles, and David Marusek’s Counting Heads). This year, the shortlist included Nova Swing by M. John Harrison, Living Next-Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson, Glasshouse by Charles Stross, Farthing by Jo Walton, and Blindsight by Peter Watts. So what wins?

Titan by Ben Bova

The Campbell’s claim to be “one of the three major annual awards for science fiction” is looking increasingly tenuous, to put it mildly.

In fact, the list of results (the runners-up are announced along with the winner), according to Jo Walton, is:

1. Titan by Ben Bova
2. The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
3= Farthing by Jo Walton
3= Blindsight by Peter Watts

I admit, I have not read Titan. Nor, so far as I can tell, has it been widely reviewed; in fact, the only substantive review I can find is this one, which isn’t exactly encouraging. I disagree with many of the reviewer’s assumptions, but I’m still dispirited by the descriptions — “in essence, a re-working of Arthur C. Clarke’s and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey … The characterization and social dimensions are facile … there are authors turning out better space stories”. According to Amazon, Publisher’s Weekly said “The novel resolves the many personal conflicts in a flurry of silly political maneuvers as old as Aristophanes’ Lysistrata—bring ’em to heel by denying ’em sex—but the result is not half as entertaining or so thought provoking.” I will leave you the dubious pleasure of wading through the “search inside the book” excerpt yourself, but it seems representative of my previous encounters with Ben Bova’s work, and that’s not a good thing. I would be fascinated to see Tiptree Award-style statements from the judges explaining what value they saw in the book.

EDIT: Paul Di Filippo quite liked it — “Bova is intent on carrying forward the core mandate of SF: showing us a likely future we can actually attain” — though he still doesn’t make it sound like it’s in the same league as most of the rest of the nominees.

Coincidentally, Paul Kincaid has the first installment of a new column, Science Fiction Skeptic, at Bookslut today, and he writes:

All awards attract controversy; it’s what they do. If an award is worth its salt, it generates debate, and the usual controversy is just the more frenetic end of that debate.

He’s not talking about the Campbell Award, he’s talking about the Clarke Award. And to an extent, he’s right. And juried awards — of which the Campbell is one; the people responsible for this decision are Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Christopher McKitterick, Farah Mendlesohn, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey — probably invite it more than voted awards. But this result doesn’t look like a controversy; it looks like a joke.

I am informed, via text message, that the winner of this year’s Orange Prize is …

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My reaction: eh. Of the four shortlisted books that I read, it was the one I liked least by some margin.

EDIT: According to The Guardian, “The two shortlisted titles believed to have come closest to beating Half of a Yellow Sun are The Inheritance of Loss and the Chinese author Xiaolu Guo’s tender romantic comedy A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.” So at least my favourite was in the running.

From Locus Online:

Novel
Seeker by Jack McDevitt (Ace)

Novella
Burn by James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon)

Novelette
“Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle (F&SF)

Short Story
“Echo” by Elizabeth Hand (F&SF)

Script
Howl’s Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt

Andre Norton Award
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)

Eh. Admittedly the ballot wasn’t the most inspiring thing in the world to start with, but I find myself distinctly unexcited about this set of results — with the exception of “Echo”, which I liked. I’m ambivalent about “Two Hearts” and “Burn”; and I’ll probably check out Seeker now, although nothing I’ve read about the book makes it sound particularly special. Opinions from the floor?

Nova Swing by M. John Harrison

Paul Billinger’s introductory speech
M. John Harrison’s reaction
Guardian report
Flickr group

Matrix interviews the shortlisted authors
Liz runs a poll
Reactions to omissions from the shortlist

End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

• Reviewed by Nic and Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria
• Reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Infinity Plus
• Reviewed by Claire Brialey in Vector
• Reviewed by Paul Kincaid at SF Site
• Reviewed by David Soyka at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Paul Raven at Velcro City Tourist Board
• Reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont

Nova Swing by M. John Harrison

• Reviewed by Nic and Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria
• Reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Infinity Plus
• Reviewed by John Clute in The Guardian
• Reviewed by Andrew McKie in The Telegraph
• Reviewed by Gary Dalkin in Vector
• Reviewed by Roz Kaveney in The Independent
• Reviewed by Brian McCluskey in The Scotsman

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet

• Reviewed by Nic and Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria
• Reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Infinity Plus
• Reviewed by Ben Peek at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Geoff Ryman in SFX
• Reviewed by Matthew Tiffany at The Quarterly Conversation
• Reviewed by Anne Yoder at PopMatters
• Reviewed by Matthew Cheney in Locus (online here; brief notice at Locus Online here)

Hav by Jan Morris

• Reviewed by Nic and Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria
• Reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Infinity Plus
• Reviewed by Ursula Le Guin in The Guardian
• Reviewed by Paul Kincaid in Vector
• Reviewed by Matthew Cheney at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Cheryl Morgan at Emerald City
• Reviewed by Zoe Green in The Observer
• Reviewed by Kevin Rushby in Prospect

Gradisil by Adam Roberts

• Reviewed by Nic and Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria
• Reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Infinity Plus
• Reviewed by Thomas Wagner at SFReviews.net
• Reviewed by Paul Bateman in Vector
• Reviewed by Martin McGrath originally in Scalpel
• Reviewed by Finn Dempster at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Joe Gordon at Emerald City
• Reviewed by Adam Balm at Ain’t It Cool News

Streaking by Brian Stableford

• Reviewed by Nic and Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria
• Reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum at Infinity Plus
• Reviewed by John Clute at Strange Horizons
• Reviewed by Claude Lalumiere at Sci-Fi Weekly

And the winner: Nova Swing

This year:

For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf).

Good call. (Other winners, and there’s a special citation for Ray Bradbury “as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.”)

There’s nothing up on Locus Online, but based on this post it looks like the winner of the Philip K. Dick Award is Spin Control by Chris Moriarty, with a special citation for Carnival by Elizabeth Bear.

(Shortlist; and Nicholas Whyte’s review of the shortlist.)