On Sunday, September 2, sci-fi's night to shine, The Hugo Awards, was held at the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Chicago and a couple of our faves left happy.

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin along with Ron Donachie accepted a rocket for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" for the hit HBO fantasy series. Gaiman nabbed a "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form" award for scripting his wonderful TARDIS-centric Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife." Gaiman's win is admiteddly a double-edged sword since our beloved Community was also nomiated for its brilliant, multi-timline episode "Remedial Chaos Theory."

Ousted Community creator Dan Harmon was cordial about the loss on Twitter:

Very refreshing to lose to @neilhimself instead of Chuck Lorre for a change.And he gave us shout out!#hugos

— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) September 3, 2012

But the winners and losers aren't all that's been grabbing ink from this weekend's event. The awards ceremony was being streamed live via Ustream, when suddenly, during Gaiman's acceptance speech, the feed was dropped and replaced by a message reading, "Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement." It seems a third-party service called Vobile, that acts upon potential copyright issues, yanked the feed because of the Doctor Who and Community clips that ran while nominees were announced. According to a report on io9, Ustream announced that it would no longer use Vobile for its feeds. Science Fiction award show cut off by infringement-eradicating bots...ironic, eh?

Here's the full list of winners from the official Hugo Awards website:

BEST NOVEL

Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor)

BEST NOVELLA

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, September/October 2011)

BEST NOVELETTE

“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011)

BEST RELATED WORK

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight (Gollancz)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

Game of Thrones (Season 1) (HBO)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

“The Doctor’s Wife” (Doctor Who) (BBC Wales)

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM

Sheila Williams

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM

Betsy Wollheim

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

John Picacio

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Locus, edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.

BEST FANZINE

SF Signal, edited by John DeNardo

BEST FAN WRITER

Jim C. Hines

BEST FAN ARTIST

Maurine Starkey

BEST FANCAST

SF Squeecast, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer
of 2009 or 2010, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).

E. Lily Yu

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