Weird Tales Wins the Hugo!!!!!
Jeff VanderMeer • August 9th, 2009 @ 8:15 pm • News
My wife Ann, fiction editor, and Stephen Segal, creative director, just won a Hugo for Weird Tales. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! That’s awesome! I’m so proud of her.
Ann texted me to say she’s still shaking, that she didn’t have a speech prepared so she winged it, and that the award is really really heavy.
Full list of winners posted here.
Here’s Ann at the ceremony (photo by Cheryl Morgan)…
August 9, 2009 at 8:33 pm
What can we say but CONGRATS!!!!! (Relay my congratulations to Stephen too, please!) :-)
August 9, 2009 at 8:52 pm
The Weird Ones stood over Locus, penknife held high. With a swift flick, the juggernaut was defeated.
August 9, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Erm, Grand Weirdinian, that’s a little extreme. Just very happy for Ann. She says in the awards photo Neil Gaiman is sitting at her feet, which may actually be the thing that impresses her students.
August 9, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Again, this is so cool! And you’ll have to post that photo sometime, just for the juxtaposition there :D
August 9, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Congratulations! It was a great surprise but happy one.
August 9, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Fabulous news. Congratulations to Ann!
That *looks* heavy. What’s it sitting on, a chunk of Montreal bedrock?
August 10, 2009 at 12:08 am
Awesome, tremendous! Congratulations to Ann, Stephen, and Weird Tales! And the sky above Connecticut rumbles with approval!
August 10, 2009 at 12:11 am
Congrats! That award looks awesome!
August 10, 2009 at 12:34 am
Hey Ann – Great news! Muchos congratulations.
August 10, 2009 at 3:37 am
Congratulations, Ann!
August 10, 2009 at 4:53 am
Yay from this side of the pond! We’re all proud of your girl and send virtual hugs!
August 10, 2009 at 6:56 am
you bloody little ripper, ann, bonza, you beaut, it’s a bit of allright, isn’t it!!!!!!
peace and love…..
August 10, 2009 at 8:17 am
It was incredible. Ann was crying on stage and completely in shock after the ceremony. Stephen also looked completely dazed. Congratulations to both, they really deserved it.
Also, while the base of the Hugo looks somewhat plain it is actually quite a beautiful work of art. There are gorgeous flame designs under the rocket and the base itself is marble.
August 10, 2009 at 8:30 am
Congratulations to Ann & all the others on Weird Tales -team on a victory well earned! A celebration is in order. We’ll toast to your Hugo in the next Helsinki SF Mafia meeting (and to Cheryl’s & Neil’s!).
August 10, 2009 at 8:46 am
Hurrah for Weird Tales and Ann!
August 10, 2009 at 8:51 am
Congratulations to Ann and Stephen and everyone over at Weird Tales.
August 10, 2009 at 9:18 am
Nice one Ann! Congrats to you, Stephen and all at WTs.
August 10, 2009 at 10:02 am
Congratulations to Ann and Stephen and Weird Tales!
August 10, 2009 at 10:03 am
Huge congratulations, and many! It was only a matter of time — Weird Tales and everyone behind it have had this coming. Cheers!
August 10, 2009 at 10:06 am
Congratulations!
August 10, 2009 at 10:23 am
Huge congratulations! (And love the dress!)
August 10, 2009 at 10:35 am
Excellent news! Congratulations!
August 10, 2009 at 10:37 am
WHOOOO! Awesome.
August 10, 2009 at 11:35 am
Awesome! Congratulations to Ann and Stephen and everyone else at Weird Tales!
August 10, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Congratulations to Ann and Stephen and the rest of the Weird Tales staff.
August 10, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hoooooray!!! Congrats to Ann, Stephen and all involved with Weird Tales! :)
August 10, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Good deal! Well deserved. CONGRATS! ^;,;^
August 10, 2009 at 10:32 pm
If Toni drinks a toast, I will smoke a doutnik!
Hooray for Ann and Stephen and Weird Tales, Neil, Cheryl, Ellen and all the rest of the winners! Next year, let’s toast to BOTH of you guys!
August 11, 2009 at 5:43 am
Hooray! Many congrats once again. I’ll drink at least TEN toasts for the whole Weird Tales team! Kippis!
August 11, 2009 at 6:44 am
Please pass on my congratulations to Ann and her colleagues at Weird Tales- that’s as good as it gets, you guys must be so proud. :)
August 11, 2009 at 7:46 am
Thank you so much everyone for your good wishes. Stephen, I and Weird Tales could not have done this without all the talented contributors and readers. Thank you (I’m still a bit overwhelmed).
August 11, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Congratulations, Ann – Keep up the great work!
August 11, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Hurray and congrats!
August 12, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Thanks, Jeff and everyone. Ann and I are indeed overwhelmed to be accepting Weird Tales’s first Hugo award on behalf of the many, many, many brilliant contributors and readers who’ve made the magazine so great over the decades.
August 12, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Yeah! It was great being there. Congrats to Ann!
August 12, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Congratulations, you earned it!
August 18, 2009 at 4:52 am
Wonderful news.
August 24, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Yay! This news just made me so happy :) Congrats to Ann, Stephen and to Weird Tales Magazine.