And the 2013 Hugo goes to...

2013 Hugo Award desiged by Vincent Villafranca. Photographs by Kevin Standlee, used with permission. Well, LoneStarCon 3 aka WorldCon 71, has come and gone, and now we turn to look ahead to next year's World Science Fiction Convention in the UK, LonCon 3 .

Congrats to the Hugo winners this year.  I have to admit that the connections between the 2013 Hugo winners and Rugg's Handbook of Sales and Science Fiction are a little less direct than usual.  (But they do
exist!)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) went to The Avengers, screenplay and directed by Joss Whedon.  Whedon made it into The Handbook by virtue of Lesson #18, a lesson derived from his short-lived, much-loved Firefly television series.

The award for Best Semiprozine went to Clarkesworld, a pub that I enjoy very much.  In fact, Clarkesworld is where I found Cat Rambo's Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know, the lesson of The Handbook's Lesson #27.

And of course, as noted previously, the Con's guests of honor included Grand Master James Gunn and artist Darrell K. (Sweet) (posthumously).  Gunn was a major influence in The Handbook's writing, and Sweet is featured in Lesson #20.

The complete list of winners is available at the convention's website ,
and LonCon 3 has a site online as well.

p.s.-- The first season of Firefly is free to watch on Amazon Instant Video, if you are an Amazon Prime member.  And Rugg's Handbook of Sales and Science Fiction, the e-book, is also free to borrow and read on your Kindle if you are a member of Amazon Prime,just click here!