The winners of this year's Hugo Awards (for works published in 2006) were announced September 1st at Nippon 2007, the 2007 WorldCon (for the uninitiated, "WorldCon" is the World Science Fiction Convention, which is, for science fiction writers and readers, what the Academy Awards are to actors). It was announced that Lincoln science fiction writer Robert Reed won the Hugo Award for Best Novella, for his story "A Billion Eves," which appeared in the October/November 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Bob's other Hugo-nominated work, "Eight Episodes," came in third in voting in the short story category. A historical footnote: "A Billion Eves" was the story that, statistically, allowed Bob to pass Isaac Asimov himself as the top story contributor to Asimov's SF Magazine.

For the full 2007 Hugo story, go to the following links:

The Winners | The Full Voting Results

(Photo at right is Scott Edelman (editor of Science Fiction Weekly) accepting Bob's Hugo Award for "A Billion Eves", with author Robert Silverberg, the presenter, standing in the background. Photo is by Adrienne Loska (aka Flickr user lasirenadolce.]

Robert Reed was born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 9, 1956. He attended Benson High there, and then Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he received a B.S. in Biology in 1987. Bob worked as a lab technician at NWU from 1979 to 1980, and at Mapes Industries in Lincoln from 1978 to 1987. Since 1987, he has been prolific enough to make his living as a full-time science fiction writer. For more information, go to Bob's NCW web page or to his own web site. [Photo by Carrie Knapp]

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