2008 Hugo Award winners announced

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Doctor Who's "Blink" and author Michael Chabon are amongst the victors at the 66th Annual World Science Fiction Convention in Denver

Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policeman's Union) takes home this year's Hugo Award for Best SF Novel, Doctor Who's "Blink" episode picks one up for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form, and Stardust gets the gong for Long Form - that's the headline news from this year's ceremony out at Worldcon in Denver .

Given annually since 1955, the Hugo Awards (named for editor Hugo Gernsback, founder of the celebrated SF magazine Amazing Stories) are the genre's most prestigious award, voted for annually by all the members of the current World Science Fiction Convention - this year's were announced out in Denver last night, Saturday 9 August 2008. The Master of Ceremony was Colorado's Wil McCarthy, SF novelist and science pundit.

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