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INTERACTION, THE 63rd WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
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PRESS RELEASE #29 - Hugo Awards Ceremony MCs Revealed


GLASGOW, Saturday 12 March 2005


Hugo Awards ceremony MCs announced - Hugo Nomination process closed – 
Shortlist to be released at Easter


The organisers of Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention 
have revealed the identities of the Masters of Ceremonies of this year’s 
Hugo Awards ceremony. Author, broadcaster and critic Kim Newman will join 
novelist and critic Paul McAuley onstage at the Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow 
on 7 August 2005 for the most prestigious event in the Science Fiction 
calendar. “We are honoured and delighted that Kim and Paul have agreed 
to act as hosts for the Awards ceremony,” said Interaction Co-Chair 
Vincent Docherty. “Both are highly respected authors in the science 
fiction field and are also known in wider media and literary circles. 
Not only that, but they are highly entertaining and promise to make the 
event a night to remember.”

Paul McAuley’s first novel Four Hundred Billion Stars won the 
Philip K. Dick Memorial Award in 1988. Since then, he has had an illustrious 
career winning several international awards including the Arthur C. Clarke 
Award and the John W. Campbell Award for his novel Fairyland. His latest 
novel White Devils is published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and by Tor 
in the US.

Kim Newman is perhaps best known for his many TV appearances and for his 
regular reviews in Empire magazine. His novels include The Night Mayor, 
Anno Dracula – for which he won an International Horror Guild Award – 
and The Bloody Red Baron. He has also edited several anthologies. His latest 
book, Dead Travel Fast, is published by Dinoship Books.

The Hugo Awards are considered to be the Oscars® of the Science Fiction 
field and are voted on each year by the members of the sitting Worldcon. 
They are named in honour of Hugo Gernsback, who in 1926 founded Amazing 
Stories, the first magazine devoted entirely to science fiction. They honour 
achievement in several categories including Best Novel, Best Short Story, 
Best Professional Artist and Best Dramatic Presentations (long form and 
short form). The nominations phase of the awards process has now closed 
and the final shortlist will be announced over the Easter weekend. Members 
of Interaction will then be able to vote in a final ballot to select 
the winners.
 

                                                                ENDS


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