Neil Gaiman wins top prize at Hugo Awards
Neil Gaiman's story of a boy raised by ghosts, The Graveyard Book, picked up the 2009 Hugo Awards best novel prize in Montreal on Sunday night.
The Graveyard Book, has already won'the Newbery medal, the Locus young adult award and was shorltisted for a World Fantasy award.
When Patrick Ness reviewed the book in the Guardian, he called it a "deathly delight". "It's hard to think of a more delightful and scary place to spend 300 pages," he wrote, praising "the outrageous riches of Gaiman's imagination", where "every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary" and where the "villains are a creation so creepy I would happily read a whole other novel just about them".
Also nominated this year were:
Anathem: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Saturn's Children: A Space Opera by Charles Stross
Zoe's Tale: An Old Man's War Novel by John Scalzi
To read a full list of this year's winners, please visit the Hugo Awards website.
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