Best Professional Editor Hugo

[womzilla]

David Hartwell has won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, in the last year that award will be given.

He is only the second editor of books (and not [professional] magazines) to win that award while alive, and, like the first (Terry Carr), he publishes annual Years' Best anthologies, which apparently are enough like magazines to get over the hurdle. Prior to this weekend, he also had the record for most Hugo nominations without a victory; I am virtually certain that distinction is now held by Stanley Schmidt.

I can't tell you how happy I am for David. Huzzah!

Comments

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

For those of us who are so far out of the loop we're coming back in the other side, why are they doing away with Best Pro Editor, and is it being replaced with something?

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Effective next year, there will be two Professional Editor Hugos: Long Form (books) and Short Form (magazines). pnh spearheaded the reform effort.