The 66th World Science Fiction Convention will be held August 6-10, 2008, in Denver, CO. The Hugo Award is given out at the convention. For the year, nominees for Best Novel and Best Short Story are:
  
Best Novel
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate)
  
Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
  
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog Oct. 2006-Jan./Feb. 2007)
  
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor)
  
Halting State by Charles Stross (Ace)
Best Novella (220 ballots cast)
  
Best Short Story
 "Last Contact" by Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. George Mann, Solaris Books)
  
"Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's June 2007)
  
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" by Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
  
"Distant Replay" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's April/May 2007)
  
"A Small Room in Koboldtown" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's April/May 2007; The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Tachyon Publications)
  

        The Agatha Awards are presented each spring for the best cozy mysteries. Here are the 2008 selections:
  
Best Novel
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, St. Martin's Minotaur
  
Best First Novel
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan, Harlequin
   
Best Non-Fiction
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley, Penguin Press
   
Best Short Story
"A Rat's Tale" by Donna Andrews, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct, 2007  

Hugo Award Nominees

The Agatha Awards

The Edgar Awards

         The Edgar Awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America each spring. The 2008 winners are:
  
Best Novel
Down River by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
  
Best First Novel, American Author
In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group – Viking)
  
Best Paperback Original
Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
  
Best Short Story
“The Golden Gopher” – Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)