nominees due to a tie for 5th place.

BEST FAN WRITER (521 ballots)

Winner: Kameron Hurley

Liz Bourke

Foz Meadows

Abigail Nussbaum

Mark Oshiro

BEST FAN ARTIST (316 ballots)

Winner: Sarah Webb

Brad W. Foster

Mandie Manzano

Spring Schoenhuth

Steve Stiles

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (767 ballots)

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2012 or 2013, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).

Winner: Sofia Samatar *

Wesley Chu

Max Gladstone *

Ramez Naam *

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

As Loncon 3 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Worldcon in 1939, there was also a special presentation of Retrospective Hugo Awards for the best works of 1938. Check out the list of winners here.

Hugo and Retro-Hugo Award finalists are selected by members of the previous Worldcon and of the upcoming one; winnersThe Liberal Democrats have indicated they could back a Labour move in parliament to delay the Murdoch takeover of BSkyB until after the police investigations into phone hacking.

Labour is preparing to table a motion to force the government to suspend the takeover amid a furore over News International's journalistic practices.

Ed Milband said the bid could not go ahead based only on assurances given by News International, after the company had lied to the Press Complaints Commission. John Yates, assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, accused News International of having covered up the "industrial scale" of hacking at the News of the World.

Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, and Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat deputy leader, both indicated that the party could back the Labour motion if it was not seen as