By JJ: Since the Hugo Voter’s packet has not yet arrived, if you’d like to get a head start on your reading, you can use this handy guide to find material which is available for free online. Where available in their entirety, works are linked (most of the Novelettes and Short Stories are free, as are the Pro and Fan Artist images, and many of the Semiprozines and Fanzines).
If not available for free, an Amazon link is provided. If a free excerpt is available online, it has been linked. Excerpts are web pages, except where otherwise indicated. Overdrive excerpts are usually longer than web excerpts, and are read by clicking the right side of the page or swiping right-to-left to advance pages.
Fair notice: All Amazon links are referrer URLs which benefit fan site Worlds Without End.
Best Novel
- The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi (Tor) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Provenance, by Ann Leckie (Orbit) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty (Orbit) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
Best Novella
- All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) (excerpt)
- And Then There Were (N-One), by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny, Mar-Apr 2017) (full text)
- Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing) (excerpt)
- The Black Tides of Heaven, by JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing) (excerpt)
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing) (chapters 1-2) (audio chapter 3)
- River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing) (excerpt)
Best Novelette
- “Children of Thorns, Children of Water“, by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny, Jul-Aug 2017)
- “Extracurricular Activities“, by Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, February 15, 2017)
- “The Secret Life of Bots“, by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, Sep 2017)
- “A Series of Steaks“, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld, Jan 2017)
- “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time“, by K.M. Szpara (Uncanny, May-Jun 2017)
- “Wind Will Rove“, by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s, Sep-Oct 2017)
Best Short Story
- “Carnival Nine“, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2017)
- “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand“, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny, Sep-Oct 2017)
- “Fandom for Robots“, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny, Sep-Oct 2017)
- “The Martian Obelisk“, by Linda Nagata (Tor.com, July 19, 2017)
- “Sun, Moon, Dust“, by Ursula Vernon (Uncanny, May-Jun 2017)
- “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™“, by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex, Aug 2017)
Best Series
- Books of the Raksura, by Martha Wells (Night Shade Books) (Chapters 1-5 from The Cloud Roads)
- Divine Cities, by Robert Jackson Bennett, (Broadway Books US / Jo Fletcher UK) (excerpt from City of Stairs)
- InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire (DAW Books) (Overdrive excerpt from Discount Armageddon)
- Memoirs of Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan (Tor US / Titan UK) (excerpt from A Natural History of Dragons)
- The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson (Tor US / Gollancz UK) (first 14 chapters from The Way of Kings)
- World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos/HarperCollins / Spectrum Literary Agency) (excerpt from Penric’s Demon)
Best Related Work
- Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, by Zoe Quinn (PublicAffairs) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), (University of Illinois Press) by Paul Kincaid (excerpt)
- A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, by Nat Segaloff (NESFA Press) (no excerpt)
- Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, edited by Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (Twelfth Planet Press) (excerpt 1) (excerpt 2) (excerpt 3)
- No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Liz Bourke (pdf excerpt)
Best Graphic Story
- Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, written by Saladin Ahmed, illustrated by Christian Ward, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Marvel) (sample)
- Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro and Taki Soma, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Image Comics) (sample)
- Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, written by Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image Comics) (sample)
- My Favorite Thing is Monsters, written and illustrated by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) (sample)
- Paper Girls, Volume 3, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image Comics) (no sample)
- Saga, Volume 7, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics) (sample)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
- Blade Runner 2049, written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Alcon Entertainment / Bud Yorkin Productions / Torridon Films / Columbia Pictures) (trailer 1) (trailer 2)
- Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Blumhouse Productions / Monkeypaw Productions / QC Entertainment) (trailer)
- The Shape of Water, written by Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, directed by Guillermo del Toro (TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You / Fox Searchlight Pictures) (trailer)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi, written and directed by Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm, Ltd.) (supercut trailer)
- Thor: Ragnarok, written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost; directed by Taika Waititi (Marvel Studios) (trailer compilation)
- Wonder Woman, screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, directed by Patty Jenkins (DC Films / Warner Brothers) (trailer 1) (trailer 2)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
- Black Mirror: “USS Callister”, written by William Bridges and Charlie Brooker, directed by Toby Haynes (House of Tomorrow)
- “The Deep” [song], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes) (YouTube video)
- Doctor Who: “Twice Upon a Time”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay (BBC Cymru Wales)
- The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit”, written and directed by Michael Schur (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)
- The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem”, written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Holland (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)
- Star Trek: Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”, written by Aron Eli Coleite & Jesse Alexander, directed by David M. Barrett (CBS Television Studios)
Best Editor – Long Form
- Sheila E. Gilbert (The Brightest Fell, To Guard Against The Dark, Terminal Alliance, Nimbus)
- Joe Monti ( An Unkindness of Magicians, The Moon and The Other, The Stars Are Legion, Quillifer)
- Diana M. Pho (Weave A Circle Round, Amberlough, The Guns Above, Crossroads Of Canopy)
- Devi Pillai (Six Wakes [with Kelly O’Connor])
- Miriam Weinberg (Within The Sanctuary Of Wings, Luna: Wolf Moon, Horizon, A Conjuring of Light)
- Navah Wolfe (The Strange Case Of The Alchemist’s Daughter, Barbary Station, Phantom Pains, Winter Of Ice And Iron)
Best Editor – Short Form
- John Joseph Adams (Cosmic Powers; Lightspeed Magazine [12 issues], Lightspeed Podcasts [48], and Nightmare Magazine [12 issues] [magazines co-edited with Wendy N. Wagner])
- Neil Clarke (More Human Than Human, Galactic Empires, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2, Clarkesworld Magazine [12 issues], Clarkesworld Podcasts [82])
- Lee Harris (All Systems Red, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Binti: Home, A Long Day in Lychford)
- Jonathan Strahan (Passing Strange, Uncanny Valley, Infinity Wars, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven)
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas (Uncanny Magazine [6 issues])
- Sheila Williams (Asimov’s Science Fiction [10 issues])
Best Professional Artist (with galleries of selected 2017 works)
- Galen Dara (gallery)
- Kathleen Jennings (gallery)
- Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme (gallery)
- Victo Ngai (gallery)
- John Picacio (gallery)
- Sana Takeda (gallery)
Best Semiprozine
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews
- The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James
- Escape Pod, edited by Mur Lafferty, S.B. Divya, and Norm Sherman, with assistant editor Benjamin C. Kinney
- Fireside Magazine, edited by Brian White and Julia Rios; managing editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry; special feature editor Mikki Kendall; publisher & art director Pablo Defendini
- Strange Horizons, edited by Kate Dollarhyde, Gautam Bhatia, A.J. Odasso, Lila Garrott, Heather McDougal, Ciro Faienza, Tahlia Day, Vanessa Rose Phin, and the Strange Horizons staff
- Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Julia Rios; podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
Best Fanzine
- File 770, edited by Mike Glyer
- Galactic Journey, edited by Gideon Marcus
- Journey Planet, edited by Team Journey Planet
- nerds of a feather, flock together, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry
- Rocket Stack Rank, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong
- SF Bluestocking, edited by Bridget McKinney
Best Fancast
- The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan
- Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
- Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
- Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch
- Sword and Laser, presented by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt
- Verity!, presented by Deborah Stanish, Erika Ensign, Katrina Griffiths, L.M. Myles, Lynne M. Thomas, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
Best Fan Writer
Best Fan Artist
- Geneva Benton (gallery)
- Grace P. Fong (gallery)
- Maya Hahto (gallery)
- Likhain (M. Sereno) (gallery)
- Spring Schoenhuth (gallery)
- Steve Stiles (gallery)
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
- Katherine Arden – The Bear and the Nightingale (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Sarah Kuhn – Heroine Complex (pdf excerpt)
- Jeannette Ng – Under the Pendulum Sun (Overdrive excerpt)
- Vina Jie-Min Prasad – “A Series of Steaks” (Clarkesworld, Jan 2017)
- Rebecca Roanhorse – “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” (Apex, Aug 2017)
- Rivers Solomon – An Unkindness of Ghosts (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Award for Best Young Adult Book
- Akata Warrior, by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman (Knopf) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House) (excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- A Skinful of Shadows, by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK / Harry N. Abrams US) (pdf excerpt) (Overdrive excerpt)
- Summer in Orcus, written by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), illustrated by Lauren Henderson (Sofawolf Press) — (full text online)
* if you encounter any invalid links, please let me know in the comments *
JJ, these posts are always greatly appreciated, and I got an extra laugh out of the File 770-ception in the fanzine and fanwriter categories 🙂 thank you!
Wow, quick work. For the Lady Trent series I’ll add that the short story From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review, set between books 3&4, is available online.
(Also noticed the Foz Meadows link goes to 2016)
WOW! That is alooooot of work! Thank you JJ for using your time to create this tool. I appreciate it.
*bookmarks*
JJ, thank you thank you. Especially for showing what books were edited in Long Form. I’ve looked for that info in the past and never knew where to find it.
You can find both The Collapsing Empire and New York 2140 for free download loan from Cloud Library.
Bonnie McDaniel: Especially for showing what books were edited in Long Form. I’ve looked for that info in the past and never knew where to find it.
I find it really helpful too, so for the last 15 months, I’ve been scouring the Copyright pages and Acknowledgments of every 2017 book I read (plus many others) looking for Artist and Editor names, and ended up with a spreadsheet of 270 works with editors and 340 works with artists.
Good grief JJ, that’s extraordinary! Thanks for this resource!
Thanks for putting this together!
And congrats to Mike, File 770, and all this year’s nominees!
J.J. This is massively helpful for those of us who want to get an early start! (I was reading right up to the last minute for 2017.) Many thanks!
This is the first post-Puppy nomination list and it looks fantastic.
JJ, this is fantastic! Thank you so much!
Mike has placed a link to this thread on the “2018 Recommended SF/F Page” permalinked at the top of File 770, so you can always find it by clicking on that.
Thanks JJ!
Good grief… so much to read, and I’ve got to read up for the 1964 Hugos, TOO!
Well, quality problems, as they say. Thanks to all who put us on the ballot, and congratulations to all our colleagues. See you in San Jose!
Rich Lynch: You can find both The Collapsing Empire and New York 2140 for free download loan from Cloud Library.
I think the Cloud Library only allows you to access books available from libraries for which you have a library card, is that not the case?
Thanks for all the work, JJ.
Thanks JJ. Great work you’ve put into this.
Hi everyone.
JJ, this is great. Thanks.
What a great list. Voting will be pleasantly tough this year.
Thank you so much, JJ! The list of works for the editors is especially helpful.
Thank you, JJ. This is really great. Also, SO MUCH TO READ.
Hi, Tasha, nice to see you! Hope you are doing well.
I just noticed one mistake. You have Ninni Aalto listed as a fan artist finalists, even though she isn’t a finalist this year.
Thanks, Cora, I’ve let Mike know. 🙂
@JJ: Wow, thanks so much! Woah, you are thorough. 😀
@Audiobook Fans: In case anyone misses the links (I frequently miss things right in front of me, it seems), the Novelettes and Short Stories below have free audio versions linked from the story pages JJ linked to above. I’m linking directly to the separate pages for the first three. For the last two, since the embedded player is on the page JJ linked to (so, use those links if you want that!), I linked to the MP3 directly (right-click to download, or just click to play in your browser). I forget, but I believe the ones with separate pages have audio download links as well (not just an embedded player).
“The Secret Life of Bots”
“A Series of Steaks”
“Carnival Nine”
“Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand”[MP3]
“Sun, Moon, Dust” [MP3]
Thanks again @JJ!
TFW I click “Post Comment” and a split second later, remember I didn’t check the box.
/HugoStalk!
Regarding the sample for The Way of Kings, FWIW it’s more like 11 chapters, since they skipped chapters 7, 8, and 10 “to focus on Kaladin’s storyline for the preview.” Not a problem! Just FYI.
Also, chapters 4, 5, and 6 are only in audio. That may be a bit weird, going back and forth between print and audio, but a nice way to give a feel for the two narrators. And of course, this only matters to someone who plans to use the (generously long!) sample at Tor.com to see if they even like it. Knowing Tor/Tor.com, I suspect it’ll be in the packet (but I won’t presume that’s a definite).
I just remembered I got The Way of Kings at some point when it was absurdly cheap (or free?! I forget) from iBooks. No wonder my iPad feels so heavy! 😉
Hi JJ, getting better all the time. Last week I got a cat so I have SJW credentials again.
Thank you so much for putting this together!
Tasha, congrats on the new credential! And welcome back.
For reference, a similar post for the Retro Hugos can be found here.
Mark-Kitteh, thanks! That looks very useful.
Thank you. This is very helpful, especially the long-form editor information. I always try to figure that out and it’s really hard.
Night Shade Books has posted a reading guide for Best Series Finalist The Books of the Raksura, by Martha Wells.
Here’s a corrected link for @JJ’s link, which was missing the http:// at the front. thanks for the pointer, JJ!
pingback to the discussion on the 2018 Hugo Award Finalists announcement thread
Belated thanks, JJ!
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I am flabbergasted that Episode 5 of Season 2 of The Expanse was not nominated for Drama short form. Gee, The Expanse is the best TV space opera being done right now and at least one episode from season 2 should have been nominated. I know I did a nomination.
Comment added: The Expanse as visual narrative space opera is the best homage to the sophisticated SF space opera of the 1940s and 1950s I have ever seen.
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