What Did You Nominate For The 2021 Hugo Awards?

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Mike Glyer

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55 thoughts on “What Did You Nominate For The 2021 Hugo Awards?”

Rich Lynch on March 21, 2021 at 2:09 pm said:

I read only two eligible novels — Agency by William Gibson and The Ministry of the Future by Stan Robinson — and since I liked them I nominated both.
Cora Buhlert on March 21, 2021 at 3:09 pm said:

I’ve been waiting for this thread. Here is my ballot:

Best Novel

Network Effect; Martha Wells Unconquerable Sun; Kate Elliott Mexican Gothic; Silvia Moreno-Garcia Blue Planet; Jane O'Reilly Machine; Elizabeth Bear

Best Novella

Upright Woman Wanted; Sarah Gailey The Physicians of Vilnoc; Lois McMaster Bujold The Ghosts of Sherwood; Carrie Vaughn Seven of Infinities; Aliette de Bodard Eyetooth; Chris Willrich

Best Novelette

Shadow Prisons; Caroline M. Yoachim Monster; Naomi Kritzer On Safari in R’lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera; Elizabeth Bear Two Truths and a Lie; Sarah Pinsker Girls with Needles and Frost; Jenny Rae Rappaport

Best Short Story

Sinew and Steel and What They Told; Carrie Vaughn Metal Like Blood in the Dark; T. Kingfisher Hearts in the Hard Ground; G.V. Anderson The Capes We Wear; Avra Margariti The Salt Witch; Martha Wells

Best Series

The Dresden Files; Jim Butcher; Peace Talks, Battle Ground Mercy Thompson; Patricia Briggs; Smoke Bitten In Death; J.D. Robb; Golden in Death, Shadows in Death Second Species Trilogy; Jane O'Reilly; Blue Planet Innkeeper Chronicles; Ilona Andrews; Sweep with Me

Best Related Work

Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre; Jess Nevins Never Say You Can’t Survive: How To Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories; Charlie Jane Anders Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword and Sorcery; Brian Murphy Jack Kirby - The Epic Life of the King of Comics; Tom Scioli Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold; Una McCormack and Regina Yung Lee

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Castle in the Stars: A Frenchman on Mars; Alex Alice Pulp; Ed Brubaker, Jacob Phillips The Old Guard Book 2: Force Multiplied; Greg Rucka, Leandro Fernandes Tartarus Vol. 1; Johnnie Christmas, Jack T. Cole Monstress Vol. 5: Warchild; Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

The Mandalorian, season 2 The Invisible Man The Vast of Night The Old Guard Wonder Woman 1984

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

The Impossible Box; Star Trek Picard There Is a Tide...; Star Trek Discovery Meet Me in Daegu; Lovecraft Country The Ballad of Roger Mac; Outlander The One Where We're Trapped on TV; Legends of Tomorrow

Best Editor, Short Form

C.C. Finlay Sheila Williams Neil Clarke Scott H. Andrews John Joseph Adams

Best Editor, Long Form

Devi Pillai Navah Wolfe Gillian Redfearn Anne Sowards Sheila E. Gilbert

Best Professional Artist

Dan Dos Santos; Cover "Smoke Bitten" by Patricia Briggs Micah Epstein; Cover "Give Way to Night" by Cass Morris Tithi Luadthong; Various covers for Lightspeed Chris McGrath; Cover "Peace Talks" and "Battle Ground" by Jim Butcher Alyssa Winans; Cover "The Empress of Salt and Fortune"

Best Semiprozine

The Dark Beneath Ceaseless Skies Daily Science Fiction Luna Station Quarterly Simultaneous Times

Best Fanzine

Galactic Journey Hugo Book Club Salon Futura Women Write About Comics Nerds of a Feather

Best Fancast

The Skiffy and Fanty Show The Cromcast The Appendix N Book Club Rogues in the House The Journey Show

Best Fan Writer

Paul Weimer Steve J. Wright James Davis Nicoll Chris M. Barkley Camestros Felapton

Best Fan Artist

Sara Felix Spring Schoenhuth Elise Matthesen Jakub Rozalski Nele Diel

Best Video Game

Scents & Semiosis; Sam Kabo Ashwell

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)

Star Daughter; Shveta Thakrar A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking; T. Kingfisher Race to the Sun; Rebecca Roanhorse Honor Lost; Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre Kitra; Gideon Marcus

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)

Simon Jimenez; The Vanished Birds Jessie Mihalik; Chaos Reigning A.K. Larkwood; The Unspoken Name Jenn Lyons; The Memory of Souls Micaiah Johnson; The Space Between Worlds
Jeffrey Jones on March 21, 2021 at 3:43 pm said:

And now for something completely different. I didn’t read many eligible works, so I nominated most of the ones I read.

Best Novel
Or What You Will; Jo Walton
The Eleventh Gate; Nancy Kress
Emperor’s Blade; William Hatfield

Best Novella
Sea Change; Nancy Kress
Soup of the Moment A Tale of Barsk; Lawrence M. Schoen
Semper Augustus; Nancy Kress

Best Novelette
The Hind; Kevin J. Anderson & Rick Wilber

Sadly, my own stories are still unpublished.
JJ on March 21, 2021 at 3:53 pm said:

Here are selected sections from my Hugo ballot:

Best Novel

The Vanished Birds; Simon Jimenez
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; V.E. Schwab
Network Effect; Martha Wells
The Relentless Moon; Mary Robinette Kowal
Machine; Elizabeth Bear

Best Novella

The Empress of Salt and Fortune; Nghi Vo
Chisel and Chime; Alex Irvine
Flyaway; Kathleen Jennings
Orfeia; Joanne M. Harris
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower; Tamsyn Muir

Best Series

Foreigner; C.J. Cherryh; Divergence, Resurgence
Embers of War; Gareth L. Powell; Light of Impossible Stars
Revenger; Alastair Reynolds; Bone Silence
Diving Universe; Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Maelstrom, Squishy’s Teams
Andrea Cort; Adam-Troy Castro; Draiken Dies

Best Editor, Short Form

C.C. Finlay
Lee Harris
Diana M. Pho
Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya
Ian Whates

Best Editor, Long Form

Brit Hvide
Sarah Peed
Miriam Weinberg
Navah Wolfe
Sarah Guan

Best Professional Artist

Iris Compiet; Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra
Rovina Cai; Elatsoe
Bonnie Helen Hawkins; Orfeia
Tithi Luadthong; Lightspeed Jan, Feb, Apr, Aug
Reiko Murakami; Hundred Thousand Kingdoms special ed. by Subterranean Press

Best Semiprozine

Strange Horizons
GigaNotoSaurus
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Daily Science Fiction
Fireside Magazine

Lodestar Award

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking; T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)
A Deadly Education; Naomi Novik

Astounding Award

Simon Jimenez; The Vanished Birds
Caitlin Starling; The Luminous Dead
Emily Tesh; Silver in the Wood and The Drowned Country
Sean Mead on March 21, 2021 at 3:54 pm said:

Best Novel
How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It; K.J. Parker
Agency; William Gibson
Battleground; Jim Butcher
Peace Talks; Jim Butcher
Glorious; Greg Benford and Larry Niven

Best Novella
The Physicians of Vilnoc; Lois McMaster Bujold
Masquerade in Lodi; Lois McMaster Bujold
Prosper’s Demon; K.J. Parker
Of Them All; Leah Cypess
Moral Biology; Neal Asher

Best Novelette
An Alien on Crete; Neal Asher
In Our Stars; James Gunn
The Necessary Arthur; Garth Nix
Conversations in the Dark; Robert Reed
My Name Was Tom; Tim Powers

Best Short Story
The 10:40 Appointment at the NYC Department of Superhero Registration; Chris Hepler
Get Me to the Firg-xulb On Time; Laura Resnick
For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls; Liu Xiaodan
Last Night at the Fair; M. Rickert
Heart of Vengeance; Gregory D. Mele

Best Series
Dreden Files; Jim Butcher; Peace Talks & Battleground
Dragaera; Steven Brust; The Baron of Magister Valley
Foreigner; C.J. Cherryh; Resurgence and Divergence
Avalon; Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steve Barnes ; Starborn and Godsons
Polity: Rise of the Jain; Neal Asher; The Human

Best Related Work
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth ; John Garth
Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema; Vanessa Harryhausen

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Umbrella Academy (Season 2)
The Old Guard
Palm Springs
Devs
Westworld (Season 3)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Whenever You’re Ready; The Good Place
Gaugamela; The Expanse
The Vat of Acid Episode; Rick & Morty
Oops!…I did it again; The Magicians
The Mother of Exiles; Westworld

Best Editor, Short Form
Ellen Datlow
Sheila Williams
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
Scott H. Andrews
Mercedes Lackey

Best Editor, Long Form
Toni Weisskopf
Sheila E. Gilbert
Betsy Wollheim
Bradley Englert

Best Professional Artist
Mark Simonetti; Age of Empyre cover
Bob Eggleton; Frozen Orbit cover
Micah Epstein; When Jackals Storm the Walls cover
Jon Foster; The Gobblin’ Society cover
Sam Hogg; ASOIAF 2011 Calendar:

Best Semiprozine
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Grimdark Magazine
Writing Excuses

Best Fancast
I should be writing – Mur Lafferty
Ditch Diggers
Daniel Greene

Best Video Game
World of Warcraft Shadowlands Expansion; Blizzard (Activision Blizzard)
Hades; Supergiant
The Last of Us Part II; Naughty Dog/Sony
Crusader Kings III; Paradox
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla; Ubisoft
Eve on March 21, 2021 at 3:57 pm said:

Best Novel
Network Effect; Martha Wells
The House on the Cerulean Sea; TJ Klune
Machine; Elizabeth Bear
Comet weather; Liz Williams
Piranesi; Susanna Clarke

Best Novella
Last stand in Lychford; Paul Cornell
The empress of salt and fortune; Nghi Vo
Sea change; Nancy Kress
The order of the pure moon reflected in water; Zen Cho
When the tiger came down the mountain; Nghi Vo

Best Series
The Queen’s thief series; Megan Whalen Turner; Return of the thief
Daevabad trilogy; S.A. Chakraborty; The empire of gold
Embers of war; Gareth Powell; Light of impossible stars
Harp and ring sequence; Ilana Myer; The poet king
Murderbot; Martha Wells; Network effect

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Palm Springs

Best Editor, Long Form
Carl Engle-Laird
Brit Hvide
Gillian Redfearn
David Pomerico
Diana Pho

Best Professional Artist
Rovina Cai; Elatsoe
Tommy Arnold; Harrow the Ninth
David Curtis; The kingdom of back
Julia Lloyd; Wolves – Simon Ings
Alyssa Winans; Empress of salt and fortune

Best Fanzine
Nerds of a feather
Runalong the shelves
Hugo Book Club blog

Best Fan Writer
Adri Joy
James Davis Nicoll
Paul Weimer

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)
The return of the thief; Megan Whalen Turner
Elatsoe; Darcie Little Badger
Raybearer; Jordan Ifueko
The midnight lie; Marie Rutkoski
A deadly education; Naomi Novik

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)
Jenn Lyons; The ruin of kings
A.K. Larkwood; The unspoken name
C.M. Waggoner; Unnatural magic
Micaiah Johnson; The space between worlds
Essa Hansen; Nophek Gloss
Rich Lynch on March 21, 2021 at 4:03 pm said:

My nominations for Best Fanzine were Journey Planet, Outworlds, Portable Storage, SF Commentary, and Banana Wings. All of them very worthy and most of them archived at Bill Burns’ excellent website, efanzines.com.
Kyra on March 21, 2021 at 4:20 pm said:

I don’t generally nominate for the Hugos these days, but if I had, my ballot would almost certainly have included:

NOVEL:
Network Effect, by Martha Wells
The Unspoken Name, by A. K. Larkwood
Shorefall, by Robert Jackson Bennett
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

NOVELLA:
Finna, by Nino Cipri
No Man’s Land, by A. J. Fitzwater

SERIES:
Murderbot, by Martha Wells
Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson
First Law, by Joe Abercrombie
Poppy War, by R. F. Kuang

LODESTAR:
The Midnight Lie, by Marie Rutkoski
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, by T. Kingfisher
A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik
The Art of Saving the World, by Corinne Duyvis
Bonnie McDaniel on March 21, 2021 at 4:31 pm said:

Here’s mine.

Best Novel

The City We Became; N.K. Jemisin
Network Effect; Martha Wells
Shorefall; Robert Jackson Bennett
The Once and Future Witches; Alix E. Harrow
Machine; Elizabeth Bear

Best Novella

Ring Shout; P. Djeli Clark
Come Tumbling Down; Seanan McGuire
In the Shadows of Men; Robert Jackson Bennett
Come the Revolution; Ian Tregillis

Best Novelette

To Sail the Black; A.C. Wise
The Inaccessibility of Heaven; Aliette De Bodard
The Ambient Intelligence; Todd McAulty
A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential; JY Neon Yang
The Amusement Dark; Mike Buckley

Best Short Story

Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse; Rae Carson
Metal Like Blood in the Dark; T. Kingfisher
Sinew and Steel and What They Told; Carrie Vaughn
To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds; Natalia Theodoridou
The Sycamore and the Sybil; Alix E. Harrow

Best Series

Embers of War; Gareth L. Powell;
The Honors; Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre;
The Interdependency Saga; John Scalzi;
The Dresden Files; Jim Butcher;
The Poppy War; R.F. Kuang;

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Monstress Vol. 5: Warchild; Marjorie Liu
Once and Future Vol. 1: The King is Undead; Kieron Gillen
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower; Damian Duffy

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Season 5
The Umbrella Academy, Season 2
The Mandalorian, Season 2
The Old Guard
The Invisible Man

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Gaugamela; The Expanse Season 5
The Impossible Box; Star Trek: Picard Season 1
Forget Me Not; Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
Sundown; Lovecraft Country Season 1
Nouveau Theatre des Vampires; What We Do in the Shadows Season 2

Best Editor, Short Form

Neil Clarke
Diana M. Pho
David Steffen
Jonathan Strahan
Patrice Caldwell

Best Editor, Long Form

Nivia Evans
Lee Harris
Brit Hvide
Jo Fletcher
Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

BlackSheep;
Iris Compiet;
Sija Hong;
Julia Lloyd;
Will Staehle;

Best Semiprozine

Luna Station Quarterly
Fireside Magazine
Strange Horizons
Daily Science Fiction
Diabolical Plots

Best Fanzine

Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together
Women Write About Comics
Black Gate
James Nicoll Reviews
Astrolabe

Best Fan Writer

Cora Buhlert;
Doris V. Sutherland;
Stitch;
Paul Weimer;
James Davis Nicoll;

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking; T. Kingfisher
Legendborn; Tracy Deonn
City of Stone and Silence; Django Wexler
Race to the Sun; Rebecca Roanhorse
Honor Lost; Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)

Micaiah Johnson;
Alexis Henderson;
Jenn Lyons;
Emily Tesh;
N on March 21, 2021 at 4:34 pm said:

BEST NOVEL
Black Sun; Rebecca Roanhorse
The House in the Cerulean Sea; TJ Klune
Network Effect; Martha Wells
Queen of None; Natania Barron

BEST NOVELLA
Seven of Infinities; Aliette de Bodard
The Empress of Salt and Fortune; Nghi Vo

BEST NOVELETTE
Helicopter Story (AKA I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter); Isabel Fall

BEST SHORT STORY
Rat and Finch are Friends; Innocent Chizaram Ilo

BEST RELATED WORK
“Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall”; Alec Nevala-Lee
The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy; Jenny Nicholson
The American Robot: A Cultural History; Dustin A. Abnet
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler; Lynell George
“What’s the harm in reading?”; Gretchen Felker-Martin

BEST GRAPHIC STORY/COMIC
The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal; Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy and Travis McElroy/Carey Pietsch
Elements: Earth; Taneka Stotts (ed.)/multiple writers and artists
O Human Star; Blue Delliquanti

BEST DRAMATIC PRES (LONG FORM)
Bacurau
Infinity Train (Book Three – Cult of the Conductor)
Possessor
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: “Old Friends Not Forgotten/The Phantom Apprentice/Shattered/Victory and Death”
The Vast of Night

BEST DRAMATIC PRES (SHORT FORM)
Whenever You’re Ready; The Good Place
Colin’s Promotion; What We Do In The Shadows
Gaugamela; The Expanse
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Chapter 13: The Jedi; The Mandalorian

BEST EDITOR LONG FORM
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Iris Compiet

BEST FANZINE
Hugo Book Club
Galactic Journey
Runalong Womble

BEST FANCAST
The Alternate Historian

BEST FAN WRITER
Paul Weimer
Natalie Zutter
Cora Buhlert
Adri Joy
Jim Harris

BEST FAN ARTIST
Laya Rose

BEST VIDEO GAME
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim; Atlus
Hades; Supergiant Games
Ori and the Will of the Wisps; Xbox Game Studios
Umurangi Generation; OrigameDigital, Playism
Half-Life: Alyx; Valve

LODESTAR
Elatsoe; Darcie Little Badger
Cemetery Boys; Aiden Thomas
Raybearer; Jordan Ifueko
Early Departures; Justin A. Reynolds
Legendborn; Tracy Deonn

ASTOUNDING
Isabel Fall

Slumped on the fiction categories, but I did a lot better on the fan categories than I usually do.
Ken Richards on March 21, 2021 at 4:44 pm said:

Once more late to the party on short fiction. Resolves to try harder this year…

Best Novel

The Vanished Birds; Simon Jimenez
The Doors of Eden; Adrian Tchaikovsky
Harrow the Ninth; Tamsyn Muir
Attack Surface; Cory Doctorow
The Ministry for the Future; Kim Stanley Robinson

Best Novella

Riot Baby; Tochi Onyebuchi
Come Tumbling Down; Seanan McGuire
Nine Words for Loneliness in the Language of the Uma’u; ML Clark
Murder by Other Means; John Scalzi
Draken Dies; Adam Troy-Castro

Best Novelette

You Put the U in Utopia (or the Last Neko Atsume Player in the World); Elizabeth Tan
The Pill; Meg Ellison
Two Truths and a Lie; Sarah Pinsker

Best Short Story

Refuge; Ben Peek
Advanced word problems in portal math; Aimee Picchi
The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign; Cora Buhlert
Smart Ovens for Lonely People; Elizabeth Tan
The Eight Thousanders; Jason Sandford

Best Series

Foreigner; CJ Cherryh; Resurgence
Interdependency; John Scalzi; The Last Emperox
Revenger; Alastair Reynolds; Bone Silence
Diving Universe; Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Maelstrom

Best Fan Writer

Jason Sandford
Doris V Sutherland
Camestros Felapton
Cora Buhlert
Adam Whitehead; The Wertzone

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)

Elizabeth Tan; Smart Ovens for Lonely People
Simon Jiminez; The Vanished Birds
Lace on March 21, 2021 at 4:53 pm said:

Best Novel
* Hench; Natalie Zina Walschots
* The Space Between Worlds; Micaiah Johnson
* Network Effect; Martha Wells
* Harrow the Ninth; Tamsyn Muir
* Paladin’s Grace; T. Kingfisher

Best Novella
* When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain; Nghi Vo
* The Empress of Salt and Fortune; Nghi Vo
* Finna; Nino Cipri
* Byzantine; Holly Messinger
* Come the Revolution; Ian Tregillis

Best Novelette
* Ask the Fireflies; R. P. Sand
* Debtless; Chen Qiufan
* Exile’s End; Carolyn Ives Gilman
* My Sister’s Wings Are Red; Christine Tyler
* Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super; A.T. Greenblatt

Best Short Story
* We’re Here, We’re Here; K.M. Szpara
* Metal Like Blood in the Dark; T. Kingfisher
* Save the Girl and Save Me From Having to Toss Her Out of the Airlock; Cora Buhlert
* Callme and Mink; Brenda Cooper
* AirBody; Sameem Siddiqui

Best Series
* Maradaine; Marshall Ryan Maresca
* Masquerade; Seth Dickinson
* Murderbot; Martha Wells
* October Daye; Seanan McGuire
* Rivers of London; Ben Aaronovitch

Best Editor, Short Form
* Scott H. Andrews
* Neil Clarke
* S. B. Divya
* Jonathan Strahan
* Ann VanderMeer

Best Editor, Long Form
* Carl Engle-Laird
* Sheila E. Gilbert
* Brit Hvide
* Sarah Peed
* Navah Wolfe

Best Semiprozine
* Beneath Ceaseless Skies
* Escape Pod
* PodCastle
* Uncanny Magazine

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
* A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking; T. Kingfisher
* The Scapegracers; Hannah Abigail Clarke

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer
* Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko
* Sameem Siddiqui
* R. P. Sand
* G.D. Angier
* Kristina Ten
Stacey on March 21, 2021 at 4:54 pm said:

For the first time, I nominated something in Related Work: Novel Ideas, on Movie novelizations. I only wish that it was a full episode and not a mini storiy

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-9/
Mike Glyer on March 21, 2021 at 5:03 pm said:

My Best Fanzine nominees were —

Galactic Journey
This Here…
Journey Planet
Outworlds
Spartacus
Paul Weimer on March 21, 2021 at 5:23 pm said:

The two videogames I nominated were Hades and the Civilization VI New Frontiers Pack.
Cassy B. on March 21, 2021 at 6:08 pm said:

@Sean Mead, there’s a new Brust? I missed that entirely….

Here’s my ballot; it’s rather sparse this year:

Best Novel

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; V.E. Schwab The City We Became; N.K. Jemisin Paladin's Grace; T. Kingfisher The Hollow Places; T. Kingfisher Network Effect; Martha Wells

Best Series

October Daye; Seanan McGuire; A Killing Frost The Interdependency Trilogy; John Scalzi; The Last Emperox The Clocktaur Universe; T. Kingfisher; Paladin's Grace The Murderbot Diaries; Martha Wells; Network Effect The Foreigner Series; C.J. Cherryh; Divergence

Best Fan Writer

Ingvar Mattsson; The "Trigger Snowflake" stories published on file770.com

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking; T. Kingfisher Rhonda Wray: Raptor Wrangler; Charon Dunn and Sally Smith A Deadly Education; Naomi Novik
Hyman Rosen on March 21, 2021 at 6:21 pm said:

I didn’t vote, but I just finished reading Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (the sequel to Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits), and I enjoyed it more than the three Nebula novel nominees I read.
Sean Mead on March 21, 2021 at 6:43 pm said:

@Cassy B The Baron of Magister Valley from July
Lorien Gray on March 21, 2021 at 6:46 pm said:

I just read the caption on the photo. That is deeply cool.
Rich Lynch on March 21, 2021 at 7:07 pm said:

The Fan Writer category was the most difficult for me to narrow down to just five nominees, and I wish I could have nominated a few more people. In the end, my five nominees were Guy Lillian, Andy Hooper, Nic Farey, Bruce Gillespie, and William Breiding. All very, very worthy.
Laura on March 21, 2021 at 7:30 pm said:

Best Novel

Black Sun; Rebecca Roanhorse
The Once and Future Witches; Alix E. Harrow
Unconquerable Sun; Kate Elliott
Phoenix Extravagant; Yoon Ha Lee
The City We Became; N.K. Jemisin

Best Novella

Nine Words for Loneliness in the Language of the Uma’u; M.L. Clark
The Empress of Salt and Fortune; Nghi Vo
Eyetooth; Chris Willrich
Of Them All; Leah Cypess
Upright Women Wanted; Sarah Gailey

Best Novelette

‘Omunculus; Madeleine Robins
An Important Failure; Rebecca Campbell
Exile’s End; Carolyn Ives Gilman
Girls with Needles and Frost; Jenny Rae Rappaport
The Inaccessibility of Heaven; Aliette de Bodard

Best Short Story

Anchorage; Samantha Mills
Sinew and Steel and What They Told; Carrie Vaughn
The Sycamore and the Sybil; Alix E. Harrow
Three Gowns for Clara; Auston Habershaw
Truth as a Prize; R.Z. Held

Best Series

The Dresden Files; Jim Butcher; Battle Ground
The Folk of the Air; Holly Black; How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
The Murderbot Diaries; Martha Wells; Network Effect
The Stormlight Archive; Brandon Sanderson; Rhythm of War
Wild Cards; George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass; Three Kings

Best Related Work

The Heroine’s Journey; Gail Carriger
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth; John Garth
Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration; Jesse Kowalski
The Art of NASA: The Illustrations that Sold the Missions; Piers Bizony
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space; Amanda Laduc

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Fangs; Sarah Andersen
Invisible Kingdom, Vol 2: Edge of Everything; G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower; Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Once & Future, Vol 1: The King Is Undead; Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora
The Magicians: New Class; Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges, and Pius Bak

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

The Vast of Night
The Invisible Man
Sputnik
Wolfwalkers
Beastars, Season 1

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

The Impossible Box; Star Trek: Picard
Gaugamela; The Expanse
Oops!…I Did It Again; The Magicians
The Winter Line; Westworld
Chapter 13: The Jedi; The Mandalorian

Best Editor, Short Form

C.C. Finlay
Ellen Datlow
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
Neil Clarke
Scott H. Andrews

Best Editor, Long Form

Brit Hvide
Joe Monti
Miriam Weinberg
Nivia Evans

Best Professional Artist

Magali Villeneuve; illustrated edition of Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
Paul Lewin; Subterranean Press edition of How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
Sam Hogg; 2021 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar
Maurizio Manzieri; Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard
Sija Hong; The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

Best Semiprozine

Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Strange Horizons
Uncanny

Best Fanzine

nerds of a feather, flock together
The Wertzone
Rocket Stack Rank
Camestros Felapton
Quick Sip Reviews

Best Fancast

Kalanadi
Kitty G
SFF180

Best Fan Writer

Cora Buhlert
Adam Whitehead
JJ at File770
Adri Joy
Bonnie McDaniel

Best Fan Artist

Laya Rose
Sara Felix
Iain J Clark
Jessica Liu
Kolarp Em

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories; Holly Black
Elatsoe; Darcie Little Badger
A Deadly Education; Naomi Novik
Legendborn; Tracy Deonn
Race to the Sun; Rebecca Roanhorse

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)

Tracy Deonn; Legendborn
Emily Tesh; Silver in the Wood
Mackenzie Kincaid; Across the Bough Bridge
Christine Tyler; My Sister’s Wings Are Red
Andrew Dykstal; Fire and Falling
Laura on March 21, 2021 at 7:33 pm said:

(And once more to tick the box!)
Rich Lynch on March 21, 2021 at 8:23 pm said:

My one nomination that’s unlikely to be nominated by anybody else:

“Zoey’s Extraordinary Dad” in the Short Form Dramatic Presentation category. It’s the season-ending episode of the much underrated series Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

Anybody else have a “most likely only I nominated this” choice on their ballots?
JJ on March 21, 2021 at 8:33 pm said:

Rich Lynch: Anybody else have a “most likely only I nominated this” choice on their ballots?

The novella Chisel and Chime in F&SF, Jan/Feb 2020. This is a great story, and I’m sad it couldn’t get a wider audience. I hope it gets a reprint in Clarkesworld or somewhere else.

The Andrea Cort series by Adam-Troy Castro.
Iphinome on March 21, 2021 at 9:46 pm said:

Nice to see the love for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, that one knocked my socks off.
Cora Buhlert on March 21, 2021 at 10:15 pm said:

Anybody else have a “most likely only I nominated this” choice on their ballots?

I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who nominated Blue Planet by Jane O’Reilly and her Second Species trilogy. I enjoyed the series a whole lot, but it didn’t have a US release and was released by a romance rather than an SF imprint in the UK, so a lot of people simply wouldn’t have seen it. I only came across the series by chance, when I picked up the first two books on a whim in the dealers’ room at the Dublin Worldcon.
Lfex on March 21, 2021 at 10:22 pm said:

Best Novel
Piranesi; Susanna Clarke
Harrow the Ninth; Tamsyn Muir
Machine; Elizabeth Bear
Mordew; Alex Pheby
The Vanished Birds; Simon Jimenez

Best Novella
Sweet Harmony; Claire North
The Seventh Perfection; Daniel Polansky
The Drowned Country; Emily Tesh
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Tier Tower ; Tamsyn Muir
Tower of Mud and Straw ; Yarslav Barsukov

Best Novelette
Generation Gap; Thoraiya Dyer
Fairy Tales for Robots; Sofia Samatar
The Transsubstantiation; Evan Dicken
Nobody Leaves Port Henry; K. A. Teryna

Best Short Story
Test 4 Echo; Peter Watts
And the Ones Who Walk In; Sarah Avery
Across the Ice; Ada Hoffmann
Beyond the Dragon’s Gate; Yoon Ha Lee
Matriculation; Elle Katharine White

Best Series
Commonweal; Graydon Saunders; A Mist of Grit and Splinters
Chorus of Dragons; Jenn Lyons; The Memory of Souls
Iron Dragon’s Daughter; Michael Swanwick; The Iron Dragon’s Mother
Revenger Trilogy; Alastair Reynolds; Bone Silence
Mirror Visitor Quartet; Christelle Dabos; The Memory of Babel

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)
Over the Woodward Wall; A. Deborah Baker
Memory of Babel; Christelle Dabos
A Peculiar Peril; Jeff VanderMeer
Bone Silence; Alastair Reynolds

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)
Jenn Lyons; Memoty of Souls
Alex Pheby; Mordew
A. K. Larkwood; The Unspoken Name
Emily Tesh; Silver in the Wood
Lindsay Ellis; Axiom’s End
Mike Glyer on March 21, 2021 at 10:37 pm said:

Rich Lynch: Anybody else have a “most likely only I nominated this” choice on their ballots?

My pick of “This Here…” — unless someone else speaks up.
Lfex on March 22, 2021 at 12:25 am said:

Rich Lynch: Anybody else have a “most likely only I nominated this” choice on their ballots?

I think I may have more than one, but “Nobody Leaves Port Henry” by K. A. Teryna seems the most likely.
Bob Roehm on March 22, 2021 at 3:13 am said:

Best Novel
Piranesi; Susanna Clarke
Agency; William Gibson
Ministry of the Future; Kim Stanley Robinson
Oppenheimer Alternative; Robert Sawyer
The Evidence; Christopher Priest

Best Related Work
Earliest Bradbury; Ritter
Beyond the Outpost; Budrys
Bradbury Beyond Apollo; Eller
Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom The 1930s; Ritter

Best Fanzine
Outworlds 71
NickPheas on March 22, 2021 at 5:29 am said:

I think I only read two 2020 novels last year, didn’t much care for the first and completely stupidly forgot to nominate the other.
Rob Thornton on March 22, 2021 at 6:21 am said:

I wasn’t organized enough to nominate, but I did really enjoy Agency and Piranesi.
Cassy B. on March 22, 2021 at 6:24 am said:

@NickPheas, I feel you. Looking over other peoples’ nominations, I keep exclaiming “how could I have forgotten to nominate that?!?”
valoise on March 22, 2021 at 6:55 am said:

NOVEL
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Agency by William Gibson
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Agency for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

NOVELLA
Semper Augustus by Nancy Kress
Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County by Derek Künsken
Last Stand in Lychford by Paul Cornell

NOVELLETE
Monster by Naomi Kritzer
“How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobu?ar” by Rich Larson
Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars by Mercurio D. Rivera
The Ones Who Look by Katharine Duckett
The Legacy of Alexandria by Maurice Broaddus

SHORT STORY
Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer
The Swallows of the Storm by Ray Naylor
The Mouser of Peter the Great by P. Djeli Clark
Callme and Mink By Brenda Cooper
Shock of Birth by Cadwell Turnbull

FANCAST
The Coode Street Podcast
Reality Bomb
Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro
Our Opinions Are Correct

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM
“As I Have Always Been”, Agents of Shield
“Mr. Parker’s Cul-de-Sac” DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
“Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”, Doctor Who
“Whar We’re Fighting For”, Agents of Shield
“Forget Me Not” Star Trek: Discovery

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM
Away, season 1
Palm Springs

BEST SERIES
Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells, Network Effect ,Tor
Lady Astronaut by Mary Robinette Kowal

BEST EDITOR, SHORT
Ian Whaites

BEST SEMIPROZINE
Apex
Clarkesworld
Lightspeed

BEST FANZINE
Galactic Journey
Journey Planet
Dann665 on March 22, 2021 at 7:01 am said:

Novel

The Last Campaign – Martin L. Shoemaker – 47North
Scarlet Odyssey – C.T. Rwiz – 47North

Short Story

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter — by ISABEL FALL — Clarkesworld Jan. 2020
Martial Arts Master – by Alan Baxter – Twitter

Novella

The Weight of the Air, The Weight of the World by T.R. Napper – from Neon Leviathan ~23,000 words

Dramatic Presentation (Long)

Locke & Key – Netflix
Warrior Nun – Netflix
October Faction – Netflix
Dracula – Netflix

Editor – Short Fiction

Adrian Collins

Editor – Long Fiction

Adrian Collins

Semiprozine

Cirsova
Grimdark Magazine

Graphic Novel/Comic

XKCD

Fancast

Sincast by CinemaSins
The Disney Story Origins Podcast

Series

Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
The Empires Corps by Christopher Nuttall

Regards,
Dann
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by. – John Wayne
GiantPanda on March 22, 2021 at 7:41 am said:

I didn’t read much SFF recently:

Best Novella:
The Empress of Salt and Fortune; Nghi Vo
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain; Nghi Vo

Best Short Story:
Sinew and Steel and What They Told; Carrie Vaughn

Best Series
Murderbot, Martha Wells
Dragaera, Steven Brust
Interdependency, John Scalzi
StefanB on March 22, 2021 at 8:36 am said:

I didn’t nominate much, first year and if I look exspecially in series I could have nominated more:

Best Novelette

Shadow Prisons; Caroline M. Yoachim
Two Truths and a Lie; Sarah Pinsker

Best Short Story

The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign; Cora Buhlert
A Guide for Working Breeds; Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Open House on Haunted Hill; John Wiswell

Best Series

The Stormlight Archive; Brandon Sanderson; Dawnshard

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Once and Future v1; Kieron Gillen

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

The Outsider Season One

Best Fancast

Our Opinions are correct
Daniel Greens YoutubeChannel

Best Fan Writer

Cora Buhlert
Camestros Felepton
Paul Weimar
PhilRM on March 22, 2021 at 8:40 am said:

@Rick Lynch: Anybody else have a “most likely only I nominated this” choice on their ballots?

Everything I ever nominated for a Hugo, apparently. 😉
StephenfromOttawa on March 22, 2021 at 10:04 am said:

good stuff, clicking box.

Here in Ottawa it’s an interesting moment of the year. Afternoon temperatures are suddenly well above zero Celsius every day. Snow is rapidly melting. We went for a walk yesterday around dusk and there were lots of wild geese in the sky, impossible to miss because of the sounds of their vocalizing.
Gideon Marcus on March 22, 2021 at 11:59 am said:

Best Novel:

Kitra by Gideon Marcus

Best Short Story:

Single Malt Spacecraft by Marie Vibbert
The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign by Cora Buhlert

Best Related Work:

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall, by Alec Nevala-Lee
ConZealand Fringe

Best Professional Artist:

Alyssa Winans (Cover for The Empress of Salt and Fortune, etc.)

Best Semi-prozine:

Space Cowboy Presents Simultaneous Times Podcast

Best Fanzine:

Speculative fiction in translation
Galactic Journey
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club blog

Best Fan Cast:

The Journey Show
Appendix N Book Club

Best Fan Writer:

Cora Buhlert
Rachel Cordasco
James Davis Nicoll

Best Fan Artist:

Lorelei Marcus
Iain Clark

Lodestar:

Kitra by Gideon Marcus

Astounding:

Gideon Marcus

(hey, if I didn’t vote for me, who would? Also, to be honest, mine was the only (modern) novel I read this year! My dance card is rather full with 1966 works… ^^;;;)
Olav Rokne on March 22, 2021 at 2:07 pm said:

Not posting my complete ballot. Just going to mention one that I voted for in most of the categories:

Best Novel
Beneath The Rising ; Premee Mohamed

Best Novella
Finna; Nino Cipri

Best Novelette
Monster; Naomi Kritzer

Best Short Story
On The Changing Role Of Dockworkers; Marie Vibbert

Best Series
Little Brother; Cory Doctorow; Attack Surface

Best Related Work
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky; Lynell George

Best Graphic Story or Comic
Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey; Matt Wagner

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Tenet

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Home; Tales From The Loop

Best Professional Artist
Will Staehle

Best Fanzine
Hugo Book Club Blog

Best Fancast
Hugos There

Best Fan Writer
Adri Joy

Best Fan Artist
Iain Clark

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)
Gautam Bhatia; The Wall
Olav Rokne on March 22, 2021 at 2:17 pm said:

Rich Lynch on March 21, 2021 at 7:07 pm said:
The Fan Writer category was the most difficult for me to narrow down to just five nominees, and I wish I could have nominated a few more people. In the end, my five nominees were Guy Lillian, Andy Hooper, Nic Farey, Bruce Gillespie, and William Breiding. All very, very worthy.

This is the most difficult category to nominate in. I really struggled to winnow down my list to just five.
StefanB on March 22, 2021 at 3:19 pm said:

Fan Writer is also a catagory where objective (okay never easy) is imho the hardest. On the other hands the fancatogorys are one of the thinks that make the Hugo the Hugo.
Nina on March 22, 2021 at 3:29 pm said:

JJ: The novella Chisel and Chime in F&SF, Jan/Feb 2020. This is a great story, and I’m sad it couldn’t get a wider audience. I hope it gets a reprint in Clarkesworld or somewhere else.

That’s actually on my ballot too! I loved that story.
Nina on March 22, 2021 at 4:24 pm said:

Best Novel
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Best Novella
Chisel and Chime by Alex Irvine
Byzantine by Holly Messinger
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
The Palace of Dancing Dogs by Allen M. Steele
The Seventh Perfection by Daniel Polansky

Best Novelette
Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker
If You Take My Meaning by Charlie Jane Anders
My Sister’s Wings Are Red by Christine Tyler
The Ones Who Look by Katherine Duckett
The Perfection of Theresa Watkins by Justin C. Key

Best Short Story
Fortune’s Final Hand by Adam-Troy Castro
Lonely Children Lost at Sea by Wendy Nikel
Many Happy Returns by Adam-Troy Castro
The Patron by Derrick Boden
Where the Old Neighbors Go by Thomas Ha

Lodestar Award
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
“Remembrance”, Star Trek: Picard
“The Believer”, The Mandalorian

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
The Mandalorian, Season 2

Best Graphic Story
House of Whispers, Vol. 2: “Ananse”
Black Stars Above

Professional Artist
Michael Whelan, Cover art for Rhythm of War
Ben McSweeney, Interior illustrations for Rhythm of War
Magali Villenueve, Front and back endpapers for Rhythm of War
Rovina Cai, Cover and interior art for Elatsoe

Series
The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
The Risen Kingdoms Trilogy by Curtis Craddock
The Song of the Shattered Sands by Bradley P. Beaulieu
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Meredith on March 22, 2021 at 5:55 pm said:

This… was not a good year, between one thing and another, so… these are just the few nominations I made that I really wished I’d put in the recs thread because I don’t think they’ll get much oomph overall.

Best Series: Tales of Inthya, by Effie Calvin
Okay, so, I wouldn’t necessarily expect this to get on the finalist list even if it was better known, but it’s an utterly charming wlw romantic fantasy series that just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and I don’t even really like romance (not as a genre – it’s just not something that works for me that well in fiction because too often I’m not especially convinced that the participants actually like each other). But this? This works for me. Especially book two, which more or less did a tap dance on my ID re: preferred redemptive character arc&character archetype combination.

Best Fanwriter: David J Prokopetz (prokopetz dot tumblr dot com)
He says he “shitposts” but it’s several posts a day of roleplay concepts based on wordplay or short comedy rpgs (the latest one features jellyfish committing tax fraud) or serious media and rpg criticism or helpful guides or long lists of recommendations based on specific rpg requests), and he’s a must-read for me.

Best Fan Artist: YamBits, primarily on the strength of this beautiful minicomic from the Ring’s perspective as it tries to tempt one hobbit ringbearer after another and fails, although they did other stuff too. It’s a really lovely piece of work and I highly recommend taking a few mins to have a look.

PS. JJ, I didn’t forget pro artist, and your post was very helpful!
Kyra on March 22, 2021 at 6:40 pm said:

So, I only did these until I got tired, but for those interested, here is a sampling of what the Hugo ballot would look like based on the first 24 hours of an unscientific poll of whoever reads this website and happened to post on this thread:

BEST NOVEL
Network Effect; Martha Wells
Piranesi; Susanna Clarke
Machine; Elizabeth Bear
Agency; William Gibson
The Ministry for the Future; Kim Stanley Robinson
(and then a five-way tie for the next place)

BEST NOVELLA
The Empress of Salt and Fortune; Nghi Vo
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
Finna; Nino Cipri
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain; Nghi Vo
(and then a 14-way tie for the next place)

BEST NOVELETTE
Two Truths and a Lie; Sarah Pinsker
My Sister’s Wings Are Red; Christine Tyler
Monster; Naomi Kritzer
The Ones Who Look; Katherine Duckett
Exile’s End; Carolyn Ives Gilman
Girls with Needles and Frost; Jenny Rae Rappaport
The Inaccessibility of Heaven; Aliette de Bodard

BEST SHORT STORY
The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign; Cora Buhlert
Sinew and Steel and What They Told; Carrie Vaughn
I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter; Isabel Fall
Callme and Mink; Brenda Cooper
The Sycamore and the Sybil; Alix E. Harrow
Metal Like Blood in the Dark; T. Kingfisher

BEST SERIES
Murderbot, Martha Wells
The Stormlight Archive; Brandon Sanderson
Interdependency, John Scalzi
The Dresden Files; Jim Butcher
Foreigner; CJ Cherryh
Revenger Trilogy; Alastair Reynolds
Embers of War; Gareth Powell

BEST RELATED WORK
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky; Lynell George
Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall, by Alec Nevala-Lee
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth; John Garth
(nothing else got more than 1 vote)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC
Once and Future v1; Kieron Gillen
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower; Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Monstress Vol. 5: Warchild; Marjorie Liu
(nothing else got more than 1 vote)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM
The Vast of Night
Umbrella Academy, Season 2
The Old Guard
The Mandalorian, Season 2
The Invisible Man
Palm Springs

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM
The Impossible Box; Star Trek: Picard
Oops!…I Did It Again; The Magicians
Chapter 13: The Jedi; The Mandalorian
Whenever You’re Ready; The Good Place
Gaugamela; The Expanse
Forget Me Not; Star Trek: Discovery

LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking; T. Kingfisher
A Deadly Education; Naomi Novik
Elatsoe; Darcie Little Badger
Legendborn; Tracy Deonn
Race to the Sun; Rebecca Roanhorse
(and then a four-way tie for the next place)
JJ on March 22, 2021 at 7:07 pm said:

The 2021 Recommended SF/F List is now up and available for your recommendations!
Kendall on March 22, 2021 at 8:46 pm said:

Here in the year 9851, my ballot will be/was/is:

Novel
The Empire of Gold – S. A. Chakraborty
Terminus – Peter Clines
Network Effect – Martha Wells
Bonds of Brass – Emily Skrutskie

Novella
Come Tumbling Down – Seanan McGuire
Murder by Other Means – John Scalzi
Last Stand in Lychford – Paul Cornell
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower – Tamsyn Muir*

Thanks to @JJ for recommending Muir’s “Floralinda,” which I squeezed in this past week.

Short Story
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory – Martha Wells
Feedback – Dennis E. Taylor (listened to at Audible)
I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married – Fonda Lee
The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign – @Cora Buhlert
Custom Options Available – Amy Griswold

If I’d had more ballot space:
Telepathic? Telekinetic? We’re Hiring! – @Daniel Dern @ File770.com
Pilot Error – Dan Moren
A Change of Plans – Dennis E. Taylor (listened to at Audible)

I forgot to make note of this when I read it, or I’d’ve nominated it (thanks to @valoise for listing it above):
Little Free Library – Naomi Kritzer

Series
Daevabad Trilogy – S.A. Chakraborty – The Empire of Gold
Threshold Universe – Peter Clines – Terminus
The Maradaine Saga – Marshall Ryan Maresca – The People of the City & The Fenmere Job – current Phase 1 is over; also eligible as sub-series, but I nominated the overall meta-series
Peter Grant / Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch – False Value & Tales from the Folly (collection)
PsyCop – Jordan Castillo Price – Bitter Pill

Will nominate in a future year, don’t worry:
Murderbot – Martha Wells – Network Effect
Lady Astronaut – Mary Robinette Kowal – The Relentless Moon

Ineligible based on length (methinks), else I’d’ve nominated it:
Witches of Lychford – Paul Cornell

Graphic Story or Comic
O Human Star – Blue Delliquanti (finished in 2020)
But I’m a Cat Person – Erin Ptah (finished in 2020)
The Witch Door (Chapter 6) – Anni K.
Transfusions (Book 2 Chapter 5) – Anni K.
Finding Home (chapter: Crescendo) – Hari Conner

BDP Long Form
Uh, wait, I didn’t see any movies last year?! Oh yeah: pandemic.

ETA: Oh, wait! I saw “Wonder Woman 1984” and if I’d thought of it, I would’ve nominated it despite its problems.

BDP Short Form
“Alex and Mr Fluffkins” by Adeena Charlotte Grubb

Editor Short Form
Lee Harris

Editor Long Form (with examples)
Lee Harris (Network Effect)
Sarah Peed (Bonds of Brass)

Pro Artist (with examples)
Maurizio Manzieri – Seven of Infinities cover
Magali Villeneuve – Royal Assassin illustrated edition
Kathleen Jennings – Flyaway cover
Iris Compiet – The Dark Crystal Bestiary artwork
Kieryn Tyler – ReV cover

Semiprozine
Fireside Magazine

Fanzine
Salon Futura
nerds of a feather, flock together

Fancast
SFF180 – Thomas M. Wagner

Fan Writer
Thomas M. Wagner
@JJ
Adri Joy (@Ari)

As usual, I forgot people, BLUSH, SORRY:
@James Davis Nicoll
@Paul Weimer

Fan Artist
Jenny Dolfen – not sure if she’s fan or pro (both?) but I nominated her here

Astounding Award for the Best New Writer
J. R. H. Lawless
Kendall on March 22, 2021 at 8:56 pm said:

Works I really wanted to get to in time that jumped out at me from others’ ballots above (not a complete list):

Novel: Bear’s “Machine”; Kress’s “The Eleventh Gate”; Kowal’s “The Relentless Moon”; Jemisin’s “The City We Became”; various @Kingfisher; Rwiz’s “Scarlet Odyssey.”

Novel and/or Lodestar: @Kingfisher’s “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking.”

Novella: Kress’s “Sea Change”; Tesh’s duology; Bujold’s lastest Penric & Desdemona novellas.

Astounding: Larkwood (“The Unspoken Name”); Johnson (“The Space Between Worlds”); Tesh (duology).

But it’s the year 1200, so it’s surely too early to read/nominate them. Oh. No, it’s just that my focus and time management both bite.

. . . . .

@Ken Richards: Thanks for mentioning your nomination for Aimee Picchi’s “Advanced World Problems in Portal Math”! Based on the title alone, I immediately looked for it, read it, and was happy I did. 😉 I recognized the style, and indeed, she also wrote “Search History for Elspeth Adair, Age 11,” which I enjoyed a couple of years ago. If I’d read “Portal Math” in time, I may have nominated it, though my Short Story list was already too long.

@Rich Lynch: In the “unlikely to be nominated by anyone who’s not me” (i.e., Won’t Be A Hugo) category:

Clines’s “Threshold” book & series
Some of the short stories
Price’s “PsyCop” series (I’ll keep nominating it, though!)
Most of my “Graphic Story or Comic” entries, though I see @N nominated “O Human Star,” too, yay!

@Meredith: Great minicomic from YamBits; thanks for linking to it! I also liked the sweet one of Frodo & Sam when it’s cold. Aw! 🙂

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