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Best Novel:
Radiance, by Catherynne Valente
Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie
The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin
The Just City, by Jo Walton
Uprooted, by Naomi Novik.
Best Novella:
Sorceror of the Wildeeps, by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, by Usman Malik
Waters of Versailles, by Kelly Robson
The New Mother, by Eugene Fisher
Johnny Rev, by Rachel Pollack
Best Novelette:
Black Dog, by Neil Gaiman
So Much Cooking, by Naomi Kritzer
Botanica Veneris, by Ian McDonald
Another Word for World, by Ann Leckie.
Our Lady of the Open Road, by Sarah Pinsker
Best Short Story
Pocosin, by Ursula Vernon.
Madeleine, by Amal El-Mohtar
Hello, Hello, by Seanan McGuire.
Mutability, by Ray Naylor
It Brought Us All Together, by Marissa Lingen.
Best Related Work
Letters to Tiptree, by Alisha Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce
Lois McMaster Bujold, by Edward James.
A Detailed Explanation, by David Surridge.
You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), by Felicia Day.
Speculative Fiction, 2014, by Renee Williams.
Best Fan Writer
Mark Oshiro
Best Dramatic presentation, Long Form
Insdie Out.
Best Fanzine
File 770
kathodus:
That’s kinda how I feel about the short fiction and best relateds, more than the novels. Although I feel sadly behind on reading even now; I even bought several things I didn’t get to timely (a couple of tor.com novellas, an issue of F&SF that had at least two common recs, one again a novella) that I keep hoping, when I get to them in the tbr, won’t make me go “argh! I shoulda…”
Last night (like 8PM) it occurred to me I had bought Cooney’s Bone Swans collection, and maybe I could read a bit of the title story … I finished it, after a couple of interruptions, at 11:50*, and opened my nominations on the spot to add it.
I explicitly emailed the Hugo admins about not getting final updates on my ballot, partly due to some of the glitches I have heard others encounter. (Nothing fishy happened in my sight while and after I saved the last time.)
The gist of the reply is that they expect people *will* be getting those e-mails, just delayed by the backlog, and likely several at once. (And that some of the prior confusion is getting receipts for earlier edits)
This is, if not exactly my final ballot, pretty darn close (based on the last update I did receive, and the changes I remember making)
Best Novel:
An Inheritance of Ashes – Leah Bobet
The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin
Ancillary Mercy – Ann Leckie
Castle Hangnail – Ursula Vernon
Bryony And Roses – T. Kingfisher
Best Novella:
Quarter Days – Iona Sharma
Penric’s Demon – Lois McMaster Bujold
The Bone Swans of Amandale – C.S.E. Cooney
Best Novelette:
Drinking with the Elfin Knight – Ginger Well
Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds – Rose Lemberg
Best Short Story:
…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes – Scott Alexander
Wooden Feathers – Ursula Vernon
Broken-Winged Love – Naru Dames Sundar
Hadley Full of Hate – Michael Hernshaw
Monkey King, Faerie Queen – Zen Cho
Best Related Work:
You’re Never Weird On the Internet (almost) – Felicia Day
Invisible 2: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F – Jim C. Hines (editor)
Disney Read-Watch Mari Ness Tor.com
Best Graphic Story:
The Autumnlands: Tooth And Claw Kurt Busiek (writer), Benjamin Dewey (artist)
The Sculptor Scott McCloud
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Vol. 1) Minna Sundberg
The Descender: Tin Stars (Vol. 1) Jeff Lemire (writer) and Dustin Nguyen (illustrator)
Nimona Noelle Stevenson
(Lumberjanes might have beat Descender if it weren’t for the question whether it qualifies. And I hadn’t even considered Hamster Princess, though now that Cassy B mentions it…)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Mad Max: Fury Road
Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Season 1
Inside Out
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(I didn’t see Predestination or Jupiter Ascending in time, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell fell about 6th, I’m only watching Sense8 NOW, and am I really the only person who thought Ex Machina just flubbed it at the end?)
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
Welcome to Night Vale: Triptych
The Expanse: CQB
Person of Interest: If-Then-Else
Marvel’s Agent Carter: Snafu
Uncanny Valley
Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
Liz Gorinsky (Tor.com)
Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne Thomas (uncanny)
Lee Harris (Tor.com)
Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Anne Lesley Groell
Anne Sowards
Sheila Gilbert
Devi Pillai
Best Professional Artist:
Forest Rogers
Julie Dillon
Simon Stålenhag
Stephan Martinière
(I added the woman who does the papercut stuff after the last discussion. I am now blanking on her name.)
Best Semiprozine:
Apex Magazine
Uncanny Magazine Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
Your nominations for Best Fanzine:
File 770 Mike Glyer
Best Fancast:
The Hidden Almanac Ursula Vernon, Kevin Sonney
(I listen to few fancasts consistently enough to nominate fairly, but I should have also nommed Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, because despite the main topic, it usually is thoroughly fannish)
Best Fan Writer:
Alexandra Erin
Foz Meadows
Best Fan Artist:
Jason Porath
Guo Jian (breathing2004)
Hannah Holloway
Megan Lara
(Considered adding our own Wombat, but hadn’t decided, and forgot about the thought until too late.)
The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Naru Dames Sundar
Iona Sharma
Alyssa Wong
Becky Chambers
Natasha Pulley
*11:50 central time, so not AS last minute as it sounds, but I most surely should have been in bed, and most definitely the last change I was making.
Best Novel:
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold
Best Novella:
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik
Penric’s Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold
Best Novelette:
And You Shall Know Her By the Trail of Dead, Brooke Bolander
Botanica Veneris, Ian McDonald
Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, Rose Lemberg
Folding Beijing, Hao Jingfang
Best Short Story:
Broken-Winged Love, Naru Dames Sundar
Of Blood and Brine, Megan E. O’Keefe
Stone Prayers, Kate Marshall
Tomorrow When We See the Sun, A.M. Rustad
Wooden Wings, Ursula Vernon
I didn’t really nominate in the other categories due to lack of familiarity, although I gave File 770 a nod for Best Fanzine and nominated the incomparable Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius for a Retro. I’d also have nominated MRK’s Midnight Hour in place of Tomorrow When We See the Sun if she hadn’t recused herself.
What are these confirmation emails of which you speak?
Maybe I didn’t tick a box at some point, because I never got any.
But when I went back at about a quarter to and opened the ballots they both looked fine.
So I am assuming they were fine.
Anyway, here is what I kept notes on.
I think I made a few final changes around 11:30ish, but this should mostly be it.
NOVELS
1) Bryony and Roses Kingfisher
2) Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie
3) The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin
4) Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor
5) Radiance Catherynne Valente
NOVELLAS
1 Penric’s Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold
2 The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson
3 Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand
4 Witches of Lichford, Paul Cornell
5 Was either Bone Swans or something else.
It was late
NOVELETTE
1) The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild, Catherynne Valente
2) Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, Rose Lemberg
3) The Animal Women, Alix E. Harrow
4) So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer
hmmmm I think there was a McGuire thing I added at 11:30.
SHORT STORIES
1) Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters, N. K. Jemisin
2) Nine Thousand Hours, Iona Sharma
3) Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies, Kate Heartfield
4) Pocosin, Ursula Vernon
5) Cat Pictures Please— by Naomi Kritzer
RELATED WORKS
1) Invisible 2, edited by Jim Hines
2) Geek Knits Toni Carr Andrews McMeel
3) Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce: Letters to Tiptree,
4) Diana Pavlac Glyer and James A. Owen, Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings,
5) The Wheel of Time Companion Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons
GRAPHIC NOVEL
1) Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen
2) Castle Hangnail, Ursula Vernon
3) The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua
4) Stand Still Stay Silent Minna Sundberg
5) Saga vol 5, Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
I might have switched out something here.
Or not.
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION LONG
1 Chappie
2 The Martian
3 Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Season 1)
4 Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
5 Mad Max Fury Road
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION SHOR
1) Jessica Jones AKA Smile
2) STEVE UNIVERSE “The Return” /“Jail Break/Full Disclosure”
3) Marvel’s Agent Carter: Snafu
4) Orphan Black: Certain Agony of the Battlefield
5) Welcome to Night Vale: The Librarian
EDITOR SHORT FORM
1) John Joseph Adams
2) Ellen Datlow t
3) Scott H. Andrews
4) Neil Clarke
5) Carl Engle-Laird
EDITOR LONG FORM
1) Marco Palmieri
2) Sheila Gilbert
3) Liz Gorinsky
4) Miriam Wineberg
5) Patrick Nielsen Hayden
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
1)Adam Paquette
2) John Allemand
3) Julie Dillon
4) Li Shuxing
5) Victo Ngai
BEST SEMI-PROZINE
1) Uncanny Magazine Thomas,Thomas
2) Strange Horizons Harrison
3) Beneath Ceaseless Skies Andrews
4) Black Gate O’Neil
5) The Book Smugglers James, Grilo
BEST FANZINE
1) FIle770 Mike Glyer
2) Lady Business Renay, Grilo Jodie
3) Rocket Stack Rank Hullender and Wong
4) James Davis Nicoll Reviews Nicoli
5) On Starships and Dragonwings Anya and Barbara
BEST FAN CAST
1) The X-Files Files Nanjiani
2) Tea and Jeopardy Newman
3) Galactic Suburbia Krasnostein, Pierce, Roberts, Finch
4) Fangirl happy hour Ana and Renay
5) Imaginary worlds Krasnostein
BEST FANWRITER
1) Rachel Swirski
2) Mike Glyer
3 Spacefaring Kittens
4) Kevin Standlee
5) Liz Bourke
BEST FAN ARTIST
1) Peter Mohrbacher
2) Jenny Dolfen
3) Jian Guo
4) Rachel Khan
5) Melissa Duncan
CAMPBELL
1) Becky Chambers The long way to a small angry planet
2) Natasha Pulley Watchmaker of Filigree Street
3) Graydon Saunders A Succession of Bad Days
4) Scott Hawkin The library at Mount Char
5) Andy Weir The Martian
Hugo 2016 noms
My last confirmation/notification was March 28, so I certainly hope my final picks (March 31, of course) are a part of the great machine somewhere. I also got auto-cowrecked on one author’s name. I hope the admins can disentangle it (the supporting links should allow this, right?).
My Related Works turned out to be all Puppy things; it was the Kerpupple that brought me out of the shadows of fandom, after all. And the category says “Any work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom…” My Fan Writer picks were along the same lines.
I, too, was biased towards “free” when it came to shorter fiction.
Next year I will try to start reading current work sooner. I feel a bit cramped because I am still a physical reader, and blowing $30+ on a hardcover that turns out to be meh is a bummer (looking at you, The Just City).
Best Novel:
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Half the World Joe Abercrombie
A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall
Best Novella:
Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Best Novelette:
“The End of the War” by Django Wexler
“The Servant” by Emily Devenport
“And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander
Best Short Story:
“Today I Am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker
“Wooden Feathers” by Ursula Vernon
“Damage” by David D. Levine
“Sea Change” by Kimberly Unger
“Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon
Best Related Work:
John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular by Theo Pratt (Alexandra Erin)
Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons: An Analysis of Theodore Beale and His Supporters by Phil Sandifer
A Response to Brad Torgersen by Eric Flint
A Detailed Explanation by Matthew David Surridge
Sad Puppies Review Books by Alexandra Erin
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Ex Machina
Jessica Jones (Season 1)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sense8 (Season 1)
Jupiter Ascending
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
“If-Then-Else” – Person of Interest
“Hardhome” – Game of Thrones
“The Nightcomers” – Penny Dreadful
“CQB” – The Expanse
“4,722 Hours” – Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
David Hartwell
Neil Clarke
Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Sheila Gilbert
Jane Johnson
Marco Palmieri
Best Professional Artist:
Alice X. Zhang
Richard Luong
Noah Bradley
Todd Lockwood
Richard Anderson
Best Fanzine:
File 770
Best Fan Writer:
Alexandra Erin
Chuck Wendig
George R.R. Martin
Phil Sandifer
Best Fan Artist:
Michael Bukowski
Jonathan Apilado
Lois van Baarle
Vixen
Octavi Navarro
The John W. Campbell Award:
Scott Hawkins
Not My Bag, Baby (0 noms):
Best Semiprozine
Best Graphic Story
Best Fancast
In many categories, I had no idea, and in Best Dramatic, Long Form, just didn’t care that much, I suppose I’m just not into movies. But outside of fiction, I’d say my list is pretty iconoclastic, and got a big kick out of nominating for Best Related Work. Yes, I was quite monomaniacal when it came to Best DP, Short Form . . .
Your nominations for Best Novel:
Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson Orbit
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey
Luna: New Moon Ian McDonald Tor
Radiance Catherynne M. Valente Tor
Seveneves Neal Stephenson Morrow
Your nominations for Best Novella:
C.S.E. Cooney The Two Paupers Fairchild
The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred Greg Egan Asimov’s
Gypsy Carter Scholz PM Press
Sleeping Dogs Adam-Troy Casto Analog
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls Aliette de Bodard Asimov’s
Your nominations for Best Novelette:
Empty Robert Reed Asimov’s
Entanglements David Gerrold Fantasy & Science Fiction
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan Ian McDonald Old Venus/Bantam
Jamaica Ginger Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl Stories for Chip/ Rosarium
My Last Ringback John Barnes Meeting Infinity/ Orbit
Your nominations for Best Short Story:
The Falls: A Luna Story Ian McDonald Meeting Infinity/Orbit
The Game of Smash and Recovery Kelly Link Strange Horizons
City of Ash Paolo Bacigalupi Matter
The Empress In Her Glory Robert Reed Clarkesworld
Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight Aliette de Bodard Clarkesworld
Your nominations for Best Related Work:
Letters To Tiptree Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce Twelfth Planet
Welcome to the Doomsphere Matthew M. Foster Amazon Digital Services
John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels Theophilus Pratt & Alexandra Erin Amazon Digital Services
Sad Puppies Review Books: Children’s Books Reviewed By Childish Men John Z. Upjohn (Author), Theophilus Pratt (Editor), Alexandra Erin (Foreword) Hymenaeus House
Frederik Pohl Michael R. Page University of Illinois Press
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
A Rickle in Time Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland Rick and Morty
Total Rickall Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland Rick and Morty
The Ricks Must Be Crazy Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland Rick and Morty
Look Who’s Purging Now Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland Rick and Morty
Mortynight Run Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland Rick and Morty
Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
Jonathan Strahan
Gardner Dozois
Rich Horton
Ellen Datlow
Ann Vandemeer
Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Diana Pho
Anne Lesley Groell
Moshe Feder
Liz Gorinsky
Jane Johnson
Your nominations for Best Semiprozine:
Strange Horizons Niall Harrison
Pornokitsch Jared Shurin and Anne Perry
Lightspeed John Joseph Adams
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Scott H. Andrews
Interzone Andy Cox
Your nominations for Best Fanzine:
File 770 Mike Glyer
SF Signal John DeNardo
Black Gate John O’Neill
SF Mistressworks Ian Sales
SFFWorld Dag Rambruat, Rob Bedford, Mark Yon, and Nila White
Your nominations for Best Fan Writer:
Mike Glyer File 770
Alexandra Erin Blue Author Is About To Write
Abigail Nussbaum
Liz Bourke
Natalie Luhrs
Your nominations for The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
C.A. Higgins Lightless
Z.Z. Claybourne The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan
Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Kelly Robson Waters of Versailles
Hugo 1941 noms
Only went with stuff I already knew, mostly. I read a bunch of short fiction but didn’t love a lot of it. But every little bit helps, right? I never got confirmation of these picks, though, so who knows.
Best Novel:
Slan by A. E. van Vogt
A Million Years to Conquer by Henry Kuttner
Best Novella:
If This Goes On— by Robert Heinlein
Best Short Story:
“The Man Who Killed the World” by Ray Cummings
“The Bleak Shore” by Fritz Leiber
Best Graphic Story:
Batman #1
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Fantasia
(I added the woman who does the papercut stuff after the last discussion. I am now blanking on her name.)
Ida Countess Rathangan?
(Probably not.)
bloodstone75 on April 1, 2016 at 12:34 pm said:
Hugo 2016 noms
… My Related Works turned out to be all Puppy things; it was the Kerpupple that brought me out of the shadows of fandom, after all. And the category says “Any work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom…” My Fan Writer picks were along the same lines.
Initially I had a lot of the same things on my long list, but push-come-to-shove, I wanted to just keep the kerfluffle out of my nominations entirely.
Even though that meant passing over people defending things that mattered to me.
I’m totally not saying either choice here is more correct than the other.
It was an emotional thing, me not wanting to cede even that much more attention to the whole sorry episode.
I haven’t and won’t forget people who worked hard and wrote so many smart and funny and important things.
I have a feeling, though, that these same names will keep turning up in future years.
Committed fan writers seem committed to writing.
So I’ll have further opportunities to nominate their work when they have happier subject matter.
The last email I received was Monday, which means a lot of things I added (the artist and editor categories gave me fits) Wednesday aren’t here. Also, I find myself oddly shy about exposing my ballot, but since I don’t have a policy against it, I have no excuse. Also, in two of the fiction categories, I went back and forth numerous times and I’m not entirely certain where I landed in the end.
Best Novel:
Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Trials, Linda Nagata
Bryony and Roses, T. Kingfisher
The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin
Best Novella:
Quarter Days, Iona Sharma GigaNotoSaurus
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand Open Road Media
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn ,Usmain Malik Tor.com *
Witches of Lychford, Paul Cornell Tor.com
Envy of Angels, Matt Wallace Tor.com
* or Rolling in the Deep, Mira Grant
Best Novelette:
Another Word for World, Ann Leckie
The Ghost Dragon’s Daughter, Beth Bernobich
And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Her Dead, Brooke Bolander
So Much Cooking, Naomi Kritzer
The Deepwater Bride, Tamsyn Muir
Best Short Story:
Three Cups of Grief by Starlight, Aliette De Bodard
The Way Home, Linda Nagata
Kaiju maximus, Kai Ashante Wilson *
Today I Am Paul, Martin Shoemaker
Pocosin, Ursula Vernon
* Or eyes I dare not meet in dreams, Sunny Moraine
Best Related Work:
You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), Felicia Day
Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein
BDPLF
Tomorrowland
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Jessica Jones, Season 1
BDPSF
Kung Fury
Now is Not the End, Agent Carter
Snafu, Agent Carter
AKA WWJD, Jessica Jones
The New World, Man in the High Castle
The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Alyssa Wong
Lauren Roy
Andy Weir
Becky Chambers
Iona Sharma
It looks like we can almost write the ballot for BDPLF now. (Obviously all these films and series must be produced by TOR.) Other categories are unclear, so far.
I am not gonna type them all out again.
But Oor Wombat got the nod in Novel from me. Also 2 Kritzers. And Person of Interest. And of course File 770. Chambers and Pulley for Campbell. Fancasts I had complete Fail on.
My retro-Hugos went BIG for deCamp, medium for Moore, Brackett, and Heinlein. Am predicting “Fantasia” and “If This Goes On –” to win their categories. The latter looks eerily appropriate to today, and the former is just plain swell.
I wonder who will be accepting the Retro awards, maybe some children and grandchildren? Possibly someone working for Disney? I don’t know of anyone still alive who’s likely to be there save Dave Kyle. Everyone else is gone, sigh.
Twitter posts from MAC II acknowledge that there were/are long delays in sending out acknowledgement e-mails, incidentally, which suggests that everyone’s final submissions actually got through, but haven’t been acknowledged.
I threw mine up at my website. (https://blackfishreviews.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/2015-hugo-nominations-ballot/)
But here are my fiction ones.
Best Novel
Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett
The Trials by Linda Nagata
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Wake of Vultures by Delilah Dawson
Best Novella
Binti by Nneedi Okorafor
The Shootout Solution by Mike R. Underwood
The Builders by Daniel Polansky
Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss
Best Novelette
Bannerless by Carri Vaughn
Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon by Delilah Dawson
Ginga by Daniel Jose Older
ELEKTROGREAD: Rusted Blood by Warren Ellis
And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander
Best Short Story
Please Undo this Hurt by Seth DIckinson
I am Graalnak of the Vroon Empire, Destroyer of Galaxies, Ask me Anything by Laura Pearlman
Catcall by Delilah Dawson
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong
Cat Pictures, Please by Naomi Kritzer
(I added the woman who does the papercut stuff after the last discussion. I am now blanking on her name.)
Kathleen Jennings?
OK, I’ve added up the declared nominations so far up to an hour ago (and sorry, alexvdl and Cheryl S, but I’ll add yours in with later comments if I do a final tally tomorrow). And the scores so far, identifying everythigthat has got more than one nomination in each category, is as follows:
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo)
Becky Chambers (8)
Natasha Pulley (8)
Andy Weir (8)
Scott Hawkins (5)
Graydon Saunders (3)
Ioana Sharma (2)
Alyssa Wong (2)
16 others
Best Fan Artist
Jason Porath (2)
39 other nominations
Best Fan Writer
Alexandra Erin (8)
James Nicoll (5)
Mike Glyer (3)
Natalie Luhrs (3)
Foz Meadows (3)
George R.R. Martin (2)
Abigail Nussbaum (2)
Mark Oshiro (2)
18 others
Best Fancast
Tea and Jeopardy (6)
Galactic Suburbia (4)
Fangirl Happy Hour (3)
Verity! (3)
The Cornell Collective (2)
The Hidden Almanac (2)
Imaginary Worlds (2)
8 others
Best Fanzine
File 770 (17)
Lady Business (4)
Black Gate (3)
James Davis Nicoll Reviews (3)
Rocket Stack Rank (3)
Ansible (2)
Making Light (2)
6 others
Best Semiprozine
Uncanny Magazine (8)
Strange Horizons (5)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies (4)
Interzone (3)
Black Gate (2)
The Book Smugglers (2)
GigaNotoSaurus (2)
14 others
Best Professional Artist
Julie Dillon (6)
Forest Rogers (4)
Richard Anderson (3)
Kathleen Jennings (3)
Cynthia Sheppard (3)
Stephan Martinière (2)
Victo Ngai (2)
Simon Stålenhag (2)
28 others
Best Editor (Long Form)
Sheila Gilbert (8)
Marco Palmieri (4)
Devi Pillai (4)
Anne Groell (3)
Miriam Weinberg (3)
Liz Gorinsky (2)
David Hartwell (2)
Jane Johnson (2)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (2)
Anne Sowards (2)
6 others
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Doctor Who: Heaven Sent [on its own] (5)
The Expanse: CQB (5)
Person of Interest: If-Then-Else (5)
Jessica Jones: AKA Smile (4)
Uncanny Vally (4)
Welcome to Night Vale: Triptych (4)
Kung Fury (3)
Archer: Drastic Voyage parts I andII (2)
Doctor Who: Heaven Sent/Hell Bent [jointly] (2)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2)
Game of Thrones: Hardhome (2)
Marvel’s Agent Carter: Snafu (2)
Sense8: What’s Going On (2)
Steven Universe: The Return/Jail Break/Full Disclosure (2)
Welcome to Night Wale: The Librarian (2)
31 others
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
The Martian (12)
Jessica Jones, Season 1 (11)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (11)
Mad Max: Fury Road (10)
Inside Out (6)
Ex Machina (5)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (4)
Jupiter Ascending (4)
Predestination (2)
Sense8 Season 1 (2)
Welcome to Night Vale (2)
What We Do In The Shadows (2)
8 others
Best Graphic Story
Stand Still, Stay Silent (9)
The Sculptor (7)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (6)
Nimona (4)
Saga vol 5 (4)
The Sandman: Overture (3)
Autumnlands (2)
Gunnerkrigg Court (2)
Lumberjanes Vol 1 (2)
Oglaf (2)
Trees (2)
21 others
Best Related Work
Letters to Tiptree (10)
John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular (5)
A Detailed Explanation (4)
You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) (3)
Companion Piece (2)
Geek Knits (2)
Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons(2)
Invisible 2 (2)
Lois McMaster Bujold (2)
The Wheel of Time Companion (2)
Women of Wonder (2)
27 others
Best Short Story
Wooden Feathers, by Ursula Vernon (11)
Pocosin, by Ursula Vernon (10)
Cat Pictures Please, by Naomi Kritzer (6)
Damage, by David Levine (6)
…And I Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes, by Scott Alexander (4)
Monkey King, Faery Queen, by Zen Cho (3)
Madeleine, by Amal El-Mohtar (3)
The Game of Smash and Recovery, by Kelly Link (3)
Hello, Hello, by Seana McGuire (3)
Tomorrow When We see the Sun Rise, by A Merc Rustad (3)
Today I Am Paul, by Martin Shoemaker (3)
Time Bomb Time, by C.C. Finlay (2)
Elephants and Corpses, by Kameron Hurley (2)
Things You Can Buy For A Penny, by Will Kaufman (2)
It Brought Us All Together, by Marissa Lingen (2)
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams, by Sunny Moraine (2)
Dave the Mighty Steel-Thewed Avenger, by Laura Resnick (2)
A Murmuration, by Alastair Reynolds (2)
Broken-Winged Love, by Naru Dames Sundar (2)
41 others
Best Novelette
So Much Cooking, by Naomi Kritzer (6)
Botanica Veneris, by Ian McDonald (6)
Another Word for World, by Ann Leckie (5)
Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, by Rose Lemberg (5)
Our Lady of the Open Road, by Sarah Pinsker (5)
The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild, Catherynne Valente (5)
And You Shall Know Her By the Trail of Dead, by Brooke Bolander (4)
Folding Beijing, by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (4)
The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild, Catherynne Valente (4)
Saltwater Railroad by Andrea Hairston (3)
Ambiguity Machines: An Examination, by Vandana Singh (3)
Drinking with the Elfin Knight, by Ginger Well (2)
The End of the War by Django Wexler (2)
24 others
Best Novella
Penric’s Demon, by Lois McMaster Bujold (17)
Witches of Lychford, by Paul Cornell (9)
The New Mother, by Eugene Fischer (6)
The Bone Swans of Amandale, by C.S.E. Cooney (5)
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, by Usman Malik (5)
Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor (5)
The Sorcerer of the WIldeeps, by Kai Ashante Wilson (4)
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, by Aliette de Bodard (3)
Rolling in the Deep, by Mira Grant (3)
Quarter Days, by Iona Sharma (3)
Envy of Angels, by Matt Wallace (3)
On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers, by Nick Wolven (3)
The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred, by Greg Egan (2)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (2)
Sunset Mantle, by Alter Reiss (2)
Waters of Versailles, by Kelly Robson (2)
Gypsy, by Carter Scholz (2)
Of Sorrow and Such, by Angela Slatter (2)
27 others
Best Novel
Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (14)
The Fifth Season, by N K Jemisin (10)
Uprooted, by Naomi Novik (8)
The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins (5)
Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente (5)
The Just City, by Jo Walton (5)
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (4)
Bryony And Roses, by T. Kingfisher (4)
Planetfall, by Emma Newman (4)
Karen Memory, by Elizabeth Bear (3)
Luna: New Moon, by Ian McDonald (3)
Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor (3)
Mother of Eden, by Chris Beckett (2)
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, by Lois McMaster Bujold (2)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, by Seth Dickinson (2)
Cuckoo Song, by Frances Hardinge (2)
Archivist Wasp, by Nicole Kornher-Stace (2)
Apex, by Ramez Naam (2)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley (2)
A Succession of Bad Days, by Graydon Saunders (2)
Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (2)
The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis (2)
Castle Hangnail, by Ursula Vernon (2)
40 others
Some strong leads there. Ursula Vernon is competing with herself in Best Short Story.
Also some much less clear categories: 41 nominations have been cast for 40 different fan artists.
Of course, this is hardly a scientific survey (I doubt if File 770 will dominate Best Fanzine so thoroughly among all voters), but the trends are interesting.
As it so happens, I kept notes on this for a future blog post! Loads of stuff from Lightspeed on the list, I’m afraid, as I subscribe to that and Nightmare and they offer a fairly nice variety.
BEST NOVEL
Abstained – I didn’t feel I’d read enough novel-length SF/fantasy this year, and nothing really stood out among the 2015 novels I did manage to read.
BEST NOVELLA
Rolling In The Deep (Mira Grant, Subterranean Press)
BEST NOVELETTE
Violation of the TrueNet Security Act (Taiyo Fujii, Lightspeed Magazine)
BEST SHORT STORY
Men of Unborrowed Vision (Jeremiah Tolbert, Lightspeed Magazine)
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World (Caroline M. Yoachim, Lightspeed)
The Myth of Rain (Seanan McGuire, Lightspeed)
The Smog Society (Chen Qiufan, Lightspeed)
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Alyssa Wong, Nightmare)
I agree with the SP voters on this one point: Hungry Daughters was an excellent story.
BEST RELATED WORK
John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels, Theophilius Pratt (a.k.a. Alexandra Erin)
Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons, Michael Witwer, Bloomsbury
You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, Felicia Day, Touchstone
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
Bitch Planet, Volume 1, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Valentine De Landro, and Robert Wilson IV, Image Comics
Lazarus, Volume 3: Conclave, Greg Rucka, Michael Lark, and Owen Freeman, Image Comics
Ms. Marvel, Volume 2: Generation Why, G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt, and Adrian Alphona, Marvel
Rat Queens, Volume 2: The Far-Reaching Tentacles of N’Rygoth, Kurtis J. Wiebe, Roc Upchurch, and Stjepan Sejic, Image Comics
Step Aside, Pops, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly
I will admit that, while I genuinely enjoy Ms. Marvel and think it continues to be an outstanding book, I would also like John C. Wright’s head to explode. Maybe two or three straight Hugo wins will do it? If Bitch Planet ends up a finalist, though, it will probably be my first pick.
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM)
Inside Out
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Predestination
Here’s where I have to admit I’ve not seen Predestination yet, and should correct that. But I’m impressed that so many elements of Heinlein’s story made it into the film. All the other nominees I did see. They were excellent. I think The Martian stands a good chance of being a finalist, and winning, and I’ll be perfectly happy with the result.
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)
Hell Bent, Steven Moffat and Rachel Talalay, Doctor Who
And the Cost of Education, Kate Rorick and Courtney Rowe, The Librarians
The Return/Jail Break, Joe Johnston, Jeff Liu, Raven M. Molisee, Paul Villeco, and Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe
Hostile Takeover, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Caitlin Parrish, and Karen Gaviola, Supergirl
John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular, the Audiobook, Read by Me, John Scalzi, Theophilius Pratt (a.k.a. Alexandra Erin)
It was very difficult to choose only one episode each of Doctor Who and The Librarians.
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR (SHORT FORM)
John Joseph Adams
Ellen Datlow
Carl Engle-Laird
Jason Sizemore
Ann VanderMeer
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR (LONG FORM)
Sheila Gilbert
Liz Gorinski
David G. Hartwell
Devi Pillai
Toni Weisskopf
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Julie Dillon
Gary Gianni
Stephanie Hans
Karla Ortiz
Cynthia Sheppard
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Abstained, as I don’t read enough of the eligible zines.
BEST FANZINE
File 770, Mike Glyer
I stop by here daily. It’s become essential. So it’s my one nominee. Hi, Mike!
BEST FANCAST
Abstained, as I really don’t listen to podcasts except for Night Vale, Serial and Who’s The Expert, and I’m behind on those.
BEST FAN WRITER
DC Women Kicking Ass
Alexandra Erin
Mikki Kendall
Natalie Luhrs
Mark Oshiro
I don’t know the name of the woman behind DCWKA (except that her first name is Sue), so I nominated her nom de net. Hopefully that and the link are valid.
BEST FAN ARTIST
Mia Araujo
Lauren K. Cannon
Sara Diesel
Amy Mebberson
Spring Schoenhuth
This was an INCREDIBLY difficult choice. There are a lot of truly excellent fan artists out there.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER
Andy Weir
Alyssa Wong
JY Yang
I would be fairly happy with the File 770 nominees. I’m only side-eyeing novelette.
Nicholas Whyte: Thanks for that! Perhaps we can hold our own ceremony in due course? But you seem to have left out Editor Short Form.
Themiscyra: The curious thing, of course, is that Ms Marvel is in many ways the most traditional work to have won this award, and should be quite satisfying to Puppy supporters.
Yes, thanks so much for the vote totals, Mr. Whyte. Perhaps I should note that I could never quite figure out it Hand’s Wylding Hall was quite eligible for novella based upon the word count, so it sadly fell between the cracks. But I suspect Aurora will eventually place far higher, and that it might be a good Hugo year for McDonald and DeBodard. Having Alexandra Erin on the final ballot would be a sweet outcome . . .
@bookworm1398: Dark Orbit was pretty high up on my list of novels this year — it was nice to see a science fiction novel that interested itself in Big Philosophical Ideas and did it with a story about actual characters, even if I felt there were a few too many problems, structural and otherwise, for it to quite make it to the top of my ballot. I certainly remember it in more detail, and more fondly, than some others I read.
It was 11:48 PM last night. I could’ve watched “Uncanny Valley,” but my brain was fried, so I let it go.
@Steve Wright: Arrggh! I dropped Wilde Life out of concerns for eligibility (keeping “Order of the Stick”—figured I only wanted to risk one ineligible nom, and OOTS’s been around longer.) Wilde Life would’ve been my sixth, QC my 7th. Great minds…
@CassyB: Best Dramatic Short slot 7 would’ve gone to Welcome to Night Vale’s “Best Of” (the episode with James Urbaniak playing Cecil’s predecessor, in a phenomenal performance), but I got at least one Night Vale on there. (Slot 6 would’ve been Tiny Hamster is a Giant Monster. Sigh. Next year…)
@Lenora: Yes, EX MACHINA botched the landing after a near-perfect 98 mins. How does [spoiler] get on the [spoiler]? *Why* doesn’t [a certain character] recognize [spoiler] as a potential future ally and bring that character with them, especially since they need to get on the [spoiler]? It’s like Alex Garland’s need to have a downbeat ending overrode narrative logic.
@Nate: Re: Jupiter Ascending: We may have to duel, then! Sir! (recalls Simpsons episode, pulls out white glove). I loved Cloud Atlas, but there were so many basic storytelling errors in Jupiter Ascending that I was gaping at the screen open-mouthed. I *wanted* it to be good. I wish the Wachowski siblings had sent me the script beforehand, bc I swear to God I could’ve helped them …
NATE: Sir, you’re giving me the blues, Machlin
with your shameful film reviews, Machlin
Answer for your lack of love of Jupiter or prep to lose, Machlin!
GREG Nate, your grievance is legitimate
I hated Jupiter, every minute of it
That film makes it look like the Wachoskis don’t have a clue
I can’t apologize because it’s true!
#Hamilton
I had not even considered that “Making Light” is a fanzine. It would’ve been just under File770 if I’d thought of it.
I loved ENVY OF ANGELS. I wish I’d found it sooner than 2 days before closing, so I could’ve championed it more!
Best Novel:
Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente
Uprooted, Naomi Novik
Flex, Ferrett Steinmetz
Castle Hangnail, Ursula Vernon
Aftermath, Chuck Wendig
Best Novella:
Envy of Angels, Matt Wallace
Waters of Versailles, Kelly Robson
Speakeasy, Catherynne M. Vallente
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand
(can’t remember the 5th. It was a recent addition).
Best Novelette:
Ambiguity Machines: An Examination Vandana Singh
Sacred Cows: Death and Squalor on the Rio Grande, by A S Diev
And You Shall Know Her By The Trail of Dead, Brooke Bolander
The Great Pan American Airship Mystery, or, Why I Murdered Robert Benchley, David Gerrold
So Much Cooking Naomi Kritzer
Best Short Story:
I am Graalnak of the Vroon Empire, Destroyer of Galaxies, Supreme Overlord of the Planet Earth. Ask Me Anything, Laura Perlman
Today I Am Paul, Martin Shoemaker
You Have Always Lived in the Castle, Cat Rambo
The Game of Smash and Recovery, Kelly Link
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers, Alyssa Wong
Best Related Work:
Letters to Tiptree, ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce
The Compleat Discworld Atlas Terry Pratchett
Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragon, Michael Witwer
E Pluribus Hugo Keith “Kilo” Watt, Jameson Quinn, et. al. Voting system. Proposed to Sasquan Business Meeting, 2015.
You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir Felicia Day
Best Graphic Story:
The Sculptor, Scott McCloud
Order of the Stick, Rich Burlew
The Groom , Emily Carroll
Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
The Autumnlands: Tooth and Claw Kurt Busiek
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Jessica Jones: Season 1, Melissa Rosenberg
Mad Max Fury Road George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Brendan McCarthy
Limetown: Season 1, Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie
Welcome to Night Vale (all 2015 episodes), Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Inside Out, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
If-Then-Else (Person of Interest) Denise The and Dan Dietz & Lucas O’Connor ; Person of Interest
The Wedding Squanchers (Rick & Morty) Tom Kauffman and Mike McMahan & Matt Roller & Bryan Wysol
World of Tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt
Napoleon (“Limetown”) Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie
The Librarians (“Welcome to Night Vale”) Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
John Joseph Adams
Jonathan Strahan
C. C. Finlay
Neil Clarke
Sheila Williams
Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Jane Johnson
Diana Pho
Liz Gorinsky
Sheila Gilbert
Ann Lesley Groell
Best Professional Artist:
Red Nose Studio
Morgana Wallace
Forest Rogers
I cannot remember the last two I picked (I’m using my March 28 ballot for reference, did not get an update).
Best Semiprozine:
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Escape Pod
Flash Fiction Online
The Book Smugglers
New York Review of Science Fiction
Best Fanzine:
SFF World
Fantasy Book Critic
The Luminarium
Black Gate
File 770
Best Fancast:
Fake Geek Girls Merri, Missy
The X-Files Files Kumail Nanjiani
Fan Bros Show: DJ BenHaMeen, Chico Leo, and Tatiana King-Jones
Ditch Diggers: Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
God and Comics: Jonathan Mitchican, Matt Stromberg, Kyle Tomlin
Best Fan Writer:
Lis Carey
Camestros Felapton
Kyra (a File 770 commenter)
Alexandra Erin
Mike Glyer
Best Fan Artist:
ofsparrows
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
Hannah Holloway
Sandara Tang
Iguanamouth (Lauren Dawson)
The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ray Wood Schrodinger’s Gun
Kelly Robson The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill
Andy Weir The Martian
Alyssa Wong Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
One thing reading these ballots is doing is reminding me of all the things that slipped through the cracks.
Other people managed to actually nominate things that I thought of early, but just lost track of and forgot.
Dang.
There are at least three or four substitutions I would seriously consider, if it were this time yesterday, instead of today.
Oh well.
Maybe next year I will be, if not impeccable, maybe a little less peccable.
@Lenora Rose: The papercuts are by Morgana Wallace.
That makes 3 people who named her. No wonder. Check out her Tumblr.
I did, too. I also nominated the audiobook for Best Dramatic Presentation, short form. I never nominate or vote in the “Dramatic Presentation” categories, for a variety of reasons, but I made an exception in this instance.
For me, seeing these ballots highlights why orchestrated Puppy block-nominations were so effective at sweeping the ballot last year. Look at the variety** on these lists, which is what you get when people nominate, in keeping with the spirit of the Hugos, based on their own reading/viewing experience over the year and their own tastes, rather than by all nominating the slate that a group ringleader posts on a blog for them to nominate.
(** Using “variety” here in the traditional sense of “lots of different stuff,” rather than in the Puppy sense of “Evil SJW political correctness run mad!” or the alternate Puppy sense of “people in whom the listmaker has a financial or personal interest.”)
@Lauwolf
Same here!
Also, I just saw VD say, regarding Uprooted, “…considering that Uprooted is not only a Sad Puppy recommendation but a pretty good fantasy to which I gave serious consideration to putting on the Rabid Puppies list…”
Is even he tiring of the Puppy game, and thinking of quietly bowing out?
The stats by themselves are just a compilation, but a ceremony would lend itself to the retroactive interpretation that the leading vote-getters are some kind of anti-slate, which I would like to avoid.
Oh, I don’t think VD does anything quietly, and I think he will one day bow out of the Puppy mess only under the same conditions which would get him to cease stalking John Scalzi or give up any of his other ludicrous timepasses, i.e. he’ll stop only if he stops getting attention for doing it.
He got SO MUCH attention for Puppying last year, and is still getting some this year, so I think it likely he’ll try again in 2017. I’m skeptical he’d exit the Puppy stage as long as people are still talking about him and reposting his posts, etc.
@Laura Resnick – I wish I could argue against that.
I don’t normally do this, but here goes. I didn’t fill out all the categories, indeed some categories I didn’t nominate anything at all, though this year I have made more effort to read/watch current/eligible works. Thanks to all the people recommending stories here & elsewhere.
Novel:
“Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen” Lois McMaster Bujold
“Seveneves” Neal Stephenson
“Karen Memory” Elizabeth Bear
“Vermilion” Molly Tanzer
“The Water Knife” Paolo Bacigalupi
Novella:
“Slow Bullets” Alastair Reynolds
“Waters of Versailles” Kelly Robson
“The Citadel of Weeping Pearls” Aliette de Bodard
“The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred” Greg Egan
Novelette:
“Our Lady of the Open Road” Sarah Pinsker
“The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society” Henry Lien
“The Great Pan American Airship Mystery, Or, Why I Murdered Robert Benchley” David Gerrold
“The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” Elizabeth Bear
“The End of War Django Wexler”
Short Story:
“A Murmuration” Alastair Reynolds
“Tuesdays” Suzanne Palmer
“Wooden Feathers” Ursula Vernon
“The Great Silence” Ted Chiang
“Doors” Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Graphic Story:
“The Sandman: Overture” Neil Gaiman/JH Williams III
“Chew Volume 9: Chicken Tenders” John Layman/Rob Guillory
“Chew Volume 10: Blood Puddin'” John Layman/Rob Guillory
Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
“Jupiter Ascending”
“Ex Machina”
“Predestination”
“The Martian”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
“Heaven Sent” Doctor Who
“Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate” Orphan Black
“Certain Agony Of The Battlefield” Orphan Black
“History Yet to Be Written” Orphan Black
“Now Is Not the End” Marvel’s Agent Carter
Professional Editor (Short Form):
Jonathan Strahan
Sheila Williams
Andy Cox
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Gardner Dozois
Professional Editor (Long Form):
Ross E. Lockhart
Beth Meacham
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Sheila Gilbert
Bella Pagan
Semiprozine:
Interzone
Uncanny
Fanzine:
A Dribble of Ink
File770
Fancast:
StarShipSofa
The Skiffy and Fanty Show
Sword & Laser
The Coode Street Podcast
Fan Writer:
James Davis Nicoll
Alexandra Erin
Mike Glyer
John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Kelly Robson
Mike Glyer: It was not meant very seriously.
Personally I find the things that only one person nominated perhaps the most interesting.
:: sigh :: It just goes to show how much stuff I didn’t get round to reading, I think.
(Or stuff that I flip-flopped on… in a different mood or phase of the moon, my list could have looked quite different. I dithered for a long time between Dark Orbit and The Elven, for instance. And now I’m convinced I made the wrong choice. But I probably still would be, even if I’d chosen the other one.)
No email confirmations for anything here — ever, even though I started nominating a good long time ago and dutifully saved my ballot each time — which leads me to believe I did Something Wrong. There was red text that came up on my screen to say that my ballot had been updated when I pushed the button. Was there something more I was supposed to do than that?
I kept lists of what I was doing on my iPad (as opposed to my laptop, where I am currently typing and where I did my ballot) so I do know who I (think I) nominated, even if I didn’t really due to user error.
Looking at the nominations, I’m wishing I had read Wooden Feathers before the ballot closed instead of saving it for a rainy day.
Your nominations for Best Novel:
Updraft Fran Wilde Tor Books
Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard Lawrence M. Schoen Tor Books
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey
A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab Tor Books
The Grace of Kings Ken Liu Saga Press
Your nominations for Best Novella:
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn Usman T. Malik Tor.com
Sorcerer to the Wildeeps Kai Ashante Wilson Tor.com
The Last Witness K. J. Parker Tor.com
Binti Nnedi Okorafor Tor.com
Sunset Mantle Alter S. Reiss Tor.com
Your nominations for Best Novelette:
Folding Beijing Hao Jingfang Uncanny
And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead Brooke Bolander Lightspeed
Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds Rose Lemberg Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Deepwater Bride Tamsyn Muir F&SF
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan Ian McDonald Old Venus
Your nominations for Best Short Story:
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers Alyssa Wong Nightmare
Pocosin Ursula Vernon Apex Magazine
The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zací Benjamin Parzybok Strange Horizons
Things You Can Buy For a Penny Will Kaufman Lightspeed
Cat Pictures Please Naomi Kritzer Clarkesworld
Your nominations for Best Graphic Story:
Wilde Life Volume One Pascalle Lepas http://www.wildelifecomic.com/
Saga Volume 5 Fiona Staples Image Comics
DRIVE: ACT ONE Dave Kellett Small Fish Studios / drivecomic.com
Schlock Mercenary Howard Taylor schlockmercenary.com
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ex Machina
Daredevil Season 1
Predestination
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
Total Rickall Mike McMahan Rick and Morty
Heaven Sent Steven Moffat Doctor Who
All This and Gargantua-2 Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick The Venture Bros
Sworn to the Sword Joe Johnston, Jeff Liu Steven Universe
AKA Smile Scott Reynolds & Melissa Rosenberg Jessica Jones
Your nominations for Best Semiprozine:
The Book Smugglers
Giganotosaurus
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Daily Science Fiction
Strange Horizons
Your nominations for Best Fanzine:
Chaos Horizon
Black Gate
File 770 Mike Glyer
Your nominations for The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
SL Huang
Alyssa Wong Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
Andy Weir The Martian
You are provisionally forgiven for not loving Jupiter Ascending because of this, and this alone, sir. #NextTimeIt’sRailgunsOntheSouthLawnAtNoon
I wonder if people who haven’t received email confirmations should check their spam traps for mail from “hugoadmin”? Might be worth a shot.
Damn that me! *shakes fist*
Like Heather Rose Jones, I probably won’t post my selections for a variety of reasons, but I love seeing what the rest of y’all chose. I see I have some things to add to my reading list.
I’m also reminded that I didn’t read much short fiction this year. Must do something about that.
You’ll find a few in mine. I find that a lot of the time, things I nominate don’t end up in the final ballot. I must be SJWing wrong.
@Gerald,
Nominator’s remorse?
@Nate Harada,
+1 to the nominators of “Jupiter Ascending”.
Thanks to our host for the thread. Thanks to all those sharing. Thanks to Lenora Rose and Kevin Standlee for the info on confirmation emails. And thanks to Nicholas Whyte for the tally. I may be back with my own ballot later. For now, ticking the box!
I have just received the email from my first ballot edit/save of last night.
I had a momentary panic before it registered that this will be the first of several emails, since I saved early and often last night. Just in case.
I must advocate for “Pocosin” in the Vernon vs Vernon contest.
I’d put “Wooden Feathers” first. Less abstract. More personal.
If you are concerned that the Administrators never got your ballot, you should write to them. The red “your ballot has been recorded” message is supposed to indicate that your results were saved. They certainly were in my case.
Okay, here’s mine.
Your nominations for Best Novel:
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin Orbit
The Mechanical Ian Tregellis Orbit
Karen Memory Elizabeth Bear Tor
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey
Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie Orbit
(I wavered back and forth for quite a while over the fifth (!) slot, between Karen Memory and The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Finally I asked myself: “Which one would you read again?” Since I not only would read Karen Memory again but own it, that tipped the balance.)
Your nominations for Best Novella:
The Bone Swans of Amandale C.S.E. Cooney Mythic Delirium Books
A Thousand Nights Till Morning Will McIntosh Asimov’s Science Fiction
Binti Nnedi Okorafor Tor
The New Mother Eugene Fischer Asimov’s Science Fiction
Penric’s Demon Lois McMaster Bujold Amazon
Your nominations for Best Novelette:
At the End of Babel Michael Livingston Tor.com
By the Numbers Lynn Gilmore Crossed Genres
And the Ends of the Earth for Thy Possession Robert B. Finegold GigaNotoSaurus
The Servant Emily Devenport Clarkesworld Magazine
Entanglements David Gerrold Asimov’s Science Fiction
Your nominations for Best Short Story:
Ghosts of Home Sam J. Miller Lightspeed Magazine
Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams Sunny Moraine Cyborgology
Damage David D. Devine Tor.com
The Great Silence Ted Chiang E-Flux Journal
Pocosin Ursula Vernon Apex Magazine
(Ooh, I hope The Great Silence is eligible. The room got quite dusty when I read that.)
Your nominations for Best Related Work:
Invisible 2 Jim Hines self-published (purchased on Smashwords)
Letters to Tiptree Alexandra Pierce/Alisa Krasnostein Twelfth Planet Press
Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons: Notes on Science Fiction and Culture In the Year of Angry Dogs Philip K. Sandifer Eruditorium Press
Your nominations for Best Graphic Story:
The Sandman: Overture Neil Gaiman/J.H.Williams/Dave Stewart Vertigo
Rat Queens 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N’rygoth Kurtis J.Wiebe/Roc Upchurch/Stjephan Sejic Image Comics
Ms. Marvel Vol. 2: Generation Why G. Willow Wilson/Adrian Alphona/Jacob Wyatt Marvel
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy Noelle Stevenson/Grace Ellis/Brooke A. Allen Boom! Studios
The Sculptor Scott McCloud Macmillan
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Star Wars: The Force Awakens J.J. Abrams Walt Disney Studios
Ex Machina Alex Garland Universal Pictures
Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller Warner Brothers
Jessica Jones: Season 1 Melissa Rosenberg Netflix
Predestination The Spierig Brothers Vertical Entertainment
(So much love for Jessica Jones here! Yay! Jessica knocked Matt Damon and potatoes off my ballot…please forgive me, but Jessica and Furiosa pushed all my buttons.)
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
The Expanse: CQB Naren Shankar/Jeff Woolnough Sy Fy, The Expanse
The Expanse: Dulcinea Mark Fergus/Hawk Ostby/Terry McDonough Sy Fy, The Expanse
The Man in the High Castle: A Way Out Rob Williams/Daniel Percival Amazon, The Man in the High Castle
Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
Jason Sizemore
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damien Thomas
Charles Coleman Finlay
Rashida J. Smith
Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
(I hope the “&” will get through. I know the Thomases are listed as co-editors for Uncanny.)
Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Beth Meacham
Sheila Gilbert
Anne Lesley Groell
Marco Palmieri
Devi Pillai
Your nominations for Best Semiprozine:
GigaNotoSaurus Rashida J. Smith
Uncanny Magazine Lynne M. Thomas/Michael Damien Thomas
Strange Horizons Niall Harrison
Your nominations for Best Fanzine:
Lady Business Clare McBride/Ira/Jodie/KJ/Renay/Susan
Rocket Stack Rank Greg Hullender
Black Gate John O’Neill
A Dribble of Ink Aidan Moher
File 770 Mike Glyer
Your nominations for Best Fan Writer:
Alexandra Erin http://www.amazon.com/Scalzi-Popular-Author-Myself-Quite-ebook/dp/B014JSBP7A
Foz Meadows https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/star-wars-ft-capslock-of-joy/
James Davis Nicoll http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/reviews
Mike Glyer https://file770.com/
Abigail Nussbaum http://wrongquestions.blogspot.ca/2015/07/i-thought-i-was-alone-thoughts-on-sense8.html
Your nominations for The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Alyssa Wong 2nd year
Andy Weir 2nd year
Becky Chambers 1st year
Scott Hawkins 1st year
Natasha Pulley 1st year
(I’ll never read The Library at Mount Char again, but Scott Hawkins is a writer to watch, I think.)
Oh yeah: Hello @Hyron Rosen! I really enjoy your comments over at Mad Genius Club.
Oops. @Hyman Rosen, excuse me.
I’ve been watching this thread as much as I could today!
Your nominations for Best Novel:
Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie Orbit
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin Orbit
The Just City Jo Walton Tor
Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard Lawrence M. Schoen Tor
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey
Your nominations for Best Novella:
“The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” Usman T. Malik Tor.com
“Binti” Nnedi Okarafor
“Penric’s Demon” Lois McMaster Bujold
“The New Mother” C.S.E. Cooney Asimovs
Your nominations for Best Novelette:
“So Much Cooking” Naomi Kritzer Clarkesworld
“Folding Beijing” Hao Jingfang
“The Deepwater Bride” Tamsin Muir The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Entanglements” David Gerrold The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“We’re So Very Sorry for Your Recent Tragic Loss” Nick Wolven The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Your nominations for Best Short Story:
“Today I Am Paul” Martin L. Shoemaker Clarkesworld
“Hello Hello” Seanan McGuire Future Visions
“Please Undo This Hurt” Seth Dickinson Tor.com
“And To The Republic” Rachel Kolar Crossed Genres
“Cat Pictures Please” Naomi Kritzer Clarkesworld
Your nominations for Best Related Work:
Letters to Tiptree Alexandra Piere and Alisa Krasnostein Twelfth Planet Press
Archive of our Own archiveofourown.org
You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost) Felicia Day Touchstone
Your nominations for Best Graphic Story:
“Autumnlands Vol. 1” Kurt Busiek/Benjamin Dewey
“Sandman: Overture” Neil Gaiman/J.H. Williams III/Dave Stewart
“The Sculptor” Scott McCloud
“Bitch Planet” Kelly Sue Deconnick/Valentine De Landro
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Tomorrowland Disney
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out Pixar
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Martian
Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
“The Husbands of River Song” Doctor Who
“Heaven Sent” Doctor Who
“The Iron Ceiling” Agent Carter
“Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate” Orphan Black
“Unauthorized Magic” The Magicians
Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
Diana M. Pho
Ellen Datlow
C.C. Finley
Sean Wallace
Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Dev Pillai
Marco Palmieri
Anne Lesley Groell
Jennifer Brehl
Jessica Wade
Your nominations for Best Fanzine:
Beyond Victoriana Diana M. Pho
File 770 Mike Glyer
Your nominations for The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Andy Weir
Sabaa Tahir
Natasha Pulley
Becky Chambers
I skipped some categories, and some categories were more difficult than others to winnow down. But I’m happy with my first ever nominating season, and have started a document to note what I read during 2016!
Thank you to all the filers to suggested or reviewed works that I subsequently read!
@Bonnie McDaniel:
That makes a lot of sense. It’s not a problem I had with novels though. But in short stories, I had a hard time deciding, so I read a lot of them a second time (or third); and found that some of the ones that initially impressed me didn’t stand up. But “Who Will Greet You at Home”, which was not originally one of my top candidates at all, kept growing on me as I considered it more, so I did nominate it.