What Did You Nominate For The 2018 Hugo Awards?

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Mike Glyer

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196 thoughts on “What Did You Nominate For The 2018 Hugo Awards?”

Andy H. on March 17, 2018 at 4:56 pm said:

Here are my prose fiction (and authors) categories, anyway.

Best Novel:

Rivers Solomon – An Unkindness of Ghosts
Yoon Ha Lee – Raven Stratagem
Karin Tidbeck – Amatka
Fonda Lee – Jade City
Kameron Hurley – The Stars are Legion

Best Novella:

J. Y. Yang – The Red Threads of Fortune
Martha Wells – All Systems Red
Ellen Klages – Passing Strange
Sarah Pinsker – And Then There Were (N-One)
Margaret Killjoy – The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

Best Novelette:

K. M. Szpara – Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time
Sam J. Miller and Lara Elena Donnelly – Making Us Monsters
Ursula Vernon – The Dark Birds
Jess Barber and Sara Saab – Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics
Sarah Gailey – Fisher of Bones

Best Short Story:

Charlie Jane Anders – Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue
Jo Walton – A Burden Shared
Max Gladstone – The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
C. S. E. Cooney – Though She Be But Little
Sofia Samatar – An Account of the Land of Witches

Your nominations for Best Series:

C. J. Cherryh – Foreigner
Ellen Kushner, et. al – Riverside
Marie Brennan – Memoirs of Lady Trent
Martha Wells – Books of the Raksura
Steven Brust – Vlad Taltos

(I had originally intended to have the Broken Earth trilogy on here, but left it off after Jemisin expressed that she didn’t want the nomination.)

Your nominations for Best Graphic Story:

Tillie Walden – On a Sunbeam
Molly Knox Ostertag – The Witch Boy
Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, and John Jennings Abrams – Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Cecil Castelucci and Marley Zarcone – Shade the Changing Girl, vol. 1: Earth Girl Made Easy

Best YA:

F. C. Yee – The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
Kristen Cashore – Jane, Unlimited
Kari Maaren – Weave a Circle Round
April Daniels – Dreadnought
Sam J. Miller – The Art of Starving

Campbell:

Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Katherine Arden
R. E. Stearns
Rivers Solomon
April Daniels
Mark on March 17, 2018 at 4:57 pm said:

@Kurt Busiek

I definitely bow to your greater comics knowledge. To my mind the question was whether Batman was SFnal in/by 1942. To my limited knowledge the superscience elements were more at the gas grenades and batarangs level at that point, which I can see someone quibbling with the SFness of, whereas I was certain that early Batman had faced vampires etc which seemed to be a definitive answer to the question.
Danny Sichel on March 17, 2018 at 5:36 pm said:

nominations include:

novella:
And Then There Were (N-One)
All Systems Red
17776 (since Bois asked to be nominated here rather than in Graphic Story)
There Was a Crooked Man, and He Flipped a Crooked House

novelette:

The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike
secret life of bots
Crispin’s Model

short story:

paradox (kritzer)
the scholast in the low waters kingdom
shoggoths in traffic
fandom for robots
Peter J on March 17, 2018 at 6:19 pm said:

My nominations:
Novel:
Provenance, Ann Leckie
Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer
The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone
The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden
Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeanette Ng

Novella:
The Speed of Belief, Robert Reed
The Dragon of Dread Peak, Jeremiah Tolbert
And Then There Were (N-One), Sarah Pinsker
The Black Tides of Heaven, J. Y. Yang
Acadie, Dave Hutchinson

Novelette:
The Dark Birds, Ursula Vernon
Soulmates, Will McIntosh
For All Mankind, C. Stuart Hardwick
The Secret Life of Bots, Suzanne Palmer
Neptune’s Trident, Nina Allan

Short Story:
The Turing Machines of Babel, Eric Schwitzgabel
The Heart’s Cartography, Susan Jane Bigelow
Carnival Nine, Caroline M. Yoachim
Rising Star, Stephen Graham Jones
Letters Sweet as Honey, Foz Meadows

Series:
Invisible Library, Genevieve Cogman
Xeelee Sequence, Stephen Baxter
Lady Trent, Marie Brennan
Xuya Universe, Aliette de Bodard

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Anansi Boys (BBC Radio )

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
Terry Pratchett: Back in Black (BBC )

Professional Editor (Short Form):
Lynne Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Jonathan Strahan
Jason Sizemore
Scott H. Andrews
Neil Clarke

Professional Artist:
Richard Anderson
Gregory Manchess
Goni Montes
Galen Dara
Victo Ngai

Semiprozine:
Strange Horizons
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Uncanny
Interzone
GigaNotoSauris

Fanzine:
File 770
Black Gate
Journey Planet
Rocket Stack Rank
Galactic Journey

Fan Writer:
Foz Meadows
Mike Glyer
Camestros Felapton
Doris V. Sutherland

Young Adult Book (not a Hugo):
Summer In Orcus, T. Kingfisher

The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Vina Jin-Mae Prasad
Katherine Arden
Jeannette Ng
Laurie Penny
G. V. Anderson
Lenore Jones / jonesnori on March 17, 2018 at 6:23 pm said:

@Contrarius, I wasn’t suggesting voting for women because they’re women. Really? That’s what you got from my remark? No, I was suggesting that Rich might need to open up his reading to other sources. There are so many good non-male writers now that a ballot with hardly any seems surprising. Anyone who finds their ballot one-sided might want to consider doing that. Not that I have much of a leg to stand on, as I did very little reading this year for health reasons. (By the way, “catty” tends to be a gender-linked criticism. Maybe use “sharp” or something next time?)

Unless OGH is right and Rich is trying to balance things out. You never know!
Contrarius on March 17, 2018 at 6:51 pm said:

@Lenore —

What I mostly got was that you were sniping at someone else’s Hugo picks because you didn’t happen to approve of its over all gender ratio.

And sniping at someone’s picks seems like a really lousy way to encourage other people to post theirs.

As for “catty” — as both a woman and a cat owner myself, I stand by my choice of descriptors.
JJ on March 17, 2018 at 6:56 pm said:

Lenore Jones / jonesnori: There are so many good non-male writers now that a ballot with hardly any seems surprising.

That is so true. For 2017, I read whatever sounded appealing, and a quick count* reveals

2017 Novels
29 women and 28 men
43 Science Fiction and 12 Fantasy

2017 Novellas
22 women, 22 men, 1 nonbinary
21 Science Fiction and 23 Fantasy

So if someone is reading mostly works by men, it would indicate to me that either 1) the sources they are using for their new book suggestions are extremely insular, or 2) they are — consciously or unconsciously — self-selecting for things written by men.

* where there are co-authors, each is counted once; several authors are counted more than once, because they had two or three 2017 novels and/or novellas
Meredith on March 17, 2018 at 7:03 pm said:

I did much better than last year. Apart from inexplicably and repeatedly failing to enter most of the short fiction I read into my record, and instead saving some of them in browser tabs (the same place I keep my TBR pile, so that was fun to sort out) and who knows what I did with the magazine fiction. Externally stored memory works much better when you do it consistently and, oh, don’t miss out your favourite categories.

Very few dragons, lots of robots.

Best Novel:
* The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
Clockwork Boys, by T. Kingfisher
The Power, by Naomi Alderman
Strange Practice, by Vivian Shaw
Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty

Best Novella:
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, by Seanan McGuire
Passing Strange, by Ellen Klages
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, by Margaret Killjoy
And Then There Were (N-One), by Sarah Pinsker
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells

Best Novelette:
The Secret Life of Bots, by Suzanne Palmer
We Who Live in the Heart, by Kelly Robson
The Worshipful Society of Glovers, by Mary Robinette Kowal
A Series of Steaks, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Come See the Living Dryad, by Theodora Goss

Best Short Story:
Sun, Moon, Dust, by Ursula Vernon
Fandom for Robots, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom, by Max Gladstone
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance, by Tobias S Buckell
Mental Diplopia, by Juliana Baggott

Best Series:
Ixia/Sitia, by Maria V Snyder
Memoirs of Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan
The Queen’s Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner
World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Divine Cities, by Robert Jackson Bennett

Best Related Work:
Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, by Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron Glazer
Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift, by Erin Horáková
Don’t Live For Your Obituary, John Scalzi
Archive of Our Own
Disney Read-Watch/Watch-Watch, by Mari Ness for Tor.com

** Best Graphic Story:
Questionable Content
Oglaf
Always Human

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
The Good Place series 1
Wonder Woman

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
What’s My Motivation (The Good Place)
In A Heartbeat (Short Film)
Michael’s Gambit (The Good Place)
A Single Life (Short Film)

*** Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Jenni Hill
Gillian Redfearn
Liz Gorinsky
Deanna Hoak
Bella Pagan

Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
Lee Harris
Ellen Datlow
Liz Gorinsky
Miriam Weinberg
Yanni Kuznia

Best Professional Artist:
Julie Dillon
John Harris
Victo Ngai
Ben Templesmith
Galen Dara

Best Semiprozine:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
GigaNotoSaurus
Uncanny
Strange Horizons

Best Fanzine:
Videlicet
Black Gate
File770

Best Fancast:
**** Fansplaining

Best Fan Writer:
Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street
Astolat
Mari Ness
Camestros Felapton
James Davis Nicoll

Best Fan Artist:
Iguanamouth (Unusual Hoards!)
Wingedcorgi
Jian Guo
Jade Mere
Monarobot

***** Best Young Adult Book:
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, by Stephanie Burgis
Weave A Circle Round, by Kari Maaren
A Skinful of Shadows, by Frances Hardinge

Campbell Award:
Kari Maaren
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Katherine Arden
Vivian Shaw
Corey J. White

* In the end I decided that since I had a slot I may as well. I have since realised that oh no I didn’t have City of Miracles on my ballot, and I regret my life choices. 🙁

** I didn’t manage to read many comics at all this year. Definitely marked for more attention next time.

*** I’ve criticised this category a lot, but on the off-chance there was some subtle Puppying going on I wanted to do my bit. It would be very nice if there was somewhere collecting comprehensive information for this category, if it must continue in its current form. (Is there somewhere?)

**** Wooo, transcripts! \o/

***** Score one for very last minute speed-reading and recs. Also marked for more attention next year, and a wider net cast for tracking sales. Most of the ones I was watching for this time never reduced in price.
Arifel on March 17, 2018 at 8:11 pm said:

Hi all!

My ballot is sparser than the last two years, especially as I didn’t do a first-quarter short fiction binge to fill short story and novelette.

Novel:
Provenance by Ann Leckie
Jade City by Fonda Lee
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

(Had to leave off Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker and Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty 🙁 )

Novella:
Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker
Reenu-You by Michelle Tracy Berger

Novelette:
Avi Cantor has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

Short Story:
None

Series:
The Clan Chronicles by Julie E. Czerneda
The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
Divine Cities by Robert Jackson Bennett
Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells
Song of the Shattered Sands by Bradley P. Beaulieu

Related Work:
None

Graphic Story:
Mare Internum Chapter 4 by Der-Shing Helmer
Saga Volume 8 by Fiona Staples, Brian K. Vaughan
Rat Queens Volume 4 by Kurtis Wiebe and Owen Giani
Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Wonder Woman
The Last Jedi
Critical Role: Campaign One
Pyre (video game)

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
Gem Heist (Steven Universe)
The Trial (Steven Universe)
The Deep (Clipping: single)
Off Colours (Steven Universe)
Raising the Barn (Steven Universe)

Professional Editor (Long Form):
None

Professional Editor (Short Form):
None

Professional Artist:
Julie Dillon
Yuko Shimizu
Victo Ngai

Semiprozine:
The Book Smugglers
Uncanny
Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Fanzine:
File 770
Nerds of a Feather

Fancast:
Kitty G (youtube channel)
Kalanadi (youtube channel)

Fan Writer:
Bridget Kinney
Renay
Charles Payseur
Bogi Takacs
Camestros Felapton

Fan Artist:
Likhain

Young Adult Book:
Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Grey
Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Dreadnought by April Daniels
Sovereign by April Daniels

John W. Campbell Award:
Katherine Arden
Lara Elena Donnelly
Michele Tracy Berger
K.B. Wagers
Lenore Jones / jonesnori on March 17, 2018 at 10:27 pm said:

@Contrarius, I’m much happier with the word “sniping”. I was rather, wasn’t I? I am rather sensitive on this point. I’m sensitive about race as well, but that is less commonly clear just from names.

JJ said what I meant much better.
Bill on March 17, 2018 at 10:40 pm said:

Re: my Batman question and your collective answers

I certainly see SF/F elements in Batman of the later years — he dealt with ghosts, Man-Bat, etc., and he definitely got “gadgety” around the time of the 1960s TV show (maybe before).

But my recollection of the early 1940s comics was of a physically fit crimefighter who wore a costume, drove a hot-rod car, and occasionally even used a gun (maybe the pistol had gone by the wayside by 1942) — no particular SF/F elements that I can think of. But if y’all say otherwise, so be it.
Contrarius on March 17, 2018 at 10:58 pm said:

@Lenore —

Regardless of whether you are happy with either my adjective or verb choices, my point is that I think this thread is a very poor place to be criticizing someone else’s Hugo picks. IMHO, this particular thread is meant to encourage the sharing of our picks — and jumping on someone’s personal preferences for whatever reason will only discourage further sharing, not encourage it.

In fact, the possibility that somebody might respond to my own list in the manner you responded to Rich was one of the reasons I chose to not share most of my picks. I don’t need the heartburn of defending my own choices against anyone who might not agree with them.

It’s usually a good thing to stop and consider what the effect of one’s posts may be before hitting that “post comment” button. Unless your goal is actually to minimize sharing, of course.
JJ on March 17, 2018 at 11:40 pm said:

Bill: But my recollection of the early 1940s [Batman] comics was of a physically fit crimefighter who wore a costume, drove a hot-rod car

In 1942, a car that armored and un-armored at the push of a button was science fiction.

Still is, for the most part.
Bill on March 17, 2018 at 11:56 pm said:

Yes, that would be.
If I had remembered that (or if I even ever knew about it — which comic was it in?), I wouldn’t have asked the question.
Thanks.
Lenore Jones / jonesnori on March 18, 2018 at 12:09 am said:

Contrarius, I see your point. This was not a good thread for that particular complaint. I apologise to Rich Lynch and the community.
Kurt Busiek on March 18, 2018 at 12:33 am said:

But my recollection of the early 1940s comics was of a physically fit crimefighter who wore a costume, drove a hot-rod car, and occasionally even used a gun (maybe the pistol had gone by the wayside by 1942) — no particular SF/F elements that I can think of. But if y’all say otherwise, so be it.

That was the usual run of things, though the hot-rod car had a host of friends, including a kid-scale functioning jet for Robin.

But it did delve into SFF material here and there — a few of the SFF elements in 1942 Batman stories include an apparently-functional curse, a robot-whale submarine that mimics a whale well enough to fool people, sophisticated robot dinosaurs also capable of fooling people (even while fighting it hand to, uh, claw) and actual telepathy.

Other years there could be more SFF or less — it wasn’t a core element of the series, but it cropped up reasonably often.
JJ on March 18, 2018 at 12:33 am said:

Bill: If I had remembered that (or if I even ever knew about it — which comic was it in?), I wouldn’t have asked the question.

Obviously Kurt (and probably other Filers) is/are more knowledgeable about this than I am, and hopefully they will chime in, but it’s my understanding that the Batmobile’s armor goes back to 1942.
Kurt Busiek on March 18, 2018 at 12:50 am said:

On the other hand, there are no SFnal elements in “The Crimes of Two-Face,” not even if you count the Batmobile, since it doesn’t make an appearance.

I suppose one could count Two-Face’s silver dollar, which is not only scarred on one side but apparently randomly changes sizes. But I think that’s just sloppy art…
Lorien Gray on March 18, 2018 at 12:58 am said:

Here are my nominations, such as they are:

Your nominations for Best Novella:

The Prisoner of Limnos Lois McMaster Bujold
Penric’s Fox Lois McMaster Bujold
All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells
And Then There Were (N-One) Sarah Pinsker

Your nominations for Best Novelette:

The Secret Life of Bots Suzanne Palmer
The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine Greg Egan
Books of the Risen Sea Suzanne Palmer
The Worshipful Society of Glovers Mary Robinette Kowal
Remote Presence Susan Palwick

Your nominations for Best Short Story:

The Martian Obelisk Linda Nagata
The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel Matthew Bailey
Soccer Fields and Frozen Lakes Greg Kurzawa
When We Fall Kameron Hurley
Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe Naomi Kritzer

Your nominations for Best Series:

Middlearth/The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of St. Mary’s Jodi Taylor
Ancillaryverse Ann Leckie
World of Five Gods Lois McMaster Bujold

Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):

Logan
Thor: Ragnarok
Game of Thrones (Season 7)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 1)
Wonder Woman

Your nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):

Twice Upon a Time (Season 10, Christmas Special) Doctor Who
Self Control (Season 4, Ep 15) Agents of S.H.I.EL.D.
Offred (Season 1, Ep 1) The Handmaid’s Tale
Night (Season 1, Ep 10) The Handmaid’s Tale
The Return (Season 4, Ep 21) Agents of S.H.I.EL.D.

Your nominations for Best Professional Editor (Short Form):

Lee Harris (Tor.com)
Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld)
John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine)

Your nominations for Best Professional Artist:

Adam Tredowski
Jamie Jones
Robert Hunt
Galen Dara
Stephen Youll

Your nominations for Best Semiprozine:

Interzone
Black Gate John ONeill
Strange Horizons Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Scott H. Andrews
Escape Pod Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty

Your nominations for Best Fanzine:

Rocket Stack Rank Greg Hullender
File 770 Mike Glyer
nerds of a feather, flock together The G and Vance K.

Your nominations for Best Fan Writer:

Mike Glyer
Natalie Luhrs
Foz Meadows

Your nominations for Best Fan Artist:

Leon Tukker
Jeff Sturgeon
Jian Guo
Florent LLamas
Alvia Alcedo

Your nominations for The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):

Matthew Bailey
Rebecca Roanhorse
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Laurie Penney
Finbarr O’Reilly
Kurt Busiek on March 18, 2018 at 1:02 am said:

JJ — I don’t remember when the Batmobile did that, but I’m not especially a Batman expert.
Terhi on March 18, 2018 at 2:04 am said:

I tried to read widely last year but ended up doing a lot of speed reading these past two months 🙂 My nominations:

Best Novel:
Amatka Karin Tidbeck Vintage
Bannerless Carrie Vaughn
New York 2140 Kim Stanley
The Stars Are Legion Kameron Hurley
Borne Jeff VanderMeer

Best Novella:
Proof of Concept Gwyneth Jones
All Systems Red Martha Wells
And Then There Were (N-One) Sarah Pinsker
Passing Strange Ellen Klages
The Proving Ground Alec Nevala-Lee

Best Novelette:
Uncanny Valley Greg Egan
Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics Jess Barber & Sara Saab
A Series of Steaks Vina Jie-Min Prasad
The Worshipful Society of Glovers Mary Robinette Kowal
Wind Will Rove Sarah Pinsker

Best Short Story:
The Martian Obelisk Linda Nagata
Persephone of the Crows Karen Joy Fowler
Love Engine Optimization Matthew Kressel
Sidewalks Maureen McHugh
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ Rebecca Roanhorse

Best Series:
Raksura Martha Wells The Harbors of the Sun
Terra Ignota Ada Palmer The Will to Battle
His Dark Materials / Book of Dust Philip Pullman La Belle Sauvage
Corporation Wars Ken MacLeod Emergence
Diving Universe Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Runabout

Best Related Work:
The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist Syd Mead
Iain M. Banks Paul Kincaid
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds.
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy Liz Bourke
The Invention of Angela Carter Edmund Gordon

Best Graphic Story:
Shade the Changing Girl, Vol. 1: Earth Girl Made Easy, Cecil Castellucci, Marley Zarcone, Ande Parks, Ryan Kelly, and Kelly Fitzpatrick Young Animal
A.D. After Death, Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
Monstress Vol. 2; The Blood Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
Stand Still. Stay Silent, Minna Sundberg
Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book, Jomny Sun

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve
Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins
The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rian Johnson
War For the Planet of the Apes Matt Reeves

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
The Expanse, Season 2, Episode 5: Home Mark Fergus,
The Handmaid’s Tale: Offred B
Black Mirror 4: Metalhead
12 Monkeys, Season 3, Episode10: Witness
Stranger Things 2: Chapter Nine: The Gate

Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
Devi Pillai
Liz Gorinsky

Best Professional Editor (Short Form):
Toni Jerrman
Neil Clarke
Ann VanderMeer
Sheila Williams

Best Professional Artist:
Jaime Jones
Stephen Youll
Reiko Murakami
Victor Mosquera
Julie Dillon

Best Semiprozine:
Strange Horizons
Interzone
Uncanny
Tähtivaeltaja
GigaNotoSaurus

Best Fanzine:
Book Smugglers
Nerds of a feather, flock together The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry
Young People Read Old SFF
Lady Business
File 770

Best Fancast:
Galactic Suburbia
Tea & Jeopardy
The Coode Street Podcast
Eating the Fantastic

Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo):
Want Cindy Pon
Shadowhouse Fall Daniel Jose Older
The Silent Invasion James Bradley
Jane, Unlimited Kristin Cashore
The Ship Beyond Time Heidi Heilig

The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Aimee Ogden
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Sylvain Neuvel
Nathan Hillstrom
Sara Norja
Cassy B on March 18, 2018 at 7:02 am said:

Damn damn damn. I entirely forgot to nominate “The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, even though I looked at my ballot and thought, wow, surely I read more Hugo-worthy novelettes this years. And I nominated Broken Earth in Series, because I forgot Jemison asked us not to.

Damn.

Still, I’m really enjoying reading peoples’ ballots; for the entirely selfish reasons that 1) it validates some (not all, but a good many) of my choices (yeah! I’m nominating stuff that really IS worthy! I’m adulting correctly!) and 2) it’s pointing me to really good works that I simply missed last year — when something appears on multiple ballots, that’s a very strong signal.

So, yay! for self-confidence and double-yay! for yet more additions to Mount Tsunduko….

Cassy
Contrarius on March 18, 2018 at 7:06 am said:

It looks to me like

All Systems Red Martha Wells
And Then There Were (N-One) Sarah Pinsker
Passing Strange Ellen Klages

are clear frontrunners in novella. Now I’m feeling especially bad that I didn’t get to Passing Strange before the deadline — I had it lined up 2nd in line in Mt TBR and everything! But I bet I’ll be reading it for the final voting, so there’s that. I’m also feeling bad that I only got 1/2 way through Acadie before the buzzer sounded — yet another good story.

So many books, so little time!
Mark on March 18, 2018 at 7:20 am said:

@Cassie

And I totally forgot The Power was eligible again this year. Hopefully others will pick up the slack for us!

@Contrarius

None of those particularly surprise me, in particular I think Murderbot has been the front runner for months.
I’m currently looking at what seems to be coming up in Series with a mixture of interest and trepidation – Foreigner is looking quite likely, and none of them are available in UK ebook so I’ll be hoping for an exceptionally generous packet entry.
Contrarius on March 18, 2018 at 7:57 am said:

@Mark —

Yup, I’ve been hearing about Wells’s and Pinsker’s stories. Not so much Klages’s, though obviously it was on my radar.

Personally I loved the Wells, didn’t care too much for the Pinsker. But as always, to each their own.

As for Foreigner, that wouldn’t bother me. I’ve only read the first three of that series; I liked book 1 very much, 2 and 3 only moderately, but I’d be happy to read more of the books during final voting prep.
Arifel on March 18, 2018 at 8:07 am said:

Coming in again to leave a tick. Really interesting to see everyone’s picks so far.

@Mark I believe Foreigner is published by DAW Books, which also publishes Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series and made literally everything – 10 books plus all short fiction – available in the series packet last year. Obviously that doesn’t mean they’ll automatically do the same thing this year, but it’s a possibility and I’ll add my name to the list of people who would be SUPER grateful if they do. It successfully sold me on all things Toby Daye last year too…!
Muccamukk on March 18, 2018 at 8:24 am said:

I’m just going to order Six Wakes from the library now and get a jump on reading novels.
Kendall on March 18, 2018 at 10:00 am said:

@Cassy B: “And I nominated Broken Earth in Series, because I forgot Jemison asked us not to.”

I’m still irritated about Jemisin doing that, but I honestly did forget all about it. I’d done preliminary noms quite a while back and never even re-looked at my Best Series noms. If I’d remembered, I’m not sure what I’d’ve done, but part of me (from my ballot, 1/5th of me – possibly not a 100% mature part?) hopes it’s a finalist and wins despite her. 😛 I really, really hate authors telling people not to nominate/vote for what they love.

I’m annoyed that I spaced on a couple of online fanzines (blogs) I should’ve nominated. D’oh! I’m not much on the fan categories, but seeing folks’ nom lists here reminds me I could’ve easily nominated more fanzines and fan writers.

@Arifel & @Mark (kitteh): Yeah, as long as the series is, if it’s a finalist, I suspect DAW would make at least make some subset/sub-series available. 19 books seems a little unlikely (even given their generosity last year) – an impractical to try to read all of! – but we may see. 😉

@Muccamukk: I hope you enjoy Six Wakes! 🙂
Sylvia Sotomayor on March 18, 2018 at 12:03 pm said:

Here are mine:

Best Novel:
Winter Tides Ruthanna Emrys
An Unkindness of Magicians Kat Howard
Provenance Ann Leckie Orbit
Stone Sky NK Jemisin Orbit

Best Novella:
Penric’s Fox Lois McMaster Bujold
And Then There Were (N-One) Sarah Pinsker Uncanny
All Systems Red Martha Wells Tor.com
The Red Threads of Fortune J Y Yang tor.com

Best Novelette:
The Dark Birds Ursula Vernon Apex Magazine

Best Short Story:
Fandom for Robots Vina Jie-Min Prasad Uncanny
Sun, Moon, Dust Ursula Vernon Uncanny
Origin Story T Kingfisher Apex Magazine
Hold Me Fast Alter Reiss GigaNotoSaurus
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom Max Gladstone tor.com

Best Series:
Foreigner CJ Cherryh Convergence
Lady Trent Memoirs Marie Brennan Within the Sanctuary of Wings
Vlad Taltos Steven Brust Vallista
Penric and Desdemona Lois McMaster Bujold Penric’s Fox
Books of the Raksura Martha Wells Harbors of the Sun
Doctor Science on March 18, 2018 at 12:11 pm said:

Your nominations for Best Novel:

Provenance Ann Leckie Orbit
Terminal Alliance Jim C. Hines DAW
Winter Tide Ruthanna Emrys Tor
City of Miracles Robert Jackson Bennett Broadway Books
Raven Strategem Yoon Ha Lee Solaris

Your nominations for Best Series:

The Broken Earth N.K. Jemison The Stone Sky
The Craft Sequence Max Gladstone The Ruin of Angels
The Memoirs of Lady Trent Marie Brennan Within the Sanctuary of Wings
The Divine Cities Robert Jackson Bennett City of Miracles
Vlad Taltos Steven Brust Vallista

Your nominations for Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo):

Akata Warrior Nnedi Okorafor Viking
Shadowhouse Fall Daniel Jose Older Arthur A. Levine Books
All the Crooked Saints Maggie Stiefvater Scholastic
——–
a limited slate, because I procrastinated and then spent the last 2 days before the deadline researching & purchasing a TV system for my parents, and then went to a Weird Al concert in Atlantic City.

Clearly I didn’t hear (or remember) about not nominating The Broken Earth. Oh well.

Looking over the posted nominations, I am struck by how very *different* all our tastes are: even when I agree with half of someone’s choices, the other half always contains things that make me go WTF, you’ve got to be kidding!

I’m impressed that we still remember all these works in 8887.
Andrew M on March 18, 2018 at 1:32 pm said:

I’m glad to see Lady Trent doing so well (she’s ahead of Foreigner by quite a way). I can’t see any File-770-specific reason for this, so I think she has a very good chance of reaching the shortlist.
Sylvia Sotomayor on March 18, 2018 at 1:46 pm said:

I think it is because the 2017 volume, Within the Sanctuary of Wings, is the last in the series. Not that there might not be more, but it wraps things up.
JJ on March 18, 2018 at 2:10 pm said:

Contrarius: Now I’m feeling especially bad that I didn’t get to Passing Strange before the deadline — I had it lined up 2nd in line in Mt TBR and everything!

This is what I wrote about it in the 2017 Novellapalooza:

This story is very loosely based on the life of Margaret Brundage, a prolific artist of more than 70 covers plus many interior illustrations for the early SFF pulp magazines (primarily Weird Tales).

While the SFFnal elements are slight until the end, I really loved the way the story captured the cultural context of that time and place, as well as telling a poignant story of love and friendship, with beautifully-realized characters. I enjoyed this so much that I was sorry to see it end, and it will definitely be on my Hugo ballot.

Usually I complain when a story isn’t very SFFnal, but this one really hit my sweet spot, and I’m delighted to see that it may have a strong shot at a space on the final ballot. I’ll be interested to hear what you think after you’ve read it.

Contrarius: I’m also feeling bad that I only got 1/2 way through Acadie before the buzzer sounded — yet another good story.

I had high hopes for that one, and I enjoyed it, but I didn’t really think that it stuck the landing — perhaps because it trod the same ground which has been trod already many times. But I would be interested to hear your opinion after you finish it.
Johan P on March 18, 2018 at 2:24 pm said:

Best Novel:
The Girl in the Tower Katherine Arden
The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden
Null States Malka Older
Clockwork Boys T. Kingfisher
Provenance Ann Leckie

Best Novella:
Down Among the Sticks and Bones Seanan McGuire
Final Girls Mira Grant
The Furthest Station Ben Aaronovitch
And then there were (n-1) Sarah Pinsker

Best Novelette:
Uncanny Valley Greg Egan
Come See the Living Dryad Theodora Goss
Hyddwen Heather Rose Jones
Angel of the Blockade Alex Wells

Best Short Story:
Sun, Moon, Dust Ursula Vernon
Sanctuary Allen Steele
The Names of the Sky Matthew Claxton
All of the Cuddles With None of the Pain J. J. Roth

Best Graphic Story:
17776 – What Football Will Look Like in the Future Jon Bois

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Professional Editor (Long Form):
K.B. Spangler
Gillian Redfearn

Best Semiprozine:
Podcastle

Best Fanzine:
Rocket Stack Rank
File770

Best Fan Writer:
Camestros Felapton
Mike Glyer

The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):
Katherine Arden
rcade on March 18, 2018 at 3:10 pm said:

Here’s my nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):

Blade Runner 2049, Ridley Scott, Columbia Pictures
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, Lucasfilm
Wonder Woman, Allan Heinberg, Warner Bros.
Logan , Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green, 20th Century Fox
Get Out, Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures

Of those my favorite is Blade Runner 2049. That is an amazing piece of filmmaking.
Contrarius on March 18, 2018 at 6:39 pm said:

@Johan P —

The Girl in the Tower Katherine Arden
The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden

I’m glad to see book 2 getting some love. I haven’t read it yet, but I liked book 1 very much (and put it on my shortlist).

@JJ — I’ll check in when I get em read!
Bonnie McDaniel on March 18, 2018 at 7:33 pm said:

@Contrarius

I thought The Girl in the Tower was a much better book; tighter, more focused, almost no POV headhopping. In fact, that was the book that made me decide to nominate Arden for the Campbell; Bear, not so much.
Contrarius on March 18, 2018 at 8:46 pm said:

@Bonnie —

I’m looking forward to it. I just downloaded it from Audible this evening!
Kendall on March 18, 2018 at 9:27 pm said:

/NomStalk!
Johan P on March 19, 2018 at 12:02 am said:

@Contrarius, Bonnie: I agree with Bonnie that The Girl in the Tower is (even) better than the first. I wrote more about it in the 2017 recommended works thread:
https://file770.com/?p=33961&cpage=4#comment-754216
k_choll on March 19, 2018 at 6:11 am said:

I didn’t nominate in too many categories this year. I didn’t do a lot of short fiction reading.

Best Novel:
The Moon and the Other – John Kessel
New York 2140 – Kim Stanley Robinson
Barbary Station – R.E. Stearns
The Last Good Man – Linda Nagata
An Excess Male – Maggie Shen King

Best Series:
The Broken Earth – N.K. Jemison
Mercy Thompson – Patricia Briggs

Best Dramatic Presentation Long:
The Farthest: Voyager in Space (hey, if Hidden Figures counts, then so does this, and I liked it way more than any true scifi films in 2017)

John Campbell:
Sarah Kuhn
Maggie Shen King
Warner Belanger on March 19, 2018 at 7:59 am said:

Here’s a tally of the novellas. I’m also working on one for novels.
All Systems Red – Martha Wells 27
And Then There Were (N–One) – Sarah Pinsker 25
Passing Strange – Ellen Klages 11
Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire 7
The Furthest Station – Ben Aaronovitch 4
The Red Threads of Fortune – JY Yang 4
“17776” – Jon Bois and Graham MacAree 3
Agents of Dreamland – Caitlín R. Kiernan 3
Binti: Home – Nnedi Okorafor 3
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day – Seanan McGuire 3
In Calabria – Peter S. Beagle 3
River Of Teeth – Sarah Gailey 3
The Black Tides of Heaven – J.Y. Yang 3
The Prisoner of Limnos – Lois McMaster Bujold 3
Bartimaeus on March 19, 2018 at 8:29 am said:

Sparse reading year for me.

Best Novel:
The Stone Sky – N K Jemisin
Assassin’s Fate – Robin Hobb

Best Short Story:
Sun, Moon, Dust – Ursula Vernon

Best Series:
Fitz and the Fool – Robin Hobb
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):
Logan
Wonder Woman
Stranger Things: Season 2
War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):
Hang the DJ – Black Mirror
Black Museum – Black Mirror
World Enough and Time – Doctor Who
Offred – The Handmaid’s Tale

Best Fanzine:
Women Write About Comics – Doris V Sutherland
Camestros Felapton – Camestros Felapton
Mark on March 19, 2018 at 8:40 am said:

@Warner Belanger

Interesting – A couple of runaway leaders and then a very long tail.
Kat Jones on March 19, 2018 at 9:43 am said:

Best Novel
· Provenance, by Ann Leckie
· Seven Surrenders, by Ada Palmer
· The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

Best Novella
· Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor
· I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land, by Connie Willis
· Mira’s Last Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold
· The Prisoner of Limnos, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Short Story
· Eminence, by Karl Schroeder
· In Everlasting Wisdom, by Aliette de Bodard
· Machine Learning, by Hugh Howey
· Street Life in the Emerald City, by Brenda Cooper
· The Dragon that Flew Out of the Sun, by Aliette de Bodard

Best Series
· Hidden Legacy, by Ilona Andrews
· World of the Five Gods / Penric and Desdemona, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
· Spider-Man: Homecoming
· Star Wars: The Last Jedi
· The Good Place, Season 1
· Wonder Woman

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
· Star Trek Continues, S. 1 Ep. 9 – “What Ships Are For”
· Star Trek: Discovery, S. 1 Ep. 5 – “Choose Your Pain”
· Star Trek: Discovery, S. 1 Ep. 7 – “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
· The Orville, S. 1 Ep. 7 – “Majority Rule”
· The Orville, S. 1 Ep. 12 – “Mad Idolatry”
Warner Belanger on March 19, 2018 at 10:13 am said:

Tally for Best Novel (74 different books and includes Kat Jones post)
Provenance – Ann Leckie 14
The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin 13
Six Wakes – Mur Lafferty 10
New York 2140 – Kim Stanley Robinson 9
Raven Stratagem – Yoon Ha Lee 8
Borne – Jeff VanderMeer 6
City of Miracles – Robert Jackson Bennett 6
Amatka – Karin Tidbeck 5
The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden 5
The Stars Are Legion – Kameron Hurley 5
Winter Tide – Ruthanna Emrys 5
Clockwork Boys – T. Kingfisher 4
In Other Lands – Sarah Rees Brennan 4
Seven Surrenders – Ada Palmer 4
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. – Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland 4
The Will to Battle – Ada Palmer 4
An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon 3
Jade City – Fonda Lee 3
Terminal Alliance – Jim C. Hines 3
The Moon and the Other – John Kessel 3
Warner Belanger on March 19, 2018 at 10:15 am said:

@Mark
Yes, the Best Novel category seems to be more even but still with five clear leaders.
Mike Glyer on March 19, 2018 at 11:21 am said:

Bartimaeus: Rats, I forgot about Sutherland when I filled in my ballot.
Cassy B on March 19, 2018 at 11:33 am said:

Mike, I think most of us have had a “rats, I forgot about…” moment whilst reading other peoples’ nominees. If we’re really lucky, enough people WON’T have forgotten about [fill-in-the-blank] for it to show up on the ballot regardless!
Warner Belanger on March 19, 2018 at 2:28 pm said:

Tally for Best Novelete (52 different novelettes)
The Secret Life of Bots – Suzanne Palmer 12
A Series of Steaks – Vina Jie-Min Prasad 8
Extracurricular Activities – Yoon Ha Lee 7
The Dark Birds – Ursula Vernon 6
Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics – Jess Barber and Sara Saab 4
Wind Will Rove – Sarah Pinsker 4
Making Us Monsters – Sam J. Miller and Lara Elena Donnelly 3
The Worshipful Society of Glovers – Mary Robinette Kowal 3
To Us May Grace Be Given – L.S. Johnson 3
A Vortal In Midtown – Ashok K. Banker 2
Angel of the Blockade – Alex Wells 2
Books of the Risen Sea – Suzanne Palmer 2
Come See the Living Dryad – Theodora Goss 2
Concessions – Khalidah Muhammed Ali 2
The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine – Greg Egan 2
The Lamentation of Their Women – Kai Ashante Wilson 2
The Thule Stowaway – Maria Dahvana Headley 2
Uncanny Valley – Greg Egan 2
Waiting on a Bright Moon – JY Yang 2

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