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I’ve put all my nominations up on my own blog at https://lordofthemoon.com/blog/2024/03/my-hugo-nominations-2024/
Category: Best Novel
Title: The Tyranny of Faith, Author: Richard Swan
Title: Lords of Uncreation, Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Title: The Olympian Affair, Author: Jim Butcher
Title: Season of Skulls, Author: Charles Stross
Title: Dragonfired, Author: J. Zachary Pike
Category: Best Series
Series Name: The Laundry Files, Author: Charles Stross, 2023 Example from Series: Season of Skulls
Series Name: The Final Architecture, Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2023 Example from Series: Lords of Uncreation
Series Name: Vlad Taltos, Author: Steven Brust, 2023 Example from Series: Tsalmoth
Series Name: Elric of Melnibone, Author: Michael Moorcock, 2023 Example from Series: “The Folk in the Forest” in New Edge Sword and Sorcery Issue 1
Series Name: Saevus Corax, Author: K.J. Parker, 2023 Example from Series: Saevus Coras Gets Away With Murder
Category: Best Related Work
Title: Hither Came Conan: The Best Conan Story Is…, Author/Editor: Jason M Waltz
Title: MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, Author/Editor: Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards
Title: Jewish Futures: Stories from the World’s Oldest Diaspora, Author/Editor: Michael A. Burstein
Title: Culture: The Drawings, Author/Editor: Iain M. Banks
Title: Elon Musk, Author/Editor: Walter Isaacson
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Godzilla Minus One
Title: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Title: Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 4)
Title: Good Omens (aeason 2)
Title: One Piece (season 1)
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 7: “Those Old Scientists” , Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 9: “Subspace Rhapsody”, Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 5: “Charades”, Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Title: Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 6 “The Bounty”, Series: Star Trek: Picard
Title: “Eat at Baratie!”, Season 1, Episode 5 of One Piece, Series: One Piece live action on Netflix
I agonized over and over and switched up things.
Some of my nominations:
Witch King, Author : Martha Wells
Where Peace is Lost, Valerie Valdes
Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky
He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan
Liberty’s Daughter, Author Naomi Kritzer
Mammoths at the Gates, Author Nghi Vo
The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott
Little Nothing, Author Dee Holloway
I didn’t read much published in 2023, but I did watch a lot of TV and films.
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Mrs. Davis, Season 1, Peacock
Title: The Boy and the Heron, Studio Ghibli
Title: Poor Things
Title: Asteroid City
Title: Silo, Season 1, Apple TV+
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Title: Beyond the Sea, Series: Black Mirror
Title: The Church on Ruby Road, Series: Doctor Who
Title: Long, Long Time, Series: The Last of Us
Title: All the Way Down, Series: Futurama
Title: Leningrad, Series: For All Mankind
Category: Best Game or Interactive Work
Title: Apiary (Stonemeier Games)
Category: Best Fancast
Title: Octothorpe
Best Novel
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
Starling House, Alix Harrow
Him, Geoff Ryman
Mr. Breakfast, Jonathan Carroll
City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Best Novella
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher
The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das
Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
Saint and Thornhedge were, by far, my favorites last year.
Raj Bhaskar: I enjoyed your comments about the works on your Hugo ballot.
I just took a look at the Iain M. Banks book of Culture drawings and you seem to be right that it would open the eligibility window for a Best Series nomination.
I keep getting an “internal server error” notification when I try to post my list? Maybe it’s too long? Let’s split it up.
Part 1:
Here’s mine.
Category: Best Novel
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty
Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
The Blighted Stars, Megan E. O’Keefe
The Reformatory, Tananarive Due
Category: Best Novella
The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott
The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw
To Sail Beyond the Botnet, Suzanne Palmer
Category: Best Novelette
SuperMAX, Daniel H. Wilson
The Year Without Sunshine, Naomi Kritzer
Detonation Boulevard, Alastair Reynolds
Love At the Event Horizon, Natalia Theodoridou
The Ones Who Come Back To Heal, Cynthia Gomez
Category: Best Short Story
Death and Redemption, Somewhere Near Tuba City, Lou J. Berger
Better Living Through Algorithms, Naomi Kritzer
The Fall of Esther Park, Lynn D. Jung
Somewhere, It’s About To Be Spring, Samantha Murray
Origin Story, Tochi Onyebuchi, from the anthology Out There Screaming
(And I really wish we had an Anthology category.)
Part 2:
The Outside trilogy, Ada Hoffman
The Final Architecture trilogy, Adrian Tchaikovsky (hopefully he gets another crack at it, as the other win will always be suspect, and I actually liked this one better anyway)
October Daye, Seanan McGuire,
Kate Daniels, Ilona Andrews
Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie
Category: Best Graphic Story or Comic
Why Don’t You Love Me? Paul B. Rainey
Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno, Marjorie Liu
Category: Best Related Work
The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, From Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies, Ryan Britt
Making It So, Patrick Stewart
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Barbie
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Long, Long Time, The Last of Us
Glorious Purpose, Loki
Outside, Silo
Those Old Scientists, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Shadow Warrior, Star Wars: Ahsoka
Part 3:
Category: Best Editor, Short Form
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
David Steffen
Jonathan Strahan
Jennifer Lyn Parsons
Neil Clarke
Category: Best Editor, Long Form
Kelly Lonesome
Ruoxi Chen
Natasha Bardon
Lee Harris
George Sandison
Part 4:
Category: Best Semiprozine
Strange Horizons
Luna Station Quarterly
Fiyah
Khoreo
Apparition Lit
Category: Best Fanzine
Black Nerd Problems
Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together
Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog
Women Write About Comics
Category: Best Fan Writer
Paul Weimer
Alex Brown
Arturo Serrano
Jenny Hamilton
Jason Sanford
Category: Lodestar
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White
Category: Astounding Award for Best New Writer
James Castles
Tia Tashiro
(Well, that was exhausting.)
Some Desperate Glory, Infinity Gate, House of Open Wounds in novel.
Final Architecture in Series
Thorn Hedge, And Put Away these Childish Things in novella.
Some other things. Some people who post here in Fan Writer.
Oh yes, Hugo Nominations 2023 in Short Story.
Are the question marks from the Chinese characters in the interface, or what?
I didn’t get to nominate; I was unexpectedly busy, and in fact I’m going to have to transfer my membership anyway.
That seems a good bet — that the question marks are from Chinese characters. Although I was able to get WordPress to fix the character table for posts, I haven’t gotten it fixed for comments. I’ve spent the last year or so diverted by a pointless effort to get them to send subscriber notifications for every post.
If any of the novels win, I have a lot of reading to do! I have no idea how to watch Godzilla Minus One. 🙂
Novel
Exadelic, Jon Evans
Hopeland, Ian McDonald
Translation State, Ann Leckie
The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud
Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novella
Rose/House, Arkady Martine
And Put Away Childish Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire
A Theory of Haunting, Sarah Monette
Novelette
Detonation Boulevard, Alastair Reynolds
The Passing of the Dragon Ken Liu
Good Spells, Ken Liu
Here Instead of There, Elizabeth Bear
Contracting Iris, Peter Watts
Short story
The Star-Bear, Michael Swanwick
Zeta-Epsilon, Isabel J. Kim
Day Ten Thousand, Isabel J. Kim
Forever the Forest Simone Heller
The Job at the End of the World, Ray Nayler
Best series
The Laundry Files, Charles Stross,
Elric of Melnibone, Michael Moorcock
Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie
Quantum Evolution/Venus Ascendant, Derek Kunsken
Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust,
Lodestar
Promises Stronger Than Darknes Charlie Jane Anders
Fox Snare, Yoon Ha Lee
Unraveller, Frances Hardinge
Liberty’s Daughter, Naomi Kritzer
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose
Astounding
Kritika H. Rao
Richard Swan
Sunyi Dean
Naseem Jamnia
Moniquill Blackgoose,
Lfex: Astounding… Moniquill Blackgoose
It’s my understanding that Blackgoose is ineligible due to the 2020 publication of a novel under the name Monique Poirier.
My partner Juli and I nominated (checks notes)…OH SHIT, I got the GMT time wrong on this side of the Atlantic!!!!! GAH!!!!!
Well, nothing this year, my bad. But good luck to all of the potential nominees! I look forward to seeing who gets nominated this year!
Best Wishes,
CMB
To some degree, I feel that would be telling and if too many people did it there’d be an unfortunate loss of suspense. That said…
It may not be a lifelong thing but I decided not to nominate anything for Best Novel by a previous winner in that category – sorry Martha Wells but if I’d nominated you for everything you arguably deserve, I would have had a very hard time deciding what to do with my last couple of slots.
I’m very out of it with respect to video games but nevertheless nominated XKCD 2765: Escape Speed for Best Game/Interactive Experience.
I see at Raj’s blog that he nominated Polite Society for BDPLF. Maybe I should have also – it’s utterly delightful and I certainly enjoyed it more than at the very least two or three of the works I did nominate – but in much the same way I consider REAMDE a present day technothriller rather than science fiction and every stunt work/CGI-assisted action film in which someone is depicted performing some physically impossible feat not by that alone automatically a work of fantasy, I have trouble with classifying it as SFF.
JJ: It’s my understanding that Blackgoose is ineligible due to the 2020 publication of a novel under the name Monique Poirier.
Well, tough luck. Too late to change it. Does it make the novel itsefl also ineligible?
Category: Best Novelette
Title: City, A Desert & All Their Dirges, A, Author: Somto Ihezue & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Title: Old Seeds, Author: Owen Leddy
Title: One Man's Treasure, Author: Sarah Pinsker
Title: SuperMAX, Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Title: Hausferatu, Author: Chris Willrich
Category: Best Short Story
Title: Ones Who Come Back to Heal, The, Author: Cynthia Gómez
Title: Sound of Children Screaming, The, Author: Rachael K. Jones
Title: Seven Words That Killed a God, The, Author: Evan Gillespie
Title: Name is a Plea and A Prophecy, A, Author: Gabrielle Emem Harry
Title: Soul in the World, A, Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Category: Best Series
Series Name: Rivers of London, Author: Ben Aaronovitch, 2023 Example from Series: Winter's Gift
Series Name: Perry Rhodan, Author: various, 2023 Example from Series: 200 Millionen Lichtjahre
Series Name: InCryptid, Author: Seanan McGuire, 2023 Example from Series: Backpacking Through Bedlam
Series Name: Imperial Radch, Author: Ann Leckie, 2023 Example from Series: Translation State
Series Name: Elric of Melniboné, Author: Michael Moorcock, 2023 Example from Series: "The Folk in the Forest"
Category: Best Graphic Story or Comic
Title: Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Author: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Title: Good Omens (Season 2)
Title: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Title: Nimona
Title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Title: "Church on Ruby Road, The", Series: Doctor Who
Title: "Long, Long Time", Series: Last of Us, The
Title: "Glorious Purpose", Series: Loki
Title: “Ad Astra Per Aspera”, Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worldsc
Title: Babylon 5: The Road Home, Series: Babylon 5
Category: Best Semiprozine
Title: Escape Pod
Title: FIYAH Literary Magazine
Title: GigaNotoSaurus
Title: Cast of Wonders
Category: Best Fanzine
Title: Galactic Journey
Title: Journey Planet
Category: Best Fan Writer
Author: Cora Buhlert, Example:Author: Camestros Felapton, Example:
Author: Paul Weimar, Example: http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/06/6-books-with-matt-wallace.html
Author: John Smith (aka ErsatzCulture), Example: https://file770.com/tag/ersatz-culture/?order=asc
Author: Bitter Karella, Example:
Hugo admin had, and I am very grateful for them for this, to enter my ballot, as the software system kept rejecting my email address.
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Dear Cat Eldridge
An Admin has entered or modified your nominations. Please review your ballot if this is unexpected.
Here are your 2024 Hugo Awards nominations, as of March 8, 2024, 6:52 p.m.
Category: Best Novel
Title: Translation State, Author: Ann Leckie
Title: System Collapse, Author: Martha Wells
Title: Liberty’s Daughter, Author: Naomi Kritzer
Title: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi , Author: Shannon Chakraborty
Category: Best Series
Series Name: Imperial Radch series, Author: Ann Leckie, 2023 Example from Series: Translation State
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Category: Best Fan Writer
Author: Serrano, Example: NOAF
Author: Alasdair Stuart, Example: The Full Lid
Category: Astounding Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo)
Author: Kritika Rao, Example: The Surviving Sky
Author: Bethany Jacobs, Example: These Burning Stars.
Cat, funny thing; Nicholas and Cassidy only told me that they wanted NomNom to do that on Monday.
Made for a stressful evening or two this week, lemme tell you!
(Also, as an aside, I’m seeing a lot of “??” in what seems to be peoples’ copied emails from the system. That is surprising to me, and I would like to know what those are. If someone would kindly forward me one of those emails, I’d be grateful. You can email me at [email protected], and you might want to post here that you did it so I don’t get copies of everyone‘s nominations 😀 )
Chris R says Cat, funny thing; Nicholas and Cassidy only told me that they wanted NomNom to do that on Monday.
Made for a stressful evening or two this week, lemme tell you!
I’ve no idea when I realised that it was not working, so that may be my fault as much as anything. And you are dealing with an individual who can forget what day of the week it is within minutes of knowing what day of the week it was. Ahhh, severe brain trauma. The anti-gift.
Again my deepest thanks for finding a solution so I could send my nominations in even if I forgot two people here that I should add in to the fan writer noms. Can you email me and I’ll tell you who that is please if that’s possible?
E-Mail sent to Chris.
Ohhhh! Those are the Chinese names of the categories. Much relief!
Thanks, StefanB
I had high hopes for Translation State but sadly found it to be kind of paint by numbers. In case anyone wants to change my mind.
I didn’t nominate because I’m burned out on Hugos – as opposed to last year when I didn’t nominate because I had high hopes of instead of nominating, rather being introduced to great stuff by other fans from across the world, and my hopes were dashed. I wonder how many did.
@Cat I don’t have any control over the nominations process, so I can’t help ya there. I don’t run NomNom, I’m just building it 😀 Until Thursday this week there was no process for the Admin to manually enter a ballot for a member who was experiencing login problems.
(I want to be clear; Glasgow’s membership / login system is emphatically not mine and I take no responsibility for it! 🙂 )
Chris R: While I (alas, as noted above) can not check this fully, it has been noted that Glasgow had translated the nominating interface into Chinese (mainly for the sake of the eligible Cengdu members), and it seems likely that the confirmation emails include the apporipriate characters, which (it is certain, as noted above) would be munged by the File770 comments.
EDIT: Sorry, only after I posted this it turned out that the comments have already gone ro this independently. Still, it feels a waste to delete the commmment completely; just in case…
Detonation Boulevard was a return to form. Five stars. Thanks for the rec.
@Mike: thanks. This is the first time I’ve nominated for the Hugos and I enjoyed adding the little comments on my thought processes (even if it took much longer than I expected!)
(Spoiler for Polite Society coming)
@JonT: I thought that the cloning stuff made it science fictional enough to count. The wire fighting was just sugar on top! Still, that’s one for the administrator to sort out :?-?)
CATEGORY: BEST NOVELLA
Title: On the English Approach to the Study of History, Author: E. Saxey
Title: The Crane Husband, Author: Kelly Barnhill
Title: The Tinker and the Timestream, Author: Carolyn Ives Gilman
Title: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Author: Indra Das
Title: After Many A Summer, Author: Time Powers
CATEGORY: BEST NOVELETTE
Title: Contracting Iris, Author: Peter Watts
Title: Saturday’s Song, Author: Wole Talabi
Title: SuperMAX, Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Title: The luck thief, Author: Tade Thompson
Title: The witch is not a monster, Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson
CATEGORY: BEST SHORT STORY
Title: Today I know, Author: Martin L. Shoemaker
Title: Berb by Berb, Author: Ray Nayler
Title: How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub, Author: P. Djèlí Clark
Title: In the Days After …, Author: Frank Ward
Title: Just a nudge, Author: Maureen F. McHugh
Best Novel
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
Dragonfired by J. Zachary Pike
Gods of the Wyrdwood by R.J. Barker
Best Novella
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
Best Novelette
“Prince Hat Underground” by Kelly Link
“On the Fox Roads” by Nghi Vo
Best Short Story
“The Unexpected Excursion of the Murder Mystery-Writing Witches” by Garth Nix
“Her Ravenous Waters” by Andrea Stewart
“Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace Trim” by Kelsea Yu
“Eulogy for a Brother, Resurrected” by Carson Faust
“Stitch” by Kathleen Schaefer
Best Graphic Story
The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
Best Series
The Dark Profit Saga, by J. Zachary Pike (2023 entry: Dragonfired)
Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson (2023 entry: The Lost Metal)
Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Moniquill Blackgoose
Category: Best Novel
Title: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn, Author : Mark Lawrence
Title: Chain-Gang All-Stars, Author : Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Title: The Future, Author: Naomi Alderman
Title: Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Author: Emma Torzs
Title: Infinity Gate, Author: M.R. Carey
Category: Best Graphic Story or Comic
Title : Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, Author: Patrick Horvath
Title: The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2, Author: James Tynion IV
Title: Carmilla: The First Vampire, Author: Amy Chu
Title: The Riddler: Year One, Author: Paul Dano
Title: Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Author: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: They Cloned Tyrone
Title: Godzilla Minus One
Title: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Title Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season two)
Title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Category: Best Game or Interactive Work
Title: Baldur’s Gate 3
Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
Title: Darkest Dungeon II
Title: Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
Title: Slay the Princess
Best Novel
Translation State, Ann Leckie
No Foreign Sky, Rachel Neumeier
Paladin’s Faith, T Kingfisher
Tsalmoth, Steven Brust
Best Series
Tuyo, Rachel Neumeier
Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Charades, Strange New Worlds
Subspace Rhapsody, Strange New Worlds
Those Old Scientists, Strange New Worlds
Caves, Lower Decks
Old Friends, Lower Decks
Best Game or Interactive Work
Baldur’s Gate 3
Stray Gods
Lfex: Does it make the novel itsefl also ineligible?
I’m pretty sure that the novel is eligible, so you should be good there.
I would have nominated Life Beyond Us. 😉
Category: Best Novel
Title: Terraformers, The, Author: Annalee Newitz
Title: Lords of Uncreation, Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Title: To Shape A Dragon’s Breath, Author: Moniquill Blackgoose
Title: Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, The, Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Title: Salvage Right, Author: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Category: Best Novella
Title: To Sail Beyond the Botnet, Author: Suzanne Palmer
Title: Thornhedge, Author: T. Kingfisher
Title: The Mimicking of Known Successes, Author: Malka Older
Title: Feed them Silence, Author: Lee Mandelo
Category: Best Novelette
Title: Saturday’s Song, Author: Wole Talabi
Title: Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds, Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
Title: The Year Without Sunshine, Author: Naomi Kritzer
Title: Ivy, Angelica, Bay, Author: C. L. Polk
Category: Best Short Story
Title: Zeta-Epsilon, Author: Isabel J. Kim
Title: Counting Casualties, Author: Yoon Ha Lee
Title: Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood, Author: Nghi Vo
Title: Mid-Earth Removals Limited, Author: R.S.A. Garcia
Title: The Canadian Miracle, Author: Cory Doctorow
Category: Best Series
Series Name: Liaden Universe, Author: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, 2023 Example from Series: Salvage Right
Series Name: Final Architecture, The, Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2023 Example from Series: Lords of Uncreation
Series Name: Nine Worlds, Author: Victoria Goddard, 2023 Example from Series: Derring-Do for Beginners
Series Name: Last Binding, The, Author: Freya Marske, 2023 Example from Series: A Power Unbound
Series Name: Coast Road, The, Author: Carrie Vaughn, 2023 Example from Series: Learning Letters
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Season 4)
Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 2)
Title: Loki (Season 2)
Title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Title: The Marvels
[Kicking myself for forgetting that the Boy and the Heron was a 2023 release]
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Title: “Glorious Purpose”, Series: Loki
Title: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Title: “Church on Ruby Road, The”, Series: Doctor Who
Title: “Giggle, The”, Series: Doctor Who
Title: “Caves”, Series: Star Trek: Lower Decks
Category: Best Professional Artist
Artist/Illustrator: Carson Daniel Lowmiller, Example: Bookshops & Bonedust
Artist/Illustrator: Yoshi Yoshitani, Example: New Suns 2
Artist/Illustrator: Julie Dillon, Example: Counting Casualties
Artist/Illustrator: Anna and Elena Balbusso, Example: Menewood
Artist/Illustrator: Fort, Example: Feed Them Silence
Category: Best Semiprozine
Title: Clarkesworld
Title: Lightspeed
Title: Cast of Wonders
Category: Best Fanzine
Title: The Sunday Morning Transport
Title: Idea
Category: Best Fancast
Title: Octothorpe by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
Title: Witch, Please by Hannah and Marcelle
Title: Wizards vs. Lesbians by Isaac and Alexis
Title: Verity by Deb, Erika, Liz, Lynne, and Tansy
Title: The Incomparable by Jason Snell, et. al.
Category: Best Fan Writer
Author: Paul Weimer, Example: http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/02/6-books-with-bogi-takacs.html
Author: O’Westin, Example: https://microsff.tumblr.com
Author: Camestros Felapton, Example: https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2023/12/26/gatwa-watch-the-church-on-ruby-road/
Author: Jason Sanford, Example: https://www.patreon.com/posts/genre-grapevine-80016042
Author: Sandra Bond, Example: https://efanzines.com/Idea/Idea13.pdf
Category: Best Fan Artist
Artist/Illustrator: Sue Mason, Example: https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/ep-logo/pbblog709677/Octothorpe_80_300x300.jpeg, https://i.imgur.com/yzOfoqm.png, https://i.imgur.com/BpKiCvR.jpg
Artist/Illustrator: Allison Scott, Example: https://i.imgur.com/SW6sZbw.jpg, https://i.imgur.com/qRDAcxR.jpg, https://i.imgur.com/KWVJhA3.png
Category: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)
Title: Camp Damascus, Author: Chuck Tingle
Title: To Shape A Dragon’s Breath, Author: Moniquill Blackgoose
Category: Astounding Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo)
Author: MKRNYILGLD aka Mayookh Barua, Example: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World
Author: Merryana Salem, Example: Alt-Dream. In: Unlimited Futures
Author: Kalem Murray, Example: In his Father’s footsteps. In: This All Come Back Now
Author: Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Example: Protocols of Transference. In: This All Come Back Now
Author: Vanessa Len, Example: Only a Monster
Not much reading this year, & didn’t make as much of an effort to fill up the other categories. Wasn’t feeling super enthusiastic about the process. Apologies.
BEST RELATED WORK:
The Decaying Monomyth of Star Wars; Jessie Earl, Aranock
Doctor Who Was Queerbait; James Woodall
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM):
All of Us Strangers
Godzilla Minus One
Poor Things
Scavengers Reign (season one)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM):
Ahsoka: “Part Five: Shadow Warrior”
Foundation: “Long Ago, Not Far Away”
The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”
Loki: “Glorious Purpose” (season 2)
Pantheon: “Deep Time”
BEST GAME OR INTERACTIVE WORK:
Alan Wake 2
Baldur’s Gate 3
Dune: Imperium – Uprising
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Slay the Princess
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Category: Best Novel
Title: Translation State, Author: Ann Leckie
Title: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, Author: Shannon Chakraborty
Title: Sleep No More, Author: Seanan McGuire
Title: All The Hidden Paths, Author: Foz Meadows
Category: Best Novella
Title: Untethered Sky, Author: Fonda Lee
Title: The Mimicking of Known Successes, Author: Malka Older
Title: Lost in the Momment and Found, Author: Seanan McGuire
Title: Thornhedge, Author: T. Kingfisher
Category: Best Novelette
Title: The Year Without Sunshine, Author: Naomi Kritzer
Title: Mr. Catt, Author: Eleanor Arnason
Title: Form 8774-D, Author: Alex Irvine
Title: Ivy, Angelica, Bay, Author: C.L.Polk
Category: Best Short Story
Title: Fandom for Witches, Author: Ruoxi Chen
Title: A Soul in the World, Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Title: Day Ten Thousand, Author: Isabel J. Kim
Title: The Sound of Children Screaming, Author: Rachael K. Jones
Title: Bad Doors, Author: John Wiswell
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Nimona
Title: Barbie
Title: Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Theives
Title: The Marvels
Title: Godzilla Minus One
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Title: Those Old Scientists, Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Title: The Giggle, Series: Doctor Who
Title: The Church on Ruby Road, Series: Doctor Who
Title: Every Day, Series: Good Omens
Title: Long, Long, Time, Series: The Last of Us
Best Novel:
A House WIth Good Bones, T. Kingfisher
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty
Dead Country, Max Gladstone
Starter Villain, John Scalzi
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
Best Novella
The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
Best Series
The Laundry Files, Charles Stross, Season of Skulls
The Final Architecture, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation
Elric of Melniboné, Michael Moorcock, “The Folk in the Forest”
Foreigner, C.J. Cherryh, Defiance
Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust, Tsalmoth
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Barbie
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Good Omens Season 2
The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
The Killbox, The Legend of Vox Machina
Glorious Purpose, Loki
Lodestar Award
The Dark Lord’s Daughter, Patricia Wrede
Liberty’s Daughter, Naomi Kritzer
(I’ve deleted the Chinese characters and extraneous wording)
I’ve found I’ve read very little short fiction last year; I’m looking forward to the Hugo packet to see what I’ve missed!
Here are mine, broken into two parts for length:
Category: Best Novel
Title: The Terraformers, Author: Annalee Newitz
Title: Chain-Gang All-Stars, Author: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Title: Translation State, Author: Ann Leckie
Title: Some Desperate Glory, Author: Emily Tesh
Title: Lone Women, Author: Victor LaValle
Category: Best Novella
Title: Hybrid Heart, Author: Iori Kusano
Title: Mammoths at the Gates, Author: Nghi Vo
Title: Lost in the Moment and Found, Author: Seanan McGuire
Title: Rose/House, Author: Arkady Martine
Title: The Lies of the Ajungo, Author: Moses Ose Utomi
Category: Best Novelette
Title: Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea, Author: Kelsey Hutton
Title: Saturday’s Song, Author: Wole Talabi
Title: The Year Without Sunshine, Author: Naomi Kritzer
Title: Ivy, Angelica, Bay, Author: C.L. Polk
Category: Best Short Story
Title: Day Ten Thousand, Author: Isabel J. Kim
Title: A Borrowing of Bones, Author: Karin Lowachee
Title: How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga, Author: S. M. Hallow
Category: Best Series
Series Name: October Daye, Author: Seanan McGuire, 2023 Example from Series: Sleep No More
Series Name: Imperial Radch, Author: Ann Leckie, 2023 Example from Series: Translation State
Series Name: Red Rising Saga, Author: Pierce Brown, 2023 Example from Series: Light Bringer
Series Name: The Last Binding, Author: Freya Marske, 2023 Example from Series: A Power Unbound
Series Name: The Rook and the Rose, Author: M.A. Carrick, 2023 Example from Series: Labyrinth’s Heart
Category: Best Graphic Story or Comic
Title: The Infinity Particle, Author: Wendy Xu
Title: Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Author: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Title: Bea Wolf, Author: Zach Weinersmith
Title: Why Don’t You Love Me?, Author: Paul B. Rainey
Title: Shubeik Lubeik, Author: Deena Mohamed
Category: Best Related Work
Title: Magical Readathon: Orilium, Author/Editor: G (Book Roast on YouTube)
Title: One Way Out: Andor Season 1, Author/Editor: Ladyknightthebrave (YouTube)
Title: The Dangerous Philosophy of Ursula K. LeGuin, Author/Editor: Damien Walter (YouTube)
Title: How to Build a Solarpunk City, Author/Editor: Andrewism (YouTube)
Title: A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Author/Editor: Nina Allan, ed.
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Title: Godzilla Minus One
Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Title: Barbie
Title: Nimona
Category: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Title: Glorious Purpose, Series: Loki
Title: The Road Home, Series: Babylon 5
Title: Those Old Scientists, Series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Title: Wild Blue Yonder, Series: Doctor Who
Title: Fixing a Hole, Series: A Fox in Space
Category: Best Editor, Short Form
Editor: Nisi Shawl
Category: Best Editor, Long Form
Editor: Ruoxi Chen
Editor: Natasha Bardon
Editor: Lindsey Hall
Category: Best Professional Artist
Artist/Illustrator: Alyssa Winans, Example: Mammoths at the Gates cover art
Artist/Illustrator: Feifei Ruan, Example: The Water Outlaws cover art
Artist/Illustrator: Sparth, Example: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport cover art
Artist/Illustrator: Leo Nickolls, Example: The Surviving Sky cover art
Category: Best Semiprozine
Title: Strange Horizons
Category: Best Fanzine
Title: Nerds of a Feather
Title: Black Nerd Problems
Title: Ancillary Review of Books
Title: File 770
Category: Best Fancast
Title: The Incomparable
Title: Grey 17 – A Babylon 5 Podcast
Title: Trope Talk (YouTube video series by Overly Sarcastic Productions)
Title: Going Rogue
Title: mynameismarines (YouTube channel)
Category: Best Fan Writer
Author: Adri Joy
Author: Bitter Karella
Author: RiverFlow
Category: Best Fan Artist
Artist/Illustrator: Yuumei, Example: https://www.yuumeiart.com/
Artist/Illustrator: Amy Marie King, Example: https://www.amymarieking.com/tagged/illo#main
Artist/Illustrator: Maxine Vee, Example: https://www.instagram.com/artofmaxinevee/
Artist/Illustrator: Carly A-F, Example: https://www.instagram.com/carlydraws.illustration/
Category: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)
Title: Painted Devils, Author: Margaret Owen
Title: Unseelie, Author: Ivelisse Housman
Title: Godly Heathens, Author: H.E. Edgmon
Title: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Author: Andrew Joseph White
Title: Abeni’s Song, Author: P. Djeli Clark
Category: Astounding Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo)
Author: Ai Jiang, Example: I AM AI
Author: Moses Ose Utomi, Example: The Lies of the Ajungo
Author: Moniquill Blackgoose, Example: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
Author: Kritika H. Rao, Example: The Surviving Sky
Author: Hannah Kaner, Example: Godkiller
As someone who tries to vote in every category (except for Best Game, since I know literally nothing about any of the options this year), I find it very frustrating trying to figure out eligbility in a lot of the categories as an individual. I know that a bunch of the things I nominated are probably ineligible in the categories where I put them, thus preventing me from nominating other things which ARE eligible. I really wish there was a better system for this.
I didn’t nominate for the Hugos this year, but if I had, my nominations probably would have included:
Novels:
The Infinite, by Ada Hoffmann
Thirsty Animals, by Rachelle Atalla
The Shadow Cabinet, by Juno Dawson
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
The Twice-Drowned Saint, by C. S. E Cooney
Novella:
Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
Island of Whispers, by Frances Hardinge
And Put Away Childish Things, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novelette:
Prince Hat Underground, by Kelly Link
Series:
The Outside, by Ada Hoffmann
The Final Architecture, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Imperial Radch, by Ann Leckie
YA:
The Stolen Heir, by Holly Black
If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come, by Jen St. Jude
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, by Andrew Joseph White
This is my list. There is some additional commentary over on my blog where this was first posted.
Novels
-The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
-Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
-House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi
-Stand Alone by John Van Stry
Novelette
-Metamorphoses at the Gate by Lysander Arden appearing in Cirsova, Issue #16/Fall 2023
-Fossils of Truth and Grace by E.E. King appearing in Cirsova, Issue #16/Fall 2023
Graphic Novels
-Drive by Dave Kellett
-The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew
-Bloom County 2023 by Berkeley Breathed
Dramatic Presentation – short form
-Long, Long Time – Last of Us, Episode 3 – HBO – A great episode that was part of a much longer story.
Dramatic Presentation – long form
-Last of Us – HBO – I found the entire series to be great. As the series is one long story arc, I believe it qualifies for the long-form category.
Fancast
-Cinema Story Origins – Paul Hale.
-Casually Comics – Sasha Wood.
Best Series
-The Eden Chronicles by S.M. Anderson. Book 5 (The Wrong Game) dropped this year.
[I also want to point out that I am 100% opposed to nominating any series based novel in the “Best Novel” category unless a) it is the first in the series or b) all previous entries have been nominated and won in the “Best Novel” category. The “Best Series” is where series-based genre fiction belongs. And no where else.]
Short Story
-The Dusk Next Door by Mark Pelligrini appearing in Cirsova, Issue #16/Fall 2023
Best Editor, Short Form
-P. Alexander – Cirsova
-Beth Tabler – Grimdark Magazine
Regards,
Dann
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. – Clint Eastwood
I would post my ballot, but I never got the confirmation e-mails, so I can’t reconstruct my whole ballot.
Megan: are you aware of the Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom (https://bit.ly/hugoaward2024)? Very helpful both as a recommendation spreadsheet but also in crowd-sourcing eligibility research. I double check everything on the spreadsheet before nominating.
My difficulty is when I come across something late enough that when I add it to the spreadsheet there isn’t enough time for other people to point out ineligibility issues. Astounding eligibility in particular I find hard to research – ISFDB will usually tell you if an author has previous publications but I haven’t found anywhere that lists the pay rate or the circulation numbers, both of which affects whether a work is a professional publication and thus starts the eligibility clock. If anyone has any suggestions that would be great!