It is nominating for Hugo Awards time

[hawkwing_lb]

And since I can nominate, I thought I should share the list of things I mean to nominate. And ask for recommendations, since I'm pretty thin in some categories.


Best Novel

Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
Elizabeth Bear, Steles of the Sky
Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five
Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon.


Best Novella

I don't think I read a novella last year. Recs?

Best Novelette

"The Litany of Earth" by Ruthanna Emrys at Tor.com
"The Devil in America" by Kai Ashante Wilson at Tor.com.

...I realise that's heavy on Tor.com. Also, I didn't read a lot of short fiction, and longer short fiction I read even less. Other recs?

Best Short Story

"She Commands Me and I Obey" by Ann Leckie at Strange Horizons
"This Chance Planet" by Elizabeth Bear at Tor.com
"Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear in Hieroglyph
"The Breath of War" by Aliette de Bodard at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“The Truth about Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar in Kaleidoscope


Best Related Work

Rocket Talk.
Foz Meadows, "Gender, Orphan Black, and the Meta of Meta."

Recommend me things?

Best Graphic Story

G. Willow Wilson, Ms Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal.
Gail Simone, Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues.

Recommend me more things?


Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Maleficent

...didn't really see a bunch of things. Going to try to see Snowpiercer, though.


Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form

"Séance" (Penny Dreadful S1)
"Governed As It Were By Chance" (Orphan Black S2)
"To Hound Nature In Her Wanderings" (Orphan Black S2)


Best Editor Long Form

Category is opaque to me. Will not be nominating.


Best Editor Short Form

Who should I nominate? Jonathan Strahan, maybe?


Best Professional Artist

Julie Dillon
Galen Dara
Cynthia Sheppard
Chris McGrath


Best Semiprozine

Strange Horizons
The Book Smugglers
Pornokitsch


Best Fanzine

I haven't really been reading widely this year. Rec me some people?


Best Fancast

Galactic Suburbia.

I'm not really a podcast listener, except in certain specific cases.


Best Fan Writer

Amal El-Mohtar
Abigail Nussbaum
Hello Tailor


Best Fan Artist

Rec me someone?



JOHN W CAMPBELL NOT A HUGO

I don't know who's eligible. Karina Sumner-Smith?

Comments

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

I had a novella published as part of The Time Roads, but I know you are nervous about reading it.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

JOHN W CAMPBELL NOT A HUGO

I don't know who's eligible.
Well--technically--me! (I should probably make one of those eligibility posts someday.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

You canvassing? :P

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Not as such, no. Just answering the question. (It would be really cool to be nominated by anyone, but realistically I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere near the ballot.)

(There are a ton of people eligible this year, it turns out. http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell Like Sam J Miller, Wesley Chu, Carmen Maria Machado, and Bogi Takács, all of which I would be unsurprised to see on the ballot.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I was teasing. Sorry. It came across wrong.

Thank you for the link. I really appreciate it.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

My face: !!! Thank you for liking things I wrote!

Some Graphic Story recs off the top of my head (with the perennial uncertainty about whether or not webcomics count so not including them coz omg too long except GUNNERKRIGG COURT REMAINS PERFECT AHHH)

Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yan & Sonny Liew
The Wicked + the Divine Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
I Am Fire by Rachael Smith
This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki

Some Best Short Form Editor recs:

Christie Yant, because WDSF was a magnificent undertaking and also she is personally if not single-handedly responsible for my finishing "The Lonely Sea in the Sky."

Julia Rios & Alisa Krasnostein for Kaleidoscope. Julia behaved towards me in a very similar way to Christie, just relentlessly supportive until I could get the hard story done.

Liz Gorinsky, Ann VanderMeer, and Marco Palmieri at Tor.com

All the editors at Strange Horizons.

I think Lynne & Michael Thomas are doing a fabulous job with Uncanny, also.

SO MANY AMAZING EDITORS AUGH I AM TOTALLY FORGETTING PEOPLE

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

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