A List: My Hugo Picks

Mainly for my own future reference, here is a list of those items I intend to nominate for the 2016 Hugo Awards, when nomination open in the near future. Although the result of frenetic reading and viewing, it does not include every category and some of those categories which do show up are covered pretty thinly. But the first round ballot for the Stokers has just been posted so I'm closing off my Hugo reading NOW.


I welcome comments, comparisons and discussion, but it'll have to be quick!



Novels

The Art of Effective Dreaming, Gillian Polack, Satalyte Publishing

Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit

Persona, Genevieve Valentine, Saga

The Just City, Jo Walton, Tor

Novellas

"What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear", Bao Shu, trans. Ken Liu, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April

"The Whimper", Robert Hood, Peripheral Visions: the Collected Ghost Stories, IFWG Publishing Australia

The Box Jumper, Lisa Mannetti, Smart Rhino Publications

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, a Tor.com book

Novelettes

"And The Balance In Blood", Elizabeth Bear, Uncanny #7

"Precious Things", V. H. Leslie, The Outsiders, ed. Joe Mynhardt, Crystal Lake Publishing

"Ambiguity Machines: an Examination", Vandana Singh, Tor.com, 29 April

"Hot Rods", Cat Sparks, Lightspeed #58

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