A List: My Hugo Picks

[klward]

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

Short Stories

"Three Cups of Grief By Starlight", Aliette de Boddard, Clarkesworld #100

"A Hedge of Yellow Roses", Kathleen Jennings, Hear Me Roar: 17 Tales of Real Women and Unreal Worlds, ed. Liz Gryzb, Ticonderoga Publications

"The Dowager of Bees", China Mieville, Three Moments of An Explosion, Macmillan

"Slow", Lia Swope Mitchell, Apex #71

Dramatic Presentation (long form)

Agent Carter, Season 1. Created by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. Dir. Lawrence Trilling, Stephen Cragg, Louis D'Esposito, Peter Leto, Christopher Misiano, Vincent Misiano, Joe Russo, Stephen Williams, Scott Winant & David Platt. Wr. Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Eric Pearson, Lindsey Allen, Brant Englestein, Jose Molina, Andi Bushell, Tara Butters, Chris Dingess, Michele Fazekas & Brandon Easton.

Jessica Jones, Season 1. Created by Melissa Rosenberg, Dir. Simon Cellan Jones, S.J. Clarkson, David Petrarca, Stephen Surjik, Uta Briesewitz, John Dahl, Bill Gierhart, Rosemary Rodriguez & Michael Rymer. Wr. Brian Bendis, Michael Gaydos, Jenna Reback, Scott Reynolds, Dana Baratta, Micah Schraft, Liz Friedman, Hilly Hicks Jr., Jamie King & Edward Ricourt.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, miniseries. Dir. Toby Hughes, Wr. Susanna Clarke & Peter Harness.

Mad Max: Fury Road, Dir. George Miller, Wr. George Miller, Brendan McCarthy & Nico Lathuris.

Dramatic Presentation (short form)

"Heaven Sent", Episode 11, Season 33, Doctor Who. Dir. Rachel Talalay, Wr. Steven Moffat

"AKA Sin Bin", Episode 9, Season 1, Jessica Jones. Dir. John Dahl, Wr. Brian Bendis, Michael Gaydos, Jamie King, Dana Baratta & Jenna Reback.

"The Black Tower", Episode 6, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Dir. Toby Hughes, Wr. Susanna Clarke & Peter Harness.

"What's Going On", Episode 4, Season One, Sense8. Dir. Tom Tykwer, Wr. Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Michael J. Straczynski.

Artwork

Kathleen Jennings: covers, the Tremontaine series 1 - 12, created by Ellen Kushner, Serial Box

Nick Stathopoulos: cover and internal artwork, Peripheral Visions: the Collected Ghost Stories, Wr. Rob Hood, IFWG Publishing Australia (Dark Phases edition)

Best Related Work

You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost), Felicia Day, Sphere

Letters to Tiptree, ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Alexndra Pierce, Twelfth Planet Press

Best Editor (short form)

Liz Gryzb, Hear Me Roar: 17 Tales of Real Women and Unreal World, Ticonderoga Publications

Comments

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it's time already! I haven't done half the reading I wanted to.

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

I know! It feels so tokenistic... and yet, I did read a lot and there are some pretty good stories in there.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

You've got a lot more figured out than I have, that's for sure!

The (*&(*&ing Puppies have just started up their nonsense for this year's Hugos. I plan to ignore them as much as possible. I hope the Stokers haven't been infected by any similar nonsense.

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

The Stoker ballot is made up of both member nominations and jury selections. Full membership is, in addition, limited to professional writers. Its problem is cliquishness.

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

Aaand I want to see your selection, when you're ready.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

V. interesting how all the different awards organise themselves.