Hugo Nominations

This post is woefully late, since the nominations for Hugo Awards close tonight. I'm afraid personal circumstances have prevented me from posting for several months, and from finishing up my short fiction reading project the way I intended, but for what it's worth, these are some of the works I just nominated for the Hugo Awards. (I nominated other works as well, but these are the ones that I would like to draw attention to, for a variety of reasons.)

BEST NOVELETTE

- "The Long Fall Up" by William Ledbetter, F&SF May-June 2016

- "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" by Lev Grossman, Summer Days and Summer Nights (anthology), St. Martin's Griffin, 2016


BEST SHORT STORY

- "Sparrows" by Gary Emmett Chandler, Flash Fiction Online, May 2016

- "Millepora" by Shannon Peavey, Flash Fiction Online, March 2016

- "The Right Sort of Monsters" by Kelly Sandoval, Strange Horizons, April 2016

- "The Opening of the Bayou Saint John" by Shawn Scarber, Strange Horizons, February 2016

- "Walls of Nigeria" by Jeremy Szal, Nature, August 2016


BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

- Arrival

- Passengers


BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

- Beautiful Dreamer, directed by David Gaddie, based on the short story "Memories of My Mother" by Ken Liu"


If you are eligible to nominate, please do, even if you only nominate a single work or person. Every nomination counts!



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Hugo Nominations

In light of the fact that Hugo nominations are due by midnight tomorrow (Tuesday 10, 2015 through 11:59 pm PDT), I don't want to wait until the end of March for my next post about short fiction. I've been spending a lot of time reading in the last week or two, and have tried to focus somewhat on 2014 publications so I could make intelligent decisions.

The following are the works I'm currently considering for nomination. I won't make final decisions until tomorrow -- and I won't be surprised if I have some last minute additions as I comb through my lists, other people's lists, my notes....

I'm also still working on other categories, but this is what I have for now.


Short stories (alphabetical by author):

"When It Ends, He Catches Her" by Eugie Foster
(read here)

"Alan Bean Plus Four" by Tom Hanks
(read here)

"Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa" by Carmen Maria Machado
(read here)

"Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon
(read here)

"Toad Words" by Ursula Vernon
(read here)

"Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion" by Caroline M. Yoachim
(read here)


Novelette (alphabetical by author):

"The Magician and Laplace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill
(read here)

"Stealing Arturo" by William Ledbetter
(read here)


Novel (alphabetical by author):

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

(Alternatively, I may nominate the entire Magicians trilogy as a whole. I know it's eligible to be nominated that way, but I'm checking on the ramifications of it possibly being nominated both ways. I don't want it to cancel itself out.)


Dramatic Presentation - Long Form:

Edge of Tomorrow, directed by Doug Limon


Best Related Work:

Jodorowsky's Dune, directed by Frank Pavich


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