Hugo Nominations – My Ballot

My choices. They are ranked, though that doesn’t count for the nominations process itself. Some of these are also slightly different from my selections in the linked individual post. Feel free to try and argue me out of any of these in the comments.

Best Novel

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Empty Space by M John Harrison
• iD by Madeline Ashby
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• A Stranger In Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Best Novella

• Spin by Nina Allan (TTA Press)
• Black Helicopter by Caitlín R Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
• The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books)
• ‘Burning Girls’ by Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)
• ‘Martyr’s Gem’ by CSE Cooney (Giganotosaurus)

Best Novelette

• No nominations

Best Short Story

• ‘Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines’ by Claire Humphrey (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• ‘Inventory’ by Carmen Maria Machado (Strange Horizons)
• ‘Selkie Stories Are For Losers’ by Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons)
• ‘Let’s Take This Viral’ by Rich Larson (Lightspeed)
• ‘Free Fall’ by Graham Templeton (Clarkesworld)

Best Related Work

• Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers Of Space by Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman
• Les Revenants by Mogwai
• Speculative Fiction 2012, edited by Justin Landon and Jared Shurin
• Red Doc> by Anne Carson
• Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace

Best Graphic Story

• Prophet: Brothers by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy
• Mind MGMT: The Futurist by Matt Kindt
• ‘Mars To Stay’ by Brett Lewis and Cliff Chiang (The Witching Hour)
• ‘Time’ by Randall Munroe (XCKD)
• Saga: Volume 2 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form

• Upstream Color
• Tomb Raider
• Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
• A Field In England
• Byzantium

Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form

• Black Mirror – ‘Be Right Back’
• Gesaffelstein – ‘Pursuit’
• Utopia – ‘Episode 1’
• Janelle Monáe – ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’
• Orphan Black – ‘Effects Of External Conditions’

Best Semiprozine

• No nominations

That said, if I was going to nominate, it would be for Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld and Interzone.

Best Fanzine

• Pornokitsch
• Nerds Of A Feather
• FerretBrain
• The Book Smugglers
• A Dribble Of Ink

Best Professional Editor: Long Form

• No nominations

Best Professional Editor: Short Form

• No nominations

Best Professional Artist

• Joey Hi-Fi
• Olly Moss
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Kevin Tong
• Galen Dara

Best Fan Artist

• Trudy Cooper
• Autun Purser
• Mandie Manzano
• Sara Webb
• Noelle Stevenson

Best Fan Writer

• Abigail Nussbaum
• Jared Shurin
• Nina Allan
• Jonathan McCalmont
• Requires Hate

Best Fancast

• No nominations

John W. Campbell Award For Best New Writer

• Sofia Samatar
• Carmen Maria Machado
• Tim Maughan
• EJ Swift
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew

The John W Campbell Award Eligibility Page will help you with this confusing award but be warned, it isn’t entirely accurate. For example, Madeline Ashby isn’t eligible as it say (or I’d have nominated her).