Hugo Time!

[drpaisley]

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So it's almost the deadline for nominating for the 2008 Science Fiction and Fantasy Achievement Awards, aka the Hugos. Said deadline is 28 February 2009, at midnight PST (2a here in flyover land). If you were a member of Denvention, last year's WorldCon, you are eligible to nominate. If you are a member of Anticipation, you are eligible to nominate and vote (note: if you voted for site selection in 2007, you are a member of Anticipation. Your Hugo PIN should have been emailed to you in the recent past). There's also a pdf to download, but it must be received by 28 Feb.

Don't wait until late Saturday, teh intarwebs are fickle bitches, and will fuck you up for the fun of it. I had problems last night trying to put this together.

Due to requests from my hordes of fans and admirers, here are my suggestions in the categories where I feel like I have the knowledge to hold opinions. Like that ever stopped anyone before. Yes, there are more than five suggestions in some categories. Deal with it


Novel:

Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

Saturn's Children, Charles Stross (Ace)

Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)

The Dragons of Babel, Michael Swanwick (Tor)

An Evil Guest, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

The Hidden World, Paul Park (Tor)


Novella:

Arkfall, Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF 9)

The Political Prisoner, Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 8)

The Roberts, Michael Blumlein (F&SF 7)

The Flowers of Nicosia, David Ira Cleary (Asimov's 12)

Truth, Rober Reed (Asimov's 10-11)

The Philosopher's Stone, Brian Stableford (Asimov's 7)

The Hob Carpet, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's 6)


Novelet(te):

How the Day Runs Down, John Langan (F&SF 12)

Days of Wonder, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 10-11)

Pump Six, Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF 9)

Immortal Snake, Rachel Pollack (F&SF 5)

Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (F&SF 1)

Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage, Michael Bishop (Asimov's 7)


Short Story:

Dhuluma No More, Gord Sellar (Asimov's 10-11)

Cascading Violet Hair, R. Neube (Asimov's 7)

From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 2)

26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss, Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7)

"Evil Robot Monkey", Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two)


Best Related Book

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998 - 2008, John Scalzi

Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, Second Edition, Michael Andre-Driussi (Sirius Fiction)


Best Graphic Story (this is the category added this year by the Anticpation committee, it will become a regular category next year)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell (HarperCollins)


Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form:

Let's get real, the battle is between Dark Knight and Wall-E, with Iron Man on the outside, which at least saves us from Jumper, Indiana Jones and the AARP, Twilight, The Day the Earth Fell Asleep and other light classics. I would, however, like to suggest a different option, an original audiobook,
METAtropolis, written by Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, John Scalzi and Karl Schroeder


Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form:

I have to admit I don't watch any SF/F tv series. Sorry, that's how I roll. So you're on your own here.


Best Professional Editor, Long Form

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Toni WeissKopf


Best Professional Editor, Short Form

Gordon Van Gelder

Peter Crowther

Sheila Williams

Ellen Datlow

Gavin Grant & Kelly Link


Best Semiprozine

(note: this is probably the last year of the Semiprozine, or best Locus category. A preliminary vote to remove the category passed last year at Denvention; the final vote will be at the Business Meeting in Montreal. Personally, I think this llast award should go to a 'zine that has rarely or never won it, thus these recommendations)

Interzone

The New York Review of Science Fiction

Weird Tales

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet


Best Professional Artist and Best Fan Artist: I'll get back to you on that real soon now.


Best Fan Writer

James Nicoll

John Hertz

Kate Nepveu

Steven Silver


John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (with Tiara!)

The best list of eligible writers is here:

http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell

I have to admit I don't recognize most of these names. Given I have nominated Gord Sellar above, and he had another good story in Asimov's last year, I will be nominating him.


For further recommendations, the following:

http://community.livejournal.com/hugo_recommend/

http://www.nesfa.org/recommends/hugos08.html

http://www.sfawardswatch.com/

http://www.locusmag.com/2009/2008RecommendedReading.html

Comments

[maryrobinette.livejournal.com]

May I suggest some Campbell folks to you?

Aliette de Bodard
Ted Kosmatka
Livia Llewellyn
Jon Armstrong
David Anthony Durham

Also worth watching, Sara Genge and Tony Pi.

And thank you for considering Evil Robot Monkey.

[drpaisley.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendations.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Huh. So the SemiProzine award is finally being given the boot? About damn time, and probably fifteen years too late, especially seeing as how even the pro magazines have circulations that would have categorized them as fanzines twenty years ago.