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Hugo nominees for 2014 (shortlist @ post 156 on page 8)


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That's certainly a strong possibility for this year and maybe going forwards. I also have Wolf Hall (and its sequel) on the TBR pile, which I've been meaning to get to for years, amongst a few other historicals.


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For a Campbell Benjanun Sriduangkaew is worth looking at, based on a handful of short stories especially Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade in Clarkesworld .



For fancast the Verity! podcast is interesting as well. Discussing Doctor Who in an intelligible way has to be worth something. Of course some the podcasters are well connected to the whole sf community in other roles as well.



ETA: Now I have to think about how serious I am, but Asterix and the Picts is eligible in the graphic novel category.



Of course computer games are also eligible in the dramatic presentation categories, although I cannot think of a good candidate.


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My nominations:



Best Novel


The Adjacent - Christopher Priest - Gollancz


Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie - Orbit


River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay - Roc


Shattered Pillars - Elizabeth Bear - Tor


The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - Tor



Best Novella


The Princess and the Queen - George R.R. Martin - Tor


Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Above - Ian Sales - Whippleshield Books



Best Related Work


Adventures with the Wife in Space - Neil Perryman - Faber and Faber



Best Graphic Story


The First Law - Joe Abercrombie, Chuck Dixon, Andie Tong - Blind Ferret Books


Meathouse Man - George R.R. Martin, Raya Golden - Jet City Comics



Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)


Orphan Black (Season 1) - Graeme Manson, John Fawcett - BBC America, Temple Street Productions


Les Revenants (The Returned) (Season 1) - Fabrice Gobert - Canal+, Haut et Court


Game of Thrones (Season 3) - George R.R. Martin, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss - HBO


Pacific Rim - Guillermo Del Toro - Legendary Pictures, Warner Brothers


Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron - Warner Brothers



Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)


Orphan Black: Natural Selection - Graeme Manson, John Fawcett - BBC America, Temple Street Productions


Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere - George R.R. Martin, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, David Nutter - HBO


An Adventure in Space and Time - Mark Gatiss, Terry McDonough - BBC



Best Editor (Short Form)


Gardner Dozois



Best Edtior (Long Form)


Simon Spanton



Best Professional Artist


Benjamin Carre


Stephen Martiniere


Alan Lee



Best Fanzine


A Dribble of Ink - Aidan Moher


The Speculative Scotsman - Niall Alexander


Pornokitsch - Jared Shurin, Anne C. Perry



Best Fan Writer


Aidan Moher


Niall Alexander


Jared Shurin



The John W. Campbell Award


Leigh Bardugo - First novel published in 2012


Helene Wecker - First novel published in 2013


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And for the 1939 Retro Hugos:



Best Novel


The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - George Allen and Unwin


The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White - Collins


Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis - John Lane



Best Short Story


How We Went to Mars - Arthur C. Clarke - Amateur Science Stories



Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)


The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells, Orson Welles - Mercury Theatre on the Air


Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Walt Disney, Disney Studios - Disney Studios



Best Editor (Short Form)


John W. Campbell


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Tor had an interesting article up entitled, How You Ruined the Hugos, in which the merits of a popular vote for critical award are discussed.



I thought Adam Roberts made an interesting point about authors summoning their fandom to influence the vote though he - like Scalzi rebuts - is possibly (probably?) exaggerating the effect.


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Guardian columnist Damien G. Walter comments derisively on the possibility of The Wheel of Time being nominated for a Hugo. I don't happen to think the series is award-worthy myself (neither is much of what actually gets the Hugo, of course), but Walter's argument is not great, as Wert has pointed out in the comments.


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A really bad article. WoT is a single story so it should be eligible. The LOTR similarities are gone after the first volume.



After Redshirts and all the other mediocre or plain terrible novels winning or getting nominated lately, WoT for all its faults be above the average level of nominees in the last few years. Would I vote for it? Of course not, but I'd much rather see it nominated than mediocre novels nobody will remember in 5 years like Redshirts or Bujold's latest Vor novels where it's obvious she's run out of ideas for the setting and the only reason they get nominated is because the Hugo voters really love the series.


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Guardian columnist Damien G. Walter comments derisively on the possibility of The Wheel of Time being nominated for a Hugo. I don't happen to think the series is award-worthy myself (neither is much of what actually gets the Hugo, of course), but Walter's argument is not great, as Wert has pointed out in the comments.

Damien should know by now there are no Hugo judges. He is just trolling at that point.

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I nominated it, and would like to see it on the shortlist.



I don't think it will win, and would much prefer The Adjacent to win, but I wouldn't be too offended if it did win. Ancillary Justice winning would be cool and all, but it feels like very safe and 'very Hugo' winner, not to mention that although I liked it it did have a few flaws that the sequel (still due this year, I believe) might improve on.


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  • 1 month later...

Hugo_recommend on LiveJournal has a number of suggestions.

For me personally, I will most likely be including "The Lady Astronaut of Mars"*, Orphan Black, the Wasp Factory opera**, Leigh Bardugo for Campbell, Love is the Law, and I'm not sure what else, plus the regular suspects (GoT, individual eps). I really need to go back through my reading list and see what I covered in 2013.

*You may have heard about Kowal's audio recording of this being ruled ineligible as a novelette last year, and considered a dramatic presentation instead, where it didn't have enough votes to make the ballot. I just read that it is definitely, 100% eligible as a novelette this year. I really enjoyed it, so would like to see it on the short list.

**Yes, it really exists. And no, thehugoawards.com specifically says that an item does not have to be released on film or DVD to be considered a dramatic presentation. I'm unsure whether it needs to be recorded in some fashion (film/DVD/electronically) and distributed, but I don't think so.

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**Yes, it really exists. And no, thehugoawards.com specifically says that an item does not have to be released on film or DVD to be considered a dramatic presentation. I'm unsure whether it needs to be recorded in some fashion (film/DVD/electronically) and distributed, but I don't think so.

They did have an acceptance speech and a youtube short on recent ballots, and I don't think they've tinkered with the rules.

eta: although a filk CD got onto "Best Related Work", which might make some sense depending where on the recursive scale one stops.

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I haven't pushed it enough and it doesn't seem to have any traction at all, but I'd love to see Adventures with the Wife in Space nominated for the best related work. It's actually quite a nice book about fandom, the relationship between geeks and non-geeks (and how such relationships work) and a whole host of fandom-related issues, including some face-palmingly embarrassing moments at conventions that I think every SFF fan can relate to. It's about Doctor Who, but oddly the book de-emphasises that aspect and is applicable to any fandom, really.


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thehugoawards.com specifically says that an item does not have to be released on film or DVD to be considered a dramatic presentation. I'm unsure whether it needs to be recorded in some fashion (film/DVD/electronically) and distributed, but I don't think so.

Hard for people to vote for it if they have no way to access it in order to evaluate its merits, though. And does it count as SF anyway?

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Yeah, that (the live nature of it) is why I'm not sure whether it truly qualifies or not.

OTOH, if a film adaptation of a spec fic book is considered eligible as SF, I don't see why a musical/stage adaptation wouldn't count, so I don't see that as an obstacle.

ETA: I should be very clear that I can't imagine that there are ever going to be enough votes for this to be an issue, particularly for Wasp Factory. I just like trying to nominate things that aren't TV shows, particularly Dr Who (only because it tends to be so heavily represented already).

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