5 April 2009 -- daa
NESFA continues to maintain a list of Good Stuff to read. Any NESFA member who reads
something that they would like to recommend to others to be considered for a Hugo
nomination can add it to the list. We will publish it from time to time in Instant
Message and on the nets. (Feel free to reproduce it provided you reproduce it intact!)
It's neither definitive nor complete, but it contains the stories, novels and non-fiction
works that a bunch of well-read fans feel may be worthy of a Hugo nomination.
These are items published in 2008 and eligible for the Hugos to be presented at
Anticipation, Aug. 6-10, 2009,
in Montreal, Québec.
The nominating deadline has now passed.
For more about the Hugos, see theHugoAwards.org.
A discussion on the SMOFS mailing list has brought to our attention the fact that section 3.8.6 of
the WSFS constitution is interpreted by at least some Hugo Administrators as a directive to silently
discard nominations made in the "wrong" category of a group of categories differentiated by length
(i.e., Novel / Novella / Novellette /
Short Story or Dramatic Presentation Long / Short Form) unless there are unused slots in the "correct"
category. This is especially problematic in the Dramatic Presentation categories, where it conflicts
with the intuitive interpretation (which is encouraged by the current wording of the category
definitions) that movies belong in Long Form and TV shows belong in Short Form. To be sure that your
nominations in those categories are counted, it appears that you must either choose the
category in which to nominate strictly by the length of the item being nominated or nominate fewer
than the maximum allowed number of items in the other possible category.
Novel (40,000 words or more) |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
|
Matter |
Iain M. Banks |
Orbit |
vjd, jam, ies |
Hell and Earth |
Elizabeth Bear |
Roc Trade |
esa |
Ink and Steel |
Elizabeth Bear |
Roc Trade |
esa |
City at the End of Time |
Greg Bear |
Del Rey |
mlo |
Little Brother |
Cory Doctorow |
Tor, ed. by Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
dgg |
Incandescence |
Greg Egan |
Night Shade Books |
vjd, ies |
The January Dancer |
Michael Flynn |
Tor (no editor listed) |
jam |
The Graveyard Book |
Neil Gaiman |
HarperCollins |
daa, ca, dgg |
Pandemonium |
Daryl Gregory |
Del Rey |
ca, daa |
The Night Sessions |
Ken MacLeod |
Orbit |
ca, daa, ies |
The Quiet War |
Paul McAuley |
Gollancz |
ca, daa, vjd |
Singularity's Ring |
Paul Melko |
Tor, ed. by David Hartwell |
ca, po, daa, dgg |
Fleet of Worlds |
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner |
Tor (no editor listed) |
mlo, dgg |
Juggler of Worlds |
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner |
Tor (no editor listed) |
mlo |
Nation |
Terry Pratchett |
HarperCollins |
fo |
House of Suns |
Alastair Reynolds |
Victor Gollancz (UK) |
mlo, vjd |
The Prefect (UK 2007; US 2008) |
Alastair Reynolds |
Gollanz (2007); Ace (2008) |
vjd, mlo, by, ca, ies, jam |
Pirate Sun |
Karl Schroeder |
Tor, ed. by David Hartwell |
jam, ca, mlo, daa, po |
Superpowers |
David J. Schwartz |
Three Rivers Press |
shs |
Anathem |
Neal Stephenson |
Wm Morrow (no editor listed) |
ies |
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings |
S. M. Stirling |
Tor (no editor listed) |
mlo, po, ca, daa, arl |
Saturn's Children |
Charles Stross |
Ace |
mlo, po, daa, jam, ged, ca, vjd |
The Dragons of Babel |
Michael Swanwick |
Tor, ed. by David Hartwell |
ca, dgg |
Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words) |
Title |
Author |
Appeared |
|
The Overseer |
Albert E. Cowdrey |
F&SF, Mar 2008 |
ca |
The Demon Trap |
Peter Hamilton |
Galactic Empires, ed. by Gardner Dozois |
ca |
The Luminous Depths |
David Herter |
PS Publishing |
ies |
The Erdmann Nexus |
Nancy Kress |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2008 |
ca |
The Hob Carpet |
Ian R. MacLeod |
Asimov's Jun 2008 |
ca, ies |
Prisoners of the Action |
Paul McAuley & Kim Newman |
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. by Ellen Datlow |
ca |
The Tear |
Ian McDonald |
Galactic Empires |
ca |
Tenbrook of Mars |
Dean McLaughlin |
Analog, Jul/Aug 2008 |
ca |
Truth |
Robert Reed |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2008 |
ca |
The Room of Lost Souls |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Asimov's, Apr/May 2008 |
ca |
Wonjjiang and the Madman of Pyongyang |
Gord Sellar |
Tesseracts Twelve |
ca |
Pinocchio |
Walter Jon Williams |
The Starry Rift, ed. by Jonathan Strahan |
mlo |
Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words) |
Title |
Author |
Appeared |
|
Ice War |
Stephen Baxter |
Asimov's, Sept 2008 |
jam, ca, mlo |
Shoggoths in Bloom |
Elizabeth Bear |
Asimov's Mar 2008 |
ca |
The Golden Octopus |
Beth Bernobich |
PostScripts Number 15, Summer 2008 |
ies |
If Angels Fight |
Richard Bowes |
F&SF, Feb 2008 |
ca |
Exhalation |
Ted Chiang |
Eclipse Two ed by Jonathan Strahan |
mlo |
Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can |
Thomas R. Dulski |
Analog, Apr 2008 |
ca |
Crystal Nights |
Greg Egan |
Interzone, Apr 2008 |
mlo, ca |
Shining Armour |
Dominic Green |
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two, ed. by George Mann |
ca |
Pride and Prometheus |
John Kessel |
F&SF, Jan 2008 |
arl, ca, mlo |
The Art of Alchemy |
Ted Kosmatka |
F&SF, Jun 2008 |
ca |
Divining Light |
Ted Kosmatka |
Asimov's, Aug 2008 |
ca, daa |
The Man in the Mirror |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
Analog, Jan/Feb 2008 |
ca, mlo |
Litany |
Rand B. Lee |
F&SF, Jun 2008 |
ca, mlo |
The English Mutiny |
Ian R. MacLeod |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2008 |
ca |
The Red Planet League |
Kim Newman |
Gaslight Grimoire |
mlo, ca |
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake |
Naomi Novik |
Fast Ships, Black Sails |
ca, daa, mlo |
Fury |
Alastair Reynolds |
Eclipse Two |
ca |
The Country of the Young |
Gord Sellar |
Interzone, Dec 2008 |
ca |
Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues |
Gord Sellar |
Asimov's, Jul 2008 |
ca |
Following the Pharmers |
Brian Stableford |
Asimov's, Mar 2008 |
ca |
Short Story (less than 7,500 words) |
Title |
Author |
Appeared |
|
Boojum |
Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette |
Fast Ships, Black Sails |
ca |
Here's What I Know |
Dennis Danvers |
Realms of Fantasy, Jun 2008 |
arl |
Orange |
Neil Gaiman |
The Starry Rift ed by Jonathan Strahan |
mlo, ca, po |
A Brief Guide to Other Histories |
Paul McAuley |
Postscripts Number 15, Summer 2008 |
ca |
The Thought War |
Paul McAuley |
Postscripts Number 15, Summer 2008 |
ca |
The Adventure of the Southsea Trunk |
Jack McDevitt |
Sideways in Crime |
shs |
His Master's Voice |
Hannu Rajaniemi |
Interzone, Oct 2008 |
ca |
The House Left Empty |
Robert Reed |
Asimov's, Apr/May 2008 |
ca, mlo |
Reunion |
Robert Reed |
F&SF, May 2008 |
ca |
Horse Racing |
Mary Rosenblum |
Asimov's, Sep 2008 |
ca, mlo |
G-Men |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Sideways in Crime |
shs |
Dhuluma No More |
Gord Sellar |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2008 |
ca |
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled... |
Michael Swanwick |
Asimov's, Feb 2008 |
ca |
Related Book |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
|
Sparrow Number Six: Rick Berry |
Rick Berry |
IDW Publishing |
ca |
H. Beam Piper: A Biography |
John F. Carr |
McFarland |
ca |
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction |
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. |
Wesleyan |
vjd |
Spectrum 15: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art |
Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. |
Underwood Books |
ca, mlo, dgg |
Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art |
Jane Frank |
Nonstop Press |
ca, ged |
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction |
Paul Kincaid |
Beccon Publications |
ca, ies |
Rhetorics of Fantasy |
Farah Mendlesohn |
Wesleyan |
vjd, ies |
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction |
John Rieder |
Wesleyan |
vjd |
The History of Science Fiction Palgrave (UK 2007) |
Adam Roberts |
MacMillan |
vjd |
The Paintings of J. Allen St. John: Grand Master of Fantasy |
J. Allen St. John |
Vanguard |
ca |
The Turtle Moves |
Lawrence Watt-Evans |
BenBella |
shs |
Graphic Story |
Title |
Author |
Artist |
Publisher |
|
Joker |
Brian Azzarello |
Lee Bermejo |
DC Comics |
ca, daa |
Aetheric Mechanics |
Warren Ellis |
Gianluca Pagliarani |
Avatar |
ca, daa |
Air (issues 1-5): Letters From Lost Countries |
G. Willow Wilson |
M. K. Perker |
Vertigo |
ca, daa |
Dramatic Presentation Long Form (over 90 minutes)
[times are mostly from www.imdb.com] |
Title |
Studio |
Length |
|
Cloverfield |
Bad Robot |
85 min |
ca, daa, vjd |
The Colour of Magic |
RHI Entertainment |
191 min |
jam, ldtm |
The Dark Knight |
Warner Brothers |
152 min |
sls, dak, ca, daa, dgg, vjd, shs |
The Fall |
Absolute Entertainment |
117 min |
ca, daa |
Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
Dark Horse Entertainment |
120 min |
ca, daa, jam, vjd |
Iron Man |
Dark Blades Films |
126 min |
jam, ldtm, mlo, po, dgg, ca, daa, ged, vjd, shs |
Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) |
EFTI |
114 min |
ca, daa, vjd |
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) |
Esta Vivo! Laboratorio de Nuevos Talentos |
105 min |
ca, daa |
Speed Racer |
Warner Brothers |
135 min |
ca, daa |
WALL-E |
Pixar |
98 min |
jam, ca, daa, mlo, po, dgg, ged, vjd, shs |
Dramatic Presentation Short Form (90 minutes or less)
[times are mostly from www.imdb.com] |
Title |
Series / Studio |
Length |
|
Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer |
Chuck |
40 min |
shs |
Midnight |
Doctor Who |
45 min |
jam, vjd |
Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead |
Doctor Who |
88 min |
jam, ldtm, vjd, ca, daa |
Stolen Earth / Journey's End |
Doctor Who |
108 min |
jam, vjd |
Turn Left |
Doctor Who |
49 min |
jam, ldtm, vjd, ca, daa, po |
Safe |
Fringe |
|
ca, daa |
season 2, episode 5 (UK 2007) |
Life on Mars (UK) |
60 min |
jam |
The Constant |
Lost |
43 min |
ca, daa, po, jam |
Commentary: The Musical |
Mutant Enemy |
~45 min |
shs |
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog |
Mutant Enemy |
~45 min |
vjd, ca, daa |
Presto |
Pixar |
5 min |
shs, mlo, daa, ged, vjd |
Frescourts |
Pushing Dasies |
|
shs |
Outcast |
Star Gate: Atlantis |
|
arl |
Adrift |
Torchwood |
50 min |
jam, ldtm |
Fragments / Exit Wounds |
Torchwood |
100 min |
jam |
To the Last Man |
Torchwood |
50 min |
ca, daa |
Noteworthy Works by Potential Campbell Nominees
(We do not make recommendations on these pages for the Hugo awards which are given to
people (such as Best Editor or Best Artist), but for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer we do note
recommended stories by people we believe to be eligible.)
Title |
Author |
Appeared / Publisher |
|
Destroyermen: Into the Storm |
Taylor Anderson |
Roc |
ca |
Ex-Kop |
Warren Hammond |
Tor |
ca |
Kop |
Warren Hammond |
Tor |
ca |
The Gone-Away World
| Nick Harkaway |
Knopf |
ca |
Mad Kestrel |
Misty Massey |
Tor |
ca |
The Country of the Young |
Gord Sellar |
Interzone, Dec 2008 |
ca |
Dhuluma No More |
Gord Sellar |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2008 |
ca |
Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues |
Gord Sellar |
Asimov's, Jul 2008 |
ca |
Other Good Reads
Novel (40,000 words or more) |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
|
An Autumn War |
Daniel Abraham |
Tor, ed. by James Frenkel |
po |
Warrior: The Time Hunters |
Angela Knight |
Berkley |
pal |
Through the Veil |
Shiloh Walker |
Berkley Sensation |
pal |
Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words) |
Title |
Author |
Appeared |
|
|
|
|
|
Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words) |
Title |
Author |
Appeared |
|
|
|
|
|
Short Story (less than 7,500 words) |
Title |
Author |
Appeared |
|
Shade |
Stephen Gould |
Tor.com |
ca, daa |
Related Book |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
|
|
|
|
|
Graphic Story |
Title |
Author |
Artist |
Publisher |
|
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle |
Jim Butcher |
Ardian Syaf |
Dabel Brothers |
daa, ca |
Dramatic Presentation Long Form (over 90 minutes)
[times are mostly from www.imdb.com] |
Title |
Studio |
Length |
|
CJ7 |
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia |
86 min |
ca, daa |
City of Ember |
Playtone |
95 min |
ca, daa |
The Dark Knight |
Warner Brothers |
152 min |
po, mlo, jam |
The Forbidden Kingdom |
Casey Silver Productions |
113 min |
ca, daa |
The Happening |
Barry Mendel Productions |
91 min |
ca, daa |
The Incredible Hulk |
Marvel Enterprises |
112 min |
ca, daa |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
Paramount |
122 min |
ca, daa, ged, mlo, jam |
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Walden Media |
93 min |
ca, daa |
Justice League: The New Frontier |
Warner Brothers Animation |
75 min |
ca, daa, jam |
The Spiderwick Chronicles |
The Kennedy / Marshall Company |
96 min |
ca, daa |
Dramatic Presentation Short Form (90 minutes or less)
[times are mostly from www.imdb.com] |
Title |
Series / Studio |
Length |
|
|
|
|
|
Key to nominators: ansl: Alice Lewis, arl: Tony Lewis, bsa: Brad Ackerman, by: Ben
Yalow, ca: Claire Anderson, cjh: Chip Hitchcock, daa: Dave
Anderson, dak: Debbie King, dea: Deb Atwood, dgg: David G. Grubbs, dmg: Deborah M.
Geisler, ebh: Lisa Hertel, ec: Elisabeth Carey, esa: Ted Atwood, fo: Frank
Olynyk; ged:
Gay Ellen Dennett, ies: Ian Stockdale, jam: Jim Mann, js:
Joe Siclari, jks: Joyce Scrivner, kp: Kelly Persons, ldtm: Laurie Mann, mdh: Mark Hertel,
mlo: Mark Olson, pal: Paula Lieberman, pf: Pam Fremon,
po: Priscilla Olson, rk: Rick Katze, sl: Suford Lewis,
shs: Steven Silver, sls: Sharon Sbarsky, sp: Sheila Perry, tps: Tim Szczesuil, vjd:
Vincent J. Docherty