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.

Novel
Catch the Lightning	Catherine Asaro	Tor	pg, po
Excession	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	mlo, kp, ca, gf
One for the Morning Glory	John Barnes	Tor	mlo, arl, gf, po, by, mab, kp
Voyage	Stephen Baxter	HarperCollins	ca, mlo, ec
Pirates of the Universe	Terry Bisson	Tor	ebh
Memory	Lois McMaster Bujold	Baen	mlo, ec, mw
Children of the Mind	Orson Scott Card	Tor	mab, mw
Branch Point	Mona Clee	Ace	mab
The Long Hunt	Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald	Tor	pal
Firestar	Michael Flynn	Tor	mlo, by, daa, ca, mdh, pg, gf, mab, ebh
Celestial Matters	Richard Garfinkle	Tor	mlo, gf, kp, mab, ebh
Wildside	Steven Gould	Tor	mlo, ca, daa, po, by, gf, mab, pg, ebh, mw, dmg
River of Dust	Alexander Jablokov	AvoNova	ec
Ancient Shores	Jack McDevitt	HarperPrism	ca, daa, gf
A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin	BantamSpectra	pal, gf
Blameless in Abaddon	James Morrow	Harcourt Brace	ecl
The Prestige ('95 in UK)	Christopher Priest	St. Martins	pg
Blue Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson	HarperPrism	mlo, gf
The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	Villard	ecl, ca
Starplex	Robert J. Sawyer	ASF Jul-Oct 96; Ace	arl, pg, mab, ebh, ec
Night Sky Mine	Melissa Scott	Tor	pal, ec
Higher Education	Charles Sheffield & Jerry Pournelle	Analog, Feb-May 96	mab, mw
Archangel	Sharon Shinn	Ace	po, ec
Endymion	Dan Simmons	Bantam	pg, esa
Holy Fire	Bruce Sterling	Bantam Spectra	ca
City on Fire ('97)	Walter Jon Williams	HarperPrism	mlo, ebh, ec
Bellwether	Connie Willis	Future Imperfect	arl
Night Lamp	Jack Vance	Tor	mlo, arl
Paris in the Twentieth Century	Jules Verne		ecl, ec

Novella
The Saddle Point Sequence	Stephen Baxter	SF Age Jul 96	arl, gf
The Longer Voyage	Michael Cassutt	F&SF Jul 96	ca
The City of God (Omni Online Dec 95)	Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick	Asimov's Oct/Nov 96	arl
Airborn	Nina Kiriki Hoffman	F&SF May 96	rb
Blood of the Dragon	George R. R. Martin	Asimov's Jul 96	arl, gf
Time Travelers Never Die	Jack McDevitt	Asimov's May 96	gf, ca, mab
The Cost to Be Wise	Maureen McHugh	Starlight 1	ca, gf, ec
Verglas	Ian MacLeod	F&SF Oct/Nov 96	gf
Abandon in Place	Jerry Oltion	F&SF Dec 96	mab
Chrysalis	Robert Reed	Asimov's Sep 96	gf
Gas Fish	Mary Rosenblum	Asimov's Feb 96	arl, rb, gf, ca
Human History ('95)	Lucius Shepard 1995 WFC Souvenir Book	Asimov's Apr 96;	rb
The Tree That Grew from the Sky	Robert Silverberg	SF Age Sep 96	arl, gf
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder	George Gaylord Simpson	St. Martin's	ca, jam, po
The Kikes of Peter's Town	Strugatsky brothers	NYRSF	ecl

Novelette
The Dog's Story	Elanor Arnason	Asimov's May 96	gf
Locusts	Adam-Troy Castro	F&SF Feb 96	rb, gf, mab
Bulldog Drummond and the Grim Reaper	Michael Coney	F&SF Jan 96	rb
A Dry, Quiet War	Tony Daniel	Asimov's Jun 96	gf, ca
Never Seen by Waking Eyes	Stephen Dedman	F&SF Aug 96	gf
The Weighing of Ayre	Gregory Feeley	Starlight 1	mlo, ca, gf, ec
Blowup	Astrid Julian	F&SF May 96	rb
The Flowers of Aulit Prison	Nancy Kress	Asimov's Oct/Nov 96	arl, ca, gf
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich: A Study of the Mass-Insanity at Smithville	Fritz Leiber	Omni On-Line; Tor 97	ecl
The Copyright Notice Case	Paul Levinson	Analog Apr 96	mab
The Land of Nod	Mike Resnick	Asimov's Jun 96	arl, rb
The Peacock Throne	Charles Sheffield	Asimov's Feb 96	gf
Out of the Waste Land	W. R. Thompson	Analog Mar 96	rb, ca
Foreign Devils	Walter Jon Williams	Asimov's Jan 96	rb, gf, ca
Blood Harp	Laurel Winter	F&SF May 96
Try and Kill It	Gene Wolfe	Asimov's Oct/Nov 96	gf

Short Story
The Great Moon Hoax or A Princess of Mars	Ben Bova	F&SF Sep 96	arl
An Ever-Reddening Glow	David Brin	Analog Feb 96	gf
Gone	John Crowley	F&SF Sep 96	gf, ca
Breakaway, Backdown	James Patrick Kelly	Asimov's Jun 96	arl, ca, gf
The Content of Their Character	Doug Larsen	Analog Jun 96	mab
On Sequoia Time	Daniel Keys Moran	Asimov's Sep 96	gf
Killing the Morrow	Robert Reed	Starlight 1	ca
Decency	Robert Reed	Asimov's Jun 96	ca, gf
In the Shade of the Slowboat Man	Dean Wesley Smith	F&SF Jan 96	ca
Living It Is the Best Revenge	Ian Randal Strock	Analog Feb 96	rb, mab
The Dead	Michael Swanwick	Starlight 1	ged, po, gf
Early, in the Evening	Ian Watson	Asimov's Apr 96	gf
Forget Luck	Kate Wilhelm	F&SF Apr 96
The Soul Selects Her Own Society	Connie Willis	Asimov's Apr 96	by, gf, ca, arl, mlo
Counting Cats in Zanzibar	Gene Wolfe	Asimov's Aug 96	gf

Non-Fiction
Time & Chance	L. Sprague de Camp	Donald M. Grant	mlo
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland	Diana Wynne Jones	Vista	mlo, ged, po, ebh, ca, gf
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life	S. T. Joshi	Necronomicon Press	gf
The Silence of the Langford	Dave Langford	NESFA	mlo, gf, arl, ged, po, ebh, by
The Faces of Fantasy	Patti Perret	Tor	gf, mlo
Inside Star Trek, the Real Story	Herb Solow and Robert Justman	Pocket Books	arl, mab, ged

Dramatic Presentation
The Frighteners		daa, ca, gf
Gulliver's Travels	NBC	ecl, ebh, ec
The Whole Wide World		ecl
Hamlet		ecl, ged, mlo
Breaking the Waves		ecl
Trials and Tribbleations	Star Trek: DS 9	po, ged, ebh, ec, sls
Fannotchka	Play at Lacon 3	gf
Memoirs of a Cigarette-Smoking Man	X-Files	ca
Severed Dreams	Babylon 5	arl, mab, ec
Z'ha'dum	Babylon 5	arl, mab, ec
Shadow Dancing	Babylon 5	mab
War without End	Babylon 5	mab, ebh
Interludes and Examinations	Babylon 5	mab

 

Other Good Reads

Novel
Catch the Lightning	Catherine Asaro	Tor	mlo
Voyage	Stephen Baxter	HarperCollins	pg
Memory	Lois McMaster Bujold	Baen	arl, sl, pg, gf
The Fortunate Fall	Raphael Carter	Tor	pg
Inheritor	C. J. Cherryh	DAW	pg
The Long Hunt	Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald	Tor	by, gf
The Two Georges	Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove	Tor	arl, mlo, gf, by
Voices of Hope	David Feintuch	Warner Aspect	gf
Genellan: In the Shadow of the Moon	Scott Gier	Del Rey	pal
River of Dust	Alexander Jablokov	AvoNova	pg, gf
Night Calls	Katharine Kimbriel	Harper Collins	by
Magnificat	Julian May	Knopf	pg, mlo
Ancient Shores	Jack McDevitt	HarperPrism	mlo, pg
Mordred's Curse	Ian McDowell	AvoNova	gf
Starplex	Robert J. Sawyer	ASF Jul-Oct 96; Ace	gf
Archangel	Sharon Shinn	Ace	gf
Endymion	Dan Simmons	Bantam	gf
Honor Among Enemies	David Weber	Baen	by, gf, pal, ged
The Galactic Gourmet	James White	Tor	arl, ged
The Price of Blood and Honor	Elizabeth Willey	Tor	mlo, ec, pal
Bellwether	Connie Willis	Bantam	pg
Exodus from the Long Sun	Gene Wolfe	Tor	mlo, gf
Reclamation	Sarah Zettel	Warner	arl

Short
Jack Stacey, A.S.B.R.	Robert J. Levy	F&SF Apr 96	arl, gf, ca
The Three Labors of Bubba	Bud Webster	Analog Jun 96	arl
Forget Luck	Kate Wilhelm	F&SF Apr 96	arl, gf

Non-Fiction

Dramatic Presentation
Independence Day	gf

Key to nominators: arl: Tony Lewis, by: Ben Yalow, ca: Claire Anderson, cjh: Chip Hitchcock, daa: Dave Anderson, ebh: Lisa hertel, ec: Elisabeth Carey, ecl: Evelyn Leeper, ged: Gay Ellen Dennett, gf: George Flynn; jam: Jim Mann, jb: Judy Bemis, jr: Joe Rico, kp: Kelly Persons, mab: Michael A. Burstein, mdh: Mark Hertel, mlo: Mark Olson, pal: Paula Lieberman, pf: Pam Fremon, pg: Paul Giguere, po: Priscilla Olson, rb: Ray Bowie, rk: Rick Katze, sl: Suford Lewis, sls: Sharon Sbarsky