2018 Hugo Awards: Ready to Nominate? (Quick! Read All The Things!!)

Tell me about the good SFF you read/watched in 2017!

The nomination period for this year’s Hugo Awards is probably opening soon, so I’m getting my list ready. There’s still time to read just a few more things, so please let me know what else you’ve loved! Works must have been first published or aired in 2017 to be eligible for nomination for the 2018 Hugo Awards. I’m still reading some shorter fiction right now, mostly in magazines and a couple of anthologies, so I may be adding to my list in those categories.

This is what I have on my “might nominate” list so far:

Best Novel:

·         Artemis, by Andy Weir

·         Provenance, by Ann Leckie

·        The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

·         Seven Surrenders, by Ada Palmer

Best Novella:

·         I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land, by Connie Willis, in Asimov's ScienceFiction, Nov/Dec 2017

·         Mira’s Last Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Short Story:

·         "First Presentation," by Aliette de Bodard, in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, David Brin and Stephen W Potts eds.

·         "The Good God," by Hugh Howey, in his collection Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

·         "Machine Learning," by Hugh Howey, in his collection Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):

·        The Good Place, Season 1

·         Spider-Man: Homecoming

·         Star Wars: The Last Jedi

·         Wonder Woman

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):*

·         Star Trek Continues S.1 Ep.8 – “Still Treads the Shadow”

·         Star Trek Continues S.1 Ep.9 – “What Ships Are For”

·         Star Trek Continues S.1 Ep.10-11 – “To Boldly Go (pts 1 & 2)”

·         The Orville S.1 Ep.7 – “Majority Rule”

·         The Orville S.1 Ep.12 – “Mad Idolatry”

·         Star Trek: Discovery S.1 Ep.4 – “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”

·         Star Trek: Discovery S.1 Ep.5 – “Choose Your Pain”

·         Star Trek: Discovery S.1 Ep.7 – “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

And here is my “to-read/watch” list, which I will never finish before the nominations period closes:

·         Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor

·         The Prisoner of Limnos, by Lois McMaster Bujold

·         The Will to Battle, by Ada Palmer

·         Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero

·         New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson (I started reading it in September, and it was good, but was too soon after Hurricane Harvey!)

·         The House of Binding Thorns, by Aliette de Bodard

·         The Space Between the Stars, by Anne Corlett

·         Ancestral Night, by Elizabeth Bear

·         The Stone in the Skull, by Elizabeth Bear

·         Pilot X, by Tom Merritt

·         Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, series by Nathan Lowell (latest in the series cameout this year)

·         After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, by Rob Reid

·         Wilders, by Brenda Cooper

·         Sacred Band, by Joseph D. Carriker

·         Spoonbenders, by Daryl Gregory

·         Red Sister, by Mark Lawrence

·         Orphan Black: Season 5

·         War for the Planet of the Apes

·         A Ghost Story

·         The Handmaid's Tale: Season 1

·         'Alice Grove' web comic

Some anthologies I am trying to check out before I run out of time:

·        Seat 14c: available FREE online (edited by Kathryn Cramer) – stories by Gregory Benford, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Brenda Cooper, Bruce Sterling, Hannu Rajaniemi, James Smythe, Nancy Kress, Daniel H. Wilson, Hugh Howey, James Morrow, Chen Qiufan, Madeline Ashby & Margaret Atwood, Karl Schroeder, Paolo Bacigalupi, Mike Resnick, Justina Robson, Sheila Finch, Matt Hill, Charlie Jane Anders, Lee Konstantinou, Kevin J. Anderson, Mary Anne Mohanraj, James L.Cambias, Eileen Gunn, Charles Yu

·        Chasing Shadows: Visions of our Coming Transparent World (edited by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts) – stories by James Gunn, Jack Skillingstead, David Brin, Nancy Fulda, Robert J. Sawyer, R.C. FitzPatrick, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, David Walton, Vylar Kaftan, Jack McDevitt, Vernor Vinge, Aliette de Bodard, David Ramirez, Neal Stephenson, John Perry Barlow, Gregory Benford, Brenda Cooper, Stephen W. Potts, Cat Rambo, Stephen Gaskell, Scott Sigler, Robert Silverberg, Ramez Naam, Karl Schroeder, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Bruce Sterling

·        Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-Away Galaxies (edited by John Joseph Adams) - stories by Charlie Jane Anders, TobiasS. Buckell, Becky Chambers, Vylar Kaftan, Joseph Allen Hill, Adam-Troy Castro & Judi B. Castro, Caroline M. Yoachim, Alan Dean Foster, Karl Schroeder, A.Merc Rustad, Seanan McGuire, Aliette de Bodard, Linda Nagata, Yoon Ha Lee, Kat Howard, Jack Campbell, Kameron Hurley, Dan Abnett

·         Infinity Wars (The Infinity Project) (edited by Jonathan Strahan) – stories by Elizabeth Bear, Indrapramit Das, Aliette de Bodard, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Rich Larson, E.J. Swift, Eleanor Arnason, Peter Watts, Carrie Vaughn, An Owomoyela, Caroline M. Yoachim, Nancy Kress, Dominica Phetteplace, David D. Levine

*YES – I know I can only nominate 5 per category. No idea how I’m going to narrow this one down! OMG SO MUCH STAR TREK!!

I’ll come back to update with my final nomination list near the deadline. Meanwhile…

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