Sunday, April 01, 2007

Hugo Awards Meme

Picked up from The Slush God:

If you nominated for the Hugos this year, copy this list and bold the selections that you actually nominated. Underline selections that you've read/seen (or tried to read/view and gave up on, etc.) but didn't nominate. If you've passionately dislike one of the selections, italicize it (in addition to underlining it). If you like, add a pick of your own to each category that you feel should have made it, by placing it in [brackets] at the end of each category list.

Novel:
  • Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
  • His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
  • Glasshouse by Charles Stross
  • Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
  • Blindsight by Peter Watts
  • [Farthing by Jo Walton]

Novella:

  • "The Walls of the Universe" by Paul Melko
  • "A Billion Eves" by Robert Reed
  • "Inclination" by William Shunn
  • "Lord Weary's Empire" by Michael Swanwick
  • "Julian: A Christmas Story" by Robert Charles Wilson
  • ["Missile Gap" by Charles Stross]

Novelette:

  • "Yellow Card Man" by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" by Michael F. Flynn
  • "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald
  • "All the Things You Are" by Mike Resnick
  • "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" by Geoff Ryman
  • ["Incarnation Day" by Walter Jon Williams]

Short Story:

  • "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" by Neil Gaiman
  • "Kin" by Bruce McAllister
  • "Impossible Dreams" by Timothy Pratt
  • "Eight Episodes" by Robert Reed
  • "The House Beyond Your Sky" by Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • ["Expedition, With Recipes" by Joe Haldeman]

Related Book:

  • About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany
  • Heinlein's Children: The Juveniles by Joseph T. Major
  • James Tiptree, Jr. : The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
  • Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio by John Picacio
  • Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches edited by Mike Resnick and Joe Siclari
  • [Kiddology by Tom Kidd]

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form:

  • Children of Men
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • The Prestige (after the deadline)
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • V for Vendetta
  • [Stranger Than Fiction -- which I also I saw after the deadline]

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form:

  • Battlestar Galactica, "Downloaded"
  • Doctor Who, "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday"
  • Doctor Who, "Girl in the Fireplace"
  • Doctor Who, "School Reunion"
  • Stargate SG-1, "200"
  • [no pick]

Editor, Long Form:

  • Lou Anders
  • James Patrick Baen
  • Ginjer Buchanan
  • David G. Hartwell
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • [James Minz]

Editor, Short Form:

  • Gardner Dozois
  • David G. Hartwell
  • Stanley Schmidt
  • Gordon Van Gelder
  • Sheila Williams
  • [Marvin Kaye -- if I had a sixth vote]

Professional Artist:

  • Bob Eggleton
  • Donato Giancola
  • Stephan Martiniere
  • John Jude Palencar
  • John Picacio
  • [Julie Bell]

Semiprozine:

  • Ansible
  • Interzone
  • Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
  • Locus
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction
  • [no pick]

Fanzine:

  • Banana Wings
  • Challenger
  • The Drink Tank
  • Plokta
  • Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
  • [no pick]

Fan Writer:

  • Chris Garcia
  • John Hertz
  • Dave Langford
  • John Scalzi
  • Steven H. Silver
  • [James Nicoll]

Fan Artist:

  • Brad W. Foster
  • Teddy Harvia
  • Sue Mason
  • Steve Stiles
  • Frank Wu
  • [no pick]
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer:
  • Scott Lynch
  • Sarah Monette
  • Naomi Novik
  • Brandon Sanderson
  • Lawrence M. Schoen
  • [Justine Larbalestier]
I didn't put anything in italics for various reasons...which I don't think need to be explained.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You disliked The Prestige?
Nina

Andrew Wheeler said...

Nina: that was actually a HTML mistake; I meant to underline it, and I've now fixed that. I enjoyed The Prestige, actually, though I thought the big "surprise" at the end was pretty obvious ten minutes before -- my wife, the non-SF reader, got it, and we didn't even think it would be a surprise.

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