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(Updated!) 2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: The Full List + 1939 Retro-Hugo Nominees

I’ve decided to collapse everything into one post so I don’t have to drop a dozen things tonight.  Due to time constraints, I have also left out a lot of the explanations and introductions for the various sections, as I wanted to do some more short fiction reading before I submitted my final ballot.

Here’s the full ballot:
Best Novel
I feel like this is one of those categories where no matter what I do, I’ll always miss something.  2013 wasn’t a huge reading year for me, and that means there are just too many bloody novels I didn’t have time to get to.  Thankfully, I got to read some exceptional books, even if they are only 1% of the things published in sf/f in 2013.  My list:

  • The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
  • Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
  • The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
  • The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Best Novella
  • “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
  • “Martyr’s Gem” by C.S.E. Cooney (GigaNotoSaurus)
Best Novelette
  • “Monday’s Monk” by Jason Sanford (Asimov’s)
  • “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard (self-published)
  • “Painted Birds and Shivered Bones” by Kat Howard (Subterranean Press)

Best Short Story

  • “The Water That Falls on You From Nowhere” by John Chu (Tor.com)
  • “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)

  • “Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clakesworld)
  • “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com)
  • “Walls of Skin, Soft as Paper” by Adam Callaway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Best Related Work
  • Speculative Fiction 2012 edited by Jared Shurin and Justin Landon
  • Feminist Frequency:  Tropes vs. Women by Anita Sarkeesian
  • Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
  • The Agony Column by Rick Kleffel
  • SF History Column by Andrew Liptak (at Kirkus Reviews)
Best Graphic Story
  • Batman Vol. 1:  Court of Owls by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (DC)
  • Avengers, Vol. 1:  Avengers World by Jonathan Hickman and Jerone Opena (Marvel)
  • Saga, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
  • Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1:  Revolution by Brian Michael Bendis, Chris Bachalo, and Frazier Irving (Marvel)
  • All-New X-Men, Vol. 1:  Yesterday’s X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen (Marvel)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
  • Pacific Rim
  • Her
  • Elysium
  • The World’s End
  • Gravity

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

  • “The Rains of Castamere,” Game of Thrones
  • “The Sin Eater,” Sleepy Hollow
  • “The Midnight Ride,” Sleepy Hollow
  • “Trou Normand,” HannibalI will explain why I picked this episode with an image.
    You’re welcome.
  • “The Poet’s Fire,” The Following
Best Editor (Short Form)
  • Djibril al-Ayad
  • Fabio Fernandes
  • Andy Cox
  • Neil Clarke
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Best Editor (Long Form)
  • Tim Holman (Orbit Books)
  • Lee Harris (Angry Robot Books)
  • Devi Pillai (Orbit Books)
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books)
  • Anne Perry (Hodder)
Best Professional Artist
  • Noah Bradley
  • Richard Anderson
  • Sam Burley
  • Kentaro Kanamoto
  • Kekai Kotaki
Best Semiprozine

  • Interzone
  • Clarkesworld
  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • Strange Horizons
  • Apex Magazine

Best Fanzine

  • A Dribble of Ink
  • Pornokitsch
  • The Book Smugglers
  • Fantasy Book Cafe
  • LadyBusiness

Best Fancast

Best Fan Writer
  • Kameron Hurley
  • Foz Meadows
  • Paul Weimer
  • Abigail Nussbaum
  • Justin Landon
Best Fan Artist

  • Euclase
  • Yuumei / Wenqing Yan
  • Sarah Webb
  • Alice X. Zhang
  • Angela Rizza

The 2014 Campbell Award

  • Benjanun Sriduangkaew
  • Max Gladstone
  • Brian McClellan
  • Myke Cole
  • John Chu
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And these are my selections for the 1939 Retro-Hugos (with a lot of gaps):
Best Novel
  • The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
  • Galactic Patrol by E.E. Doc Smith
  • Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
  • The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson
Best Novella
  • “The Time Trap” by Henry Kuttner
  • “The Black Drama” by Manly Wade Wellman
  • “The Sleepers of Mars” by John Wyndham 
Best Novelette
  • “The Loot of Time” by Clifford D. Simak
  • “Reunion on Ganymede” by Clifford D. Simak
  • “The Dead Spot” by Jack Williamson
Best Graphic Story
  • Action Comics #1
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
  • A Christmas Carol (film)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
  • Flash Gordon:  The Planet of Terror (or the whole series)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (radio series)
  • The War of the Worlds (radio series)
  • The Shadow (radio series)
Best Editor, Short Form
  • John W. Campbell, Jr.
  • Mort Weisinger
  • Farnsworth Wright
  • Raymond A. Palmer
  • T O’Conor Sloane
Best Fanzine
  • Imagination!
Best Fan Writer
  • Forrest J. Ackerman
And that’s it!

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