My Complete 2015 Hugo Awards Nominations Ballot (Finished on 3/10/15)

It’s that time again.  Hugo Awards time.  Since the nomination period closes on March 10th, 2015, I figure it’s time to start sharing my ballot with the world.

Note:  this list is extremely incomplete and will be periodically updated as I find things to add to unfilled categories.  Categories are also subject to change.  If you have suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments (seriously; I’m very scatterbrained at the moment, so I’m missing all kinds of things).

Here goes:

Best Novel (Just Let Me Nominate 12 Novels…)

• City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
• Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
• Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
• Breach Zone by Myke Cole
• The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Best Novella

• Scale Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Immersion Press)
• Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Press)
• Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com)
• The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert (Tor.com)
• Hath No Fury by Kat Howard (Subterranean Press)

Best Novelette

• “From the Nothing, With Love” by Project Itoh (Phantasm Japan)
• “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey (Tor.com)
• “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)
• “Reborn” by Ken Liu (Tor.com)
• “The Bonedrake’s Penance” by Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• Under consideration:
• “Three Partitions” by Bogi Takács (Giganotosaurus)

Best Short Story

• “A Whisper in the Weld” by Alix E. Harrow (Shimmerzine)
• “Autodidact” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clarkesworld)
• “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker (F&SF)
• “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
• “Makeisha in Time” by Rachael K. Jones (Crossed Genres)
• Under consideration:  
• “Never the Same” by Polenth Blake (Strange Horizons)
• “Resurrection Points” by Usman T. Malik (Strange Horizons)

Best Related Work

• Jodorovsky’s Dune (dir. Frank Pavich)
• Special Needs in Strange Worlds (SF Signal; ed. Sarah Chorn)
• Speculative Fiction 2013 (Ana Grilo and Thea James)
• Rocket Talk (Justin Landon; Tor.com)

Best Graphic Story

• Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal (G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona)
• The Wake (Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy)
• Saga Vol. 3 (Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples)
• Saga Vol. 4 (Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples)
• Uncanny X-Men: The Good, the Bad, the Inhuman (Brian Michael Bendis, Chris Bachalo, and Kristafer Anka)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)

• Interstellar (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• Snowpiercer (dir. Bong Joon-ho)
• Edge of Tomorrow (dir. Doug Liman)
• Big Hero 6 (dirs. Don Hall and Chris Williams)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (dir. James Gunn)
• Reconsidering:  Captain America:  The Winter Soldier (dirs. Anthony and Joe Russo)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)

• “Tempest Fugit” from Sleepy Hollow (Season One)(written by Mark Goffman; dir. Paul Edwards)
• “Turn, Turn, Turn” from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Season One)(written by Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen; dir. Vincent Misiano)
• “The Watchers on the Wall” from Game of Thrones (Season Four)(written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss; dir. Neil Marshall)
• “The Children” from Game of Thrones (Season Four)(written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss; dir. Alex Graves)
• “The Last Stand” from Legend of Korra (Season Four)(written by Michael Dante Dimartino; dir. Melchior Zwyer)

Best Editor (Long Form)

• Anne Perry (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Jenni Hill (Orbit UK)
• Lee Harris (Angry Robot Books)
• Amanda Rutter (Strange Chemistry and Angry Robot Books)
• Julian Pavia (Crown/Broadway)

Best Editor (Short Form)

• Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld)
• Andy Cox (Interzone)
• Julia Rios (Strange Horizons and Kaleidoscope)
• Alisa Krasnostein (Kaleidoscope)
• Ellen Datlow (Tor.com)

Best Professional Artist

• Victo Ngai
• Stephen Martiniere
• Abigail Larson
• Kekai Kotaki
• Kentaro Kanamoto
• Under consideration:  Sam Burley, Richard Anderson, Galen Dara, and Noah Bradley.

Best Semiprozine

• The Book Smugglers (Ana Grilo and Thea James)
• Interzone (ed. Andy Cox)
• Strange Horizons (ed. by a legion)
• Giganotosaurus (ed. Rashida J. Smith)
• Crossed Genres (eds. Bart R. Leib, Kay T. Holt, and Kelly Jennings)

Best Fanzine

• A Dribble of Ink (Aidan Moher)
• Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together (TheG and Vance Kotlra)
• Bookworm Blues (Sarah Chorn)
• Ecdysis (Jonathan Crowe)
• Lady Business (Renay, Ana, and Jodie)
• Under Consideration:  SFF Mistressworks (Ian Sales)

Best Fancast

• Doorway to the Hidden World (Jeffrey Pelton, who is totally not Kevin Lux)
• The Incomparable (Jason Snell)
• The Book Was Better (???)
• The Writer and the Critic (Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond)

Best Fan Writer

• Sarah Chorn
• Paul Weimer
• Foz Meadows
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Natalie Luhrs

Best Fan Artist

• Alice X. Zhang (OMG YES)
• Finnian MacManus (OMG YES)
• euclase (some of the best still lifes ever)
• Evankart (loving the Winter Soldier work)
• Sandara (more beautiful art; should be making book covers)

The John W. Campbell
(YES IT IS A FUCKING HUGO SHUT UP) Award

• S.L. Huang (author of Zero Sum Game)
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (author of Scale Bright)
• Usman Malik (author of “Resurrection Points”)
• Brian McClellan (author of the Powder Mage Trilogy)
• Michael J. Martinez (author of The Enceladus Crisis)