It’s that time of year: time for me to release some kind of list of things I loved in 2015. This year is different, though. This year, I’m releasing a long list for the WISB Awards, and it is from this list that I’ll select the winners of my annual WISB awards, the jury-less, vote-less monstrosity of an award that is only of value to myself.
Since I cannot include my own work on the following long list, I’ll include those works here:
- Best Fancast: The Skiffy and Fanty Show (Shaun Duke, Julia Rios, Paul Weimer, Mike Underwood, Rachael Acks, David Annandale, and Jen Zink); Totally Pretentious (Shaun Duke and David Annandale)
- Best Non-Fiction Work: Speculative Fiction 2014: The Year’s Best Online Reviews, Essays, and Commentary edited by Renee Williams and Shaun Duke (Book Smugglers Publishing)
If you feel there’s a glaring ommission, let me know in the comments. I haven’t read everything there is to read (obviously), and it’s likely I’ve missed a lot of really great work.
Now here’s the official 2016 WISB Awards Long List:
Best Novel
- Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Tor Books)
- Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
- The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (Roc)
- Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot Books)
- The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord (Del Rey)
- Gemini Cell by Myke Cole (Ace)
- Beasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo (WordFire Press)
- Updraft by Fran Wilde (Tor Books)
- Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older (Roc)
- Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor Books)
- Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor Books)
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit Books)
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (Tor Books)
- Half Life by S.L. Huang (Self-Published)
- Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany (Gollancz)
- The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace Books)
- Judgment Night by C.L. Moore (Paperback Library)
Best Novella
- The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik (Tor.com)
- Waters of Versailles by Kelly Robson (Tor.com)
- The New Mother by Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
- Quarter Days by Iona Sharma (GigaNotoSaurus)
- The Bone Swans of Amandale by C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
Best Novelette
- “Sacred Cows: Death and Squalor on the Rio Grande” by A.S. Diev (GigaNotoSaurus)
- “At the End of Bable” by Michael Livinston (Tor.com)
- “Islands off the Coast of Capitola, 1978” by David Herter (Tor.com)
- “Bannerless” by Carrie Vaughn (The End Has Come edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey)
- “Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu)(Clarkesworld Magazine)
- “Asymptotic” by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- “The Mantis Tattoo” by Paul M. Berger (F&SF)
Best Short Story
- “The Lessons of the Moon” by Joyce Chng (in Accessing the Future edited by Djibril al-Ayad and Kathryn Allan)
- “Wooden Feathers” by Ursula Vernon (Uncanny Magazine)
- “It is Healing, It is Never Whole” by Sunny Moraine (Apex Magazine)
- “The Ways of Walls and Words” by Sabrina Vourvoulias (Tor.com)
- “Madeleine” by Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed Magazine)
- “Forestspirit, Forestspirit” by Bogi Takacs (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- “And We Were Left Darkling” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed Magazine)
- “Golden Hair, Red Lips” by Matthew Bright (Nightmare Magazine)
- “Who Will Greet You at Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (The New Yorker)
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- “The Museum and the Music Box” by Noah Keller (Tor.com)
- “Milagroso” by Isabel Yap (Tor.com)
- “Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson (Tor.com)
Best Collection or Anthology
- The SEA is Ours edited by Joyce Chng and Jaymee Goh (Rosarium Publishing)
- How to Live on Other Planets edited by Joanne Merriam (Upper Rubber Boot Books)
- The Space Opera Renaissance edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- Daughters of Earth and Other Stories by Judith Merril (McClelland and Stewart)
- Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin (Orb Books)
Best Non-Fiction Work
- My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eyes by Julie Wosk (Rutgers)
- “A Response to Brad Torgersen” by Eric Flint
- “A History of Epic Fantasy” by Adam Whitehead (The Wertzone)
- “Gender Discrimination in SFF Awards” by Justira, Renay, and owlmoose (Lady Business)
- E. Pluribus Hugo
- Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy Month by Kristen of Fantasy Cafe
- Letters to Tiptree edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Graphic Story
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and ERica Henderson (Marvel Comics)
- Ms. Marvel Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt, etc. (Marvel Comics)
- Ms. Marvel Vol. 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt, etc. (Marvel Comics)
- Ms. Marvel Vol. 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt, etc. (Marvel Comics)
- Saga Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
- Descender Vol. 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Image Comics)
Best Feature Film
- Ex-Machina (dir. Alex Garland; DNA Films)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller; Village Roadshow Pictures)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (dir. Francis Lawrence; Lionsgate)
- Inside Out (dirs. Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen; Pixar)
- Ant-Man (dir. Peyton Reed; Marvel Studios)
- It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell; Northern Lights Films)
- Room (dir. Lenny Abrahamson; Element Pictures)
- Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy; Open Road Films)
- Brooklyn (dir. John Crowly; Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott; 20th Century Fox)
- Carol (dir. Todd Haynes; The Weinstein Company)
- What We Do in the Shadows (dir. Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement; Paladin Pictures)
- The Revenant (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu; 20th Century Fox)
Best Television Series or Short
- Daredevil (Season One)
- Jessica Jones (Season One)
- Agent Carter (Season One)
- Black Sails (Season One)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Kung Fury (dir. David Sandberg; Laser Unicorns)
Best Editors (Any Length)
- Julia Rios
- Alisa Krasnostein
- Kathryn Allan
- Djibril al-Ayad
- Ana Grilo
- Thea James
- Lynne Thomas
- Carl Engle-Laird
- Ellen Datlow
- Michael Damian Thomas
- Will Hinton
- Beth Meacham
- Neil Clarke
- Lee Harris
- Marco Palmieri
- Wendy Wagner
- Devi Pillai
- William Schafer
- Yanni Kuznia
Best Publisher
- Rosarium Publishing
- Tor Books
- Orbit Books
- Roc
Best Artist
- Simon Stalenhag
- Shark’s Den
- Noah Bradley
- Daniel Dociu
- Galen Dara
- Michelle Tolo
- yuumei
- Ron Guyatt
- Jonathan Apilado
- Niken Andindita
Best Magazine (Print or Audio)
- Strange Horizons
- Uncanny Magazine
- Lightspeed Magazine
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Nightmare Magazine
- Kaleidotrope
- Glittership
- Apex Magazine
- Interzone
- GigaNotoSaurus
- Tor.com
Best Fanzine / Website
- File 770
- The Book Smugglers
- Nerds of a Feather
- Lady Business
- Chaos Horizon
- SF Mistressworks
Best Podcast
- The Writer and the Critic
- Cabbages and Kings
- The Doorway to the Hidden World
- Galactic Suburbia
- GlitterShip
- Speculate!
- The Incomparable
- Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing
- We Hate Movies
- The InSession Film Podcast
- What You Missed in History Class
- Midnight in Karachi
Best Fan Writer
- Mike Glyer (File 770)
- Natalie Luhrs (Pretty Terrible and The Bias)
- Foz Meadows
- Matthew David Surridge
- Eric Flint
- Paul Weimer
- Abigail Nussbaum
- Ian Sales
- Rachael Acks
- Renay Williams
- Nina Allan
Best New Writer
- S.L. Huang (for the Russell’s Attic series)
- Carrie Patel (for The Buried Life and The City of Thrones)
- Becky Chambers (for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet)
- Kelly Robson (for “Waters of Versailles”)
- Isabel Yap (for “Milagroso”)
And there you go! Expect the winners soon!
Note: I also give out a “Worst Person” award every year, but it seems callous to make a long list for that. So…I won’t.
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