The 2016 Hugo Awards Reading/Watching List (or, My Next Few Months)

Last month, I asked for recommendations for my annual Hugo Awards reading bonanza.  A bunch of you responded with books, movies, TV shows, cookbooks, and so on.  The form will remain open for the next month or so, so if you haven’t submitted anything or want to submit some more stuff, go for it!

So, without further delay, here is the big massive monster list of stuff I’ll be reading or watching for the next few months:

Novels:

• Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor Books)
• House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (already read it!)(Roc)
• Black Wolves by Kate Elliott (Orbit)
• Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (already read it!)(Tor Books)
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• The Just City by Jo Walton (Tor Books)
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (Tor Books)
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (Crown)
• Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (Harper Perennial)
• Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older (Roc)
• Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman (Saga Press)
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books)
• Planetfall by Emma Newman (Roc)
• Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (Ace)
• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown, and Company)
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Books)(already read it!)
• Wolves by Simon Ings (should be eligible, yes?)(Orion)
• The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (Orion)
• Barsk: An Elephant’s Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor Books)
• Medicine for the Dead by Arianne “Tex” Thompson (Solaris)
• The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath by Ishbelle Bee (Angry Robot Books)
• Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Last Song Before Night by Ilana C. Myer (Tor Books)
• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf)
• Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher (Self-Published)
• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury Circus)
• The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis (Orbit)
• A Borrowed Man by Gene Wolfe (Tor Books)
• Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor Books)(already read it!)
• Knights Shadow by Sebastien de Castelle (jo Fletcher Books)
• The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett (Del Rey)
• Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain
• Luna by Ian McDonald (Tor Books)
• Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• Clade by James Bradley (Penguin)
• Half a War by Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey)
• The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (Saga Press)
• King of Shards by Matthewe Kressel (Arche Press)
• The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Blum (Self-Published)

Novellas:

• Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter (Tor.com Publishing)
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Pauper Prince and Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik (Tor.com)
• What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Bao Shu (F&SF)
• The Vital Abyss by James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• Wylding Hall by Liz Hand (Open Road Media)
• Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Builders by Daniel Polansky (Tor.com Publishing)
• Water of Versailles by Kelly Robson (Tor.com)
• All That Outer Space Allows by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books)
• Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus by Mira Grant (Orbit)
• Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold (Self-Published)
• The New Mother by Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s)
• Elephants and Corpses by Kameron Hurley (Tor.com)
• The Day The Dead Came To Show and Tell by Mira Grant (Orbit)
• The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s)

Novelettes:

• “The Ghost Dragon’s Daughter” by Beth Bernobich (Self-Published)
• “The Body Pirate” by Van Aaron Hughes (F&SF)
• “So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld Magazine)
• “Another Word for World” by Ann Leckie (Future Visions)
• “Call the Name” by Adam L.G. Nevill (The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft)
• “Machine Learning” by Nancy Kress (Future Visions)
• “Hello, Hello” by Seanan McGuire (Future Visions)
• “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed)
• “Our Lady of the Open Road” by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s)
• “The Discommodious Wedding” by Christopher Kastensmidt (Self-Published)
• “And the Ends of the Earth for Thy Possession” by Robert B. Finegold (Giganotosaurus)
• “Sacred Cows: Death and Squalor on the Rio Grande” by A.S. Diev (Giganotosaurus)
• “The Servant” by Emily Devenport (Clarkesworld)
• “Entanglements” by David Gerrold (F&SF)
• “The End of the War” by Django Wexler (Asimov’s)

Short Stories:

• “And We Were Left Darkling” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed)
• “Descent” by Carmen Machado (Nightmare)
• “Forestspirit, Forestspirit” by Bogi Takács (Clarkesworld)
• “It Brought Us All Together” by Marissa Lingen (Strange Horizons)
• “Let’s Tell Stories of the Deaths of Children” by Margaret Ronald (Strange Horizons)
• “Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies” by Kate Heartfield (Strange Horizons)
• “Madeleine” by Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed)
• “Nothing is Pixels Here” by Kelly Szpara (Lightspeed)
• “The Edge of the Abyss” by Darusha Wehm (Contact Light)
• “The Fox Bride” by Mari Ness (Daily Science Fiction)
• “The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” by Sam Miller (Uncanny)
• “The Ways of Walls and Words” by Sabrina Vourvoulias (Tor.com)
• “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight” by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld Magazine)
• “When We Were Giants” by Helena Bell (Lightspeed)
• “When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)
• “You Have Always Lived In The Castle” by Cat Rambo (Daily Science Fiction)
• “Wooden Feathers” by Ursula Vernon (Uncanny Magazine)
• “It is Healing, It Is Never Whole” by Sunny Moraine (Apex Magazine)
• “The Log Goblin” by Brian Staveley (Tor.com)
• “Oral Argument” by Kim Stanley Robinson (Tor.com)
• “I am Graalnak of the Vroon Empire, Destroyer of Galaxies, Supreme Overlord of the Planet Earth. Ask Me Anything” by Laura Pearlman (Flash Fiction Online)
• “…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes” by Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex)
• “Things You Can Buy For A Penny” by Will Kaufman (Lightspeed Magazine)
• “Golden Hair, Red Lips” by Matthew Kressel (Nightmare Magazine)
• “To Fall, and Pause, and Fall” by Lisa Nohealani Morton (Fireside Magazine)
• “Pockets” by Amal el-Mohtar (Uncanny Magazine)
• “The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov (Tor.com)
• “Calved” by Sam J. Miller (Asimov’s)
• “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Magazine)
• “Special Economic Zone” by Tim Maughan (Medium.com)
• “Monkey King, Faerie Queen” by Zen Cho (Kaleidotrope)
• “Planet Lion” by Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Magazine)
• “It’s About Ethics in Revolution” by Kameron Hurley (Terraform)
• “The Dauphin’s Metaphysics” by Eric Schwitzgebel (Unlikely Story)
• “Forgiveness” by Leah Cypess (Asimov’s)
• “The Child Support of Cromdor The Condemned” by Spencer Ellsworth (Podcastle)
• “Skullduggers” by Kate Heartfield (Postscripts to Darkness 6)
• “Sea Change” by Kimberly Unger (Galaxy’s Edge)
• “How a Dream Machine Works, Exactly” by Mark Von Schlegell (Terraform)
• “CES 2067” by Sam Biddle (Terraform)
• “Re-Homing” by Debbie Urbanski (Terraform)
• “Rockall” by Andrew David Thaler (Terraform)
• “Gynoid, Perserved” by Malon Edwards (Terraform)
• “Valentine’s Day” by Xia Jia, Translated by Ken Liu (Terraform)
• “Inter-Exo” by Julie Steinbacher (Terraform)
• “There is Nothing in the Universe That is Not Me” by Dominica Phetteplace (Terraform)
• “Headshot” by Julian Mortimer Smith (Terraform)
• “Springing Backwards” by Rick Paulas (Terraform)
• “The Dragon and the Martian” by Becky Ferreira (Terraform)
• “In the Hollow of the Valley” by Nicholas O’Brien (Terraform)
• “Flesh for Trade” by Nicholas M. Bugden (Terraform)
• “From Fire” by Cecca Ochoa (Terraform)
• “Carcinogens” by Ken Baumann (Terraform)
• “Making Babies” by Laurie Penny (Terraform)
• “Coachella 2065: Day One, Reviewed” by Carles.Buzz (Terraform)
• “Out of This World” by Koren Shadmi (Terraform)
• “A Song For You” by Jennifer Marie Brissett (Terraform)
• “Science Fiction Ideas” by Tao Lin (Terraform)
• “The Counselor” by Robin Sloan (Terraform)
• “The Judge” by Sulagna Misra (Terraform)
• “The Trap” by Aaron Gordon (Terraform)
• “The Last Museum” by Paul Ford (Terraform)
• “Melioration” by E. Saxey (Terraform)
• “Homunculoid” by Joshua Chaplinsky (Terraform)
• “Trending Hot Topic” by Kate Losse (Terraform)
• “Like a Sea Cucumber” by Rudy Rucker (Terraform)
• “The Space Pirates of World War III” by P.W. Singer and August Cole (Terraform)
• “The Rewilding” by Ben Goldfarb (Terraform)
• “Killing Taylor Swift: An Apple Music Love Story” by Drew Millard (Terraform)
• “Humane Resources” by James Mitchell (Terraform)
• “Next Draft of the Future” by Dave Pell (Terraform)
• “The Prostitute” by Max Wynne (Terraform)
• “Parse. Error. Reset.” by Wole Talabi (Terraform)
• “Tropical Premises” by Peter Milne Greiner (Terraform)
• “Greenhouse” by Kelli Trapnell (Terraform)
• “The Plan is There is No Plan” by Sean Monahan (Terraform)
• “Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company” by Kevin Nguyen (Terraform)
• “What a Kanye Presidency Would Look Like” by Friends of Motherboard (Terraform)
• “These Were the Transitional Years” by Zak Smith (Terraform)
• “It’s Going to Be Okay” by David Axe (Terraform)
• “Gold Fame Citrus” by Claire Vaye Watkins (Terraform)
• “Homesick” by Debbie Urbanski (Terraform)
• “A Job Opening” by Devon Maloney (Terraform)
• “Who’s a Good Boy” by Marlee Jane Ward (Terraform)
• “The NuCorYou Guide for New Corporate Persons” by J.R. Johnson (Terraform)
• “Blue Monday” by Laurie Penny (Terraform)
• “Hypercane” by Eric Holthaus (Terraform)
• “Noah Takes a Photo of Himself Every Day for 10,000 Years” by Ryan Vance (Terraform)
• “Re: re: Microwave in the break room doing weird things to fabric of spacetime” by Charles Yu (Terraform)
• “Dialed Up” by Tim Maughan (Terraform)
• “Reach” by Matt Lubchansky (Terraform)
• “Landmarks Alone” by Ken Baumann (Terraform)
• “One Star” by Margaret Killjoy (Terraform)
• “Be Seeing You” by Madeline Ashby (Terraform)
• “An American Infestation” by Lincoln Michel (Terraform)
• “Cat Pictures, Please” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld)
• “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang (e-flux journal)
• “Cassandra” by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld)
• “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld)
• “Meshed” by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld)
• “At the End of Babel” by Michael Livingston (Tor.com)
• “Damage” by David D. Levine (Tor.com)
• “Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon (Tor.com)
• “Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams” by Sunny Moraine (Cyborgology)
• “At Whatever Are Their Moons” by Sunny Moraine (Strange Horizons)
• “Rat Catcher’s Yellows” by Charlie Jane Anders (Press Play to Start; Vintage)
• “Today I Am Paul” by Martin L.Shoemaker (Clarkesworld)
• “Who Will Greet You at Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (The New Yorker)

Dramatic Presentations (Long Form):

• Mad Max: Fury Road (already seen it!)
• Outlander, Season 1
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
• Jessica Jones, Season 1 (already seen it!)
• Liza, a rókatündér (a Hungarian film!  Cool!)
• The Martian
• Star Wars:  The Force Awakens (already seen it!)
• Ex Machina (already seen it!)
• Tomorrowland (already seen it!)
• Undertale
• Inside Out (already seen it!)
• Mockingjay Part 2 (already seen it!)
• Steven Universe, Season 2
• Daredevil, Season 1 (already seen it!)
• Sense8, Season 1
• Dominion, Season  2

Dramatic Presentations (Short Form):

• “The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion” from Doctor Who, Season 9 (episodes 7-8)
• “Total Rickall” from Rick and Morty
• “Jailbreak” from Steven Universe
• “What’s Going On” from Sense8
• “Heaven Sent” from Doctor Who, Season 9
• “Hardhome” from Game of Thrones
• “Napoleon” from Limetown
• “Melinda” from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• “The Nightcomers” from Penny Dreadful
• “Red Faced” from Supergirl
• “The Registry of Middle School Crushes” from Welcome to Night Vale 71
• Shaun the Sheep Movie (I may stick this in long form, though)
• “4,722 Hours” from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• “YHWH” from Person of Interest
• “If-Then-Else” from Person of Interest
• “Dulcinea” from The Expanse
• “CQB” from The Expanse
• “Hybrids” by Patrick Kalyn
• “Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift (Music Video)

Related Works:

• E Pluribus Hugo
• Queers Destroy Science Fiction edited by Seanan McGuire
• “Downfall” by Caroline Hobbs
• “Never Enough Farmers! Class and Writing Fantasy Novels” by Jennie Goloboy (Apex Magazine)
• The Coode Street Podcast (Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe)
• Rocket Talk (Justin Landon)(already listen to this!)
• Midnight in Karachi (Mahvesh Murad)(already listen to this!)
• Neurotribes by Steve Silberman (Avery)
• Ad Astra:  SFWA 50th Anniversary Cookbook edited by Cat Rambo and Fran Wilde (SFWA)
• Bad Life Decisions by Natalie Luhrs
• My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves by Julie Wosk (Rutgers University Press)
• Rave and Let Die by Adam Roberts (Newcon Press) (Sibilant Fricative was originally listed, but it is not eligible)
• Invisible 2:  Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F edited by Jim Hines (Self-Published)
• Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons: Notes On Science Fiction and Culture In the Year of Angry Dogs by Philip K. Sandifer (Eruditorum Press)
• “I Don’t Care About Your MFA: On Writing vs. Storytelling” by Kameron Hurley (Uncanny Magazine)
• Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who edited by L M Myles and Liz Barr (Mad Norwegian Press)
• Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art edited by Cathy Fenner (Underwood Books)

Graphic Stories:

• Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (Webcomic)
• Rat Queens Volume Two by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Tess Fowler (Image Comics)
• Seraphim by JessieK (Webcomic)
• Bitch Planet Volume 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, and Robert Willison IV (Image Comics)
• Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt, and Adrian Alphona (Marvel Comics)
• Saga Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Marvel Comics)
• Storm Volume One:  Make It Rain by Greg Pak, Victor Ibanez, and Scott Hepburn(Marvel Comics)
• Stand Still, Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg (Webcomic)
• Democracy by Alecos Papadatos and Abraham Kawa (Bloomsbury USA)
• Seraphim: 266613336 Wings by Mamoru Oshii and Satoshi Kon (Dark Horse)
• Shamrock by Josh Brown and John Fortune (Fantasy Scroll Mag)

Semiprozines:

• The Book Smugglers
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Shimmer Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine
• Apex Magazine

Fanzines:

• Chaos Horizon (has withdrawn from consideration)
• File 770
• Rocket Stack Rank
• Black Gate
• Lady Business
• Journey Planet
• Big Sky
• CounterClock
• Fantasy Literature

Professional Artists:

• Abigail Larson
• Julie Dillon
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Kathleen Jennings
• John Picacio
• Sana Takeda
• Tran Nguyen

Fan Artists:

• Steve Stiles
• Brad W. Foster
• Mo Starkey

Fan Writers:

• Jim C. Hines
• James Nicoll
• Alexandra Erin
• Eric Flint
• George R. R. Martin
• Mark Oshiro
• Kevin Standlee
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Paul Weimer
• Liz Bourke
• Jo Lindsay Walton
• Nina Allan
• Ethan Robinson
• Cecily Kane
• Rachael Acks
• Philip Sandifer
• Natalie Luhrs

Fancasts:

• The Writer and the Critic (I already listen to it!)
• Books and Pieces
• The Post Atomic Horror Podcast
• The Grim Tidings Podcast
• StarShipSofa

Editors (Short Form):

• Sheila Williams (Asimov’s)
• Julia Rios (Strange Horizons)
• Bruce Sterling (Various)

Editors (Long Form):

• Kate Nintzel (HarperVoyager)
• Devi Pillai (Orbit)
• Beth Meacham (Tor Books)
• Gillian Redfearn (Gollancz)

Campbell Award Eligible Writers:

• Andy Weir
• Kelly Robson
• Alyssa Wong
• Arkady Martine
• Ilana C. Myer
• Jason Kimble
• Arianne “Tex” Thompson
• Effie Seiberg
• Sebastien de Castelle
• Sam J. Miller
• Becky Chambers
• Natasha Pulley
• Noelle Stevenson

Note:  Some suggested works/people were left off because they weren’t eligible or because I couldn’t find them after a quick Google search.  So if something you suggested is missing, that’s likely why.  If there’s an error, resubmit!

Note 2:  There are also plenty of things on my own little list.  They are not included here.