2016 WISB Awards Long List

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”)