(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 […]

2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Related Work

(Update:  I ‘m going to have to change my selections; it was pointed out to me by Mari Ness that this category is only for non-fiction, which means I can’t have any collections here.  Right now, I am extremely frustrated about the absence of a category for anthologies and collections.) This remains one of the […]

2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Fanzine

Well, it’s that time again:  nominating blogs instead of traditional zines, primarily because this is the medium I prefer to read in and which publishes the content I like reading. But enough of that.  Here are my nominations: A Dribble of Ink Aidan Moher’s rather prolific blog also presented some truly awesome work in 2013, […]

2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Fan Writer

There are far too many amazing fan writers out there.  This list began with 20-30 names, which I whittled down to 8.  Then I flipped a bunch of 8-sided die to pick the final 5 (or something like that). So, here’s what I picked this year: Kameron Hurley One of the things I love about […]

2014 Hugo Nominee 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 […]

2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

I thought long and hard about this one.  You’ll see a lot of things missing here:  no Byzantium (though I quite enjoyed it) or Iron Man 3 or Catching Fire (which was good until the last 5 minutes) or Upstream Color or The Hobbit 2 (the latter of which I think is utter garbage). With […]