Month: April 2021

2021 Hugo Nominations

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Nominations for the 2021 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer closed on Friday, March 19 at 11:59 pm PDT (UTC−07:00). I finished my ballot with about 12 hours to spare! The finalists will be announced on Tuesday, April 13 at 11:00 am EDT (UTC−04:00). The winners will be presented at DisCon III, now scheduled for December 15-19, 2021. Here are my choices:

Best Novel

  • Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
  • The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
  • The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
  • Phoenix Extravagant, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
  • Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott (Tor)

Best Novella

  • The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
  • Eyetooth, Chris Willrich, Beneath Ceaseless Skies 314 (8 Oct 2020)
  • Nine Words for Loneliness in the Language of the Uma’u, M.L. Clark, Clarkesworld 165 (Jun 2020)
  • Of Them All, Leah Cypess, Fantasy & Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2020
  • Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Series

  • The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher
  • The Folk of the Air, Holly Black
  • The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells
  • The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson
  • Wild Cards, George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass

Best Related Work

  • The Art of NASA: The Illustrations that Sold the Missions, Piers Bizony (Motorbooks)
  • Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, Amanda Laduc (Coach House)
  • Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration, Jesse Kowalski (Abbeville Press)
  • The Heroine’s Journey, Gail Carriger (self-published)
  • The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth, John Garth (Princeton)

Best Graphic Story

  • Fangs, Sarah Andersen (Andrews McMeel)
  • Invisible Kingdom, Vol 2: Edge of Everything, G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward (Berger Books)
  • The Magicians: New Class, Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges, and Pius Bak (Archaia)
  • Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Damian Duffy and John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)
  • Once & Future, Vol 1: The King Is Undead, Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

  • Beastars, Season 1
  • The Invisible Man
  • Sputnik
  • The Vast of Night
  • Wolfwalkers

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

  • The Expanse, Gaugamela
  • The Magicians, Oops!…I Did It Again
  • The Mandalorian, Chapter 13: The Jedi
  • Star Trek: Picard, The Impossible Box
  • Westworld, The Winter Line

Best Editor, Short Form

  • Scott H. Andrews
  • Neil Clarke
  • Ellen Datlow
  • C.C. Finlay
  • Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas

Best Editor, Long Form

  • Nivia Evans
  • Brit Hvide
  • Joe Monti
  • Miriam Weinberg

Best Professional Artist

  • Sam Hogg
  • Sija Hong
  • Paul Lewin
  • Maurizio Manzieri
  • Magali Villeneuve

Best Semiprozine

  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • Strange Horizons
  • Uncanny

Best Fanzine

  • Camestros Felapton
  • nerds of a feather, flock together
  • Quick Sip Reviews
  • Rocket Stack Rank
  • The Wertzone

Best Fancast

  • Kalanadi
  • Kitty G
  • SFF180

Best Fan Writer

  • Cora Buhlert
  • JJ at File770
  • Adri Joy
  • Bonnie McDaniel
  • Adam Whitehead

Best Fan Artist

  • Iain J Clark
  • Kolarp Em
  • Sara Felix
  • Jessica Liu
  • Laya Rose

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

  • A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
  • Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
  • How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, Holly Black (Little, Brown)
  • Legendborn, Tracy Deonn (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
  • Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Disney Hyperion)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer

  • Tracy Deonn
  • Andrew Dykstal
  • Mackenzie Kincaid
  • Emily Tesh
  • Christine Tyler

There is also a special Hugo category this year for Best Video Game, but I did not submit any nominations for it. What were your favorites from 2020?