Hugo 2020 Finalists Announced

[Bick]

The finalists for the 2020 Hugo's were announced earlier today:

The main categories I'm interested in are below (note nominations for Fanzine's include Chron's members... congrats)

Best Novel

• The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Middlegame, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)

Best Novella

• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador)
• The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Gallery)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)

Best Novelette

• “The Archronology of Love”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, April 2019)
• “Away With the Wolves”, by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019)
• Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))
• “For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, 10 July 2019)
• “Omphalos”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))

Best Short Story

• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)
• “As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)
• “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)
• “Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)

Best Series

• The Expanse, by James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Luna, by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• Planetfall series, by Emma Newman (Ace; Gollancz)
• Winternight Trilogy, by Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• The Wormwood Trilogy, by Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)
• LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books; Dark Horse)
• Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image)
• Mooncakes, by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, letters by Joamette Gil (Oni Press; Lion Forge)
• Paper Girls, Volume 6, written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image)
• The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: Okay, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)

Best Fanzine

• The Book Smugglers, editors Ana Grilo and Thea James
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus, senior writers Rosemary Benton, Lorelei Marcus and Victoria Silverwolf
• Journey Planet, editors James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Alissa McKersie, Ann Gry, Chuck Serface, John Coxon and Steven H Silver
• nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, and The G
• Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur
• The Rec Center, editors Elizabeth Minkel and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

 

[Abernovo]

And, our own @Werthead is up for Best Fan Writer:

Best Fan Writer

• Cora Buhlert
• James Davis Nicoll
• Alasdair Stuart
• Bogi Takács
• Paul Weimer
• Adam Whitehead

 

[Brian G Turner]

Does anyone here actually vote?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

An

Does anyone here actually vote?

anyone who attended last year’s Worldcon can. I won’t vote over every category but I will vote for those I have read/can sample and am confident in my choice for.

 

[Bick]

I'll be voting. I am registered for Worldcon this year (though its only a virtual meeting now)

 

[Astro Pen]

I notice that Tor publishing has multiple appearances on the list. Anyone here dealt with them?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I notice that Tor publishing has multiple appearances on the list. Anyone here dealt with them?

Not directly but I know a number of their authors. What do you want to know?

 

[Astro Pen]

Not directly but I know a number of their authors. What do you want to know?

They claim to be a small team but, from these results seem to punch above their weight. Which suggests a healthy level of enthusiasm and judgement.
Just considering a direct submission of a novella since big houses tend not to like them.
The alternative approach I was going with was to bundle the three novella series as a 'three part' novel.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I notice that Tor publishing has multiple appearances on the list. Anyone here dealt with them?

Tor are a big SF/F publisher in the USA, with a big social media presence.

 

[Astro Pen]

Tor are a big SF/F publisher in the USA, with a big social media presence.

Thanks Brian
That's actually good news. I had been looking at the (very) old Tor UK page and got the wrong impression from:

"This is because there are only three of us and, despite the popular idea that all editors do is drink coffee and read all day, the fact is the vast majority of submission reading is done in our spare time."

How to submit a novel to TOR UK

Are you an aspiring sci-fi or fantasy writer wondering how to get published? We answer a few of your questions here.

www.panmacmillan.com

 

[Jo Zebedee]

They claim to be a small team but, from these results seem to punch above their weight. Which suggests a healthy level of enthusiasm and judgement.
Just considering a direct submission of a novella since big houses tend not to like them.
The alternative approach I was going with was to bundle the three novella series as a 'three part' novel.

If you want to get a publisher like Tor you’d be better getting an agent first. And don’t bundle three novellas and call it a novel - any publisher or agent will know exactly what you’ve done

 

[Astro Pen]

If you want to get a publisher like Tor you’d be better getting an agent first. And don’t bundle three novellas and call it a novel - any publisher or agent will know exactly what you’ve done

I was thinking, somewhat optimistically, of E.F. Russell's "Men Martians and Machines"

 

[Juliana]

Nice nomination list! And congrats to all our Chrons nominees!

 

[-K2-]

Congratulations @Victoria Silverwolf and @Werthead ; Best wishes for both of you. Though I'm unfamiliar with Adam Whitehead's work, I read Victoria Silverwolf's reviews here religiously and always look forward to them.

K2

 

[williamjm]

Does anyone here actually vote?

I nominated this year (with mixed success, none of my nominees got into the Best Novel shortlist although some did elsewhere).

Congratulations @Victoria Silverwolf and @Werthead ; Best wishes for both of you. Though I'm unfamiliar with Adam Whitehead's work, I read Victoria Silverwolf's reviews here religiously and always look forward to them.

Adam's blog is here: The Wertzone

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Congratulations, @Werthead and @Victoria Silverwolf!

I began reading SF&F in the '70s, in the US, and the Hugos were such a big deal to us devotees. It seems huge to me that two of our members are nominated this time. Victoria, I've read, and thoroughly enjoyed, many of your Tangent reviews, and Werthead, I will check out the Wertzone today. Wow! Best of luck to you both in the voting, CC

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

For the record, the winners:

Announcing the 2020 Hugo Award Winners