5 April 2009 — daa

NESFA continues to maintain a list of Good Stuff to read. Any NESFA member who reads something that they would like to recommend to others to be considered for a Hugo nomination can add it to the list. We will publish it from time to time in Instant Message and on the nets. (Feel free to reproduce it provided you reproduce it intact!) It’s neither definitive nor complete, but it contains the stories, novels and non-fiction works that a bunch of well-read fans feel may be worthy of a Hugo nomination.

These are items published in 2008 and eligible for the Hugos to be presented at Anticipation, Aug. 6-10, 2009, in Montreal, Québec. The nominating deadline has now passed. For more about the Hugos, see theHugoAwards.org.

A discussion on the SMOFS mailing list has brought to our attention the fact that section 3.8.6 of the WSFS constitution is interpreted by at least some Hugo Administrators as a directive to silently discard nominations made in the “wrong” category of a group of categories differentiated by length (i.e., Novel / Novella / Novellette / Short Story or Dramatic Presentation Long / Short Form) unless there are unused slots in the “correct” category. This is especially problematic in the Dramatic Presentation categories, where it conflicts with the intuitive interpretation (which is encouraged by the current wording of the category definitions) that movies belong in Long Form and TV shows belong in Short Form. To be sure that your nominations in those categories are counted, it appears that you must either choose the category in which to nominate strictly by the length of the item being nominated or nominate fewer than the maximum allowed number of items in the other possible category.

Novel (40,000 words or more)
Title	Author	Publisher
Matter	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	vjd, jam, ies
Hell and Earth	Elizabeth Bear	Roc Trade	esa
Ink and Steel	Elizabeth Bear	Roc Trade	esa
City at the End of Time	Greg Bear	Del Rey	mlo
Little Brother	Cory Doctorow	Tor, ed. by Patrick Nielsen Hayden	dgg
Incandescence	Greg Egan	Night Shade Books	vjd, ies
The January Dancer	Michael Flynn	Tor (no editor listed)	jam
The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins	daa, ca, dgg
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory	Del Rey	ca, daa
The Night Sessions	Ken MacLeod	Orbit	ca, daa, ies
The Quiet War	Paul McAuley	Gollancz	ca, daa, vjd
Singularity’s Ring	Paul Melko	Tor, ed. by David Hartwell	ca, po, daa, dgg
Fleet of Worlds	Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner	Tor (no editor listed)	mlo, dgg
Juggler of Worlds	Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner	Tor (no editor listed)	mlo
Nation	Terry Pratchett	HarperCollins	fo
House of Suns	Alastair Reynolds	Victor Gollancz (UK)	mlo, vjd
The Prefect (UK 2007; US 2008)	Alastair Reynolds	Gollanz (2007); Ace (2008)	vjd, mlo, by, ca, ies, jam
Pirate Sun	Karl Schroeder	Tor, ed. by David Hartwell	jam, ca, mlo, daa, po
Superpowers	David J. Schwartz	Three Rivers Press	shs
Anathem	Neal Stephenson	Wm Morrow (no editor listed)	ies
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings	S. M. Stirling	Tor (no editor listed)	mlo, po, ca, daa, arl
Saturn’s Children	Charles Stross	Ace	mlo, po, daa, jam, ged, ca, vjd
The Dragons of Babel	Michael Swanwick	Tor, ed. by David Hartwell	ca, dgg

Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
The Overseer	Albert E. Cowdrey	F&SF, Mar 2008	ca
The Demon Trap	Peter Hamilton	Galactic Empires, ed. by Gardner Dozois	ca
The Luminous Depths	David Herter	PS Publishing	ies
The Erdmann Nexus	Nancy Kress	Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2008	ca
The Hob Carpet	Ian R. MacLeod	Asimov’s Jun 2008	ca, ies
Prisoners of the Action	Paul McAuley & Kim Newman	The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. by Ellen Datlow	ca
The Tear	Ian McDonald	Galactic Empires	ca
Tenbrook of Mars	Dean McLaughlin	Analog, Jul/Aug 2008	ca
Truth	Robert Reed	Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2008	ca
The Room of Lost Souls	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Asimov’s, Apr/May 2008	ca
Wonjjiang and the Madman of Pyongyang	Gord Sellar	Tesseracts Twelve	ca
Pinocchio	Walter Jon Williams	The Starry Rift, ed. by Jonathan Strahan	mlo

Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
Ice War	Stephen Baxter	Asimov’s, Sept 2008	jam, ca, mlo
Shoggoths in Bloom	Elizabeth Bear	Asimov’s Mar 2008	ca
The Golden Octopus	Beth Bernobich	PostScripts Number 15, Summer 2008	ies
If Angels Fight	Richard Bowes	F&SF, Feb 2008	ca
Exhalation	Ted Chiang	Eclipse Two ed by Jonathan Strahan	mlo
Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can	Thomas R. Dulski	Analog, Apr 2008	ca
Crystal Nights	Greg Egan	Interzone, Apr 2008	mlo, ca
Shining Armour	Dominic Green	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two, ed. by George Mann	ca
Pride and Prometheus	John Kessel	F&SF, Jan 2008	arl, ca, mlo
The Art of Alchemy	Ted Kosmatka	F&SF, Jun 2008	ca
Divining Light	Ted Kosmatka	Asimov’s, Aug 2008	ca, daa
The Man in the Mirror	Geoffrey A. Landis	Analog, Jan/Feb 2008	ca, mlo
Litany	Rand B. Lee	F&SF, Jun 2008	ca, mlo
The English Mutiny	Ian R. MacLeod	Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2008	ca
The Red Planet League	Kim Newman	Gaslight Grimoire	mlo, ca
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake	Naomi Novik	Fast Ships, Black Sails	ca, daa, mlo
Fury	Alastair Reynolds	Eclipse Two	ca
The Country of the Young	Gord Sellar	Interzone, Dec 2008	ca
Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues	Gord Sellar	Asimov’s, Jul 2008	ca
Following the Pharmers	Brian Stableford	Asimov’s, Mar 2008	ca

Short Story (less than 7,500 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
Boojum	Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette	Fast Ships, Black Sails	ca
Here’s What I Know	Dennis Danvers	Realms of Fantasy, Jun 2008	arl
Orange	Neil Gaiman	The Starry Rift ed by Jonathan Strahan	mlo, ca, po
A Brief Guide to Other Histories	Paul McAuley	Postscripts Number 15, Summer 2008	ca
The Thought War	Paul McAuley	Postscripts Number 15, Summer 2008	ca
The Adventure of the Southsea Trunk	Jack McDevitt	Sideways in Crime	shs
His Master’s Voice	Hannu Rajaniemi	Interzone, Oct 2008	ca
The House Left Empty	Robert Reed	Asimov’s, Apr/May 2008	ca, mlo
Reunion	Robert Reed	F&SF, May 2008	ca
Horse Racing	Mary Rosenblum	Asimov’s, Sep 2008	ca, mlo
G-Men	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Sideways in Crime	shs
Dhuluma No More	Gord Sellar	Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2008	ca
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled…	Michael Swanwick	Asimov’s, Feb 2008	ca

Related Book
Title	Author	Publisher
Sparrow Number Six: Rick Berry	Rick Berry	IDW Publishing	ca
H. Beam Piper: A Biography	John F. Carr	McFarland	ca
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction	Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.	Wesleyan	vjd
Spectrum 15: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds.	Underwood Books	ca, mlo, dgg
Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art	Jane Frank	Nonstop Press	ca, ged
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction	Paul Kincaid	Beccon Publications	ca, ies
Rhetorics of Fantasy	Farah Mendlesohn	Wesleyan	vjd, ies
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction	John Rieder	Wesleyan	vjd
The History of Science Fiction Palgrave (UK 2007)	Adam Roberts	MacMillan	vjd
The Paintings of J. Allen St. John: Grand Master of Fantasy	J. Allen St. John	Vanguard	ca
The Turtle Moves	Lawrence Watt-Evans	BenBella	shs

Graphic Story
Title	Author	Artist	Publisher
Joker	Brian Azzarello	Lee Bermejo	DC Comics	ca, daa
Aetheric Mechanics	Warren Ellis	Gianluca Pagliarani	Avatar	ca, daa
Air (issues 1-5): Letters From Lost Countries	G. Willow Wilson	M. K. Perker	Vertigo	ca, daa

Dramatic Presentation Long Form (over 90 minutes) [times are mostly from www.imdb.com]
Title	Studio	Length
Cloverfield	Bad Robot	85 min	ca, daa, vjd
The Colour of Magic	RHI Entertainment	191 min	jam, ldtm
The Dark Knight	Warner Brothers	152 min	sls, dak, ca, daa, dgg, vjd, shs
The Fall	Absolute Entertainment	117 min	ca, daa
Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Dark Horse Entertainment	120 min	ca, daa, jam, vjd
Iron Man	Dark Blades Films	126 min	jam, ldtm, mlo, po, dgg, ca, daa, ged, vjd, shs
Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)	EFTI	114 min	ca, daa, vjd
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)	Esta Vivo! Laboratorio de Nuevos Talentos	105 min	ca, daa
Speed Racer	Warner Brothers	135 min	ca, daa
WALL-E	Pixar	98 min	jam, ca, daa, mlo, po, dgg, ged, vjd, shs

Dramatic Presentation Short Form (90 minutes or less) [times are mostly from www.imdb.com]
Title	Series / Studio	Length
Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer	Chuck	40 min	shs
Midnight	Doctor Who	45 min	jam, vjd
Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead	Doctor Who	88 min	jam, ldtm, vjd, ca, daa
Stolen Earth / Journey's End	Doctor Who	108 min	jam, vjd
Turn Left	Doctor Who	49 min	jam, ldtm, vjd, ca, daa, po
Safe	Fringe		ca, daa
season 2, episode 5 (UK 2007)	Life on Mars (UK)	60 min	jam
The Constant	Lost	43 min	ca, daa, po, jam
Commentary: The Musical	Mutant Enemy	~45 min	shs
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog	Mutant Enemy	~45 min	vjd, ca, daa
Presto	Pixar	5 min	shs, mlo, daa, ged, vjd
Frescourts	Pushing Dasies		shs
Outcast	Star Gate: Atlantis		arl
Adrift	Torchwood	50 min	jam, ldtm
Fragments / Exit Wounds	Torchwood	100 min	jam
To the Last Man	Torchwood	50 min	ca, daa

Noteworthy Works by Potential Campbell Nominees

(We do not make recommendations on these pages for the Hugo awards which are given to people (such as Best Editor or Best Artist), but for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer we do note recommended stories by people we believe to be eligible.)

Title	Author	Appeared / Publisher
Destroyermen: Into the Storm	Taylor Anderson	Roc	ca
Ex-Kop	Warren Hammond	Tor	ca
Kop	Warren Hammond	Tor	ca
The Gone-Away World	Nick Harkaway	Knopf	ca
Mad Kestrel	Misty Massey	Tor	ca
The Country of the Young	Gord Sellar	Interzone, Dec 2008	ca
Dhuluma No More	Gord Sellar	Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2008	ca
Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues	Gord Sellar	Asimov’s, Jul 2008	ca

Other Good Reads

Novel (40,000 words or more)
Title	Author	Publisher
An Autumn War	Daniel Abraham	Tor, ed. by James Frenkel	po
Warrior: The Time Hunters	Angela Knight	Berkley	pal
Through the Veil	Shiloh Walker	Berkley Sensation	pal

Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words)
Title	Author	Appeared

Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words)
Title	Author	Appeared

Short Story (less than 7,500 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
Shade	Stephen Gould	Tor.com	ca, daa

Related Book
Title	Author	Publisher

Graphic Story
Title	Author	Artist	Publisher
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle	Jim Butcher	Ardian Syaf	Dabel Brothers	daa, ca

Dramatic Presentation Long Form (over 90 minutes) [times are mostly from www.imdb.com]
Title	Studio	Length
CJ7	Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia	86 min	ca, daa
City of Ember	Playtone	95 min	ca, daa
The Dark Knight	Warner Brothers	152 min	po, mlo, jam
The Forbidden Kingdom	Casey Silver Productions	113 min	ca, daa
The Happening	Barry Mendel Productions	91 min	ca, daa
The Incredible Hulk	Marvel Enterprises	112 min	ca, daa
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Paramount	122 min	ca, daa, ged, mlo, jam
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Walden Media	93 min	ca, daa
Justice League: The New Frontier	Warner Brothers Animation	75 min	ca, daa, jam
The Spiderwick Chronicles	The Kennedy / Marshall Company	96 min	ca, daa

Dramatic Presentation Short Form (90 minutes or less) [times are mostly from www.imdb.com]
Title	Series / Studio	Length

Key to nominators:
ansl: Alice Lewis, arl: Tony Lewis, bsa: Brad Ackerman, by: Ben Yalow, ca: Claire Anderson, cjh: Chip Hitchcock, daa: Dave Anderson, dak: Debbie King, dea: Deb Atwood, dgg: David G. Grubbs, dmg: Deborah M. Geisler, ebh: Lisa Hertel, ec: Elisabeth Carey, esa: Ted Atwood, fo: Frank Olynyk; ged: Gay Ellen Dennett, ies: Ian Stockdale, jam: Jim Mann, js: Joe Siclari, jks: Joyce Scrivner, kp: Kelly Persons, ldtm: Laurie Mann, mdh: Mark Hertel, mlo: Mark Olson, pal: Paula Lieberman, pf: Pam Fremon, po: Priscilla Olson, rk: Rick Katze, sl: Suford Lewis, shs: Steven Silver, sls: Sharon Sbarsky, sp: Sheila Perry, tps: Tim Szczesuil, vjd: Vincent J. Docherty