Help me find my OTHER nominees for the Hugos and Retro Hugos
January 9, 2016 5:04 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for suggestions for potential nominations for the upcoming Hugos and Retro-Hugos. Difficulty level: NOT the categories for fiction, film, or television.

I read and watch plenty of SFF fiction and have oodles of potential nominees for the "big" categories, but I want to find more that I love to nominate in the others. Help me out?

What I DON'T want: Links to wikis or other people's suggestions. I can find those on my own.

What I DO want: *Your* suggestions for your favorites from 2015 or 1940 in any of the following categories of science fiction and fantasy --

Best Related Work
Best Graphic Story
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (for 1940 only -- got any favorite SFF radio episodes from back then?)
Best Editor, Long Form
Best Editor, Short Form
Best Professional Artist
Best Semiprozine
Best Fanzine
Best Fancast
Best Fan Writer
Best Fan Artist
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Explanations of the various Hugo Award Categories can be found here. Thanks!
posted by kyrademon to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Here are some names I'm thinking real hard about for the 2015 lineup: Alyssa Wong, Andy Weir, and Sunil Patel are on my Campbell slate. I have Kathleen Jennings, Tran Nguyen, and James Jean as pro artists. I'm considering Max Gladstone as fan writer, and File770 as fanzine. Ditchdiggers as fancast. For graphic story Nimona, and possibly I Am Princess X, though the category that one fits into isn't as clear.

I, too, would like to see more suggestions. Thanks for asking!
posted by Andrhia at 7:55 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Some noteworthy possibilities for Best Related Work include ... Mary Robinette Kowal points out in the comments that, as a performed work, "Mary Robinette Kowal Reads Theodore Beale. Sexily." would be credited to the original writer if nominated for Best Related Work, so that's out, but I think Natalie Luhrs should be eligible as Best Fan Writer for "Bad Life Decisions."

In Best Graphic Story, my suggestion is Ryan North & Erica Henderson for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power.

For the Campbell, Rachael K. Jones will be on my ballot.
posted by Wobbuffet at 9:12 AM on January 9, 2016 [2 favorites]


Best answer: For the Campbell, I adored Seth Dickinson's debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
posted by serelliya at 3:01 PM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Just FYI, I am not 100% sure that Seth Dickinson is eligible for the Campbell (the rules for it are a bit odd, and he's published short stories before that book.) The book would, of course, be eligible for Best Novel.
posted by kyrademon at 3:55 PM on January 10, 2016


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