2016 Hugo Nominations

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Two weeks until nominations close! I have actually gone and filled out my ballot, although I'm still investigating works in some categories. This is my ballot so far. (People who think it's tacky to share your nominations before the ballot closes shouldn't click on the cut link here.)


Novel
Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie, Orbit
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps Kai Ashante Wilson, Tor.com Publishing
Uprooted, Naomi Novik, Del Rey
The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton, Tor
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(that last place will probably be one of these, or Bone Gap, once I read Bone Gap:
Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho, Ace
The Darkest Part of the Forest, Holly Black, Little, Brown
Shadow Scale, Rachel Hartman, Random House
Hostage, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith, Book View Cafe)

Novella
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman Malik, in Tor.com.
Waters of Versailles, Kelly Robson, Tor.com.
Quarter Days, Iona Sharma, in GigaNotoSaurus.
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, Tor.
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Novelette
The Body Corporate, Mark Pantoja in GigaNotoSaurus.
Drinking with the Elfin Knight, Ginger Weil in GigaNotoSaurus.
Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, Rose Lemberg in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
So Much Cooking, Naomi Kritzer, in Clarkesworld.
Morrigan in Shadow, Seth Dickinson in Clarkesworld.

Short Story
Nine Thousand Hours, Iona Sharma.
Liminal Grid, Jaymee Goh.
Madeleine, Amal El-Mohtar.
Ghosts of Home, Sam J. Miller.
When Your Child Strays From God, Sam J Miller.

(Yeah, I know, that's two stories from one author, but I really liked them both.)

Best Graphic Story
Nimona, Noelle Stevenson, HarperTeen
O Human Star Volume 1, Blue Delliquanti, self-pub via Kickstarter
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(To read: Ms. Marvel Vol 2, Last of the Sandwalkers)
(Strong Female Protagonist Book One seems to have happened in 2014 and they didn't do a Book Two in 2015, drat)

Best Dramatic Long
The Martian, Ridley Scott
Inside Out, Pete Docter
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams
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(To watch: Ex Machina)

Best Dramatic Short
Sanjay's Super Team, Sanjay Patel
Uncanny Valley, Federico Heller (online in this Slate article here)
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(to watch: World of Tomorrow)
(pick an Agent Carter episode? or something else from spring 2015 when I was watching TV?)

Pro Artist
Cynthia Sheppard (website)
John Brosio (Lightspeed showcase)
Joshua Hutchinson (Apex cover, website)
Wylie Beckert (Lightspeed showcase)
Stephanie Law (website)

Semiprozine
Strange Horizons
Clarkesworld

Fan Artist
Vlada Monakhova, (an illo here, website here)
Iguanamouth/Lauren(website); they're the artist of Unusual Dragon Hoards
Marissa Garner (Etsy shop)
Mia Araujo (website)
Autun Purser (website)

Campbell
Iona Sharma
JY Yang
Alison Wilgus
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(Not nominating in Best Related Work, Best Editor Short or Long, Fanzine, Fancast, or Fan Writer)