working on my Hugo nominations

[psocoptera]

Hugo nominations have apparently opened, although I haven't received any email, and my request for a code has not yet produced anything. But, hey, probably a good time to pull together where I am so far.

Novel: A Half-Built Garden, Babel, maybe The Golden Enclaves, although I'm already nominating it in two other categories so maybe not.

Also read: The Thousand Eyes, In the Serpent's Wake, Fevered Star, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Nettle & Bone, Nona the Ninth, The Grief of Stones, Three Miles Down, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, Ocean's Echo.

Novella: Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, What Moves the Dead, January Fifteenth, Into the Riverlands.

Also read: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Some By Virtue Fall, Kundo Wakes Up, "Timebox (Altared)", High Times in the Low Parliament.

Novelette and Short Story: separate post later.

Series: Scholomance (Golden Enclaves).

Graphic: M is for Monster, Across a Field of Starlight, Other Ever Afters.

Also read: Where Black Stars Rise, The Well.

Dramatic Long: Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Also saw: Strange World.

Pro Artist: separate post later.

Semiprozine: Strange Horizons, Khoreo.

Fan Artist: Laya Rose.

Lodestar: Golden Enclaves, maybe In the Serpent's Wake.

Astounding: Isabel J. Kim.

The comments here would be a fine place for people to suggest other works that you think I should make a real effort to read before nominations close, although I'm still theoretically reading one to three more magazines and that will be most of my remaining reading time...

Comments

[glynhogen]

If you are looking to round out Astounding nominations with short fiction writers, there are links to some eligible folks and some of their stories in these posts:

https://aphowell.com/tag/astounding2023/

[psocoptera]

Ooh, thank you, I'll definitely take a look at that!

[glassonion]

Ooh, your ballot so far. Thanks!

I'll try to get mine up in the next week or so, so we can trade notes. I literally just finished reading (and posting about reading) C.L. Polk's queer Prohibition-era supernatural detective novel Even Though I Knew the End, and i thought it was very fun (and well-written) and plan to nominate it. But i do still have many novellas to go before i sleep, so we'll see.

[psocoptera]

I'm in the queue for that!

Potential Lodestar nomination

[vardibidian]

I really enjoyed the YA novel _When the Angels Left the Old Country_, by Sacha Lamb. Queer Jewish Immigration story, with, you know, angels.

Thanks,
-V.

Re: Potential Lodestar nomination

[psocoptera]

Ooh, I think I've heard other good things about this, but wasn't in the library queue for it. But now I am, thanks!

[elysdir]

My other Dramatic Long noms (in addition to Everything Everywhere): Ms. Marvel and Turning Red.

Most of my other noms are in categories that you’re going to post about later, so I’ll wait for those posts. :)

[psocoptera]

Dang, was Turning Red this year? Where by "this year" I mean 2022 which I guess is not technically the year we are actually in, but you know what I mean. Anyways, great additions, I liked both of these but I guess never wrote reviews of them here, which I rely on for keeping track since I can't remember anything. Any thoughts on Ms. Marvel as a whole vs some episode as a Short?

[elysdir]

I know, Turning Red was like a zillion years ago, right?

I would be happy with nominating any individual ep of Ms Marvel, but I don’t think there was any specific one that I liked more than any specific other one, and I thought the whole series worked well as a single story, so my inclination is to nominate in Long Form. But if you have any suggestions for Short Form, I could do that too.

[psocoptera]

I read through the episode descriptions and honestly I couldn't even have told you what was in any given episode or how many of them there had been, so, yeah, I think I agree, one single story. (And I often don't even vote in Short, so, might as well stick to the category I know I want to be voting in...)