Month: January 2012

The 2012 Hugo Award nomination period is now open. Eligibility details and a nomination form can be found here. Since the rules can be occasionally confusing (or require counting), we're providing the following information about work at Clarkesworld that is eligible for nomination:

BEST EDITOR SHORT FORM

• Neil Clarke – Fiction Editor
• Cheryl Morgan – Non-Fiction Editor

SHORT STORY (less than 7500 words)

• Tying Knots by Ken Liu
• Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky
• Three Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden
• Perfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare
• The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
• Matchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn
• Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo
• The Architect of Heaven by Jason K. Chapman
• Semiramis by Genevieve Valentine
• Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika by Gord Sellar
• Frozen Voice by An Owomoyela
• Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Fish of Lijiang by Chen Qiufan
• Pack by Robert Reed
• Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor
• Staying Behind by Ken Liu
• Pony by Erik Amundsen
• The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar
• In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback
• Sirius by Ben Peek

NOVELETTE (between 7,500 and 17,500 words)

• Ghostweight by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) by Nnedi Okorafor
• Trickster by Mari Ness
• A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell

NOVELLA (between 17,500 and 40,000 words)

• Silently and Very Fast (Parts 1, 2, 3) by Catherynne M. Valente

BEST SEMIPROZINE
Despite the fact that Clarkesworld is once again eligible for BEST SEMIPROZINE, we ask that you nominate someone who hasn't been a nominee before instead. If not nominating us this year bothers you, nominate one of our editors in short form or your favorite story in the appropriate category. We'll still feel the love. 🙂

NOTE: There is a Hugo rule change that may go into effect next year. We'd like to encourage you to nominate for Semiprozine as if it already happened. I'll be blogging in detail about this soon, but for now, a description of the effect of the proposal (it was modified slightly, but the effect is the same) is here.

BEST FAN WRITER

• The authors of any non-fiction we published in 2011.

BEST FAN ARTIST

• The artists that created any of the covers we used in 2011.