It’s January, which for some people means it is time to start figuring out what stories to nominate during this year’s awards cycle. Each year, I assemble a list to help our readers figure out what Hugo Award categories best apply to the people or works associated with Clarkesworld.
Eligible for Best Short Story (alphabetical by author)
- “Conglomerate” by Robert Brice (April)
- “Antarctic Birds” by A. Brym (September)
- “Dead Heroes” by Mike Buckley (November)
- “Crown of Thorns” by Octavia Cade (March)
- “The Stone Weta” by Octavia Cade (August)
- “Darkness, Our Mother” by Eleanna Castroianni (December)
- “Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems” by Vajra Chandrasekera (April)
- “Milla” by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini (January)
- “Möbius Continuum” by Gu Shi (September)
- “Reversion” by Nin Harris (August)
- “Prosthetic Daughter” by Nin Harris (February)
- “Landmark” by Cassandra Khaw (December)
- “Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe” by Naomi Kritzer (March)
- “Travelers” by Rich Larson (July)
- “The Ways Out” by Sam J. Miller (June)
- “In the Blind” by Sunny Moraine (August)
- “The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon” by Finbarr O’Reilly (October)
- “Real Ghosts” by J.B. Park (March)
- “Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” by Lettie Prell (January)
- “Crossing LaSalle” by Lettie Prell (December)
- “Two Ways of Living” by Robert Reed (March)
- “The Significance of Significance” by Robert Reed (July)
- “Little /^^^\&-” by Eric Schwitzgebel (September)
- “Assassins” by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier (February)
- “Twisted Knots” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (August)
- “Prasetyo Plastics” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (November)
- “Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus” by Bogi Takács (April)
- “The Person Who Saw Cetus” by Tang Fei (May)
- “The Nightingales in Plátres” by Natalia Theodoridou (October)
- “The Rains on Mars” by Natalia Theodoridou (December)
- “Baroness” by E. Catherine Tobler (May)
- “The Catalog of Virgins” by Nicoletta Vallorani (November)
- “Retrieval” by Suzanne Walker (November)
- “The Psychology Game” by Xia Jia (October)
- “An Age of Ice” by Zhang Ran (July)
Eligible for Best Novelette (alphabetical by author)
- “An Account of the Sky Whales” by A Que (June)
- “Neptune’s Trident” by Nina Allan (June)
- “The Bridgegroom” by Bo Balder (July)
- “Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” by Jess Barber and Sara Saab (September)
- “Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons?” by Sue Burke (November)
- “A Man Out of Fashion” by Chen Qiufan (August)
- “Rain Ship” by Chi Hui (February)
- “Fool’s Cap” by Andy Dudak (June)
- “The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales” by Fei Dao (April)
- “How Bees Fly” by Simone Heller (February)
- “Interchange” by Gary Kloster (January)
- “Last Chance” by Nicole Kornher-Stace (July)
- “The Ghost Ship Anastasia” by Rich Larson (January)
- “The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer (September)
- “My Dear, Like the Sky and Stars and Sun” by Julia K. Patt (June)
- “Falling in Love with Martians and Machines” by Josh Pearce (December)
- “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (January)
- “We Who Live in the Heart” by Kelly Robson (May)
- “The Sum of Her Expectations” by Jack Skillingstead (October)
- “Into Prom” by Genevieve Valentine (October)
- “Streams and Mountains” by Nick Wolven (May)
- “Goodnight, Melancholy” by Xia Jia (March)
Eligible for Best Novella
- “Sunwake, in the Lands of Teeth” by Juliette Wade (April)
Eligible for Best Professional Artist
- Gabriel Bjork Stiernstrom (Issue 124)
- Benedick Bana (Issue 125)
- Sergei Sarichev (Issue 126)
- Eddie Mendoza (Issue 127, Issue 130)
- Julie Dillon (Issue 128)
- Matt Dixon (Issue 129)
- Pascal Blanche (Issue 131)
- Vladimir Manyukhin (Issue 132)
- Marianna Stelmach (Issue 133)
- Jonas De Ro (Issue 134)
- Peter Mohrbacher (Issue 135)
Above Authors Eligible for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer
- A. Brym
- Eleanna Castroianni
- Burt Courtier
- Simone Heller
- Vina Jie-Min Prasad
- Finbarr O’Reilly
- D.A. Xiaolin Spires
- Suzanne Walker
I’m eligible for Best Editor (short form) for editing the following in 2017:
Stewart Baker
Hi Neil,
Thanks for this list!
Thought I’d let you know the link to “Prosthetic Daughter” has a typo in it.