Hugo nominations are now open! And now, some pandering, part one.

Hugo nominations are now open! And now, some pandering, part one.

Posted on 2011-01-03 at 21:38 by montsamu

The nomination period for the 2011 Hugo Awards is open. Folks who either were members (attending or supporting) of Aussiecon last year, or who are members (attending or supporting, and there’s still plenty of time to sign up for either!) of Renovation this year, can nominate up to five persons or works in each category. You have until Saturday, March 26th to do so.

I’m going to run three posts on this. The first will deal with stories and writers published in Bull Spec in 2010. The second will deal with other local authors and artists and their eligible books and stories, etc. The last will deal with the wider world of authors and artists who did amazing work in 2010.

So, first, the list of eligible works of fiction published in Bull Spec in 2010, all in the Best Short Story category, all of which can be found in the pay-what-you-like (even free!) PDF versions or, of course, in print:

Issue #1, March-April-May 2010:

• C.S. Fuqua, “Rise Up”
• Peter Wood, “Almost a Good Day to Go Outside”
• Note: Natania Barron, “Doctor Adderson’s Lens” is not eligible, as it was previously published in Gatehouse Gazette #8, 2009

• Melissa Mead, “Hirasol”
• Uri Grey, “The Sad Story of the Naga”
• Gwendolyn Clare, “The Other Lila”
• Paul Celmer, “Echoes of the Bouncing Ball”
• Note: Kaolin Fire, “By the Dragon’s Tail” is eligible, though it was first published on his blog as part of the Post a Story for Haiti project at Crossed Genres.

• Lavie Tidhar, “The Story of Listener and Yu-En”
• David Steffen, “Turning Back the Clock”
• Denali Hyatt, “Cityscape”
• Katherine Sparrow, “Like Parchment in the Fire”
• Melinda Thielbar, “You’re Almost Here”
• Natania Barron, “Sand” is eligible, though it was first published on WUNC’s The State of Things
• Paul Celmer, “A Crowded Place” is eligible, though it was first published on WUNC’s The State of Things

• Andrew Magowan, “Freedom Acres”
• Nick Mamatas, “O, Harvard Square!”
• David Tallerman, “The Burning Room”
• Don Norum, “A Mathematician’s Apology”
• Erin Hoffman, “City of Shadow and Glass”
• Note: James Maxey, “Tornado of Sparks” is not eligible, as it was previously published in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, 2007

• Blue Tyson, who contributed a review (and should be considered for his significant efforts at FreeSF and NotFreeSF)
• Charles Tan, who contributed a review (and should be considered for his significant efforts at both Bibliophile Stalker and The World SF Blog)
• Richard Dansky, who contributed several reviews, and also reviews often at The Green Man Review
• Paul Kincaid, who contributed several reviews, and also reviews quite often in a number of semiprozines, such as Interzone, The NYRSF, etc.
• Jason Erik Lundberg, who contributed a review, and also reviews often in a number of semiprozines, such as Strange Horizons, SF Site, etc.
• Note: Technically I guess I’m eligible for the interviews, etc., but, well, that would be silly. (See also Best Editor, Short Form as that would be by leaps and bounds even sillier. Wait until part 3 of this series, where I’ll talk about the real editors of 2010, like John Joseph Adams, Cat Rambo, Ann VanderMeer, Jonathan Strahan, Andy Cox, etc. But not Neil Gaiman, ‘cuz as far as I can tell, he ain’t eligible for that one, yet. Though I could be wrong. More on that, later.)

• Mike Gallagher, who contributed two illustrations (for “Rise Up” and “Like Parchment in the Fire”)
• Jason Strutz, who contributed three illustrations (for “O, Harvard Square!”, “Freedom Acres”, and “The Story of Listener and Yu-En”)
• Joey Jordan, who contributed two illustrations (for “By the Dragon’s Tail” and “Turning Back the Clock”)

• Peter Wood (BS-qualified)
• Uri Grey (BS-qualified)
• Gwendolyn Clare (second year of eligibility)
• Paul Celmer (BS-qualified)
• David Steffen (BS-qualified)
• Denali Hyatt (BS-qualified)
• Deborah Walker

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