2008's Hugos
Apr. 29th, 2008 06:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomI've turned in my ballot for the Hugos. Of course, those are my preferences. I have no illusions nor pretensions of having voted based on some absolute criteria. Who do people think I think I am?
("General Zod?")
I heard that.
Without further ado, here they are, with my favorites first.
Best Novella:
All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec. 2007; Subterranean Press)
Stars Seen Through Stone by Lucius Shepard (F&SF July 2007)
Recovering Apollo 8 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Feb. 2007)
The Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress (Asimov's July 2007)
Memorare by Gene Wolfe (F&SF April 2007)
Best Novelette:
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang (Subterranean Press; F&SF Sept. 2007)
Dark Integers by Greg Egan (Asimov's Oct./Nov. 2007)
Glory by Greg Egan (The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
Finisterra by David Moles (F&SF Dec. 2007)
Best Short Story:
A Small Room in Koboldtown by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's April/May 2007; The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Tachyon Publications)
Tideline by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's June 2007)
Distant Replay by Mike Resnick (Asimov's April/May 2007)
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? by Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
What? No votes in the Novel category? That's because most recent novels are available only in hardcover, and I don't like reading those. Give me a paperback though and it's a different story.
Also, I couldn't get a copy of Daniel Abraham's novelette The Cambist and Lord Iron nor of Stephen Baxter's short story Last Contact. Had I been able to do so, that might have changed my final votes, but I didn't so it didn't.
In the I-think-they-should-have-been-nominated dept, I'd put Sean Williams's paperback original Saturn returns, which didn't make it to the final list although it deserved to. So did M.K.Hobson's short story Hotel Astarte. I'd better make sure to vote early (and vote often) next year.
("General Zod?")
I heard that.
Without further ado, here they are, with my favorites first.
Best Novella:
All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec. 2007; Subterranean Press)
Stars Seen Through Stone by Lucius Shepard (F&SF July 2007)
Recovering Apollo 8 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Feb. 2007)
The Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress (Asimov's July 2007)
Memorare by Gene Wolfe (F&SF April 2007)
Best Novelette:
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang (Subterranean Press; F&SF Sept. 2007)
Dark Integers by Greg Egan (Asimov's Oct./Nov. 2007)
Glory by Greg Egan (The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
Finisterra by David Moles (F&SF Dec. 2007)
Best Short Story:
A Small Room in Koboldtown by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's April/May 2007; The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Tachyon Publications)
Tideline by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's June 2007)
Distant Replay by Mike Resnick (Asimov's April/May 2007)
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? by Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
What? No votes in the Novel category? That's because most recent novels are available only in hardcover, and I don't like reading those. Give me a paperback though and it's a different story.
Also, I couldn't get a copy of Daniel Abraham's novelette The Cambist and Lord Iron nor of Stephen Baxter's short story Last Contact. Had I been able to do so, that might have changed my final votes, but I didn't so it didn't.
In the I-think-they-should-have-been-nominated dept, I'd put Sean Williams's paperback original Saturn returns, which didn't make it to the final list although it deserved to. So did M.K.Hobson's short story Hotel Astarte. I'd better make sure to vote early (and vote often) next year.
