Nebula & Hugo Awards Nomination Periods Now Open
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This year’s Nebula & Hugo awards nomination periods are now open.
Nebulas: From November 15th, 2011, to February 15th, 2012, 11:59pm PST, Active and Associate SFWA members may submit nominations for the 2011 Nebula Awards. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. For more information, visit SFWA’s How to Vote page.
Hugos: The 2011 Hugo Awards will be presented in Chicago, IL during Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Aug. 30-Sep. 3). Nominations close on Saturday, March 11, 2012, 23:59 PDT. Anyone who has a supporting or full membership of Chicon 7 as of January 31, 2012 and all members of Renovation (last year’s Worldcon) may nominate works. If you didn’t attend Renovation, and you don’t plan to attend Chicon 7, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here.
Here are all of the 2011 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Fantasy, or I’m otherwise affiliated with.
Novelettes (Nebulas / Hugos)
- The Nearest Thing by Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed)
- The Old Equations by Jake Kerr (Lightspeed)
- The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek by Sarah Monette (Fantasy)
- Unnatural Disaster by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Fantasy)
- The Woman Who Married the Man in the Moon by Peter S. Beagle (first appeared in Beagle’s collection Sleight of Hand, reprinted in Fantasy)
- The Prince of Thirteen Days by Alaya Dawn Johnson (first appeared in Welcome to Bordertown, edited by Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, reprinted in Fantasy)
- House of Gears by Jonathan Howard (Fantasy)
Short Stories (Nebulas / Hugos)
- Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free AI Crash Advisor by Grady Hendrix (Lightspeed)
- Sweet Sixteen by Kat Howard (Lightspeed)
- Against Eternity by David Farland (Lightspeed)
- How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars by Lisa Nohealani Morton (Lightspeed)
- Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow by Corey Mariani (Lightspeed)
- Woman Leaves Room by Robert Reed (Lightspeed)
- Simulacrum by Ken Liu (Lightspeed)
- The Sighted Watchmaker by Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed)
- Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son by Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed)
- Black Fire by Tanith Lee (Lightspeed)
- Long Enough And Just So Long by Cat Rambo (Lightspeed)
- Eliot Wrote by Nancy Kress (Lightspeed)
- The Parting Glass by Andrew Penn Romine (Lightspeed)
- Houses by Mark Pantoja (Lightspeed)
- Saying the Names by Maggie Clark (Lightspeed)
- Join by Liz Coleman (Lightspeed)
- Thief of Futures by D. Thomas Minton (Lightspeed)
- Her Husband’s Hands by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed)
- The Defenders by Will McIntosh (Lightspeed)
- Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole by K. C. Ball (Lightspeed)
- All That Touches the Air by An Owomoyela (Lightspeed)
- The Harrowers by Eric Gregory (Lightspeed)
- Some Fortunate Future Day by Cassandra Clare (first appeared in Steampunk!, edited by Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, reprinted in Lightspeed)
- Choose Your Own Adventure by Kat Howard (Fantasy)
- Crossroads by Laura Anne Gilman (Fantasy)
- The Lizard Dance by Gio Clairval & Jeff Vandermeer (Fantasy)
- The Secret Beach by Tim Pratt (Fantasy)
- Lebkuchen by Priya Sharma (Fantasy)
- Her Lover’s Golden Hair by Nike Sulway (Fantasy)
- The Sandal-Bride by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy)
- The God Orkrem by Tanith Lee (Fantasy)
- Study, for Solo Piano by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy)
- The Wolves of Brooklyn by Catherynne M. Valente (Fantasy)
- News Right Fresh From Heaven by Darby Harn (Fantasy)
- Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage by Seanan McGuire (Fantasy)
- The World is Cruel, My Daughter by Cory Skerry (Fantasy)
- Of Men and Wolves by An Owomoyela (Fantasy)
- Red Dawn: A Chow Mein Western by Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy)
- Ghost Girl by Lauren Beukes (Fantasy)
- The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time by Tamsyn Muir (Fantasy)
- Seven Spells to Sever the Heart by K. M. Ferebee (Fantasy)
- Union Falls by J. S. Breukelaar (Fantasy)
- As We Report to Gabriel by Tina Connolly (Fantasy)
- Lessons From a Clockwork Queen by Megan Arkenberg (Fantasy)
- The Immortality Game by Cat Rambo (Fantasy)
- The Celebrated Carousel of the Margravine of Blois by Megan Arkenberg (Fantasy)
- Absolute Zero by Nadia Bulkin (first appeared in Creatures, edited by John Langan & Paul Tremblay, reprinted in Fantasy)
- You Have Been Turned Into a Zombie by a Friend by Jeremiah Tolbert (Fantasy)
- Christopher Raven by Theodora Goss (first appeared in Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann & Nick Gevers, reprinted in Fantasy)
- Three Damnations: A Fugue by James Alan Gardner (Fantasy)
Editor, Short-Form (Hugos)
John Joseph Adams (Brave New Worlds, Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy Magazine)
Semiprozine (Hugos)
Best Related Work (Hugos)
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley (Episodes 28-50 released in 2011) [Episode List]
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Hugos)
- J.S. Breukelaar
- K. M. Ferebee
- An Owomoyela
- Cory Skerry
- Nike Sulway
- Tamsyn Muir
- Priya Sharma
- Kat Howard
- K. C. Ball
- Jake Kerr
- Grady Hendrix
- Lisa Nohealani Morton
- Corey Mariani
- Tom Crosshill
- Andrew Penn Romine
- Mark Pantoja
- Maggie Clark
- Liz Coleman
Plus, the following Lightspeed/Fantasy staff members are eligible for the Campbell:
- Wendy N. Wagner
- Christie Yant
- Molly Tanzer