This year’s Hugo Award. Correction: This is the Torcon 2003 award. Thanks, Geri! Guess I was a little slap happy after looking up all these links.

Below are the Hugo Award Nominations for 2009 without the television and movie stuff. The link love is that I’ve gone out and found every author/artist announcement post. Yeah, my GoogleFu is going to be sore in the morning. 🙂

If you see a little [?] next to the link, that means I couldn’t find the author’s official announcement and I’ve just linked to their blog/press site.

Best Novel

* Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK) [?] Seriously…. a .mac personal “site”? Dude, let me build you a website. Email me.
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
* Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
* Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
* Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor) [Note, Scalzi’s up for three (3) this year. Every link below goes to the same post on Whatever.]

Best Novella

* “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008) [Update that blog, Nancy! 🙂 ] * “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Aug 2008) [I think CC and I are writing within half a mile of each other. Charlie, stop by Staufs and I’ll buy you a cuppa joe. Congrats!] * “The Tear” by Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires) [Thanks for updating, Ian!] * “True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum [Ben wins best Hugo Nomination Picture Award in my book.] & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
* “Truth” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008) [?]

Best Novelette

* “Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders” by Mike Resnick (Asimov’s Jan 2008) [?] * “The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
* “Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008) [? This piece was also shortlisted for the Nebula. I wonder if John would like my story Dating Prometheus? 🙂 ] * “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s Feb 2008) [? Also shorted for the Nebula. I see a trend.] * “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s Mar 2008) [IMHO, one of the best LJ community members around.]

Best Short Story

* “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Jul 2008) [FULL TEXT!] * “Article of Faith” by Mike Resnick (Baen’s Universe Oct 2008)
* “Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two) [Last year’s Campbell winner follows up. Score!] * “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two) [? I’m linking to the free podcast version of the story because I couldn’t find Ted anywhere. Really? ?] * “From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled” by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s Feb 2008) [Special award for funniest writer competition post… Resnick, can’t you get Swanwick to put up an LJ for you?]

Best Related Book

* Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
* Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
* The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold by Lillian Stewart Carl [?] & John Helfers, eds. (Baen) [? Umm. Updates?] * What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications) [?] * Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)

Best Graphic Story

* The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle Written by Jim Butcher, art by Ardian Syaf (Del Rey/Dabel Brothers Publishing)
* Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio [? Update LJ! Beautiful Studio site though. ] , colors by Cheyenne Wright [? Sweet blog, update it! 🙂 ] (Airship Entertainment)
* Fables: War and Pieces Written by Bill Willingham [? Updates] , pencilled by Mark Buckingham, art by Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy [?] , color by Lee Loughridge, letters by Todd Klein [?] (DC/Vertigo Comics)
* Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic Story and art by Howard Tayler (The Tayler Corporation) [Wow! An actual updated news site!] * Serenity: Better Days Written by Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad [? Love Will’s work.] , color by Michelle Madsen, cover by Jo Chen [? Damn, Jo, that homepage image was intense!] (Dark Horse Comics)
* Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores Written/created by Brian K. Vaughan [? cobwebs over there] , penciled/created by Pia Guerra [?], inked by Jose Marzan, Jr. [?] (DC/Vertigo Comics)

Best Editor, Short Form

* Ellen Datlow
* Stanley Schmidt [?] * Jonathan Strahan
* Gordon Van Gelder [?] * Sheila Williams [? Asimov’s not updated? ]

Best Editor, Long Form

* Lou Anders [Commented on this post Blogger asked me to confirm my comment with the word “cultocki”… Say what? 🙂 ] * Ginjer Buchanan [???] * David G. Hartwell [?] * Beth Meacham
* Patrick Nielsen Hayden [?]

Best Professional Artist

* Daniel Dos Santos [?] * Bob Eggleton [?] * Donato Giancola [?] * John Picacio [?] * Shaun Tan [?]

Best Semiprozine

* Clarkesworld Magazine edited by Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas & Sean Wallace
* Interzone edited by Andy Cox [?] * Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi [?] * The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Kris Dikeman, David G. Hartwell, & Kevin J. Maroney [?] * Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal

Best Fanzine

* Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
* Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer [??] * Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III [?] * The Drink Tank edited by Chris Garcia [Thanks, Kevin Standlee] * Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
* File 770 edited by Mike Glyer [? Mike doesn’t have a specific post there about his nomination, but some great thoughts about the nominations in general.]

Best Fan Writer

* Chris Garcia [?] * John Hertz [?] * Dave Langford
* Cheryl Morgan
* Steven H Silver

Best Fan Artist

* Alan F. Beck [?] * Brad W. Foster
* Sue Mason [Thanks, Kevin Standlee] * Taral Wayne
* Frank Wu [?]

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

* Aliette de Bodard
* David Anthony Durham
* Felix Gilman [?] * Tony Pi
* Gord Sellar

Whew!!! Yeah, it took awhile to get all these links together. Have fun!!!

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