NESFA 2009 Hugo Recommendations

NESFA continues to maintain a list of Good Stuff to read. Any NESFA member who reads something that they would like to recommend to others to be considered for a Hugo nomination can add it to the list. We will publish it from time to time in Instant Message and on the nets. (Feel free to reproduce it provided you reproduce it intact!) It's neither definitive nor complete, but it contains the stories, novels and non-fiction works that a bunch of well-read fans feel may be worthy of a Hugo nomination.

These are items first published (or first published in English) in 2009 and eligible for the Hugos to be presented at Aussiecon 4, September 2-6, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia. Some items published outside the U.S. in prior years but first published in the U.S. in 2009 are also listed, since the Worldcon Business Meeting again extended their eligibility for the Hugos. The nominating deadline has now passed. The voting deadline is 11:59 pm PST on July 31, 2010. For more information about the Hugos, see theHugoAwards.org.

Novel (40,000 words or more)
Title	Author	Publisher
Bitter Angels	C. L. Anderson (Sarah Zettel)	Bantam Spectra	pal
The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi	Night Shade	jam, ies, vjd
Song of Time	Ian R. MacLeod	PS Publishing (UK, 2008)	vjd
The Quiet War & Gardens of the Sun	Paul J. McAuley	Gollancz	vjd
The City & The City	China Mieville	Del Rey	ca, vjd, ies
House of Suns	Alastair Reynolds	Gollancz (UK, 2008)	vjd, ies, jam, by
Yellow Blue Tibia	Adam Roberts	Gollancz	vjd
www:wake	Robert Sawyer	Ace	arl
The Sunless Countries	Karl Schroeder	Tor (editor not credited)	ca, po, jam, daa
Palimpsest	Catherynne M. Valente	Ace	ies
Lifelode	Jo Walton	NESFA Press (ed. by Peter Olson)	ca, dgg, po
Leviathan	Scott Westerfeld	Simon Pulse	arl, ged, po, ca, daa
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America	Robert Charles Wilson	Tor (ed. by Teresa Nielsen Hayden)	ca, jam
This Is Not a Game	Walter Jon Williams	Orbit	arl, mlo, po, dgg
Boneshaker	Cherie Priest	Tor (ed. by Liz Gorinsky)	jam

Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
Ars Memoriae	Beth Bernobich	PS Publishing	ies
Paradiso Lost	Albert E. Cowdrey	F&SF, Jun/Jul 2009	ca
Hot Rock	Greg Egan	Oceanic (Orion)	vjd
Act One	Nancy Kress	Asimov's, Mar 2009	arl
Vishnu at the Cat Circus	Ian McDonald	Cyberbad Days	jam
Necroflux Day	John Meaney	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume 3, ed. by George Mann	jam
The Spires of Denon	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Asimov's, Apr/May 2009	arl, ca
The God Engines	John Scalzi	Subterranean Press	vjd
Palimpsest	Charles Stross	Wireless (Ace)	ca, daa
The Bridge	Zoran Zivkovic	PS Publishing	ies

Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
This Wind Blowing, and This Tide	Damien Broderick	Asimov's, Apr/May 2009	ca
Truth and Bone	Pat Cadigan	Poe, ed. by Ellen Datlow	ca
One of Our Bastards Is Missing	Paul Cornell	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume 3, ed. by George Mann	jam, ca, vjd
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast	Eugie Foster	Interzone 220 and Apex magazine	vjd
Economancer	Carolyn Ives Gilman	F&SF, Jun/Jul 2009	arl
It Takes Two	Nicola Griffith	Eclipse 3 (Night Shade), ed. by Jonathan Strahan	ies
Blood Dauber	Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore	Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2009	ca
Firehorn	Robert Reed	F&SF, Jun/Jul 2009	ca
Game Testing	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Gamer Fantastic, ed. by Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes	ca, daa
Eros, Philia, Agape	Rachel Swirsky	Tor.com, 3 March 2009	ies
But It Does Move	Harry Turtledove	Analog, Jun 2009	ca, mlo
This Peaceable Land; or, the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe	Robert Charles Wilson	Other Earths (DAW), ed. by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake	ca
Utriusque Cosmi	Robert Charles Wilson	The New Space Opera 2 (DAW), ed. by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan	ca, jam
Twilight of the Gods	John C. Wright	Federations	ca

Short Story (less than 7,500 words)
Title	Author	Appeared
Cold Testing	Eric Brown	Asimov's, Jun 2009	arl
The Last Apostle	Michael Cassutt	Asimov's, Jul 2009	ca
Five Thousand Light Years From Birdland	Robert R. Chase	Asimov's, Jan 2009	ca
Illusions of Tranquility	Brendan DuBois	F&SF, Dec 2009	ca
A Story, With Beans	Steven Gould	Analog, May 2009	ca
Butterfly Bomb	Dominic Green	Interzone, Jul-Aug 2009	ca
Glister	Dominic Green	Interzone, Jul-Aug 2009	ca
The Slows	Gail Hareven	The New Yorker, 4 May 2009	jac, ca
Our Lady of Scarlet	Tanith Lee	Realms of Fantasy, Aug 2009	arl
The Kamikaze Code	James Lovegrove	We Think, Therefore We Are (DAW), ed. by Peter Crowther	arl, ca
Before My Last Breath	Robert Reed	Asimov's, Oct-Nov 2009	ca
The Receivers	Alastair Reynolds	Other Earths (DAW) ed. by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake	vjd, jam, ca
The President's Book Tour	M. Rickert	F&SF, Oct/Nov 2009	jac, ies
Overtime	Charles Stross	Tor.com	vjd, by, jam
Solace	James Van Pelt	Analog, Jun 2009	ca
Donovan Sent Us	Gene Wolfe	Other Earths	ca

Related Work
Title	Author	Publisher
Powers: Secret Histories	John Berlyne	PS	vjd, ies, by
Seven Beauties of Science Fiction	Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.	Wesleyan	vjd
On Joanna Russ	Farah Mendlesohn	Wesleyan	vjd, ies
The Inter-Galactic Playground	Farah Mendlesohn	McFarland	ies
A Short History of Fantasy	Farah Mendlesohn, with Edward James	Middlesex U.P.	vjd
Starting Point: 1979-1996	Hayao Miyazaki	Viz Media	ca
Other Spaces, Other Times	Robert Silverberg	Non Stop Press	mlo
Hope-in-the-Mist	Michael Swanwick	Temporary Culture	ies
This Is Me, Jack Vance	Jack Vance	Subterranean	mlo

Graphic Story
Title	Author	Artist	Publisher
Captain Britain and MI-13: Vampire State	Paul Cornell	Leonard Kirk	Marvel Comics (originally published as Captain Britain and MI-13 #10-15 and Captain Britain and MI-13 Annual #1, reprinted as Captain Britain and MI-13 (volume 3): Vampire State)	vjd
Ignition City	Warren Ellis	Gianluca Pagliarani	Avatar Press (originally published as Ignition City #1-5, reprinted as Ignition City volume 1)	daa, ca
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?	Neil Gaiman	Joe Kubert	DC (first published in Batman #686 and Detective Comics #853, reprinted in Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?)	jam, ca, daa
Locke & Key: Head Games	Joe Hill	Gabriel Rodriguez	IDW (originally published as Locke & Key: Head Games #1-6, reprinted as Locke & Key (volume 2): Head Games)	daa, ca
Star Trek: Countdown	Mike Johnson & Tim Jones	David Messina	Titan Books / IDW (originally published as Star Trek: Countdown #1-4, reprinted as Star Trek: Countdown)	vjd, ca, daa
Dark Entries	Ian Rankin	Werther Dell'edera	DC Vertigo	jam
Grandville	Bryan Talbot	Bryan Talbot	Jonathan Cape (UK), Dark Horse Comics (USA)	vjd, jam, daa, ca
The Dark Ages	Bill Willingham	Mark Buckingham	Vertigo (originally published in Fables #77-81, reprinted in Fables (volume 12): The Dark Ages)	ca, daa, jam

Dramatic Presentation Long Form (over 90 minutes)
Title	Studio	Length
Avatar	20th Century Fox	162 min [IMDB]	jam, ca, daa, vjd, dgg, po, mlo, rk
Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak	Universal	140 min (approx)	by, dgg
Coraline	Laika Entertainment	100 min [IMDB]	daa, ebh, vjd, ldtm, by
District 9	Key Creatives	112 min [IMDB]	ca, daa, jam, dgg, ldtm
Franklyn	Recorded Picture Company	98 min [IMDB]	ca
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Warner Brothers	153 min [IMDB]	jam, ged, by
Let the Right One In (2008, Sweden) [on DVD or Blu-Ray, watch only the version marked "English: Theatrical subtitles" – the initial releases have poorly-translated subtitles]	EFTI	115 min [IMDB]	vjd, ca, daa, jam
Moon	Liberty Films UK	97 mins [IMDB]	vjd, ca, daa, jam, ldtm, dgg
Ponyo	Studio Ghibli	100 min [IMDB]	arl
Star Trek	Bad Robot	127 min [IMDB]	ca, daa, ged, vjd, dgg, rk
The Road	2929 Prod.	111 min [IMDB]	ldtm
Torchwood: Children of Earth	BBC	300 min [IMDB]	arl, jam, ca, daa, vjd, rk
Up	Pixar	96 min [IMDB]	ca, daa, arl, jam, mlo, ebh, po, ldtm, ged, dgg, by
Where the Wild Things Are	Warner Bros	101 mins [IMDB]	vjd

Dramatic Presentation Short Form (90 minutes or less)
Title	Series / Studio	Length
The Waters of Mars	Doctor Who	62 min [IMDB]	jam, vjd, ldtm, rk, ca
Epitaph One	Dollhouse	50 min [IMDB]	vjd, dgg, by
Sleep Dealer	Likely Story	90 min [IMDB]	ca, daa
Jughead	Lost	42 min [IMDB]	po, ldtm
LaFleur	Lost	42 min [IMDB]	ca, daa, jam, ldtm
The Last Dragonlord	Merlin	48 min	by
Partly Cloudy	Pixar	6 min [IMDB]	daa, ged
Light	Stargate Universe	44 min	jam, vjd, ldtm, ca, daa
Time	Stargate Universe	44 min	vjd

Length: The complete running time excluding previews, promotional trailers, commercials, public service announcements, or other extraneous material, based on the first general release of the item. According to some recent Hugo Administrators, nominations made in Long Form of items running 90 minutes or less, or in Short Form of items running over 90 minutes, will be ignored unless they can be moved to the other category without increasing the number of nominations there beyond five. Not all Hugo administrators agree.

IMDB: The running time is from the Internet Movie Database.

Eligibility: Note that 'Doctor Who - The End of Time', was a two-part single story, the final part of which was first broadcast on 1st Jan 2010, so it is not eligible as a 2009 work for the Hugos this year. (It will be the decision of the 2011 Hugo administrator as to whether to accept it a a 2010 work.) [vjd]

Noteworthy Works by Potential Campbell Nominees

(We do not make recommendations on these pages for the Hugo awards which are given to people (such as Best Editor or Best Artist), but for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer we do note recommended stories by people we believe to be eligible.)

Title	Author	Appeared / Publisher
Fragment	Warren Fahy	Delacorte Press	ca, daa, po
Prospero Lost	L. Jagi Lamplighter	Tor (ed. by James Frenkel)	mlo, po

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NESFA 2009 Hugo Recommendations

Noteworthy Works by Potential Campbell Nominees

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