NESFA 2012 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 2012 and eligible for the Hugos to be presented at Lone Star Con 3, August 29-September 2, 2013, in San Antonio, Texas.
  • Some items published outside the U.S. in prior years but first published in the U.S. in 2012 are also listed, since the Worldcon Business Meeting usually extends their eligibility for the Hugos.
  • The nominating deadline will probably be some time in March 2013.
  • For more information about the Hugos, see theHugoAwards.org.
Novel (40,000 words or more)
Title Author Publisher  
Ashes of Candesce Karl Schroeder Tor jam
Hide Me Among The Graves
Tim Powers
Morrow
by
Blue Remembered Earth
Alastair Reynolds
Gollanczby, vjd
 
Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words)
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Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words)
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Short Story (less than 7,500 words)
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Dramatic Presentation Long Form (over 90 minutes)
Title Series / Studio Length  
Avengers Assemble/Marvel's The AvengersMarvel/Disney143 minvjd 
Chronicle20th Century Fox 83 min vjd
John CarterDisney132 min vjd
The Cabin in the WoodsMutant Enemy/Lionsgate95 minvjd
The Hunger Games Lionsgate 142 minjam, vjd 
The Pirates! In an Adventure With ScientistsAardman/Columbia88 minvjd
The Secret World of Arrietty
Studio Ghibli
94 min [IMDB]
ca, daa
 
Dramatic Presentation Short Form (90 minutes or less)
Title Series / Studio Length  
The War Child
Being Human / BBC
57 min    
by
Letters of TransitFringe / Fox 43 minvjd

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. Most recent Hugo administrators, however, have said that they do not do this and will honor the nominators wishes for works that are within the 20% overlap boundary (that is, less than 108 minutes).

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

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.)

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Other Good Reads

Novel (40,000 words or more)
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Novella (between 17,500 and 40,000 words)
Title Author Appeared  
       
 
Novelette (between 7,500 and 17,500 words)
Title Author Appeared  
       
 
Short Story (less than 7,500 words)
Title Author Appeared  
       
 
Related Book
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Graphic Story
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Key to nominators: ansl: Alice Lewis, arl: Tony Lewis, bsa: Brad Ackerman, by: Ben Yalow, ca: Claire Anderson, cjh: Chip Hitchcock, daa: Dave Anderson, dak: Debbie King, dea: Deb Atwood, dgg: David G. Grubbs, dmg: Deborah M. Geisler, ebh: Lisa Hertel, ec: Elisabeth Carey, esa: Ted Atwood, fo: Frank Olynyk; gdm: Gary McGath, ged: Gay Ellen Dennett, ies: Ian Stockdale, jac: JoAnn Cox, jam: Jim Mann, js: Joe Siclari, jks: Joyce Scrivner, kp: Kelly Persons, ldtm: Laurie Mann, mdb: M. David Blake, mdh: Mark Hertel, mlo: Mark Olson, pal: Paula Lieberman, pf: Pam Fremon, po: Priscilla Olson, rk: Rick Katze, sl: Suford Lewis, shs: Steven Silver, sls: Sharon Sbarsky, sp: Sheila Perry, tps: Tim Szczesuil, vjd: Vincent J. Docherty