Hugo Nomination Resources

[forestofglory]

Hugo nominations are open and quite few people on my reading list are talking about what they plan to nominate. This year the Lodestar Award for Best YA book finally has name and I get little trill when I see people calling it the Lodestar. It is really truly lovely to see something I worked on behind the scenes out in the world.

For those of you who are nominating and would like some resources to help I have some links.

First my friends and ladybusiness have spreadsheet of eligible works. This open source so if your favorite isn't there please add it!

A.C. Wise maintains a very helpful list of eligibility and recommendation posts.

There's also this page that lists writes eligible for John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

And this page lists things that are eligible for semiprozine though they don't seem to have updated in a bit.

Have any other useful resources? Please share! Also I'm happy to answer technical questions about how the Hugos work or about WSFS (the org that runs worldcon and the Hugos)

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I didn't realize you were involved with Lodestar behind the scenes -- very cool! (and I quite like the name it ended up with :)

(Of course, this would be the year I have read the fewest books I want to nominate for it... :(

[forestofglory]

Thanks I'm glad you like the name, for it bit there we were worried no one would agree to anything.

I was on the committee to advise WSFS on creating the award and the name -- it mostly involved aguring with passionate pendants in email.

[chomiji]

Hugo-winning File 770 ("Mike Glyer's news of science fiction fandom") has a page full of resources. I know the URL/pathname has 2017 in it, but it's been updated with links about works created in 2018:

2018 Recommended SF/F Page

I've been enjoying the discussion of the recs by the commentariat on the first thread linked.

[forestofglory]

Thanks!

[forestofglory]

I urge you to nominate anyways if you are eligible. You don't have to have read everything, no one can read everything! If you've read one thing in a category and you think its is worthy of Hugo nominate it!

[lea_hazel]

See, I should have known you would say that.

[forestofglory]

:)

[jack]

Oh, thank you for links, that's really useful. I was also going to mention file770 as previously having a very helpful "list of likely eligible works" page.

[caeciliusinhorto]

Very useful! I'm terrible at reading things as they come out, and I don't think I have read a single eligible novel yet (I figure at this point I'll just wait to see what the finalists are and bump those to the top of my pile?!) but I've read enough to fill up the novelette and short story, and have at least some things for novella.

Unfortunately the Campbell eligibility page doesn't seem to be up-to-date (though it says that it's being updated) but Rocket Stack Rank has a list of works they have reviewed by Campbell-eligible authors here – it turns out that some of the authors I liked this year are eligible there too...

[forestofglory]

Thank you!