Blogging the Hugo Awards

The Philip K. Dick Awards have been announced. The Nebulas have been announced. We didn’t cover them, but the Stokers, the Tiptree, and so many other awards have been announced. What’s left? There’s a few, but the biggest one on Spec Chic’s radar is the Hugos!

You may think that blogging the Hugos would be a daunting project for the blog, but given how much crossover there has been with the Nebulas, it’s turning into something very manageable! As with the PDK and the Nebulas, we’ll be indexing our reviews here, so you can bookmark this page and keep checking back between now and August 11th for updates, or you can subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss a thing!

As with the Nebulas, we will not be reviewing everything, so you can check out the full list of nominations here.

Best Novel 

• All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books)
• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
• Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor Books)
• Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Tor)

Best Novella 

• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Tor.com)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (Tor.com)
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
• Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency)
• A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
• This Census-Taker by China Miéville (Del Rey/Picador)

Best Novelette

• Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock (self-published)
• “The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan (Tor.com)
• “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde (Tor.com)
• “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine)
• “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine)
• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine)

Best Short Story 

• “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com)
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com)
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine)
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales)
• “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com)
• “An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright (God, Robot)

Best Graphic Story

• Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet (Marvel)
• Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening (Image)
• Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous (Marvel)
• Paper Girls, Volume 1 (Image)
• Saga, Volume 6 (Image)
• The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man (Marvel)

Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form

• Arrival
• Deadpool
• Ghostbusters
• Hidden Figures
• Rogue One
• Stranger Things, Season One

Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form

• Black Mirror: “San Junipero”
• Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”
• The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”
• Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”
• Game of Thrones: “The Door”
• Splendor & Misery [album] by clipping.

Best Series 

• The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone (Tor)
• The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• The Peter Grant/Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (Del Rey/DAW)
• The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

As always, the goal is to get everything reviewed/discussed by time the winners are announced on Friday, August 11th. As each review goes live, we’ll update this page.

To learn more about the Hugo Awards, please click here.

8/12/17 Update: The winners have been announced and you can read the full list here. Congratulations to all of the winners, and specifically N.K. Jemisin for The Obelisk Gate, Seanan McGuire for Every Heart a Doorway, Ursula Vernon’s “The Tomato Thief,” Amal El-Mohtar’s “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” Marjorie Lie and Sana Takeda’s Monstress, Arrival, “Levithan Wakes” from The Expanse, The Vorkosigan Saga, and Ada Palmer for her John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer!