Today the Hugos launched its checklist of nominations for a wide range of awards in science fiction and fantasy excellence, and annually, the Hugos get nearer and nearer to reaching actual variety and inclusion inside the nominees. Standout classes that embody some extremely deserved nods are Short-Form Editor, Fan Editor, and Best Series.

I’m particularly excited to see a few of my favourite books of the previous few years up right here. The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee whips every kind of ass; She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan gave me gender emotions and in addition made me wish to riot as a result of it was so good; and Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard is an extremely fierce Viet-inspired novella with sufficient worldbuilding for a complete collection. This 12 months I used to be additionally deeply impressed by the quick tales that the brand new publication Deadlands put out, and I used to be exceptionally happy to see Alix Harrow’s Mr. Death get a nomination. (Eagle-eyed readers will observe that I used to be a part of the workforce nominated for Best Semiprozine for Strange Horizons, as properly).

Film isn’t excluded both, Dune and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings each get nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form, as does certainly one of my favourite (underrated!) movies of final 12 months, Space Sweepers. The Disney+ Marvel reveals had been represented with nominations for each WandaVision as a complete and Loki for the episode “The Nexus Event.” Star Trek: Lower Decks’ “wej Duj,” Arcane’s “The Monster You Created,” and The Wheel of Time’s “The Flame of Tar Valon” had been additionally nominated.

As the Hugos proceed to be rocky (2020 had some points with the principle presenter, George R.R. Martin, and the DisCon ceremony in 2021 was actually sponsored by famous weapons producer Raytheon), each science fiction and fantasy reader watches with baited breath, hoping that this 12 months would be the 12 months that modifications issues.

io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders will current on the ceremony and act as Toastmasters throughout Chicon, the eightieth World Science Fiction and Fantasy conference. Anders can also be up for 3 Hugos, together with Best Related Work (Never Say You Can’t Survive), Best Fancast (Our Opinions are Correct, alongside Newitz and producer Veronica Simonetti), and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, for Victories Greater Than Death.

The full checklist of finalists is under. The awards ceremony will probably be held in Chicago, throughout Chicon 8, from September 1-5.

Best Novel

• A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine (Tor)
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager / Hodder & Stoughton)
• Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki (Tor / St Martin’s Press)
• A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom / Orbit UK)
• Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Ballantine / Del Rey)
• She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor / Mantle)

Best Novella

• Across the Green Grass Fields, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
• Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom)
• Fireheart Tiger, by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• The Past Is Red, by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
• A Spindle Splintered, by Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

• “Bots of the Lost Ark”, by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, Jun 2021)
• “Colors of the Immortal Palette”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)
• L’Esprit de L’Escalier, by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
• “O2 Arena”, by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge, Nov 2021)
• “That Story Isn’t the Story”, by John Wiswell (Uncanny Magazine, Nov/Dec 2021)
• “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, May/Jun 2021)

Best Short Story

• “Mr. Death”, by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, Feb 2021)
• “Proof by Induction”, by José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny Magazine, May/Jun 2021)
• “The Sin of America”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)
• “Tangles”, by Seanan McGuire (Magicthegathering.com: Magic Story, Sep 2021)
• “Unknown Number”, by Blue Neustifter (Twitter, Jul 2021)
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)

Best Series

• The Green Bone Saga, by Fonda Lee (Orbit)
• The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• Merchant Princes, by Charles Stross (Macmillan)
• Terra Ignota, by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)
• Wayward Children, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
• The World of the White Rat, by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) (Argyll Productions)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• DIE, vol. 4: Bleed, written by Kieron Gillen, artwork by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image)
• Far Sector, written by N.Okay. Jemisin, artwork by Jamal Campbell (DC)
• Lore Olympus, vol. 1, by Rachel Smythe (Del Rey)
• Monstress, vol. 6: The Vow, written by Marjorie Liu, artwork by Sana Takeda (Image)
• Once & Future, vol. 3: The Parliament of Magpies, written by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Dan Mora, coloured by Tamra Bonvillain (BOOM!)
• Strange Adventures, written by Tom King, artwork by Mitch Gerads and Evan “Doc” Shaner (DC)

Best Related Work

• Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, by Elsa Sjunneson (Tiller Press)
• The Complete Debarkle: Saga of a Culture War, by Camestros Felapton (Camestros Felapton)
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre (PM Press)
• “How Twitter can ruin a life”, by Emily St. James (Vox, Jun 2021)
• Never Say You Can’t Survive, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tordotcom)
• True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, by Abraham Riesman (Crown)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Dune, screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth; directed by Denis Villeneuve; based mostly on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert (Warner Bros / Legendary Entertainment)
• Encanto, screenplay by Charise Castro Smith and Jared Bush; directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
• The Green Knight, written and directed by David Lowery (BRON Studios/A24)
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, screenplay by Dave Callaham, Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham; directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
• Space Sweepers, written and directed by Jo Sung-hee (Bidangil Pictures)
• WandaVision, screenplay by Peter Cameron, Mackenzie Dohr, Laura Donney, Bobak Esfarjani, Megan McDonnell, Jac Schaeffer (created by and head author), Cameron Squires, Gretchen Enders, Chuck Hayward; directed by Matt Shakman (Disney+)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Wheel of Time: The Flame of Tar Valon, written by Justine Juel Gillmer, directed by Salli Richardson-Whitfield, based mostly on The Wheel of Time collection by Robert Jordan (Amazon Studios)
• For All Mankind: The Grey, written by Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi; directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television)
• Arcane: The Monster You Created, written by Christian Linke and Alex Yee; story by Christian Linke, Alex Yee, Conor Sheehy, and Ash Brannon; directed by Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord (Netflix)
• The Expanse: Nemesis Games, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, and Naren Shankar; directed by Breck Eisner (Amazon Studios)
• Loki: The Nexus Event, written by Eric Martin, directed by Kate Herron, created for tv by Michael Waldron (Disney+)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: wej Duj, written by Kathryn Lyn, directed by Bob Suarez (CBS Eye Animation Productions)

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• Mur Lafferty & S.B. Divya
• Jonathan Strahan
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

• Ruoxi Chen
• Nivia Evans
• Sarah T. Guan
• Brit Hvide
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Rovina Cai
• Ashley Mackenzie
• Maurizio Manzieri
• Will Staehle
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor Scott H. Andrews
• Escape Pod, editors S.B. Divya, Mur Lafferty, and Valerie Valdes; assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney and Premee Mohamed; visitor editor Brent C. Lambert; hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart; audio producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht; and your complete Escape Pod workforce
• PodFort, co-editors Jen R. Albert, C. L. Clark, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, and Eleanor R. Wood; assistant editors Summer Fletcher and Sofía Barker; audio producer Peter Adrian Behravesh; host Matt Dovey; and your complete PodFort workforce
• Strange Horizons, Vanessa Aguirre, Joseph Aitken, Kwan-Ann Tan, Rachel Ayers, M H Ayinde, Tierney Bailey, Scott Beggs, Drew Matthew Beyer, Gautam Bhatia, Tom Borger, S. Okay. Campbell, Emma Celi, Zhui Ning Chang, Rita Chen, Tania Chen, Liz Christman, Emma-Grace Clarke, Linda H. Codega, Kristian Wilson Colyard, Bruhad Dave, Sarah Davidson, Tahlia Day, Arinn Dembo, Belen Edwards, Rebecca Evans, Ciro Faienza, Courtney Floyd, Lila Garrott, Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright, Colette Grecco, Julia Gunnison, Dan Hartland, Sydney Hilton, Angela Hinck, Amanda Jean, Jamie Johnson, Sean Joyce-Farley, Erika Kanda, Kat Kourbeti, Catherine Krahe, Anna Krepinsky, Clayton Kroh, Natasha Leullier, Dante Luiz, Gui Machiavelli, Cameron Mack, Samantha Manaktola, Marisa Manuel, Jean McConnell, Heather McDougal, Maria Morabe, Amelia Moriarty, Sarah Noakes, Aidan Oatway, AJ Odasso, Joel Oliver-Cormier, Kristina Palmer, Karintha Parker, Anjali Patel, Juliana Pinho, Nicasio Reed, Belicia Rhea, Abbey Schlanz, Elijah Rain Smith, Alyn Spector, Hebe Stanton, Melody Steiner, Romie Stott, Yejin Suh, Sonia Sulaiman, Ben Tyrrell, Renee Van Siclen, Kathryn Weaver, Liza Wemakor, Aigner Loren Wilson, E.M. Wright, Vicki Xu, and The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; nonfiction editor Elsa Sjunneson; podcast producers Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• The Full Lid, by Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus; editor Janice L. Newman; affiliate writers Gwyn Conaway, Jason Sacks, and John Boston
• Journey Planet, edited by Erin Underwood, Jean Martin, Sara Felix, Vanessa Applegate, Chuck Serface, Errick Nunnally, Evan Reeves, Steven H Silver, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
• Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur
• Small Gods, Lee Moyer (Icon) and Seanan McGuire (Story)
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne

Best Fancast

• Be The Serpent, introduced by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, and Jennifer Mace
• The Coode Street Podcast, introduced by Jonathan Strahan and Gary Okay. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan producer
• Hugo, Girl!, hosts Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, and Lori Anderson; producer/editor Kevin Anderson
• Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
• Our Opinions Are Correct, introduced by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, produced by Veronica Simonetti
• Worldbuilding for Masochists, introduced by Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, and Marshall Ryan Maresca

Best Fan Writer

• Chris M. Barkley
• Bitter Karella
• Alex Brown
• Cora Buhlert
• Jason Sanford
• Paul Weimer

Best Fan Artist

• Iain J. Clark
• Lorelei Esther
• Sara Felix
• Ariela Housman
• Nilah Magruder
• Lee Moyer

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (introduced by the World Science Fiction Society)

• Chaos on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen / Rock the Boat)
• The Last Graduate, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey Books)
• Redemptor, by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet Books / Hot Key Books)
• A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Victories Greater Than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen / Titan)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (introduced by Dell Magazines)

• Tracy Deonn (2nd 12 months of eligibility)
• Micaiah Johnson (2nd 12 months of eligibility)
• A.Okay. Larkwood (2nd 12 months of eligibility)
• Everina Maxwell (1st 12 months of eligibility)
• Shelley Parker-Chan (1st 12 months of eligibility)
• Xiran Jay Zhao (1st 12 months of eligibility)

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