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Hugo Recommendations
This is not official
What you see on this page is not in any way accredited by WSFS or the
current Worldcon. This is a collection of suggestions from private individuals.
The objective of this page is to give you ideas for nominees. If nothing
else it should provide you with some very good reading. But of course
the people who post suggestions here are hoping that you will nominate
the following items for Hugos.
Confused about the process?
For a Hugo Award FAQ, click here. For details
of the various award categories, click here.
And for an explanation of the voting system, click
here. When contributing to this list, most people stick to the official
nomination rules and limit themselves to 5 entries in each category.
Don't take our word for it
Please don't nominate a work or person just because you have seen it
mentioned here. Read some of the material (or watch it or whatever). Your
vote is supposed to be your opinion, not those of other people.
Other recommendation sites
This is not the only site that recommends Hugo-worthy works. Here are
some others you might try:
For a list of writers eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best
New Writer, see the award's official web
site.
Thanks to the Bay Area
Science Fiction Association for providing a forum for discussion of
Hugo nominations. Many of the people whose recommendations appear here
are BASFA members.
You can see previous years' recommendations on the following pages:
How to nominate
In order to actually nominate (as opposed to just making recommendations
here) you need to be a member of ConJosé or TorCon 3. Nominations
are now open and you can download a copy of the nominating ballot here.
How to add your recommendation
If you want to add recommendations to this list, simply email the webmistress
giving your name, the works you want added and the categories for which
they are eligible. Every effort will be made to check that recommendations
go into the correct category. Please note that just because something
has already been added it doesn't mean that you can't recommend it too.
Indeed, the more people recommend an item, the more impressive it is going
to look.
The Emerald City recommendation list
Links are given to Emerald City reviews where available. For online
short stories a link to the actual story is given. For online fanzines
and their editors links are given to their web sites. For artists links
are given to their personal web sites.
As a result of a decision of the Business Meeting at the 2002 Worldcon
all works published outside of the USA in 2001 are eligible for the 2002
Hugo Awards. Recommendations that qualify under this one-off special rule
are marked with a *.
Best Novel |
The Scar |
China Miéville |
Macmillan/DelRey |
CMM, FM, KAS, ED, JR, AS, BJH, DC, DSM, KB, EL, VJD |
The Omega Expedition |
Brian Stableford |
Tor |
CMM |
Effendi |
Jon Courtenay Grimwood |
Earthlight |
CMM, FM |
Redemption Ark |
Alastair Reynolds |
Gollancz |
CMM, VJD |
The Lady of the Sorrows |
Cecilia Dart-Thornton |
Warner |
JH |
Lion's Blood |
Steven Barnes |
Warner |
JK |
The Years of Rice and Salt |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
Bantam |
JK, KD, RM, DSM, KG |
Dance for the Ivory Madonna |
Don Sakers |
Speed-of-C |
JK |
Light |
M. John Harrison |
Gollancz |
CMM, FM, JR, AS, JCG, KAS |
Hominids |
Robert Sawyer |
Tor |
LP, KC, EL |
Summerland |
Michael Chabon |
Hyperion |
PH, KB, DSM, JR2 |
Falling out of Cars |
Jeff Noon |
Doubleday |
FM |
Coyote |
Allen Steele |
Ace |
KC |
Probability Space |
Nancy Kress |
Tor |
BT |
Ruled Britannia |
Harry Turtledove |
New American Library |
KAS |
The Separation |
Chris Priest |
Scribner |
AS, VJD |
Fallen Host |
Lyda Morehouse |
RoC |
BJH |
Trapped |
James Gardner |
Eos |
BJH, TH |
Angry Lead Skies |
Glen Cook |
RoC |
BJH, TH |
Kushiel's Chosen |
Jaqueline Carey |
Tor |
BJH |
The Eyre Affair |
Jasper Fforde |
Viking |
DC, VJD |
Lost in a Good Book |
Jasper Fforde |
NEL |
DC |
Nightwatch |
Terry Pratchett |
HarperCollins |
JR2 |
Lamb |
Chirstopher Moore |
Morrow |
KB, DSM |
The Woad to Wuin |
Peter David |
Ace |
JR2 |
Maximum Ice |
Kay Kenyon |
Bantam |
TR |
Altered Carbon |
Richard Morgan |
Gollancz |
EL |
Bones of the Earth |
Michael Swanwick |
Harper Collins |
EL |
The Consciousness Plague |
Paul Levinson |
Tor |
EL |
The Golden Age |
John C. Wright |
Tor |
EL |
Permanence |
Karl Schroeder |
Forge |
EL |
The Sky so Big and Black |
John Barnes |
Forge |
EL |
The Standing Dead |
Richardo Pinto |
Bantam |
EL |
Chindi |
Jack McDevitt |
Ace |
EL |
Schild's Ladder |
Greg Egan |
|
VJD |
Best Novella |
Coraline |
Neil Gaiman |
HarperCollins |
CMM, PH, JR, AS, JCG, JR2, DC, KB, VJD |
'The Logistics of Carthage' (in
Worlds that Weren't) |
Mary Gentle |
RoC |
CMM |
'The Drive-In Puerto Rico' |
Lucius Shepard |
F&SF 10-11/02 |
PW, MK, KB |
The Tain |
China Miéville |
PS Publishing |
CMM |
'Veritas' |
Robert Reed |
Asimov's - July 2002 |
MK, BJH |
'Over Yonder' |
Lucius Shepherd |
Sci-Fiction |
MK |
'Shikari in Galveston' (in Worlds that Weren't) |
SM Sterling |
RoC |
KAS |
A Year in Linear City |
Paul di Filippo |
PS Publishing |
BT, DC, VJD |
'Router' |
Charles Stross |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2002 |
JEH |
'Breathmoss' |
Ian R. Macleod |
Asimov's, May 2002 |
JEH, LAW |
'The Potter of Bones' |
Eleanor Arneson |
Asimov's, Oct/Nov |
JEH |
'The Least Trumps' (in Conjunctions #39) |
Elizabeth Hand |
Bard College |
CMM |
Singleton |
Greg Egan |
|
VJD |
Turquoise Days |
Al Reynolds |
|
VJD |
The Human Front |
Ken MacLeod |
PS Publishing |
VJD |
Best Novelette |
'The Polish Boy'(in First Meetings) |
Orson Scott Card |
Subterranean Press |
DGA |
'The Real Story' (in Mars Probes) |
Alastair Reynolds |
DAW |
MK, VJD |
'The Wages of Syntax' |
Ray Vukcevich |
Sci-Fiction |
MK, LAW, CMM |
'Voice of Steel' |
Sean McMullen |
Sci-Fiction |
CMM, KAS |
'Jimmie Guang's House of Gladmech' |
Alex Irvine |
Sci-Fiction |
JEH |
'Halo' |
Charles Stross |
Asimov's, June 2002 |
JEH, VJD |
'Ownz0red' |
Cory Doctorow |
Salon, August 28, 2002 |
JEH, DSM, LAW |
'The Man on the Persian Carpet' |
Kate Wilhelm |
F&SF, February 2002 |
DC |
'Presence' |
Maureen McHugh |
F&SF, March 2002 |
LAW |
'Madonna of the Maquiladora' |
Gregory Frost |
Asimov's, May 2002 |
LAW |
'Essayist in the Wilderness' |
William Browning Spencer |
Asimov's, May 2002 |
LAW |
'The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars' (in
Mars Probes) |
Ian McDonald |
DAW |
CMM, VJD |
'The Whisper of Disks' |
John Meaney |
Interzone, Oct. 2002 |
CMM |
'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' (in Conunctions #39) |
John Crowley |
Bard College |
CMM |
'Finding Myself' |
B. Cooper & L.Niven |
Analog, Jun '02 |
JFH |
Isabel of the Fall |
Ian R. MacLeod |
|
VJD |
First to the Moon! |
Stephen Baxter & Simon Bradshaw |
|
VJD |
V.A.O. |
Geoff Ryman |
PS Publishing |
VJD |
Best Short Story |
'The Me After the Rock' (in Mars Probes) |
Patrick O'Leary |
DAW |
MK |
'Thanksgiving' |
Leslie What |
Sci-Fiction |
MK, DSM |
'A
Gift of Verse' in Visions in Light and Shadow |
John Flynn |
|
KD2, RW, BT |
She was There For Him Last Time |
Bruce Boston |
Miniature Sun Press |
GOC |
'If Lions could speak' |
Paul Park |
Interzone, March 2002 |
JEH |
'Droplet' |
Benjamin Rosenbaum |
F&SF, July 2002 |
JEH, LAW |
'What I Didn't See' |
Karen Joy Fowler |
Sci-Fiction |
JEH, BJH, DSM, CMM, VJD |
'Knapsack Poems' |
Eleanor Arneson |
Asimov's, May 2002 |
GOC, LAW |
'"Hello" said the Stick' |
Michael Swanwick |
Analog, March 2002 |
FW |
'Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Boy' |
Ray Vukcevich |
Strange
Horizons |
FW |
'Mr. Muerte and the Eyeball Kid' |
Sean Klein |
Strange
Horizons |
FW |
'Agent Provocateur' |
Alex Irvine |
Strange
Horizons |
FW |
'Target Audience' |
Lori Ann White |
Asimov's, July 2002 |
FW |
'Sightseeing, 2179' |
Robert Sheckley |
F&SF, June 2002 |
LAW |
'The Safety of the Herd' |
James Van Pelt |
Asimov's, January 2002 |
LAW |
'Grandma' |
Carol Emshwiller |
F&SF, March 2002 |
LAW |
'Iron Joan' |
Elizabeth Gilligan |
Black Gate, February 2002 |
BJH |
Promethea #22 |
Alan Moore |
America's Best Comics |
JR2 |
'Agatha Heterodyne and the Electric Coffin' (Girl Genius) |
Phil & Kaja Foglio |
Studio Foglio |
TH, KAS, BJH, JR2 |
'Familiar' (Conjunctions #39) |
China Miéville |
Bard College |
CMM |
'October in the Chair' (Conjunctions #39) |
Neil Gaiman |
Bard College |
CMM |
'Flight Corrections' |
Ken Wharton |
Analog, Feb 2002 |
KG |
The Yellow Jar |
Patrick Atagan |
NBM |
MM |
'Little Gods' |
Tim Pratt |
Strange Horizons |
CMM |
'Choosing Life' |
B. Cooper & L. Niven |
Analog, Jan '02 |
JFH |
'The Convergence of the Old Mind' |
Larry Niven |
Analog, Jul/Aug '02 |
JFH |
'Chrysalis' |
Larry Niven |
Analog, Sep '02 |
JFH |
'Self Portrait, with Melanoma, Final Draft' |
Paul Park |
|
VJD |
'The Big Rock Candy Mountain' (in Conjunctions #39) |
Andy Duncan |
|
VJD |
Best Related Book |
Bad Astronomy |
Philip Plait |
Wiley |
KAS, DC, TH, CMM, VJD |
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction |
Justine Larbalestier |
Wesleyan |
CMM, EL, VJD |
Better to Have Loved: the Life of Judith Merril |
Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary |
Between the Lines |
AS, VJD |
Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold - A Life |
Malcolm Yorke |
Overlook Press |
PW |
Adventures in the Dream Trade |
Neil Gaiman |
NESFA Press |
CMM, BJH, JR2, VJD |
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe |
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen |
Ebury Press |
BJH, TH |
The Art of Jeffrey Jones |
Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. |
Underwood Books |
DC |
Mapping Mars |
Oliver Morton |
Picador |
CMM, KAS, JP, VJD |
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life |
Gaby Wood |
Knopf |
JP |
Bradbury, an Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor |
Jerry Weist & Donn Albright |
Morrow |
EL |
An Encyclopedia of Jack Vance, 20th Century Science Fiction Writer |
David G. Mead |
Edwin Mellen Press |
MB |
The SF Art of Vincent Di Fate |
Vincent Di Fate |
Paper Tiger |
JFH |
Once There Was a Magazine |
F. Smith |
Beccon |
JFH |
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) |
Atanarjuat |
Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk |
Iglooik Isuma |
PW |
Justice League: The Savage Time |
|
Warner Brothers |
PW |
Spirited Away |
Hayao Miyazaki |
Disney |
PW, MK, CMM, KAS, CH, JR, FW, BJH, JP, RM, TR, LAW, VJD |
Metropolis (restored version) |
Fritz Lang |
Kino International |
PW, CMM, AS, KB, EL, VJD |
Minority Report |
Steven Spielberg |
20th Century Fox |
CS, BT, DSM, RM, EL, VJD |
Star Trek: Nemesis |
Stuart Baird |
Paramount |
KD2, EL |
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
Peter Jackson |
New Line |
KAS, JR, LAW, BJH, TH, JR2, TR, KB, DC, CMM, EL, VJD |
Lilo & Stitch |
Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders |
Disney |
KAS, CMM, JEH, FW, LAW, BJH, VJD |
Impostor |
Gary Sinise |
Miramax |
BT |
Spiderman |
Sam Raimi |
Columbia Tri-Star |
JR2, TR, DSM, KB, EL |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
Chris Columbus |
Warner Brothers |
DC, JP, DSM, RM |
The Time Machine |
Simon Wells |
Universal |
EL |
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones |
George Lucas |
20th Century Fox |
EL |
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) |
Welcome to Eltingville: Bring me the Head of Boba Fett |
Evan Dorkin |
Cartoon Network |
PW |
The Hunt |
Marco Spitoni |
Marco
Spitoni |
MK |
Fans And Freaks: The Culture of Comics And Conventions |
Stephen & Suzie Lackey |
Captain Pixel |
MK |
Enterprise: Carbon Creek |
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga |
Paramount |
KD2, TH, DSM, RM, VJD |
Impostor - original short version |
Gary Sinise |
Miramax |
BT |
Birds of Prey Pilot |
Brian Robbins |
Fox |
BT |
Smallville: Ryan |
Mike Tollin |
Warner Brothers |
MM |
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers |
J.M. Straczynski |
Warner Brothers |
JP, BJH, JR2 |
Enterprise: A Night in Sick Bay |
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga |
Paramount |
TH, DC |
Invader Zim: The Most Horrible Xmas Ever |
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JR2 |
Samurai Jack #28 (The Ravers episode) |
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JR2, DSM |
Buffy: Conversations with Dead People |
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KG |
Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions |
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VJD |
Space Station |
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IMAX |
VJD |
Scrat's Missing Adventure (from the Ice Age DVD) |
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VJD |
Angel: Waiting in the Wings |
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VJD |
Firefly: Objects in Space |
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DSM, RM |
Strange World: Aerobe |
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Sci-Fi Channel |
DSM, RM |
Best Professional Editor |
A.J. Budrys |
KD2, BT, LAW, JFH |
Ellen Datlow |
JEH, CMM, BJH, JCG, LAW, EL, VJD |
Warren Lapine |
BJH |
Gordon van Gelder |
BJH, DC, LAW |
Stan Schmidt |
DG, JFH |
Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
BJH, KAS, EL, JFH |
Elizabeth Mitchell |
DC |
Teresa Nielsen Hayden |
KAS, JFH |
Steven Jones |
DC |
Bob Schreck |
JR2 |
Diana Schutz |
JR2 |
Martin H. Greenberg |
DC |
David Hartwell |
KAS, BJH, CMM, EL, JFH |
David Pringle |
DC, CMM, VJD |
Gardner Dozois |
LAW, EL, VJD |
Paul Fraser |
VJD |
Best Professional Artist |
David Cherry |
CMM, KAS, DG, DC, VJD |
Jim Burns |
KD, BT, VJD |
Phil Foglio |
KAS, BJH, TH, DG, DC, JR2, VJD |
Fred Gambino |
JR |
Steve Stone |
JR |
Donato Giancola |
FW, DC, EL, JFH |
Brom |
FW |
R.K. Post |
FW |
John Jude Palencar |
FW |
Steven Hickman |
FW |
Frank Kelly Freas |
KAS, DC, DG, MM, TR, JFH |
Bob Eggleton |
KAS, DG, EL, JFH |
Fred Gallagher |
BJH |
Susan van Camp |
BJH |
NeNe Thomas |
BJH, MM |
J.H. Williams |
JR2 |
Gene Ha |
JR2 |
Alex Ross |
JR2 |
Colleen Duran |
KAS, JR2, TH, BJH |
Alan Clark |
LAW |
Michael Whelan |
EL |
Vincent Di Fate |
JFH |
Best Semiprozine |
Locus |
Charles N. Brown |
CMM, KAS, DC, EL, VJD |
Interzone |
David Pringle |
CMM, KAS, JEH, ED, DC, VJD |
Ansible |
Dave Langford |
CMM, KAS, DC, BJH, DSM, EL, VJD |
New York Review of SF |
David Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Kevin Maroney |
BT, CMM, KAS |
The Third Alternative |
Andy Cox |
ED, JR, FW, CMM |
Talebones |
Patrick and Honna Swenson |
FW, LAW |
Speculations |
Kent Brewster |
FW, BJH, KAS, LAW |
On Spec |
Diane Walton |
FW |
Absolute Magnitude |
Warren Lapine |
TH |
Dreams of Decadence |
Angela Kessler |
BJH |
SF Chronicle |
Warren Lapine |
EL, JFH |
Nth Degree |
|
EL |
Spectrum SF |
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VJD |
Best Fanzine |
File
770 |
Mike Glyer |
CMM, JFH, KAS, BT |
Plokta |
Alison Scott & Steve Davies |
CMM, KAS, BJH, VJD |
Challenger |
Guy Lillian III |
LP, MK, KAS |
Banana Wings |
Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer |
LP, JFH, AS |
Wabe |
Jae Leslie Adams, Tracy Benton, & Bill Bodden |
MK, JFH |
The Jezail |
Andy Hooper |
JFH |
Quasi Quote |
Sandra Bond |
JFH |
Steam Engine Time |
Paul Kincaid, Maureen Kincaid Spelller & Bruce Gillespie |
MK, JFH, JR, KAS, CMM |
Emerald City |
Cheryl Morgan |
KAS, JR, FW, BJH, TH, DC, MM, JR2, TR, JCG, EL, VJD |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet |
Kelly Link, Gavin Grant |
FW |
Bento |
David Levine & Kate Yule |
BJH, DC, CMM, JFH |
Mimosa |
Richard & Nicky Lynch |
DC, EL, JFH |
The Devniad |
Bob Devney |
EL |
SFRevu.com |
Ernest Lilley |
EL |
Fantasy Commentator |
Langley Searles |
JFH |
Tortoise |
Sue Jones |
JFH |
Trap Door |
Robert Licthman |
JFH |
Best Fan Writer |
Bob Devney |
CMM, EL |
Mike
Glyer |
CMM, KAS, DC, JFH |
Earl Kemp |
LP |
Robert Licthman |
LP, JFH |
Jeff Berkwits |
LL, FW, SD |
John
Flynn |
LL, KD2, RW, BT, SD |
Guy Lillian III |
MK |
Max |
MK |
Claire Brialey |
JFH |
Milt Stevens |
JFH |
Jae Leslie Adams |
JFH |
Cheryl Morgan |
KAS, JR, FW, BJH, DC, TH, MM, JR2, TR, JCG, JP, VJD |
Steve Davies |
KAS |
Guilia de Cesare |
KAS |
Alison Scott |
KAS |
Dave Langford |
DC, EL, VJD |
Jerry Holkins |
TH, BJH |
David Levine |
DC, BJH, JFH |
Kate Yule |
DC, JFH |
Rick Kleffel |
CMM |
Michael Krahulik |
TH, BJH |
Ernest Lilley |
EL |
Best Fan Artist |
Sue Mason |
CMM, JFH, KAS, DC, BJH, VJD |
Freddie Baer |
CMM |
Young Wang |
BJH, TH |
Marc Schirmeister |
LP, JFH |
Frank Wu |
LL, CMM, KAS, BT, BJH, TH, SD, LAW, KG, EL, VJD |
Kurt Erichsen |
MK |
Steve Stiles |
MK |
Brad Foster |
JFH, DC |
Terry Jeeves |
JFH |
Ulrika O'Brien |
JFH |
Ray Nelson |
JFH |
Taral Wayne |
JFH, KAS, BJH, TH, DC |
Alexis Gilliland |
KD2, JFH |
Alan
White |
MK, LP |
Chris Whitlow |
FW |
Alan F. Beck |
FW, SD |
Melody Rondeau |
DC, TH, KAS |
Teddy Harvia |
VJD |
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer |
Karin Lowachee |
MK, CMM, BJH |
David Levine |
CMM, KAS, DC, JFH |
Cecilia Dart-Thornton |
CMM, TH, BJH, DG |
Wen Spencer |
CMM, BJH, TH, TR, DSM |
Ken Wharton |
CMM, KAS, KB, DG, DSM, KG, VJD |
Jacqueline Carey |
BJH, TH, DC, DSM, LAW |
Zoran Zirkovic |
DC |
Karen Michalson |
SD |
Hilary Moon Murphy |
LAW |
Charles Coleman Finley |
LAW |
Ben Rosenbaum |
LAW |
Lena Detar |
DSM |
Index of contributors
CMM = Cheryl Morgan; JH = John Hayes; JK = Janet Kerns; DGA = David-Glenn
Anderson; KAS = Kevin Standlee; PW = Peter Wong; LP = Lloyd Penney; PH
= Peter Halasz; KD = Kathryn Daugherty; LL = Loretta Lowery; MK = Mike
Kingsley; FM = Farah Mendlesohn; KC = Karen Connell; CS = Chris Soens;
JFH = John Hertz; KD2 = K. Drury; RW = Richmond Wilson; GOC = Gary Clark;
BT = Bill Tanner; CH = Chip Hitchcock; JEH = Jed Hartman; ED = Ellen Datlow;
JR = Justina Robson; FW = Frank Wu; AS = Andy Sawyer; BJH = Barbara Johnson-Haddad;
TH = Trey Haddad; DC = Dave Clark; JR2 = John Roth; KB = Kelly Buehler;
TR = Tom Rafalski; MM = Mike Miyake; DG = Dave Gallaher; JCG = Jon Courtenay
Grimwood; SD = Salvatore Dana; JP = Julie Porter; DSM = Deirdre Soarise
Moen; RM = Rick Moen; LAW = Lori Ann White; KG = Kelly Green; EL = Ernest
Lilley; MB = Michael Bowker; VJD = Vince Docherty
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