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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:

• NESFA
• SF Revu
• Nth Degree

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:

• 2000 works (Hugos awarded 2001)
• 2001 works (Hugos awarded 2002)
• 2002 works (Hugos awarded 2003)

How to nominate

In order to actually nominate (as opposed to just making recommendations here) you need to be a member of TorCon 3 or Noreascon 4. Nominations will officially open in January or thereabouts.

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 2003 Worldcon all works published outside of the USA in 2002 are eligible for the 2003 Hugo Awards. Recommendations that qualify under this one-off special rule are marked with a *.

Index of contributors

CMM = Cheryl Morgan; JC = Jay Caselberg; CS = Charles Stross; PW = Peter Wong; JS = Jonathan Strahan; MK = Mike Kingsley; KAS = Kevin Standlee; FM = Farah Mendlesohn; MJW = Mike Walsh; TW = Tom Whitmore; NH = Niall Harrison; AH = Andrew Hook; SD = Salvatore Dana; LW = Lew Wolkoff; SM = Sing Mac; DG = Dorothy Gail; JP = John Picacio; MP = Mike Pederson; BT = Bill Tanner; KD = Kirk Drury; DC = Dave Clark; DG2 = Dave Gallaher; LM = Leonard McVicker; SS = Spring; MM = Mike Miyazaki; ED = Ellen Datlow; JH = John Hertz; VJD = Vince Docherty; AGM = Anne Murphy

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