Hugo Awards 2016 – die Finalisten

Im Fol­gen­den eine Lis­te der Fina­lis­ten für die Hugo Awards 2016, also die Short­list, aus der die end­gül­ti­gen Gewin­ner sub­li­miert wer­den. Jetzt wird sich viel­leicht der ein oder ande­re fra­gen: »Und war­um zeigt uns der Holz­hau­er die, und nicht nur die Gewin­ner?« Die Ant­wort dar­auf ist ziem­lich ein­fach: Die Lis­te zeigt eine Aus­wahl an aktu­el­ler Sci­ence Fic­tion bzw. Phan­tas­tik, die man mal lesen könn­te. Für mich ist die Short­list im Prin­zip eigent­lich immer eine Art Ein­kaufs­lis­te (in die­sem Jahr gibt es eine Aus­nah­me: das uner­träg­li­che THE AERONAUTS´S WINDLASS, dabei gehört But­cher eigent­lich zu mei­nen Lieb­lings­au­toren). Oder in Sachen Film und Fern­se­hen eine Vor­schlags­lis­te, was ich mir noch anse­hen könn­te (falls ich es nicht ohne­hin gese­hen habe).

Dank eBooks lie­gen alle Roma­ne ja nur einen Maus­klick ent­fernt.

Nach­fol­gend die kom­plet­te Short­list:

BEST NOVEL

• Ancil­la­ry Mer­cy by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• The Cin­der Spi­res: The Aeronaut’s Wind­lass by Jim But­cher (Roc)
• The Fifth Sea­son by N.K. Jemi­sin (Orbit)
• Seven­eves: A Novel by Neal Ste­phen­son (Wil­liam Mor­row)
• Uproo­ted by Nao­mi Novik (Del Rey)

BEST NOVELLA

• Bin­ti by Nne­di Oko­ra­for (Tor​.com)
• The Buil­ders by Dani­el Pol­an­sky (Tor​.com)
• Penric’s Demon by Lois McMas­ter Bujold (Spec­trum)
• Per­fect Sta­te by Bran­don San­der­son (Dra­gons­teel Enter­tain­ment)
• Slow Bul­lets by Alas­ta­ir Rey­nolds (Tach­yon)

BEST NOVELETTE

• “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Broo­ke Bol­an­der (Lightspeed, Feb2015)
• “Flash­point: Titan” by CHEAH Kai Wai (The­re Will Be War Volu­me X, Cas­ta­lia House)
• “Fol­ding Bei­jing” by Hao Jing­fang, trans. Ken Liu (Uncan­ny Maga­zi­ne, Jan-Feb 2015)
• “Obits” by Ste­phen King (The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Scrib­ner)
• “What Pri­ce Huma­ni­ty?” by David Van­Dy­ke (The­re Will Be War Volu­me X, Cas­ta­lia House)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Asym­me­tri­cal War­fa­re” by S. R. Alger­non (Natu­re, Mar 2015)
• The Com­muter by Tho­mas A. Mays (Ste­alth)
• “If You Were an Award, My Love” by Juan Tabo and S. Har­ris (vox​day​.blog​spot​.com, Jun 2015)
• “Seven Kill Tiger” by Charles Shao (The­re Will Be War Volu­me X, Cas­ta­lia House)
• Space Rap­tor Butt Inva­si­on by Chuck Ting­le (Ama­zon Digi­tal Ser­vices)

BEST RELATED WORK

• Bet­ween Light and Shadow: An Explo­ra­ti­on of the Fic­tion of Gene Wol­fe, 1951 to 1986 by Marc Ara­mi­ni (Cas­ta­lia House)
• “The First Draft of My Appen­dix N Book” by Jef­f­ro John­son (jef​f​ro​.word​press​.com)
• “Safe Space as Rape Room” by Dani­el Eness (cas​ta​lia​house​.com)
• SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Poli­ce by Vox Day (Cas­ta­lia House)
• “The Sto­ry of Moira Grey­land” by Moira Grey­land (ask​t​he​bi​got​.com)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

• The Divi­ne writ­ten by Boaz Lavie, art by Asaf Hanu­ka and Tomer Hanu­ka (First Second)
• Erin Dies Alo­ne writ­ten by Grey Car­ter, art by Cory Rydell (dyin​ga​lo​ne​.net)
• Full Fron­tal Ner­di­ty by Aaron Wil­liams (ffn​.nod​wick​.com)
• Invi­si­ble Repu­blic Vol 1 writ­ten by Corin­na Bech­ko and Gabri­el Hard­man, art by Gabri­el Hard­man (Image Comics)
• The Sand­man: Over­tu­re writ­ten by Neil Gai­man, art by J.H. Wil­liams III (Ver­ti­go)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM)

• Aven­gers: Age of Ultron writ­ten and direc­ted by Joss Whe­don (Mar­vel Stu­di­os; Walt Dis­ney Stu­di­os Moti­on Pic­tures)
• Ex Machi­na writ­ten and direc­ted by Alex Gar­land (Film4; DNA Films; Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures)
• Mad Max: Fury Road writ­ten by Geor­ge Mil­ler, Brendan McCar­thy, and Nico Lat­hou­ris, direc­ted by Geor­ge Mil­ler (Vil­la­ge Road­show Pic­tures; Ken­ne­dy Mil­ler Mit­chell; Rat­Pac-Dune Enter­tain­ment; War­ner Bros. Pic­tures)
• The Mar­ti­an screen­play by Drew God­dard, direc­ted by Rid­ley Scott (Scott Free Pro­duc­tions; Kin­berg Gen­re; TSG Enter­tain­ment; 20th Cen­tu­ry Fox)
• Star Wars: The Force Awa­kens writ­ten by Law­rence Kas­dan, J. J. Abrams, and Micha­el Arndt, direc­ted by J.J. Abrams (Lucas­film Ltd.; Bad Robot Pro­duc­tions; Walt Dis­ney Stu­di­os Moti­on Pic­tures)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)

• Doc­tor Who: “Hea­ven Sent” writ­ten by Ste­ven Moffat, direc­ted by Rachel Tal­a­lay (BBC Tele­vi­si­on)
• Grimm: “Hea­da­che” writ­ten by Jim Kouf and David Green­walt, direc­ted by Jim Kouf(Universal Tele­vi­si­on; GK Pro­duc­tions; Hazy Mills Pro­duc­tions; Open 4 Busi­ness Pro­duc­tions; NBC­Uni­ver­sal Tele­vi­si­on Dis­tri­bu­ti­on)
• Jes­si­ca Jones: “AKA Smi­le” writ­ten by Scott Rey­nolds, Melis­sa Rosen­berg, and Jamie King, direc­ted by Micha­el Rymer (Mar­vel Tele­vi­si­on; ABC Stu­di­os; Tall Girls Productions;Netflix)
• My Litt­le Pony: Fri­end­ship Is Magic: “The Cutie Map” Parts 1 and 2 writ­ten by Scott Son­ne­born, M.A. Lar­son, and Meg­han McCar­thy, direc­ted by Jay­son Thies­sen and Jim Mil­ler (DHX Media/​Vancouver; Has­bro Stu­di­os)
• Super­na­tu­ral: “Just My Ima­gi­na­ti­on” writ­ten by Jen­ny Klein, direc­ted by Richard Speight Jr. (Krip­ke Enter­pri­ses; Won­der­land Sound and Visi­on; War­ner Bros. Tele­vi­si­on)

BEST EDITOR – SHORT FORM

• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clar­ke
• Ellen Dat­low
• Jer­ry Pour­nel­le
• Shei­la Wil­liams

BEST EDITOR – LONG FORM

• Vox Day
• Shei­la E. Gil­bert
• Liz Gor­in­sky
• Jim Minz
• Toni Weiss­kopf

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

• Lars Bra­ad Ander­sen
• Lar­ry Elmo­re
• Abi­ga­il Lar­son
• Mich­al Kar­cz
• Lar­ry Rostant

BEST SEMIPROZINE

• Beneath Cea­se­l­ess Ski­es edi­ted by Scott H. Andrews
• Dai­ly Sci­ence Fic­tion edi­ted by Miche­le-Lee Baras­so and Jona­than Laden
• Sci Phi Jour­nal edi­ted by Jason Ren­nie
• Stran­ge Hori­zons edi­ted by Cathe­ri­ne Kra­he, Julia Rios, A. J. Odas­so, Vanes­sa Rose Phin,Maureen Kin­caid Spel­ler, and the Stran­ge Hori­zons staff
• Uncan­ny Maga­zi­ne edi­ted by Lyn­ne M. Tho­mas & Micha­el Dami­an Tho­mas, Michi Tro­ta, and Eri­ka Ensign & Ste­ven Scha­pan­sky

BEST FANZINE

• Black Gate edi­ted by John O’Neill
• Cas­ta­lia House Blog edi­ted by Jef­f­ro John­son
• File 770 edi­ted by Mike Gly­er
• Super­ver­si­ve SF edi­ted by Jason Ren­nie
• Tan­gent Online edi­ted by Dave Trues­da­le

BEST FANCAST

• 8–4 Play, Mark Mac­Do­nald, John Ric­ciar­di, Hiro­ko Mina­mo­to, and Jus­tin Epper­son
• Cane and Rin­se, Cane and Rin­se
• Hel­loGree­do, Hel­loGree­do
• The Rage­aho­lic, Razör­Fist
• Tales to Ter­ri­fy, Ste­phen Kil­pa­trick

BEST FAN WRITER

• Dou­glas Ernst
• Mike Gly­er
• Mor­gan Hol­mes
• Jef­f­ro John­son
• Shamus Young

BEST FAN ARTIST

• Matthew Cal­la­han
• disse86
• Kuku­ruyo
• Chris­ti­an Qui­not
• Ste­ve Sti­les

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

• Pier­ce Brown *
• Sebas­tien de Cas­tell *
• Bri­an Nie­mei­er
• Andy Weir *
• Alys­sa Wong *

* Fina­lists in their 2nd year of eli­gi­bi­li­ty.