2010 Hugo Nominees

These were announced Easter weekend, but I kept forgetting to come and post them. The voting will take place about July and the results will be revealed at Worldcon in Australia in August. I won't be going to Australia.

However, the line-up for future Worldcon conventions is looking like:
Reno 2011
Chicago 2012
San Antonio 2013

Is that an awesome list or what? Chicago and San Antonio are still tentative pending any other bids or failure to secure necessary contracts. Chicago was actually my first Worldcon and still one of the best. Though Boston was a heck of a lot of fun too. And Denver. And Montreal. Oh heck. They were all good in their own way.

Anyway, I digress. The full list of 2010 Hugo Nominees can be viewed here. Here's the selections I concern myself with:

Best Novel
- Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
- The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
- Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Novella
- "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
- The God Engines, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
- "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)
- Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
- "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
- The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette
- "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/09)
- The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
- "It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
- "One of Our Bastards is Missing", Paul Cornell (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three)
- "Overtime", Charles Stross (Tor.com 12/09)
- "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast", Eugie Foster (Interzone 2/09)

Best Short Story
- "The Bride of Frankenstein", Mike Resnick (Asimov's 12/09)
- "Bridesicle", Will McIntosh (Asimov's 1/09)
- "The Moment", Lawrence M. Schoen (Footprints)
- "Non-Zero Probabilities", N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09)
- "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)


Interesting that not so many of the novellas/short stories are from Azimov's or Analog this year. Hopefully I can find most of the novels at the library. Come back in August and see who won!