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Hugo Awards Nomination Period Opens Jan. 1 + Free Stuff for Worldcon Members

This year’s Hugo Awards nomination period opens January 1.

The 2012 Hugo Awards will be presented in San Antonio, TX during Lone Star Con 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention (Aug. 29-Sep. 2). Nominations close on March 10, 2012. Anyone who has a supporting or full membership of Lone Star Con 3 as of January 31, 2013 and all members of Chicon 7 (last year’s Worldcon) may nominate works. If you didn’t attend Chicon 7, and you don’t plan to attend Lone Star Con 3, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Selected stories from Armored are available online.
Selected stories from Under the Moons of Mars are available online.

If you are planning and eligible to vote for the Hugos this year, if you email me proof of your Worldcon membership (i.e., your name is listed on the Worldcon website as an attending member, or the email confirmation or receipt you received when you purchased your membership, etc.) I would be happy to make all of my 2012 content available to you in the digital format of your choice (doc, pdf, mobi, or epub).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Novelettes

Lightspeed

The Sweet Spot — A. M. Dellamonica — 7700 words — (Lightspeed)
The Sympathy — Eric Gregory — 8200 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Property Condemned — Jonathan Maberry — 8900 words — (Nightmare)
Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron — 9950 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams — 9300 words — (Armored)
Jungle Walkers — Tobias S. Buckell & David Klecha — 8325 words — (Armored)
The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine — 8050 words — (Armored)
HARRE — Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson — 8750 words — (Armored)
Nomad — Karin Lowachee — 7700 words — (Armored)
The Cat’s Pajamas — Jack McDevitt — 7800 words — (Armored)
Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R Green — 9442 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

The Metal Men of Mars — Joe R. Lansdale — 8000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ghost That Haunts the Superstition Mountains — Chris Claremont — 8100 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Jasoom Project — S. M. Stirling — 11110 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Short Stories

Lightspeed

Forget You — Marc Laidlaw — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother Ship — Caroline M. Yoachim — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
Beauty — David Barr Kirtley — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
Dreams in Dust — D. Thomas Minton — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
Requiem in the Key of Prose — Jake Kerr — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
Breaking the Frame — Kat Howard — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
War 3.01 — Keith Brooke — 2400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species — Ken Liu — 2600 words — (Lightspeed)
The Children of Hamelin — Dale Bailey — 3000 words — (Lightspeed)
How Many Miles to Babylon? — Megan Arkenberg — 3081 words — (Lightspeed)
Ghost River Red — Aidan Doyle — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
Sun Dogs — Brooke Bolander — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition — Megan Arkenberg — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring — Genevieve Valentine — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
A Well-Adjusted Man — Tom Crosshill — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
The Seven Samovars — Peter Sursi — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
My Wife Hates Time Travel — Adam-Troy Castro — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
The Day They Came — Kali Wallace — 3900 words — (Lightspeed)
Test — Steven Utley — 4000 words — (Lightspeed)
Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns — Richard Bowes — 4100 words — (Lightspeed)
My Teacher, My Enemy — Kelsey Ann Barrett — 4200 words — (Lightspeed)
A Moment Before It Struck — Linda Nagata — 4300 words — (Lightspeed)
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream — Maria Dahvana Headley — 4400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist — C. C. Finlay — 4900 words — (Lightspeed)
The Cristóbal Effect — Simon McCaffery — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
Spindles — L. B. Gale — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
Bear and Shifty — Benjamin Parzybok — 5200 words — (Lightspeed)
Blue Lace Agate — Sarah Monette — 5400 words — (Lightspeed)
La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza — Jeremiah Tolbert — 5500 words — (Lightspeed)
Alarms — S. L. Gilbow — 5600 words — (Lightspeed)
Searching for Slave Leia — Sandra McDonald — 5700 words — (Lightspeed)
Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment — Robert Reed — 5850 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers — Sarah Langan — 5900 words — (Lightspeed)
Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring — Brooke Bolander — 6000 words — (Lightspeed)
Nightside on Callisto — Linda Nagata — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Renfrew’s Course — John Langan — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal — J.T. Petty — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Flash Bang Remember — Tina / Caroline Connolly / Yoachim — 6500 words — (Lightspeed)
Ruminations in an Alien Tongue — Vandana Singh — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
Monster, Finder, Shifter — Nina Kiriki Hoffman — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) — Marissa Lingen — 6900 words — (Lightspeed)
Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil — Carrie Vaughn — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
A Plague of Zhe — Maggie Clark — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
The Five Elements of the Heart Mind — Ken Liu — 7300 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother of All Russiya — Melanie Rawn — 7400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Perfect Match — Ken Liu — 7450 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Good Fences — Genevieve Valentine — 3050 words — (Nightmare)
Afterlife — Sarah Langan — 5850 words — (Nightmare)
Construction Project — Desirina Boskovich — 2640 words — (Nightmare)
At Lorn Hall — Ramsey Campbell — 6900 words — (Nightmare)
Chop Shop — J. B. Park — 2924 words — (Nightmare)
Foul Weather — Daniel H. Wilson — 2600 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas — 6100 words — (Armored)
Hel’s Half-Acre — Jack Campbell — 6000 words — (Armored)
Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett — 1500 words — (Armored)
Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley — 4100 words — (Armored)
The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine — 6000 words — (Armored)
Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole — 6300 words — (Armored)
Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds — 6600 words — (Armored)
Contained Vacuum — David Sherman — 7000 words — (Armored)
You Do What You Do — Tanya  Huff — 5781 words — (Armored)
Human Error — John Jackson Miller — 5400 words — (Armored)
Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant — 1750 words — (Armored)
Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn — 4200 words — (Armored)
The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner — 4800 words — (Armored)
The Green — Lauren Beukes — 5230 words — (Armored)
Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner — 5450 words — (Armored)
Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

Coming of Age on Barsoom — Catherynne M. Valente — 3500 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Three Deaths — David Barr Kirtley — 4400 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
River Gods of Mars — Austin Grossman — 4630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Tinker of Warhoon — Tobias S. Buckell — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Game of Mars — Genevieve Valentine — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ape-Man of Mars — Peter S. Beagle — 5456 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Woola’s Song — Theodora Goss — 5600 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Bronze Man of Mars — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Vengeance of Mars — Robin Wasserman — 5700 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Death Song of Dwar Guntha — Jonathan Maberry — 6000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Sidekick of Mars — Garth Nix — 6123 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Editor, Short-Form

John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Under the Moons of Mars, Armored, Other Worlds Than These, Epic: Legends of Fantasy)

Semiprozine

Lightspeed Magazine
Nightmare Magazine

Fan Artist

Galen Dara [gallery of Lightspeed illustrations]

Best Related Work

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, hosted by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley (Episodes 51-76 released in 2012) [Episode List] [iTunes]

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1st Year Eligibility)

L.B. Gale
Brooke Bolander [2]
Peter Sursi
Kelsey Ann Barrett
J.B. Park

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2nd Year Eligibility)

D. Thomas Minton [2]
Jake Kerr [2]
J.S. Breukelaar
K.M. Ferebee
Lisa Nohealani Morton
Andrew Penn Romine
Cory Skerry
Nike Sulway

Nebula Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for SFWA Members

This year’s Nebula Awards nomination period is now open.

From November 15 to February 15, Active and Associate SFWA members may submit nominations for the Nebula Awards. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. For more information, visit SFWA’s How to Vote page.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf/doc) compilation of all 2012′s original material.
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf/doc) compilation of all 2012′s original material.
Selected stories from Armored are available online. If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf/doc) of the whole anthology.
Selected stories from Under the Moons of Mars are available online. If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf/doc) of the whole anthology.

Note: If you are not a SFWA member, but you are a Worldcon attendee and are planning/eligible to vote for the Hugos this year, if you email me proof of membership (i.e., your name is listed on the Worldcon website as an attending member, or the email confirmation or receipt you received when you purchased your membership, etc.) I would be happy to make these files available to you for that purpose.

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Novelettes

Lightspeed

The Sweet Spot — A. M. Dellamonica — 7700 words — (Lightspeed)
The Sympathy — Eric Gregory — 8200 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Property Condemned — Jonathan Maberry — 8900 words — (Nightmare)
Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron — 9950 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams — 9300 words — (Armored)
Jungle Walkers — Tobias S. Buckell & David Klecha — 8325 words — (Armored)
The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine — 8050 words — (Armored)
HARRE — Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson — 8750 words — (Armored)
Nomad — Karin Lowachee — 7700 words — (Armored)
The Cat’s Pajamas — Jack McDevitt — 7800 words — (Armored)
Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R Green — 9442 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

The Metal Men of Mars — Joe R. Lansdale — 8000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ghost That Haunts the Superstition Mountains — Chris Claremont — 8100 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Jasoom Project — S. M. Stirling — 11110 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Short Stories

Lightspeed

Forget You — Marc Laidlaw — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother Ship — Caroline M. Yoachim — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
Beauty — David Barr Kirtley — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
Dreams in Dust — D. Thomas Minton — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
Requiem in the Key of Prose — Jake Kerr — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
Breaking the Frame — Kat Howard — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
War 3.01 — Keith Brooke — 2400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species — Ken Liu — 2600 words — (Lightspeed)
The Children of Hamelin — Dale Bailey — 3000 words — (Lightspeed)
How Many Miles to Babylon? — Megan Arkenberg — 3081 words — (Lightspeed)
Ghost River Red — Aidan Doyle — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
Sun Dogs — Brooke Bolander — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition — Megan Arkenberg — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring — Genevieve Valentine — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
A Well-Adjusted Man — Tom Crosshill — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
The Seven Samovars — Peter Sursi — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
My Wife Hates Time Travel — Adam-Troy Castro — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
The Day They Came — Kali Wallace — 3900 words — (Lightspeed)
Test — Steven Utley — 4000 words — (Lightspeed)
Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns — Richard Bowes — 4100 words — (Lightspeed)
My Teacher, My Enemy — Kelsey Ann Barrett — 4200 words — (Lightspeed)
A Moment Before It Struck — Linda Nagata — 4300 words — (Lightspeed)
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream — Maria Dahvana Headley — 4400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist — C. C. Finlay — 4900 words — (Lightspeed)
The Cristóbal Effect — Simon McCaffery — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
Spindles — L. B. Gale — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
Bear and Shifty — Benjamin Parzybok — 5200 words — (Lightspeed)
Blue Lace Agate — Sarah Monette — 5400 words — (Lightspeed)
La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza — Jeremiah Tolbert — 5500 words — (Lightspeed)
Alarms — S. L. Gilbow — 5600 words — (Lightspeed)
Searching for Slave Leia — Sandra McDonald — 5700 words — (Lightspeed)
Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment — Robert Reed — 5850 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers — Sarah Langan — 5900 words — (Lightspeed)
Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring — Brooke Bolander — 6000 words — (Lightspeed)
Nightside on Callisto — Linda Nagata — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Renfrew’s Course — John Langan — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal — J.T. Petty — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Flash Bang Remember — Tina / Caroline Connolly / Yoachim — 6500 words — (Lightspeed)
Ruminations in an Alien Tongue — Vandana Singh — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
Monster, Finder, Shifter — Nina Kiriki Hoffman — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) — Marissa Lingen — 6900 words — (Lightspeed)
Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil — Carrie Vaughn — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
A Plague of Zhe — Maggie Clark — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
The Five Elements of the Heart Mind — Ken Liu — 7300 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother of All Russiya — Melanie Rawn — 7400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Perfect Match — Ken Liu — 7450 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Good Fences — Genevieve Valentine — 3050 words — (Nightmare)
Afterlife — Sarah Langan — 5850 words — (Nightmare)
Construction Project — Desirina Boskovich — 2640 words — (Nightmare)
At Lorn Hall — Ramsey Campbell — 6900 words — (Nightmare)
Chop Shop — J. B. Park — 2924 words — (Nightmare)
Foul Weather — Daniel H. Wilson — 2600 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas — 6100 words — (Armored)
Hel’s Half-Acre — Jack Campbell — 6000 words — (Armored)
Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett — 1500 words — (Armored)
Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley — 4100 words — (Armored)
The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine — 6000 words — (Armored)
Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole — 6300 words — (Armored)
Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds — 6600 words — (Armored)
Contained Vacuum — David Sherman — 7000 words — (Armored)
You Do What You Do — Tanya  Huff — 5781 words — (Armored)
Human Error — John Jackson Miller — 5400 words — (Armored)
Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant — 1750 words — (Armored)
Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn — 4200 words — (Armored)
The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner — 4800 words — (Armored)
The Green — Lauren Beukes — 5230 words — (Armored)
Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner — 5450 words — (Armored)
Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

Coming of Age on Barsoom — Catherynne M. Valente — 3500 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Three Deaths — David Barr Kirtley — 4400 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
River Gods of Mars — Austin Grossman — 4630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Tinker of Warhoon — Tobias S. Buckell — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Game of Mars — Genevieve Valentine — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ape-Man of Mars — Peter S. Beagle — 5456 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Woola’s Song — Theodora Goss — 5600 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Bronze Man of Mars — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Vengeance of Mars — Robin Wasserman — 5700 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Death Song of Dwar Guntha — Jonathan Maberry — 6000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Sidekick of Mars — Garth Nix — 6123 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Andre Norton Award

Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom

World Fantasy Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for World Fantasy Members

This year’s World Fantasy Awards nomination period is now open.

The World Fantasy Awards will be presented in Brighton, England during the World Fantasy Convention (Oct. 31 – Nov. 3). Deadline for nominating is and ballots must be received by May 31, 2013.

All registered members of the 2011 World Fantasy Convention in California, the 2012 World Fantasy Convention in Canada, and the 2013 event in Brighton will be eligible to vote before the deadline. If you didn’t attend one of the previously mentioned World Fantasy conventions, and you don’t plan to attend this year, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works! Voting information is available on the World Fantasy Convention 2013 website.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Selected stories from Under the Moons of Mars are available online.

If you are planning and eligible to vote for the World Fantasy Awards this year, if you email me proof of your World Fantasy membership (i.e., your name is listed on the World Fantasy website as an attending member, or the email confirmation or receipt you received when you purchased your membership, etc.) I would be happy to make all of my 2012 content available to you in the digital format of your choice (doc, pdf, mobi, or epub).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Short Fiction (under 10,000 words)

Lightspeed

Blue Lace Agate — Sarah Monette 5400 — (Lightspeed)
On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) — Marissa Lingen 6900 — (Lightspeed)
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring — Genevieve Valentine 3500 — (Lightspeed)
Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring — Brooke Bolander 6000 — (Lightspeed)
Beauty — David Barr Kirtley 2000 — (Lightspeed)
Alarms — S. L. Gilbow 5600 — (Lightspeed)
Forget You — Marc Laidlaw 1400 — (Lightspeed)
The Children of Hamelin — Dale Bailey 3000 — (Lightspeed)
The Sympathy — Eric Gregory — 8200 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother of All Russiya — Melanie Rawn 7400 — (Lightspeed)
My Teacher, My Enemy — Kelsey Ann Barrett 4200 — (Lightspeed)
Renfrew’s Course — John Langan 6400 — (Lightspeed)
Ghost River Red — Aidan Doyle 3200 — (Lightspeed)
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream — Maria Dahvana Headley 4400 — (Lightspeed)
Breaking the Frame — Kat Howard 2200 — (Lightspeed)
A Moment Before It Struck — Linda Nagata 4300 — (Lightspeed)
The Seven Samovars — Peter Sursi 3700 — (Lightspeed)
Monster, Finder, Shifter — Nina Kiriki Hoffman 6700 — (Lightspeed)
The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition — Megan Arkenberg 3200 — (Lightspeed)
Spindles — L. B. Gale 5000 — (Lightspeed)
Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns — Richard Bowes 4100 — (Lightspeed)
La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza — Jeremiah Tolbert 5500 — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers — Sarah Langan 5900 — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal — J.T. Petty 6400 — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Property Condemned — Jonathan Maberry — 8900 words — (Nightmare)
Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron — 9950 words — (Nightmare)
Good Fences — Genevieve Valentine — 3050 words — (Nightmare)
Afterlife — Sarah Langan — 5850 words — (Nightmare)
Construction Project — Desirina Boskovich — 2640 words — (Nightmare)
At Lorn Hall — Ramsey Campbell — 6900 words — (Nightmare)
Chop Shop — J. B. Park — 2924 words — (Nightmare)
Foul Weather — Daniel H. Wilson — 2600 words — (Nightmare)

Under the Moons of Mars

Coming of Age on Barsoom — Catherynne M. Valente — 3500 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Three Deaths — David Barr Kirtley — 4400 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
River Gods of Mars — Austin Grossman — 4630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Tinker of Warhoon — Tobias S. Buckell — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Game of Mars — Genevieve Valentine — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ape-Man of Mars — Peter S. Beagle — 5456 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Woola’s Song — Theodora Goss — 5600 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Bronze Man of Mars — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Vengeance of Mars — Robin Wasserman — 5700 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Death Song of Dwar Guntha — Jonathan Maberry — 6000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Sidekick of Mars — Garth Nix — 6123 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Metal Men of Mars — Joe R. Lansdale — 8000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ghost That Haunts the Superstition Mountains — Chris Claremont — 8100 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Jasoom Project — S. M. Stirling — 11110 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Special Award, Professional

John Joseph Adams (publishing and editing Lightspeed Magazine & Nightmare Magazine ; editing anthologies)

 

Stoker Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for HWA Members

This year’s Stoker Awards nomination period is now open.

Complete Stoker rules for 2012 are available on the HWA website [PDF link]. Nominations close January 15.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.

All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is also available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).

If you are an HWA member, you may email me to request copies of all of the stories listed here in either doc, pdf, mobi, or epub format.

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare. Since Lightspeed publishes science fiction/fantasy primarily, I’ve only noted the stories here that lean toward horror/dark fantasy. (For a full list of my 2012 materials, see my Nebula Awards nominations post.)

Long Fiction

Lightspeed

The Sympathy — Eric Gregory — 8200 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Property Condemned — Jonathan Maberry — 8900 words — (Nightmare)
Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron — 9950 words — (Nightmare)

Short Fiction

Lightspeed

Forget You — Marc Laidlaw — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Children of Hamelin — Dale Bailey — 3000 words — (Lightspeed)
How Many Miles to Babylon? — Megan Arkenberg — 3081 words — (Lightspeed)
The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition — Megan Arkenberg — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring — Genevieve Valentine — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
The Day They Came — Kali Wallace — 3900 words — (Lightspeed)
Test — Steven Utley — 4000 words — (Lightspeed)
My Teacher, My Enemy — Kelsey Ann Barrett — 4200 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers — Sarah Langan — 5900 words — (Lightspeed)
Renfrew’s Course — John Langan — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal — J.T. Petty — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Good Fences — Genevieve Valentine — 3050 words — (Nightmare)
Afterlife — Sarah Langan — 5850 words — (Nightmare)
Construction Project — Desirina Boskovich — 2640 words — (Nightmare)
At Lorn Hall — Ramsey Campbell — 6900 words — (Nightmare)
Chop Shop — J. B. Park — 2924 words — (Nightmare)
Foul Weather — Daniel H. Wilson — 2600 words — (Nightmare)

Worldcon

San Antonio, TX

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Context 26

GUEST OF HONOR

Columbus, OH

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More Guest of Honoring: Context 26

Good news! I’ve been asked to attend Context 26, in Worthington, OH (just outside Columbus), as their editor guest of honor. Context 26 will be held Sept. 27-29, 2013. Other guests TBD.

This is in addition to me serving as editor guest of honor at this year’s World Horror Convention. Huzzah!

The Next Big Thing

I was tagged by Charles Tan to take part in The Next Big Thing meme, which basically asks writers (and editors) to answer the same set of questions and hops from blog to blog.

[image error] What is the title of your next book?

That depends on what is meant by “next.” The next book I have that’s coming out is The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination (Feb. 19, 2013). That’ll be followed shortly thereafter by Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond (Feb. 26, 2013), which I co-edited with Douglas Cohen. And just recently released were Epic: Legends of Fantasy (Nov. 6, 2012) and the revised and expanded second edition of my anthology Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories (Dec. 4, 2012). If “next” means the next book that I’m working on now, then that’s Wastelands, Vol. II: More Stories of the Apocalypse (Summer 2013).

For purposes of the meme here, since I have to pick one, I’ll go with the mad scientist anthology.

Where did the idea come from for the book?

I was listening to the Escape Pod episode featuring Jeremiah Tolbert’s story “Instead of a Loving Heart” (which I ended up including as one of two reprints in the anthology), which I loved, and I thought, “Hey, you know what I like? Mad scientists. Someone should do a mad scientist anthology.” And, being a mad scientist an anthologist myself, I decided to be the one to do it. Then, fortuitously, Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible came along, and made a mad scientist anthology super-viable.

What genre does your book fall under?

It’s an anthology of stories about mad scientists and evil geniuses, so it’s mostly science fiction, with some fantasy and a liberal dose of humor in many cases.

What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

I don’t care but I would like—nay, DEMAND—it be directed by Christopher Nolan. Or, given the humorous slant of most of the book, maybe Edgar Wright.

What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

Evil geniuses are always so keen on telling captured heroes all their fiendish plans; isn’t it about time someone gave them a platform such as this one to reach the masses with their messages of hope death and prosperity destruction?

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

It will be published by Tor Books (Feb. 19, 2013). I’m represented by Joe Monti of Barry Goldblatt Literary.

How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

It took about six or nine months or so to assemble the anthology, I guess, if you count all the time I gave the authors to write their stories.

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

It is beyond compare. If any dare to even stand in its shadow, they will be utterly and mercilessly destroyed.

Well, actually…I suppose there’s the Dr. Horrible comics, and any superhero anthologies, such as Lou Anders’s Masked.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?

World domination. Editing the anthology was actually an integral part of my own evil plan for taking over the world. See, I just got some of the greatest creative minds of our time to dream up various world domination scenarios under the guise of fiction, which I will of course exploit myself.

First order of business: owning and reading The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination will be mandatory!

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

As research for the anthology, I had to do a lot of scouting to find the right Pacific island to build my evil lair. An evil lair has to be on an island, of course, and it requires a certain level of shark-infestation in the waters, so it can be difficult to find just the right spot, especially with all the mad scientist competition for lair real estate. (Plus, you can’t use any of the ones the government tested nukes on…well, actually, I can see that being of use to SOME people, but it’s not my thing.)

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I’m told tradition dictates, I’m to tag five people, and thus urge them to participate. They will or they won’t! (I am a benevolent dictator!) Hope you check out their blogs next week:

Jonathan Strahan

Hugh Howey

Steven Gould

William Alexander

Molly Tanzer

Brave New Worlds (2nd Edition)

REVISED & EXPANDED 2ND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE!

When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?

In his smash-hit anthologies Wastelands and The Living Dead, acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams showed you what happens when society is utterly wiped away. Now he brings you a glimpse into an equally terrifying future — what happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life?

From 1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Brave New Worlds collects 36* of the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today’s most visionary writers.

*The 2nd edition contains three stories not previously included in the 1st edition!

A Note About LIGHTSPEED Subscriptions

You may have noticed that Lightspeed’s subscription price went up recently, from $1.99 an issue to $2.99 an issue (e.g., from $23.88 to $35.88 annually). I just wanted to briefly explain why. A version of this note is going to run in the December editorial, but I wanted to post about it sooner rather than later.

As many of you know, Lightspeed has been available as a subscription via Amazon.com’s Periodicals program since late 2011. What you may not have known is that Amazon actually sets the price on those subscriptions. When Lightspeed first launched as an Amazon subscription, it was before the Lightspeed-Fantasy merger, at which point the issues were about 30,000-35,000 words long. At that time, we sold individual issues for $2.99 and Amazon priced Lightspeed at $1.99 a month for subscribers.

Post-merger, we doubled our amount of fiction content by merging Fantasy Magazine into Lightspeed, and then also added in the novella reprints to each ebook issue as well, taking each ebook issue to around 80,000-85,000 words total. We raised our cover price to $3.99, but Amazon kept our subscription price at $1.99 per issue; Amazon reviews periodicals pricing on their own schedule—regardless of what the publisher may prefer—so it wasn’t until the past couple of weeks that they reviewed the pricing for Lightspeed. After their review, they adjusted the subscription price up to $2.99, due, we assume, to the fact that each issue of the magazine is now much longer. Our individual issue price remains at $3.99 an issue, so subscribers will still be saving a dollar an issue by subscribing (or about 25% off the cover price).

So, the price increase is not something that was under our control, but we feel like it is a fair price for the magazine, and we hope you’ll agree and continue to subscribe. Rest assured, we’re not going to take this newfound income and spend it frivolously; indeed, we plan to take it and invest it back into Lightspeed, to make it the best magazine it can be.