My 2010 Hugo and Nebula nominations
I've done my nominations for the Hugo and Nebula awards for 2010. There were several good novels and one superbly outstanding one. I didn't read a whole lot of short fiction from 2010 so some of those categories are blank. Nominations within each grouping are listed alphabetically by author.
Nebula Nominations
Best Novel
Echo by Jack McDevitt. My comments here.
WWW:Watch by Robert J. Sawyer
Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis. My comments on this book here and here.
Best Short Story
"Hope" by Michael A. Burstein (Destination:Future)
"What Will Come After" by Scott Edelman (What Will Come After, PS Publishing)
"I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You In Reno" by Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed, June 2010)
Hugo Nominations
Best Novel
Echo by Jack McDevitt
WWW:Watch by Robert J. Sawyer
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Best Short Story
"Hope" by Michael A. Burstein (Destination:Future)
"What Will Come After" by Scott Edelman (What Will Come After)
"I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You In Reno" by Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed, June 2010)
Best Related Work
The Business of Science Fiction by Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg (see my comments here)
Best Editor, Short Form
John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed)
Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld)
Stanley Schmidt (Analog)
Edmund Schubert (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show)
Sheila Williams (Asimov's)
Best Semiprozine
Locus
Best Fanzine
SF Signal
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Saladin Ahmed
A quick comment on Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear. This is a single book that was split into two books by the publisher. This is not a series. There is no synopsis at the beginning of All Clear. All Clear starts exactly where Blackout left off and it is impossible to read that book and make any sense of it without having reading Blackout. I have therefore nominated the entire book, as written, for the Hugo and Nebula. I don't know if this is allowed. I inquired on this but I haven't yet gotten a response. It would seem remarkably silly to me to have to treat these books individually, but we'll see how things turn out.
