Less than 4 days left to nominate for the Hugos

If you’re eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards, you only have until 11:59:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time on Saturday, March 26, to get your nominations in.   I’ve got a few recommendations to make, and not just my own stuff.   In some categories I’m listing more items than I can nominate, because I think they’re good and you might like some of them better than the ones I’m nominating.

Note: If while looking through these recommendations, you find that some items just sort of stick out for you, or you even feel like your eyes are drawn hypnotically toward certain items, that’s probably just a sign from the universe that you should nominate those items.

Best Novel

• The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, Tor
• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor
• I Am Not a Serial Killer, Dan Wells, Tor
• Mr. Monster, Dan Wells, Tor
• Mission of Honor, David Weber, Baen
• Monster Hunter Vendetta, Larry Correia, Baen
• Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, Tor

Best Novella

• The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi, Audible
• “Iron Shoes,” J. Kathleen Cheney, Alembical 2
• “The Paragon Lure,” Tony Pi, Alembical 2
• “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window,” Rachel Swirsky, Subterranean
• “The Lifecycle of Software Objects,” Ted Chiang, Subterranean

Best Novelette

• “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made,” Eric James Stone, Analog
• “Plus or Minus,” James Patrick Kelly, Asimov’s
• “The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara,”
  Christopher Kastensmidt, Realms of Fantasy
• “The Jaguar House, in Shadow,” Aliette de Bodard, Asimov’s
• “Backlash,” Nancy Fulda, Asimov’s
• “Outbound,” Brad R. Torgersen, Analog
• “Stone Wall Truth,” Caroline M. Yoachim, Asimov’s

Best Short Story

• “Rejiggering the Thingamajig,” Eric James Stone, Analog
• “The Greatest Science Fiction Story Ever Written,” Eric James Stone, Nature
• “Sister Jasmine Brings the Pain,” Von Carr, InterGalactic Medicine Show
• “The Ghost of a Girl Who Never Lived,” Keffy R. M. Kehrli, InterGalactic Medicine Show
• “The American,” Bruce Worden, InterGalactic Medicine Show
• “Black Hole Sun,” Alethea Kontis and Kelli Owen, Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopian SF
• “For Want of a Nail,” Mary Robinette Kowal, Asimov’s
• “Grinpa,” Brian K. Lowe, Daily Science Fiction
• “Standing Next to Heaven,” Terra LeMay, Daily Science Fiction
• “In-fall,” Ted Kosmatka, Lightspeed
• “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno,” Vylar Kaftan, Lightspeed

Best Related Work

• Writing Excuses Season 4, Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells, WritingExcuses.com
• L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: The First 25 Years, Kevin J. Anderson, Galaxy Press

Best Graphic Story

• Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, Howard Tayler, Hypernode Media

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Inception, Warner Bros.
• How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
• Toy Story 3, Pixar/Disney
• “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang,” Doctor Who

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• “Vincent and the Doctor,” Doctor Who
• “A Christmas Carol,” Doctor Who
• “Amy’s Choice,” Doctor Who

Best Editor, Short Form

• Stanley Schmidt
• Edmund Schubert
• Sheila Williams
• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Jonathan Laden

Best Editor, Long Form

• Moshe Feder
• Toni Weisskopf

Best Semiprozine

• Clarkesworld
• Locus
• Interzone
• InterGalactic Medicine Show

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

• Dan Wells
• Larry Correia
• Keffy R. M. Kehrli
• Terra LeMay
• Brad Torgersen