Help me cast my Hugo Nominations

Fantastic idea! This will help me prepare for sending my nominations, too.

A couple of ideas:

Best Novel
Ready Player One by Ernest Kline
Human.4 (also published as 0.4) by Mike Lancaster

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Another Earth

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
“Lysergic Acid Diethylamide” episode of Fringe
“The Doctor’s Wife” episode of Doctor Who
(note: NESFA is putting Attack the Block in this category, as it’s only 88 minutes long)

Best Fancast
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast (if I understand the category correctly)

Possible Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Katy Stauber for Revolution World
Ilsa J. Bick for Ashes

I hesitate to mention this, for fear of sounding utterly self-serving, but Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists, edited by Kevin R. Grazier (BenBella Books), is eligible for Best Related Work.

I’m pleased to say it’s received positive reviews; I’m especially proud of it because it represents such a wide range of contributors from across the SF community in conversation, from SF authors like Nick Mamatas, to MIT scientists and professional science writers, to SF scholars like me. You can see more information on the contributors and essays here.

I expect the frontrunner this year in this category will be that new Doctor Who book on the Davies era, or Daniel Kimmel’s Jar Jar Binks Must Die, both of which have received a lot of popular attention.

And with that, I’ll be quiet now (at last! ha).

Re ‘Attack the Block’ the rules allow for works to be moved from one category to another if they are deemed to fit there better, AtB would almost certainly be moved to Long Form;

http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-faq/ (second to last paragraph)

I am a voter, so I won’t contribute my own suggestions, but I do recommend the following resources for those who are voting, or want to offer their own input;

http://hugo-recommend.livejournal.com/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsUSB8f4Hgt2dHJESjJ5UWRxU0NHR1o0dTVDUER4a0E&hl=en_US#gid=0 (a crowdsourced list of eligible people and works)

Thanks espana, that link to the goodle docs spreadsheet is excellent. Based on what I’ve read/listened to, I’m going to add a few more entries here:

Best Novel:
Home Fires – Gene Wolfe
By Light Alone – Adam Roberts
The Restoration Game – Ken MacLeod

Best Novella:
Silently and Very Fast – Catherynne Valente (from Clarkesworld)

Best Novelette:
Shannon’s Law – Cory Doctorow (from Escape Pod)

Best Short Story:
Houses – Mark Pantoja (from Lightspeed)
The Immortality Game – Cat Rambo (from Fantasy)
Simulacrum – Ken Liu (from Lightspeed)

Jason Sanford has a blog post about his nominations for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards.