2015 Hugo Awards Ballot, Further Revised

Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, has announced further changes to the Hugo Awards ballot.

As previously announced, Markos Kloos withdrew his novel Lines of Departure (47North) from consideration, as did Annie Bellet for her story “Goodnight Stars” (The End is Now). As a result, Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (translated by Ken Liu, Tor) and Steven Diamond’s “A Single Samurai” (The Baen Big Book of Monsters) have been added to the ballot in the novel and short story categories, respectively.

Prior revisions to the Hugo Awards ballot include entries for best novelette and best professional artist, removed due to ineligibility. “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons) was replaced by Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s “The Day the World Turned Upside Down” (Lightspeed 4/14), and artist Jon Eno was replaced by Kirk DouPonce.

The Hugo Awards administrators have announced, “The ballot is now going to the printer and there will be no further revisions.”

The revised Hugo Awards Ballot and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer are below.

Best Novel (1,827 nominating ballots)

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• The Dark Between the Stars, Kevin J. Anderson (Tor)
• Skin Game, Jim Butcher (Roc)
• Lines of Departure, Marko Kloos (47North) (Withdrawn by the author)
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)***

Best Novella (1,083)

• “Flow”, Arlan Andrews, Sr. (Analog 11/14)
• Big Boys Don’t Cry, Tom Kratman (Castalia House)
• One Bright Star to Guide Them, John C. Wright (Castalia House)
• “Pale Realms of Shade”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons)
• “The Plural of Helen of Troy”, John C. Wright (City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis)

Best Novelette (1,031)

• “The Journeyman: In the Stone House”, Michael F. Flynn (Analog 6/14)
• “The Day the World Turned Upside Down”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Lightspeed 4/14)**
• “Championship B’tok”, Edward M. Lerner (Analog 9/14)
• “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium”, Gray Rinehart (Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show 5/14)
• “The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale”, Rajnar Vajra (Analog 7-8/14)
• “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons) (removed from ballot due to ineligibility)

Best Short Story (1,174)

• “On a Spiritual Plain”, Lou Antonelli (Sci Phi Journal #2 11/14)
• “Goodnight Stars”, Annie Bellet (The End is Now) (Withdrawn by the author)
• “A Single Samurai”, Steven Diamond (The Baen Big Book of Monsters)***
• “Totaled”, Kary English (Galaxy’s Edge 7/14)
• “Turncoat”, Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse)
• “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long (1,285)

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Interstellar
• The Lego Movie

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short (938)

• Doctor Who: “Listen”
• The Flash: “Pilot”
• Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper”
• Grimm: “Once We Were Gods”
• Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”

Best Related Work (1,150)

• Letters from Gardner, Lou Antonelli (The Merry Blacksmith Press)
• “The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF”, Ken Burnside (Riding the Red Horse)
• “Why Science is Never Settled”, Tedd Roberts (Baen.com)
• Wisdom from My Internet, Michael Z. Williamson (Patriarchy Press)
• Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth, John C. Wright (Castalia House)

Best Graphic Story (785)

• Sex Criminals, Volume 1: One Weird Trick, Matt Fraction; art by Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
• The Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate, Carter Reid (self-published)
• Saga, Volume 3, Brian K. Vaughan; art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Rat Queens, Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery, Kurtis J. Weibe; art by Roc Upchurch (Image Comics)
• Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson; art by Adrian Alphona & Jake Wyatt (Marvel Comics)

Best Professional Editor Long Form (712)

• Vox Day
• Sheila Gilbert
• Jim Minz
• Anne Sowards
• Toni Weisskopf

Best Professional Editor Short Form (870)

• Jennifer Brozek
• Vox Day
• Mike Resnick
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt
• Edmund R. Schubert

Best Professional Artist (753)

• Julie Dillon
• Kirk DouPonce**
• Jon Eno (removed from ballot due to ineligibility)
• Nick Greenwood
• Alan Pollack
• Carter Reid

Best Semiprozine (660)

• Abyss & Apex
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons

Best Fanzine (576)

• Black Gate
• Elitist Book Reviews
• Journey Planet
• The Revenge of Hump Day
• Tangent Online

Best Fancast (668)

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing
• Dungeon Crawlers Radio
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast
• The Sci Phi Show
• Tea and Jeopardy

Best Fan Writer (777)

• Dave Freer
• Amanda S. Green
• Jeffro Johnson
• Laura J. Mixon
• Cedar Sanderson

Best Fan Artist (296)

• Ninni Aalto
• Brad Foster
• Elizabeth Leggett
• Spring Schoenhuth
• Steve Stiles

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Award] (851)

• *Wesley Chu
• Jason Cordova
• *Kary English
• Rolf Nelson
• Eric. S. Raymond

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

**Added to the ballot April 14, 2015

***Added to the ballot April 17, 2015

There were 2,122 nominating ballots received from members of LonCon 3, Sasquan, and MidAmeriCon II.

Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, will be held in Spokane WA, August 19-23, 2015.