2010 Hugo Award Longlist

Among the revelations that come with the longlist every year is the fact that many authors seem to have had better years in the balloting than one would expect simply looking at the finalists. Robert Charles Wilson, for example, had one work place in the Best Novel finalists, but had two more show up on the longlist in the Best Novelette category. Rachel Swirsky had one story reach the finalists in the Best Novelette category, and another made the longlist. Kristine Kathryn Rusch had two stories appear on the Best Novella longlist, and Mary Robinette Kowal also had two longlisted stories: One in Best Novelette and one in Best Short Story. Mike Resnick had one story make it to the finalists, and three more appear on the longlist.

Resnick's longlisted stories contain a moderately interesting conundrum. Two of the stories that appear here were cowritten by him with his frequent collaborator Lezli Robyn, who was also nominated for the Campbell Award. The interesting thing is that in 2010, Robyn's most prominent stories were the ones she had cowritten with Resnick. The problem this poses is that it is difficult to separate Robyn's contribution from Resnick's for the purpose of voting on the Campbell Award. Apparently some voters felt comfortable doing so, as Robyn ended up doing reasonably well in the voting, placing second behind Seanan McGuire in the first pass through (although she ended up fourth overall), but how they sorted this question out remains a mystery.

Best Novel

Finalists:
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The City & the City by China Mieville [winner]
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22^nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi [winner]
WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

Longlisted Nominees:
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Lifecode by Jo Walton
Makers by Cory Doctorow
The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
The Sunless Countries by Karl Schroeder
This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Best Novella

Finalists:
Act One by Nancy Kress
The God Engines by John Scalzi
Palimpsest by Charles Stross [winner]
Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
Vishnu at the Cat Circus by Ian McDonald
The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

Longlisted Nominees:

Broken Windchimes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 9 (September 2009))

Earth II by Stephen Baxter (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 7 (July 2009))

Horn by Peter M. Ball
Hot Rock by Greg Egan
Paradiso Lost by Albert E. Cowdrey
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
Shaka II by Mike Resnick

The Spires of Denon by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, Nos. 4 & 5 (April/May 2009))

Wives by Paul Haines

Best Novelette

Finalists:
Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
The Island by Peter Watts [winner]
It Takes Two by Nicola Griffith
One of Our Bastards Is Missing by Paul Cornell
Overtime by Charles Stross

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster

Longlisted Nominees

But It Does Move by Harry Turtledove (reviewed in Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Volume CXXIX, No. 6 (June 2009))

Economancer by Carolyn Ives Gilman
First Right by Mary Robinette Kowal
Lion Walk by Mary Rosenblum
A Memory of Wind by Rachel Swirsky

Soulmates by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 9 (September 2009))

This Peaceable Land; or, the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Robert Charles Wilson

Utriusque Cosmi by Robert Charles Wilson
Zeppelin City by Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick

Best Short Story

Finalists:

The Bride of Frankenstein by Mike Resnick (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 12 (December 2009))

Bridescicle by Will McIntosh [winner]
The Moment by Lawrence M. Schoen
Non-Zero Probabilities by N.K. Jemisin
Spar by Kij Johnson

Longlisted Nominees

As Women Fight by Sara Genge (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 12 (December 2009))

Before My Last Breath by Robert Reed (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, Nos. 10 & 11 (October/November 2009))

Benchwarmer by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn
Blocked by Geoff Ryman

The Consciousness Problem by Mary Robinette Kowal (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 8 (August 2009))

Donovan Sent Us by Gene Wolfe
Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction by Jo Walton

Going Deep by James Patrick Kelly (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 6 (June 2009))

The Pelican Bar by Karen Joy Fowler
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
The Receivers by Alastair Reynolds
A Story, with Beans by Steven Gould
Useless Things by Maureen F. McHugh

Best Related Work

Finalists:
Canary Fever: Reviews by John Clute

Hope in the Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees by Michael Swanwick

The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teen's Science Fiction by Farah Mendelsohn

On Joanna Russ edited by Farah Mendelsohn

The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms by Helen Merrick

This Is Me, Jack Vance by Jack Vance [winner]

Longlisted Nominees:
Booklife by Jeff VanderMeer
Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin
Imagination/Space by Gwyneth Jones
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist by James Gurney
Other Spaces, Other Times by Robert Silverberg
Powers: Secret Histories by John Berlyne
Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the 20^th Century by Jane Frank
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Osisceray Ronay, Jr.
Spectrum 16 by by Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
Starcombing by David Langford

Best Graphic Story

Finalists:

Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, inked by Scott Williams

Captain Britain and MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, penciled by Leonard Kirk with Mike Collins, Adrian Alphona, and Ardian Syaf

Fables, Volume 12: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham, penciled by Mark Buckingham, art by Peter Gross, Andrew Pepoy, Michael Allred, and David Hahn, color by Lee Loughridge and Laura Allred, letters by Todd Klein

Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio [winner]

Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse by Howard Tayler

Longlisted Nominees:

The Dresden Files, Storm Front: Volume 1, The Gathering Storm by Mark Powers, Jim Butcher, and Ardian Syaf

Dresden Kodak by Aaron Diaz
FreakAngels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield

Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio

Grandville by Bryan Talbot
Ignition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Locke & Key: Head Games by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga
The Order of the Stick: Don't Split the Party by Rich Burlew
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa
Schlock Mercenary: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance by Howard Tayler
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Star Trek: Countdown by Mike Johnson, Tim Jones, and David Messina
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
The Umbrella Academy: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
The Unwritten by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form

Finalists:
Avatar
District 9
Moon [winner]
Star Trek
Up!

Longlisted Nominees:
Caprica: Pilot
Coraline
Doctor Who: The End of Time
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Let the Right One In
Ponyo
Sherlock Holmes
Torchwood: Children of Earth
Watchmen
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form

Finalists:
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Doctor Who: The Planet of the Dead
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars [winner]
Dollhouse: Epitaph 1
FlashForward: No More Good Days

Longlisted Nominees:
Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak
Chuck: Chuck Versus the Ring
Decisions
Dollhouse: The Attic
Dollhouse: Belonging
FlashForward: The Gift
Lost: LaFleur
Lost: The Incident 1 & 2
Partly Cloudy
Stargate: Universe: Light
Stargate: Universe: Time
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Born to Run
Wallace and Gromit in a Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Professional Editor: Short Form

Finalists:
Ellen Datlow [winner]
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon van Gelder
Sheila Williams

Longlisted Nominees:
John Joseph Adams
Scott H. Andrews
Neil Clarke
Gardner Dozois
Eric Flint
Susan Marie Groppi
David G. Grubbs
Eric T. Reynolds
Ann VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer

Best Professional Editor: Long Form

Finalists:
Lou Anders
Ginjer Buchanan
Liz Gorinsky
David G. Hartwell
Patrick Nielsen Hayden [winner]
Juliet Ulman

Longlisted Nominees:
Jennifer Brehl
Jo Fletcher
Marc Gascoigne
Ann Groell
Jeremy Lassen
Beth Meacham
Betsy Mitchell
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
William Schafer
Stephanie Smith
Toni Weisskopf

Best Professional Artist

Finalists:
Daniel Dos Santos
Bob Eggleton
Donato Giancola
Stephan Martiniere
John Picacio
Shaun Tan [winner]

Longlisted Nominees:
John Coulthart
Kinuko Y. Craft
Phil Foglio
John Foster
Raphael Lacoste
John Jude Palncar
Adam Tredowski
Charles Vess

Best Semi-Prozine

Finalists:
Ansible edited by David Langford
Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, and Sean Wallace [winner]
Interzone edited by Andy Cox
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kristen Gong-Wong, and Liza Groen Trombi
Weird Tales edited by Stephen H. Segal and Ann VanderMeer

Longlisted Nominees:

Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine edited by Zara Baxter, Sue Bursztynski, Andrew Finch, Simon Petrie, and Tehani Wessely

Beneath Ceaseless Skies edited by Scott H. Andrews
Charlie's Diary edited by Charles Stross
Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
Fantasy Magazine edited by K. Tempest Bradford, Cat Rambo, and Sean Wallace
The Internet Review of Science Fiction edited by Stacey Janssen

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell, and Kevin J. Maroney

On Spec edited by Diane Walton, Barb Galler-Smith, Susan MacGregor, Ann Marston, Robin Carson, and Barry Hammond

Strange Horizons edited by Susan Marie Groppi
Subterranean edited by William Schafer
Tor.com edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Best Fanzine

Finalists:
Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III
The Drink Tank edited by Christopher J. Garcia with guest editor James Bacon
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith [winner]

Longlisted Nominees:
Australian SF Bullsheet edited by Edwina Harvey and Ted Scribner
Australian SpecFic in Focus edited by Alisa Krasnostein
Chunga edited by Randy Byers, Andy Hooper, and Carl Juarez
Journey Planet edited by Chris Garcia and James Bacon
Plokta edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies, and Mike Scott
Relapse edited by Peter Weston
SF in SF edited by Chris Garcia
SF Signal John DeNardo
Steam Engine Time edited by Bruce Gillespie and Janine Stinson
Trap Door by Robert Lichtman

Best Fan Writer

Finalists:
Claire Brialey
Chris Garcia
James Nicoll
Lloyd Penny
Frederik Pohl [winner]

Longlisted Nominees:
Bruce Gillespie
Mike Glyer
Niall Harrison
John Hertz
David Langford
Guy Lillian
Cheryl Morgan
Abigail Nussbaum
Steven H Silver
Jo Walton
Taral Wayne

Best Fan Artist

Finalists:
Brad Foster [winner]
Dave Howell
Sue Mason
Steve Stiles
Taral Wayne

Longlisted Nominees:
Kate Beaton
Alan F. Beck
Kurt Erichsen
Dick Jenssen
Randall Munroe
Marc Schirmeister
Spring Schoenhuth
Espana Sheriff
Mo Starkey
Dan Steffan
D. West
Brianna "Spacekat" Wu
Frank Wu

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Finalists:
Saladin Ahmed
Gail Carriger
Felix Gilman
Seanan McGuire [winner]
Lezli Robyn

Longlisted Nominees:
Camille Alexa
Peter M. Ball
Jedidiah Barry
Lauren Beukes
Erin Cashier
Dani Kollin
Shweta Narayan
Shannon Page
Steven H Silver
Juliette Wade

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