The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards have been announced! You can read the full list below.
With 108 finalists, this is the most extensive Hugo ballot on record. 2464 valid nominating ballots (2458 electronic and 6 paper) were received and counted from the members of the 2016, 2017, and 2018 World Science Fiction Conventions. The convention officially announced the finalists via its social media feeds in a video featuring Guest of Honour Johanna Sinisalo; graphic novelist Petri Hiltunen; writer J. Pekka Mäkelä; translator Johanna Vainikainen; Worldcon 75 Chair Jukka Halme, and other members of the Worldcon 75 team.
The final round of voting will close on July 15th, and winners will be announced at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland, on August 11th.
Best Novel (2078 ballots)
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books)
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US)
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor Books / Head of Zeus)
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris Books)
- The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books)
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)
Best Novella (1410 ballots)
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency)
- A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)
- This Census-Taker by China Miéville (Del Rey / Picador)
Best Novelette (1097 ballots)
- Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock (self-published)
- “The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan (Tor.com, July 2016)
- “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing, May 2016)
- “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016)
- “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016)
- “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016)
Best Short Story (1275 ballots)
- “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com, September 2016)
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, March 2016)
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine, November 2016)
- “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)
- “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, March 2016)
- “An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright (God, Robot, Castalia House)
Best Related Work (1122 ballots)
- The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley (Tor Books)
- The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press)
- Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)
- The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow / Harper Collins)
- “The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com)
- Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
Best Graphic Story (842 ballots)
- Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel)
- Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)
- Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel)
- Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image)
- Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks (Image)
- The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)
Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form (1733 ballots)
- Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films)
- Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Marvel Entertainment/Kinberg Genre/The Donners’ Company/TSG Entertainment)
- Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig (Columbia Pictures/LStar Capital/Village Roadshow Pictures/Pascal Pictures/Feigco Entertainment/Ghostcorps/The Montecito Picture Company)
- Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi (Fox 2000 Pictures/Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films/TSG Entertainment)
- Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards (Lucasfilm/Allison Shearmur Productions/Black Hangar Studios/Stereo D/Walt Disney Pictures)
- Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment/Monkey Massacre)
Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form (1159 ballots)
- Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris (House of Tomorrow)
- Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette (BBC Cymru Wales)
- The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy)
- Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik (HBO)
- Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender (HBO)
- Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)
Best Editor – Short Form (951 ballots)
- John Joseph Adams
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheila Williams
Best Editor – Long Form (752 ballots)
- Vox Day
- Sheila E. Gilbert
- Liz Gorinsky
- Devi Pillai
- Miriam Weinberg
- Navah Wolfe
Best Professional Artist (817 ballots)
- Galen Dara
- Julie Dillon
- Chris McGrath
- Victo Ngai
- John Picacio
- Sana Takeda
Best Semiprozine (857 ballots)
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews
- Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander
- GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith
- Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff
- Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
- The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James
Best Fanzine (610 ballots)
- “Castalia House Blog”, edited by Jeffro Johnson
- “Journey Planet”, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood
- “Lady Business”, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan
- “nerds of a feather, flock together”, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry
- “Rocket Stack Rank”, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong
- “SF Bluestocking”, edited by Bridget McKinney
Best Fancast (690 ballots)
- The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan
- Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
- Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
- Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch
- The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist
- Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman
Best Fan Writer (802 ballots)
- Mike Glyer
- Jeffro Johnson
- Natalie Luhrs
- Foz Meadows
- Abigail Nussbaum
- Chuck Tingle
Best Fan Artist (528 ballots)
- Ninni Aalto
- Vesa Lehtimäki
- Likhain (M. Sereno)
- Spring Schoenhuth
- Steve Stiles
- Mansik Yang
Best Series (1393 votes)
- The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone (Tor Books)
- The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US / Orbit UK)
- The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire (DAW / Corsair)
- The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz / Del Rey / DAW / Subterranean)
- The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Harper Voyager UK)
- The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (937 ballots)
- Sarah Gailey (1st year of eligibility)
- J. Mulrooney (1st year of eligibility)
- Malka Older (2nd year of eligibility)
- Ada Palmer (1st year of eligibility)
- Laurie Penny (2nd year of eligibility)
- Kelly Robson (2nd year of eligibility)
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Big congrats to all the nominees. Thank you to everyone who nominated, and to the people who volunteer to administer this award and keep it going!
“Hidden Figures” joins “The Right Stuff” (1984) and “Apollo 13” (1996) as Dramatic Presentation nominees “based on a true story.”
Stix Hiscock, huh? Looks like your nomination process still has a hole…
Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock (self-published)
Some good stuff in there, and only a few things from the tedious man babies. Surely they’re getting bored of being placed below Noah Ward by now?
Hidden Figures was a good movie dramatizing true events; although, IMO the non-fiction book was better. I know it could not have been made into a watchable movie. I’m rooting for The Arrival to win as straight up, thoughtful sci fi as opposed to comedy-fantasy, action sci fi, horror sci fi.
Overall, though, the dramatic presentation categories have some things I have watched and wouldn’t be upset about winning.
Ninefox Gambit was the bomb!
Lots of great stuff this year. Love seeing the Ballad of Black Tom, This Census-Taker, and Death’s End on here. I haven’t quite got around to A Closed and Common Orbit yet but if it’s anywhere as good as it’s predeccesor I’m sure it deserves to be nominated as well.
I also find myself completely unable to choose between Arrival and Stranger Things.
I’m delighted to have, in large part, some very difficult decisions to make when it comes time to vote. Congrats to the nominees!
I received the list from the convention, but at the top it states, “EMBARGOED UNTIL 1700 EEST 4 APRIL 2017.”
Shame on you!
@9 – 1700 EEST = 10:00 AM Eastern US.
Hey! Nice to see a Tor.com blogpost series nominated in the “related work” category! Has that happened before?
…and I loved The Geek Feminist Revolution, and gave a copy to a smart teenage girl who also loved it.
Are we able to receive electronic versions of the nominations (or most) by buying a Support ticket to the WorldCon like in previous years?
The best related work category is just crowded and awesome. Geek Feminist Revolution and the Women of Harry Potter were both things I read and really loved. I haven’t read the Gaiman or the Le Guin, but I’ve never read anything by either of them I didn’t like. Then of course all of those have to compete, somewhat unfairly, with the brilliant and terribly missed Carrie Fisher. that’s one hell of a category
Just realized:
Best Novel – One male, one transgender, and four female authors. That’s impressive!
@12: I believe so, but check the Hugo site for more details.
http://www.thehugoawards.org/
Bummer, _We Are Legion_ by Dennis Taylor was passed on. I’ll bet that they did not consider self published books.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/1680680323/
I think my comment got eaten when I tried to edit it.
Braid_Tug, to the best of my knowledge, there are two men and four women on the ballot for Best Novel; two of the finalists are also trans.
@17: Yeah, I think that happened to me too earlier.
@16: “They” being the fans who bought memberships at Worldcon and did the nominating? I’m sure some did, some didn’t. Self-published works have the usual problem that not as many people know about them. I’ve heard good things about that particular book, but never read it, so it couldn’t have possibly been on my nomination ballot.
Wow, I feel like I’ve achieved alot of good reading/watching this year. That long form dramatic is going to be tough to pick for alot of people. I hope Monstress and Sana Takeda wins all the awards as the work there is amazing.
To commenters 15 & 17 why should I / we care whether the writer is trans, male or female? Yes I understand the history of SF and how it was dominated by white, straight males and yes I have read more than enough about the Sad Puppies. However, the only thing that interests me is the quality of writing. I really don’t care who or what the writer is and I refuse to celebrate a slate that leans more to female or trans writers; if the consensus is that their writing was the best of the year, that is good enough for me (as I am just a fan and not a professional writer). Now I am sure I will be attacked for being racist, or misogynist or ignorant as I have been in the past for my views; that is of course if my comment is even allowed to be posted by the moderators of this forum,
@JD
It’s more about representation than anything else. People with different perspectives have stories to tell just as “straight white men” do, and they will bring different perspectives to their storytelling. In the end, it is all about the quality, so you shouldn’t care about a poorly written story, no matter who the author is. That said, when you get more authors from different backgrounds writing excellent work, you expand the types of stories that the audience is reading, which can only mean good things for the genres and the readers.
@@@@@ JD. I too plan to vote on the books based on the writing.
But since just a few years ago the slate was ALL white male – this slate being totally different from that struck me a something to notice in a good way. When we can stop noticing, because a mix is the “norm” not an exception – that will be nice. It was also the only area I commented upon.
I’m also happy with the mix presented by the Best Series. I’m not sure about all of them, but I believe most of them have come to some type of “conclusion” book in 2016. That is what I hope the section becomes. A section to honor book series that have ended in a great way.
Much as I love Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, I will be disappointed if book 3 gets it nominated for the best series in 2017. But when book 5, comes out, I will be happy to nominate it at that time.
@12
I asked on twitter, they confirmed that they plan on releasing an e-packet, but aren’t there yet.
I guess that the priority is to identify the shortlists in each category and only then are they in a position to go hunt rights down.
@16 Lynn: If something’s self-published and only available through Amazon, I won’t buy it. I won’t support authors who’re willing to give the Evil Amazonian Empire a monopoly. There are SO MANY reasons to boycott Amazon… :-(
Very excited to see clipping got a nomination. I urge everyone to listen to that album, it’s an amazing work of storytelling tackling political issues and other deep things. Its also heavily influenced by Stars in my Pocket Like Grains if Sand!
I also agree that diversity is a good thing, however I hope everyone will vote based on the literary merit of the work rather than to increase representation among the winners. I hope in the near future we won’t have to point out the gender or race of an author, though.
All the Birds in the Sky is an amazing book!!! Fingers crossed for it!
@SF_Fangirl: I agree with you about Arrival. It would have been a hard choice for me if Kubo and the Two Strings, another of my nominees, had found its way onto the ballot, but Arrival is a clear winner over the available choices.
@lynn McGuire: There isn’t any rule prohibiting nomination of self published books; any book can appear if enough people vote for it. Chuck Tingle got one on the ballot last year with some help from the Puppies. But in general, self published books are a hard sell with the voters.
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I’m sorry but only thing good about Arrival is the attention it brings to SciFi.
It’s just some random interesting facts that only loosely go together, science that is more fantasy as it has no real science behind it and average plot.
I would be fine with Arrival if it wasn’t so hyped up. I just don’t like it as it’s regarded as great while the movie is only OK.
@2 and @5, I’m getting really tired of seeing realist movies that happen to be set in space on the Hugo ballot. (Gravity also annoyed me–it was a movie set in space, but it wasn’t science fiction. All the space science was present-day.) The constitution clearly states that fictional nominees should be science fiction, fantasy, or horror. And please, before I get modded, this has nothing to do with the fact that the protagonists of Hidden Figures are African-American women, except insofar as I’m inclined to think that putting their achievements in a fiction category diminishes them as real people. The Hugo admins should have moved the nominations for Hidden Figures to Best Related Work, where biographies explicitly belong.
That said, VERY happy with this ballot, especially the reclaiming of Best Related Work from the garbage status where it’s lived the past few years. Yes, I’d prefer to stop seeing short fiction spots wasted on the latest childish “parody” of “If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love” and I’ll be happy when people get sick of nominating Vox Day, but at this point, those nominations are a small enough part of the ballot that they can be understood as part of a functioning democratic process, not hijacking the award.
29. Actually there is science behind it. Not all of it translated from the writing to the film, but there is science behind the linguistics aspect of the story. That loss was my only disappointment with the film, but I understood that there is a limit to how much of that works well in pacing a movie.
I am curious how many people nominated “Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex”. I have not read it I admit but can’t see it as a true contender and think it kind of demeans the whole awards.