After much uncertainty (one can only guess as a result of how much dancing
around, or utterly embracing, the politics and special pleading involved in
running the first World SF Convention in China under the current state of
affairs there and elsewhere), the final ballot has been released (after a
retracted release the other week), as detailed in LOCUS magazine:
https://locusmag.com/2023/07/2023-hugo-astounding-and-lodestar-awards-finalists/

*Best Novel*

   - *Legends & Lattes*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-1250886088&tag=locusmag06-20>, Travis
   Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
   - *Nettle & Bone*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781250244048&tag=locusmag06-20>, T.
   Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
   - *The Spare Man*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781250829153&tag=locusmag06-20>, Mary
   Robinette Kowal (Tor)
   - *The Daughter of Doctor Moreau*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0593355336&tag=locusmag06-20>, Silvia
   Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
   - *Nona the Ninth*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781250854117&tag=locusmag06-20>, Tamsyn
   Muir (Tordotcom)
   - *The Kaiju Preservation Society*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9780765389121&tag=locusmag06-20>, John
   Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)

*Best Novella*

   - *A Mirror Mended*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781250766649&tag=locusmag06-20>, Alix E.
   Harrow (Tordotcom)
   - *What Moves the Dead*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-1250830753&tag=locusmag06-20>, T.
   Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
   - *Where the Drowned Girls Go*
   <https://www.amazon.com/Where-Drowned-Girls-Wayward-Children/dp/1250213622/ref=asc_df_1250213622?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80401903158358&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584001430621524&psc=1>,
   Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
   - *Even Though I Knew the End*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-1250849458&tag=locusmag06-20>, C.L. Polk
   (Tordotcom)
   - *Ogres* <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781786185280&tag=locusmag06-20>,
   Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
   - *Into the Riverlands*
   <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781250851420&tag=locusmag06-20>, Nghi Vo
   (Tordotcom)

*Best Novelette*

   - “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal
   You”, John Chu (*Uncanny* 7-8/22)
   - “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”,
   S.L. Huang (*Clarkesworld* 12/22)
   - “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (*Africa Risen*)
   - “The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (*Someone
   in Time*)
   - “We Built This City”, Marie Vibbert (*Clarkesworld* 6/22)
   - “The Space-Time Painter”, Hai Ya (*Galaxy’s Edge* 4/22)

*Best Short Story*

   - “The White Cliff”, Lu Ban (*Science Fiction World* 5/22)
   - “On the Razor’s Edge”, Jiang Bo (*Science Fiction World* 1/22)
   - “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (*Uncanny* 11-12/22)
   - “Resurrection”, Ren Qing (*Future Fiction/**Science Fiction World*
    12/22)
   - “Zhurong on Mars”, Regina Kanyu Wang (*Frontiers* 9/22)
   - “D.I.Y.”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)

*Best Series*

   - Rivers of London Series, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
   - The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
   - October Daye, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
   - The Locked Tomb Series, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
   - The Scholomance Series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
   - Children of Time Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

*Best Graphic Story or Comic*

   - *Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams*
   - *DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel*
   - *Monstress, Volume 7: Devourer*
   - *Once & Future, Volume 4: Monarchies in the UK*
   - *Saga, Volume 10*
   - *Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow*

*Best Related Work*

   - *Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road*,
   Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
   - *Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Volume 1*, Yang Feng
   (Chengdu Times Press)
   - “The Ghost of Workshops Past”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com 8/17/22)
   - *Buffalito World Outreach Projec*t, Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem)
   - *Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir**, *Wil Wheaton (William
   Morrow)
   - *Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes*, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

*Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form*

   - *Avatar: The Way of Water*
   - *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*
   - *Everything Everywhere All at Once*
   - *Nope*
   - *Severance*, Season One
   - *Turning Red*

*Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form*

   - *Andor*: “One Way Out”
   - *Andor*: “Rix Road”
   - *The Expanse*: “Babylon’s Ashes”
   - *For All Mankind*: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
   - *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law*: “Whose Show is This?”
   - *Stranger Things*: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”

*Best Editor, Short Form*

   - Scott H. Andrews
   - Neil Clarke
   - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
   - Sheree Renée Thomas
   - Xu Wang
   - Feng Yang

*Best Editor, Long Form*

   - Ruoxi Chen
   - Lindsey Hall
   - Lee Harris
   - Sarah Peed
   - Huan Yan
   - Haijun Yao

*Best Professional Artist*

   - Sija Hong
   - Kuri Huang
   - Paul Lewin
   - Alyssa Winans
   - Jian Zhang
   - Enzhe Zhao

*Best Semiprozine*

   - *Escape Pod*
   - *FIYAH*
   - *khōréō*
   - *PodCastle*
   - *Strange Horizons*
   - *Uncanny*

*Best Fanzine*

   - *Chinese Academic SF Express*
   - *Galactic Journey*
   - *Journey Planet*
   - *Nerds of a Feather*
   - *Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog*
   - *Zero Gravity Newspaper*

*Best Fancast*

   - *Coode Street Podcast*
   - *Hugo, Girl!*
   - *Hugos There*
   - *Kalanadi*
   - *Octothorpe*
   - *Worldbuilding for Masochists*

*Best Fan Writer*

   - Chris M. Barkley
   - Bitter Karella
   - Arthur Liu
   - RiverFlow
   - Jason Sanford
   - Örjan Westin

*Best Fan Artist*

   - Iain J. Clark
   - Richard Man
   - Laya Rose
   - Alison Scott
   - España Sheriff
   - Orion Smith

*Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book [Not a Hugo Award]*

   - *Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak*, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan
   UK)
   - *Bloodmarked*, Tracy Deonn (McElderry)
   - *In the Serpent’s Wake*, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
   - *Akata Woman**, *Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
   - *The Golden Enclaves*, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
   - *Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods*, Catherynne M. Valente
   (McElderry)

*Astounding Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Award]*

   - Travis Baldree
   - Naseem Jamnia
   - Isabel J. Kim*
   - Maijia Liu
   - Everina Maxwell*
   - Weimu Xin*

**Finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility.*

The 2023 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award will be
presented on Saturday evening, October 21, 2023, at a formal ceremony at
Chengdu Worldcon.

Questions about the Hugo Awards process should be directed to
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fwd TM

https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/06/fridays-forgotten-books-and-more-links_30.html

https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/06/fridays-forgotten-books-and-more-links.html

https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/07/filipina-baby-by-gene-wolfe-laurel.html

https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/06/ssw-annotated-facsimile-of-magazine-of.html

https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/06/hwa-bram-stoker-awards-for-2022-work.html

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