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Showing posts with label Hugo Recs List. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2026?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2026. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Updated on August 5, 2025

Items marked with a “*” are ones for which there was disagreement within the book club. 

Novel
Always on my Mind — Carys Green
Future's Edge — Gareth Powell
Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor
Bee Speaker — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Katabasis — R.F. Kuang
The Incandescent — Emily Tesh

Novella
The Artistry of Magic — Helen De Cruz
Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz
Hungry Gods — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Novelette
Mindtrips — Tlotlo Tsammaase
The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe — Tia Tashiro
The Tin Man's Ghost — Ray Nayler

Short Story
The Demon of Metrazol — Ray Nayler
The Flaming Embusen — Tade Thompson
Forsaking All Others — Premee Mohamed

Series
Dogs of War — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Best Related Work
Everything Must Go — Dorian Lynskey 
Colourfields — Paul Kincaid
The Martian Revolution — Mike Duncan
Inventing the Renaissance — Ada Palmer 
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends — Richard Wolinsky

Semiprozine

Best Game Or Interactive Work 
Split Fiction — Hazelight Studios
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Sandfall Interactive
Death Standing 2 — Kojima Productions

Astounding Award For Best New Writer
Sophie Burnham 

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) 
Cassandra S01E01 - Netflix
Murderbot S01E01 "FreeCommerce" - Apple+
Paradise S01E07 "The Day." 

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) 
Superman — Written and directed by James Gunn
Mickey 17 — Directed by Bong Joon Ho based on a novel by Ashton Edward
Sinners — Written and directed by Ryan Coogler 
Andor — Creator and show runner Tony Gilroy
28 Years Later — Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland

Best Editor - Long Form

Best Editor - Short Form
Scott H. Andrews

Graphic Story
Arkadi and the Lost Titan - Caza
Plastic Man No More! - Christopher Cantwell and Alex Lins

Fan Writer

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Monday, 4 March 2024

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2025?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2025. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Updated on March 9, 2025

Items marked with a “*” are ones for which there was disagreement within the book club. 

Novel
Womb City — Tlotlo Tsamaase
The Siege of Burning Grass — Premee Mohamed
Alien Clay — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Ministry of Time — Kaliane Bradley
The Sentence — Gautam Bhatia
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory — Yaroslav Barsukov
The Stardust Grail — Yume Kitasei

Novella
Saturation Point — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Tusks of Extinction — Ray Nayler
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Sofia Samatar
Time’s Agent — Brenda Peynado
In the Shadow of the Ship — Aliette de Bodard

Novelette
Encore — Wole Talabi
Four Sisters Overlooking The Sea — Naomi Kritzer
Loneliness Universe — Euginia Triantafyllou

Short Story
Rail Meat — Marie Vibbert
Nigerian Dreams — Wole Talabi
Himalia — Carrie Vaughn

Series
The Trials of Empire — Richard Swan
The Tyrant Philosophers — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Bobiverse — Dennis E. Taylor
The Scrapegracers — H.A. Clarke

Best Graphic Story
Man's Best — Pornsak Pichetshote & Jesse Lonergan
Ministry of Compliance — John Ridley & Stefano Raffaele

Best Related Work
Speculative Whiteness — Jordan S. Carroll
Nuclear War: A Scenario — Annie Jacobsen
The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion — Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford
Renay's Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) 
Silo S2E01 "The Engineer"
Fallout S1E8 "The Beginning"
House Of The Dragon S02E04 "The Red Dragon and the Gold"
X Men '97 S1E05 "Remember It"
The Dark Room by John Robertson (Worldcon Glasgow Performance) 

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) 
Better Man
Dune Part 2*
Civil War*
Furiosa
Molli & Max In The Future
Mars Express
The Substance
Nosferatu

Best Poem
We Drink Lava - Ai Jiang
Generation Ship - Akua Lezli Hope
A War of Words - Marie Brennan
That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word Death - Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

Best Game or Interactive Work
Caves of Qud — Freehold Games, LLC
Helldivers 2 — Arrowhead Game Studios
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth — Ryu Ga Studios
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree — FromSoftware Inc.
SETI  — Czech Games
Metaphor: ReFantazio — Atlus, Studio Zero

Lodestar
The Feast Makers — H.A. Clarke

Astounding Award For Best New Writer
Tia Tashiro

Best Editor

Fan Writer

Fan Artist
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Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2024?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2024. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Updated on March 8, 2024 

Items marked with a “*” are ones for which there was significant disagreement within the book club. 

Novel
The Surviving Sky — Kritika H. Rao
The Blue, Beautiful World — Karen Lord
Julia — Sandra Newman
House of Open Wounds — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Moon of the Turning Leaves — Waubgeshig Rice

Novella
Emergent Properties — Aimee Ogden
To Sail Beyond The Botnet — Suzanne Palmer
And Put Away Childish Things — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Keeper's Six — Kate Elliott
The Tinker In The Timestream —Carolyn Ives Gillman

Novelette
The Year Without Sunshine — Naomi Kritzer
I Am AI — Ai Jiang
What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon — P. Djèlí Clark 

Short Story
Jamais Vue — Tochi Onyebuchi
The Spoil Heap — Fiona Moore
Bad Doors — John Wiswell
Zero Percent — Andrew Dana Hudson
To Carry You Inside You — Tia Tashiro

Best Series
The Final Architecture — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Time Police — Jodi Taylor
Quantum Evolution / Venus Ascendant Novels — Derek Künsken
Universe of Xuya — Aliette de Bodard

Graphic Story
Black Cloak — Written by Kelly Thompson, art by Meredith McLaren
Bea Wolf — Written by Zach Weinersmith, art by Boulet
What’s The Furthest Place From Here — Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss

The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis — Steve Batterson
The Spice Must Flow — Ryan Britt

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) 
The Last of Us S01E03 "Long Long Time"
Silo S01E03 "Machines"
Ms. Davis S01E05 "A Great Place to Drink to Gain Control of Your Drink"
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02E07 "Those Old Scientists."
My Adventures with Superman S01E01 "Adventures of a Normal Man"

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) 
Barbie — Directed by Greta Gerwig, written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves — Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 — Written and directed by James Gunn
Asteroid City — Written and directed by Wes Anderson
The Creator —  Written and directed by Gareth Edwards
Godzilla Minus One — Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki

Lodestar
Speculation — Nisi Shawl
Liberty's Daughter — Naomi Kritzer

Astounding Award

Best Editor

Fan Artist

Fan Writer
Phoebe Wagner
Paul Weimer
Alasdair Stuart
RiverFlow 河流
Bonnie McDaniel

Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog
Journey Planet
Galactic Journey


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Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2023?

 The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2023. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Updated on January 29, 2023 

Items marked with a “*” are ones for which there was significant disagreement within the book club. 

Novel
Goliath — Tochi Onyebuchi*
A Half-Built Garden — Ruthanna Emrys
Babel — R.F. Kuang
City of Last Chances — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Novella
Ogres — Adrian Tchaikovsky
These Prisoning Hills — Christopher Rowe
High Times in the Low Parliament — Kelly Robson
Unto the Godless What Little Remains — Mário Coelho

Novelette
Mender of Sparrows — Ray Nayler
We Built This City — Marie Vibbert 

Short Story
Seen Small Through Glass — Premee Mohamed
All That Burns Unseen — Premee Mohamed
It Takes A Village — Priya Chand
This Side Of The Rock — Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Two Spacesuits — Leonard Richardson
The Almond Pirates — Annalee Newitz
Destiny Delayed — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

Best Editor Long Form
David Thomas Moore

Best Related Work 
African SFF Database — Wole Talabi and the African Speculative Fiction Society
American Masters: Elsa Sjunneson — Directed by Michael Pressman
The Zack Snyder Video — Patrick H. Willems

Lodestar
Akata Woman — Nnedi Okorafor
Thousand Steps into Night — Tracy Chee

Best Series
Chorus of Dragons — Jenn Lyons
Beneath The Rising Trilogy — Premee Mohamed
Laundry Files — Charles Stross
Children of Time Series — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Founders Trilogy — Robert Jackson Bennett

Graphic Story
Radio Apocalypse — Written by Ram V, art by Anand RK
Decorum — written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Mike Huddleston
Frontiersman — Written by Patrick Kindlon
What's The Furthest Place From Here — written by Matthew Rosenberg, art by Tyler Boss
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow — written by Tom King art by Bilquis Evely

Semiprozine

Professional Artist
Lauren Saint-Onge
Will Staehle

Fan Artist
Richard Man
Lorelei Esther

Fan Writer
Chris M. Barkley
Alex Brown
Alasdair Stuart
Paul Weimer

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) 
Severance S01E07 — "Defiant Jazz"
The Peacemaker S01E08 — "It's Cow Or Never"
Upload S02E07 — "Download"
Andor S01E10 — "One Way Out" 
The Lazarus Project S01E01 — "Episode 1"

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) 
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Neptune Frost — Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman
The Northman — Robert Eggers
Slash/Back — Nyla Innuksuk
Prey — Dan Trachtenberg
Nope — Jordan Peele

Fanzine

Astounding
Richard Swan (qualifying work The Justice of Kings) 
Ai Jiang
Nia Davenport
Isabel J. Kim
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Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2022?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2022. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Updated on March 11, 2022 

Items marked with a “*” are ones for which there was significant disagreement within the book club. 

Novel
Machinehood — S.B. Divya
Chaos on Catnet — Naomi Kritzer
Shards of Earth — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine ** (At least one member of the club intends to nominate this, but at least one other had a strong aversion to it.) 
Civilations — Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor) 

Novella
Remote Control — Nnedi Okorafor
These Lifeless Things — Premee Mohamed
The Annual Migration of Clouds — Premee Mohamed
Light Chaser — Peter F. Hamilton & Gareth Powell
Elder Race — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Novelette
O2 Arena — Oghenechovwe Ekpeki
Self Care — Annalee Newitz
You Are Born Exploding — Rich Larson 

Short Story
Tyrannosaurus Hex — Sam J. Miller
The Trolley Solution — Shiv Ramdas
Crazy Beautiful — Cat Rambo
Orumai's Choice — Gautam Bhatia
Yesterday's Wolf — Ray Nayler

Best Series
Merchant Princes — Charles Stross
Chorus of Dragons — Jenn Lyons
Jade War trilogy — Fonda Lee

Related Work
True Believer — Abraham Riesman
Unstuck In Time — Robert B. Weide

Graphic Story
Strange Adventures — Written by Tom King, art by Mitch Gerads & Evan Shaner
Wasted Space — Written by Michael Moreci
Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory — Written by Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer
Frontiersman — Written by Patrick Kindlon
Universe — Written and illustrated by Albert Monteys


Professional Artist
Will Staehle

Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Neil Sharpson (When The Sparrow Falls)
Gautam Bhatia (The Wall & The Horizon) 

Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) 
Expanse S05E10 — Nemesis Games
Shadow & Bone S01E01 — A Searing Burst Of Light
For All Mankind S02E01 — The Grey *** (While at least two members of the book club intend to include this on their ballots, several others within the book club have expressed a strong dislike for this work)
Schmigadoon — S01E01
Lower Decks S02E09 — Wej Duj 

Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) 
I'm Your Man (directed by Maria Schrader)
The Green Knight
In The Earth


Fan Writer
Cora Buhlert

Fan Artist
Iain Clark


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Saturday, 14 March 2020

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2021?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2021. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Updated on January 12, 2021 

Items marked with a "*" are ones for which there was significant disagreement within the book club. 

Novel
Beneath The Rising — Premee Mohamed
Bridge 108 — Anne Charnock
Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse
Repo Virtual* — Corey J. White
The House of Styx — Derek Künsken
The Vanished Birds — Simon Jimenez
The Doors Of Eden* — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Piranesi* — Susanna Clarke
The City We Became — N.K. Jemisin

Novella
Finna — Nino Cipri
Prosper's Demon — K.J. Parker
The Factory Witches of Lowell — C.S. Malerich

Novelette
The Immolation of Kev Magee — LX Beckett
Save, Salve, Shelter — Essa Hansen (in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) 

Short Story
Manuscript Tradition — Harry Turtledove
On The Changing Role Of Dockworkers — Marie Vibbert (In Analog SF) 
Retention — Alec Nevala-Lee (In Analog SF) 
The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign — Cora Buhlert

Astounding Award For Best New Writer
Gautam Bhatia
Jenn Lyons

Series
Embers Of War (2020 entry "Light Of Impossible Stars") — Gareth Powell
Bobiverse (2020 "Heaven's River") — Dennis E. Taylor
Noumenon (2020 entry "Noumenon Ultra") — Marina J. Lostetler
Little Brother (2020 entry "Attack Surface") — Cory Doctorow
Laundry Files* (2020 entry "Dead Lies Dreaming") — Charles Stross

Best Professional Artist

Best Related Work
Jack Kirby:The Epic Life of the King of Comics! — Tom Scioli
ConZealand Fringe — Claire Rousseau, Adri Joy, Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner, Cheryl Morgan and Cassie Hart
Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
Underwater — directed by William Eubank, written by Brian Duffield and Adam Cozad
Dark (All Three Seasons Together)* — written and directed by Baran bo Odar
Tenet — written and directed by Christopher Nolan
Palm Springs —  directed by Max Barbakow and written by Andy Siara

Dramatic Presentation - Short Form
Westworld S3 E03 — "The Absence of Field"
Tales From The Loop S1 E08 — "Home"
Lovecraft Country S1 E01 — "Sundown"


Fan Writer
Adri Joy
James Wallace Harris
Kris Vyas-Myall
Gideon Marcus
James Davis Nicoll
Alasdair Stuart
Paul Weimer

Best Graphic Story
Grendel: Devil's Odyssey — written and drawn by Matt Wagner
The Magnificent Ms. Marvel — Saladin Ahmed
Black Stars Above — written by Lonnie Nadler, art by Jenna Cha
Wasted Space Vol. 3 — Michael Moreci
Invisible Kingdom Vol. 2 — written by G. Willow Wilson, art by Christian Ward

Semiprozine
On Spec
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Monday, 18 March 2019

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2020?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2020. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Items that are controversial amongst our club are marked with an asterisk (*)

(List last updated on February 28, 2020). 

Novel
The Light Brigade — Kameron Hurley
Future Of Another Timeline — Annalee Newitz
The Ruin Of Kings* — Jenn Lyons
Lent — Jo Walton*
Famous Men Who Never Lived — K Chess
Stealing Worlds — Karl Schroeder*
Magic For Liars — Sarah Gailey*

Novella
Unauthorized Bread — Cory Doctorow
Waterlines — Suzanne Palmer
At The Fall — Alec Nevala-Lee
This Is How You Lose The Time War — Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Vigilance — Robert Jackson Bennett
The Work Of Wolves — Tegan Moore

Novelette
Emergency Skin — N.K. Jemisin

Short Story
Articulated Restraint — Mary Robinette Kowal
Any Way The Wind Blows — Seanan McGuire
Miles and Miles and Miles — Andrew Romine
A Place to Stand On — Marie Vibbert
Shucked — Sam J. Miller

Series
Wormwood Trilogy — Tade Thompson

John W. Campbell Jr.  Astounding Award For Best New Writer
Sean Grigsby

Best Related Work
Op-Eds From The Future — Susan Fowler
The Pleasant Profession Of Robert A. Heinlein — Farrah Mendelson
The Dark Fantastic — Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Becoming Superman — J. Michael Straczynski
The Worlds of Ursula K. le Guin — Arwen Curry

Best Professional Artist

Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
Captive State — Written and directed by Rupert Wyatt
Fast Color — Written and directed by Julia Hart
Years & Years — Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Simon Cellan Jones and Lisa Mulcahy
Prospect — Written and directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell [Eligible in 2020 due to WSFS motion]
The Colour Out Of Space — Directed by Richard Stanley

Dramatic Presentation - Short Form
Counterpart Season 2, Episode 6, "Twin Cities" — Written and directed by Justin Marks
The Magicians Season 4, Episode 13, "The Seam"  
Good Omens, Season 1, Episode 3, Written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, directed by Douglas Mackinnon
Watchmen Season 1, Episode 1 "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice," Written by Damon Lindelof, directed by Nicole Kassell

Graphic Story
Invisible Kingdom — G. Willow Wilson & Christian Ward
Coda — Simon Spurrier & Matias Bergara
The Archangels of Vinea — Roger LeLoup
Wasted Space — Michael Moreci & Hayden Sherman
Outer Darkness — Afu Chan & John Layman
Beasts of Burden: The Presence Of Others — Evan Dorkin &

Semiprozine
Black Nerd Problems
Galactic Journey

Fanzine
Nerds Of A Feather

Fancast
Androids & Assets

Fan Artist
Richard Man
Iain J. Clark

Fan Writer

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Sunday, 5 August 2018

Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2019?

The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2019. These are not necessarily what we plan to nominate, but rather works that at least one member of the Edmonton Hugo Book Club has enjoyed and believes to be worth consideration. We appreciate any additional suggestions in the comments.

Items that are controversial amongst our club are marked with an asterisk (*)

(List last updated on October 25, 2018). 

 Novel
The Quantum Magician — Derek Künsken
Embers of War — Gareth Powell
The Calculating Stars — Mary Robinette Kowal
Record of a Spaceborn Few — Becky Chambers
Blackfish City — Sam J. Miller

Novella
The Million — Karl Shroeder
Gods, Monsters & The Lucky Peach — Kelly Robson*
The Expert System's Brother — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Novelette
The Only Harmless Great Thing — Brooke Bolander
A Study In Oils — Kelly Robson (Full text of story is HERE)

Short Story
Tierra y libertad — Madeline Ashby (Full text of story is HERE)
Noon In the Antilibrary — Karl Schroeder (Full text of story is HERE)
Contingency Plans For The Apocalypse — S.B. Divya
Thirty-Three Percent Joe — Suzanne Palmer (Full text of story is HERE)

Best Series
Centennial Cycle — Malka Older
Merchant Princes / Empire Games — Charles Stross
Peter Grant / Rivers Of London — Ben Aaronovitch
Adventures of Arabella Ashby — David D. Levine

Related Work

Best Professional Artist

The Endless

Dramatic Presentation - Short Form
Westworld Season 2, Episode 8 "Kiksuya" — Written by Carly Wray & Dan Dietz
Preacher Season 3, Episode 8 — Written by Carla Ching, directed by Michael Morris
Expanse Season 3, Episode 10 "Abaddon's Gate" — Written by Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck and Naren Shankar
Counterpart Season 1, Episode 6, "Act Like You've Been Here Before" — Written by Jennifer Getzinger, directed by Justin Britt-Gibson
The Terror, Episode 1 "Go For Broke" — Written by David Kajganich, directed by Edward Berger

Graphic Story
Paradiso, Vol. 1: Essential Singularity — Ram V and Dev Pramanik
Days of Hate, Act One — Aleš Kot, Danijel Žeželj, Jordie Bellaire, and Tom Muller
The Black Monday Murders —  Jonathan Hickman, Tomm Coker, Michael Garland, and Rus Wooten
Eternity Girl — Magdalene Visaggio and Sonny Liew
The Wild Storm — Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt

Fan Writer
Alasdair Stewart

Fancast
The Alternate Historian
Doctor Whooch
New Books In Science Fiction 
Verity 
Skiffy & Fanty

Semiprozine
Black Nerd Problems
Escape Pod
Strange Horizons

Best YA Novel
The Disasters — M.K. England 


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