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, 2023Items marked with a “*” are ones for which there was significant disagreement within the book club.
Novel
Goliath — Tochi Onyebuchi*
Goliath — Tochi Onyebuchi*
A Half-Built Garden — Ruthanna Emrys
The Mountain In The Sea — Ray Nayler
Babel — R.F. Kuang
City of Last Chances — Adrian Tchaikovsky
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
Two Hands Wrapped in Gold — S.B. Divya
A Dream of Electric Mothers — Wole Talabi
We Built This City — Marie Vibbert
Short Story
Seen Small Through Glass — Premee Mohamed
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 Eternal Cocktail Party of the Damned — Fonda Lee
Best Editor Long Form
David Thomas Moore
Best Related Work
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In A Pandemic — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
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
The Life and Art of Dave Cockrum — by Glen Cadigan
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
The Founders Trilogy — Robert Jackson Bennett
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
Alex Brown
Alasdair Stuart
Paul Weimer
Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Severance S01E07 — "Defiant Jazz"
The Lazarus Project S01E01 — "Episode 1"
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Neptune Frost — Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman
Nope — Jordan Peele
Three Thousand Years Of Longing — George Miller
Fanzine
Astounding
Richard Swan (qualifying work The Justice of Kings)
Ai Jiang
Nia Davenport
Isabel J. Kim
Nia Davenport
Isabel J. Kim
Novella thoughts!
ReplyDeleteBest 2022 SFF novella I've read so far: Lure by Tim McGregor.
Moonfellows by Danger Slater was just batcrap crazy. Think A Trip to the Moon by way of Doctor Strangelove and Forrest Gump.
I've also heard really good things about The Reyes Incident by Briana Morgan.
A couple of suggestions: Novel: Babel by R.F. Kuang, Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett, and Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher. The first two are the best books I have read so far this year.
ReplyDeleteSeries: The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett
Dramatic Presentation Short: Stranger Things, "Dear Billy," House of the Dragon, "Driftmark," Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Memento Mori."