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Hugo 2023 Finalist…second time lucky!

File 770 has the complete list, in an English version and a bilingual version: https://file770.com/2023-hugo-finalists-2/

The English version is below. The main difference from the prematurely released version is in Best Dramatic Presentation.

Astounding Award for Best New Writer

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

*  – finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult  Book

  • Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)
  • Bloodmarked, by Tracy Deonn (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
  • Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen/Titan Books)
  • The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
  • In the Serpents Wake, by Rachel Hartman (Random House Books for Young Readers)
  • Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, by Catherynne M. Valente (Margaret K. McElderry Books)

Best Fan Artist

  • Iain Clark
  • Richard Man
  • Laya Rose
  • Alison Scott
  • España Sheriff  
  • Orion Smith  

Best Fan Writer

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

Best Fancast

  • Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, produced by Jonathan Strahan
  • Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
  • Hugos There, by Seth Heasley
  • Kalanadi, created and presented by Rachel
  • Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
  • Worldbuilding for Masochists, by Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca

Best Fanzine

  • Chinese Academic SF Express, by Latssep and Tianluo_Qi
  • Galactic Journey, by Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammi Bozich, Erica Frank, Arel Lucas, and Mark Yon
  • Journey Planet, by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Sara Felix, Amanda Wakaruk, Olav Rokne, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Chuck Serface, Erin Underwood, Alissa Wales, John Coxon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
  • Nerds of a Feather, by Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer, Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, G. Brown
  • Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, by Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk
  • Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen

Best Semiprozine

  • Escape Pod, Co-editors Mur Lafferty & Valerie Valdes; Assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney & Premee Mohamed, host Tina Connolly, Producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht
  • FIYAH, edited by the entire FIYAH team
  • khōréō, edited by team khōréō
  • PodCastle, Co-Editors Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor R. Wood; Assistant Editor Sofia Barker; Host Matt Dovey; Audio Producers Peter Adrian Behravesh, Devin Martin, and Eric Valdes
  • Strange Horizons, edited by The Strange Horizons Editorial Team
  • Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Professional Artist

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

Best Editor, Long Form

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

Best Editor, Short Form

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

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

  • Andor: “One Way Out”, written by Beau Willimon, Tony Gilroy, and George Lucas, directed by Toby Haynes (Lucasfilm)
  • Andor: “Rix Road”, written by Tony Gilroy and George Lucas, directed by Benjamin Caron (Lucasfilm)
  • The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)
  • For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land”, written by Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, directed by Craig Zisk (Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television)
  • She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?”, written by Jessica Gao, Francesca Gailes, and Jacqueline Gailes, directed by Kat Coiro (Marvel Entertainment)
  • Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”, written by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, and Paul Dichter, directed by Shawn Levy (21 Laps Entertainment)

Best Dramatic Presentation，Long Form

  • Avatar: The Way of Water, screenplay by James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, directed by James Cameron (Lightstorm Entertainment / TSG Entertainment II)
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, screenplay by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, directed by Ryan Coogler (Marvel Studios)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)
  • Nope, written by Jordan Peele, directed by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures / Monkeypaw Productions)
  • Severance (Season 1), written by Dan Erickson, Anna Ouyang Moench et al., directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle (Red Hour Productions / Fifth Season)
  • Turning Red, screenplay by Julia Cho and Domee Shi, directed by Domee Shi (Walt Disney Studios / Pixar Animation Studios)

Best Related Work

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

Best Graphic Story or Comic

  • Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
  • DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, by Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid (Legendary Comics)
  • Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
  • Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, by Kieron Gillen / Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
  • Saga, Vol. 10, by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)

Best Series

  • Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)
  • The Founders Trilogy, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
  • The Locked Tomb, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
  • October Daye, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
  • Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovich (Orion)
  • The Scholomance, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

Best Short Story

  • “D.I.Y.”, by John Wiswell (Tordotcom, August 2022)
  • “On the Razor’s Edge”, by Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World, January 2022)
  • “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)
  • “Resurrection”, by Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World, December 2022)
  • “The White Cliff”, by Lu Ban (Science Fiction World, May 2022)
  • “Zhurong on Mars”, by Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers, September 2022)

Best Novelette

  • “The Difference Between Love and Time”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Solaris)
  • “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Tordotcom)
  • “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, by John Chu (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022)
  • “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, by S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld, December 2022)
  • “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)
  • “We Built This City”, by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)

Best Novella

  • Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
  • Into the Riverlands, by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
  • A Mirror Mended, by Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
  • Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
  • What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire)
  • Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)

Best Novel

  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (Tor Books)
  • Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
  • Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
  • Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)
  • The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)

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28 responses to “Hugo 2023 Finalist…second time lucky!”

  1. Best Novel is definitely identical, I remember noting that I’d read 4/6 of them. Even though I’m not going to vote this year, I’ll probably read the two that I haven’t — I’ve heard good things about Legends and Lattes in particular.

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    • The chances are besides in Dramatic Presentation, in Best Related where Buffalito World Outreach Project is new and arguably in Short Story (The english name was wrong in the first version)

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  2. Is there any creator on this list who is affiliated with Baen in any way? I’m not complaining; I’m curious. Folks on here notice this stuff a great deal more than I.

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    • I don’t think anyone from Baen has made the Hugo list since Bujold quit writing for them. Even the Puppies nominated themselves, not Baen.

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        • Ewwwww.
          The list appears to be Baen and puppy free, not a mention of you-know-who in the editor categories even.

          And I do recommend ‘Legends and Lattes’, I started reading in HF while waiting for my SOs to finish shopping and ended up buying it on the spot.
          1e has better cover art, but 2e includes the prequel.
          I hope here’s more to come.

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  3. Appears the locals didn’t bother to nominate in a lot of categories.

    Happy to see that She-Hulk episode made it. Not that I nominated it or anything. Also Turning Red.

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  4. I’m pleased to see both Children of Time and Rivers of London in the Best Series list & a little disappointed/surprised that The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliete de Bodard (although thinking about it, although it transfers SE Asian culture (esp food!) to the wider galaxy, the Big Bad Empire seems to be Chinese in origin so maybe it’s not such a surprise it didn’t make the cut!).

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    • I’m fascinated by the idea that certain novels didn’t make it because the Chinese authorities didn’t like them. Until we see the numbers, we won’t know why it didn’t make the final cut.

      By the way, de Bodard has pointed out her culture in the those books is based off a traditional Vietnamese culture and I’m willing to bet anyone who’s Chinese can tell that. I spent some time in southwest Asia and my hosts there knew in intimate detail the difference between their culture and other cultures. Knew at almost a cellular level.

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      • Sure, the culture of the pirates & scavengers in The Red Scholar’s Wake is clearly SE Asian & as you say, de Bodard has acknowledged drawing on her Vietnamese heritage. However the culture of the authoritarian and oppressive An O empire is equally clearly Chinese and I saw this book as an interstellar replay of Vietnam’s long history of pushing back against Chinese domination.

        But you’re right of course, there is no evidence of official Chinese influence on the list of Hugo finalists. That was an unsupported and off the cuff remark of mine, in a week in which the Chinese govt placed a HK$1m bounty on the heads of 8 Hong Kong ‘dissidents’, (some of whom fled to the U.K. along with many thousands of other former residents) following the extension of the ‘national security law’ to cover just about any activity, whether in China or abroad, deemed contrary to the interests of the state.

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        • I don’t play in conspiracies at this level. I don’t believe Hugos just don’t fit what the Chinese government, ever at the the level of a local official, would consider worth getting involved in. They’re just not openly political in any manner.

          The Chinese fans, I think and this reflects the lack of Chinese works that made the ballot, I think don’t care at all about the Award but do want the meeting itself. That’s what is why I’m assuming why they bid on it. They saw us gather together and liked it. So they thought, why not us?

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          • As I said, it was an off hand remark, made when the Chinese govt’s nefarious actions were high on the news agenda (I stand by my ‘analysis’ of the book tho’!).

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            • Your analysis of the novel is most excellent.

              As I said, what I’m objecting is the paranoia around this subject.

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        • To balance out the An O, there’s the Galactics, which are basically Americans (and Western Europe) and everyone else thinks they don’t have any culture because they’re not living in giant extended families and honoring their ancestors by having memories on chips stuck in their brain. And the Galactic ships are inorganic.

          Of course, this does not excuse the Chinese government’s policies. And that bounty is $128K in USD, 100K in GBP, 116K Euro, 170K CAD. Still a good amount of money, but not as impressive as saying “One MEEELLLION dollars”.

          (My brother lived in HK for a couple years in the early 80s, and IIRC, $1HK was worth 25c. Today it’s only 13c US, 10p sterling, 12 Euro cents.)

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      • I am an entirely white girl, and even I could tell it was Vietnamese. Just from the names. Of course a lot of Vietnamese culture was heavily influenced by China, but it’s still very distinct, as Cat said.

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        • Quite so. I love this series because they are distinctly Vietnamese in culture which is unusual is genre fiction. Indeed I don’t know if I can think of another SF series based on this culture.

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  5. I don’t remember being more shocked by a Hugo short list for best novel before, other than in the first Puppy year.

    I’ve read all the novels on the short list here. They’re all good and I’ve been recommending Legends & Lattes to lots of people, but I’m floored by the absence of the Mountain in the Sea, Sea of Tranquility and Children of Memory. I also thought Eversion might show up.

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  6. I can think of a couple of possiible reasons why _Sea of Tranquility_ didn’t make the list:

    a) it’s structurally weird, and someone look for science fiction might read the beginning and put the book down because they thought it wasn’t science fiction.

    2) the book is significantly about pandemics, and a lot of people are trying not to think about the covid pandemic.

    That’s speculation, since my book conversations tend to be “I liked this book and here’s why” without much “and the deadline for nominating for X award is coming up.”

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    • Sea of Tranquility is also a companion to the non-genre The Glass Hotel, and I think it’s weaker on its own. I think that if you liked The Glass Hotel and you like SF you’ll like Sea of Tranquility. I suspect, however, that it lacks the broader appeal, needed for the nomination.

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  7. Lol, China in the house! Not that surprising. I don’t know a number of their names and will need to check some out. The list for Best Novel is a bit surprising this year, though, when it’s usually not. Some of the ones I expected are on there, but others didn’t make it despite a lot of buzz. May have been a spread out vote.

    Legends & Lattes is a lovely novel, highly recommend. I don’t think it will win though. My overall reading has been more catching up with books from the last few years. Just finished Master of the Djinn from Clark. Also highly recommend.

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  8. FWIW, I dug out a post on Weibo (Chinese Twitter basically) about which of the finalists are or will be available in Chinese:

    https://weibo.com/5989953755/N8EvpevU4#comment

    Here’s how Chrome translates it:

    This year’s Hugo Award shortlisted works introduced:
    Related works: “Terry Pratchett: A Footnote Life” was introduced by the world of science fiction.
    Graphic novels or comics: “Cyberpunk 2077: Nightmare” and “Dune Movie Graphic Novels” are introduced from the world of science fiction.
    Series of novels: The first volume of “Children of Time” was introduced by Grinding Iron.
    Short story: “The Rabbit Test” was introduced by Xiaoniao Literature and has been published.
    Short and medium stories: “This City is Built by Us” and “Dream of the Mother of Lightning” were introduced by the Future Bureau and have been published.
    Long novel: “Monster Protection Association” was introduced by Nova Publishing House; “Dr. Moreau’s Daughter” was introduced by Science Fiction World.

    I assume “introduced” really means “announced”. There’s another post from the relevant publisher that actually has an extract from KPS; it sounds like they are going to try to make something available before the Worldcon. One of the replies (from one of the long form editor finalists) also says that the Pratchett biog and Doctor Moreau’s Daughter “are under intense editing”.

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