Hugo nominees 2013

Again! Another year, with the reading and the enjoying and the planet spinning and words coursing through my brain's word-processing centers.

Best Novel:

• Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, John Scalzi
• Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed
• Blackout, Mira Grant

Best Novella:

• The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson
• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress
• “The Stars Do Not Lie”, Jay Lake
• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard
• San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, Mira Grant

Best Novelette:

• “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”, Pat Cadigan
• “In Sea-Salt Tears”, Seanan McGuire
• “Fade To White”, Catherynne M. Valente
• “Rat-Catcher”, Seanan McGuire
• “The Boy Who Cast No Shadow”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Best Short Story:

• “Mono no Aware”, Ken Liu
• “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard
• “Mantis Wives”, Kij Johnson

[Update: the winners, announced.]


This post's theme word is chalcedony, "a milky or greyish transcucent to transparent quartz." My opinions are to the Hugos as chalcedony to diamond.