The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards have been released! As I’ve mentioned before, if you’re interested in some of the best new science fiction today, or you’re looking to pad your reading list, the Hugo roster is a great place to start.
You can find some links to the nominated stories at Locus Online. For more on the list and the rule changes for this year’s award (including the new Best Series category), check out this column at Book Riot or this post on the WSFS updates. If you’re interested in voting for any of this fine fiction to win a Hugo, you’ll need an active membership to Worldcon 75.
Tor.com and Uncanny are killing it this year. The Locus list is light on short fiction links, so have a few (mostly free) links to the shorter works:
Best Novelette
- “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 7/27/16)
- “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 4/16)
- Alien Stripper Boned from Behind by the T-Rex, Stix Hiscock (self-published)
- “The Tomato Thief”, Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/5/16)
- The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
- “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)
Best Short Story
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
- “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
- “The City Born Great”, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com 9/28/16)
- “That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 3/16/16)
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/2/16)
- “An Unimaginable Light”, John C. Wright (God, Robot)
I do love a full To Read list. Enjoy!
J.R. Johnson 
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