{"id":20208,"date":"2015-08-24T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20208"},"modified":"2015-09-03T03:13:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:13:51","slug":"the-stories-that-should-have-been-2015-hugo-nominees-with-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20208","title":{"rendered":"The Stories That Should Have Been 2015 Hugo Nominees, With Links"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"George<\/a>

George RR Martin hands out his own “Alphie” awards at the Hugo Losers Party, August 23, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tobias Buckell<\/a> posted this compilation of the Hugo nominees that would have been if the nomination process hadn’t been hijacked with slate voting.<\/p>\n

One of the most unfair things about the use of slates this year, is that many stories that deserved a Hugo-nom boost in visibilty and readership, were bumped off the list by the use of slate voting. <\/p>\n

So here is the list again, but with links to all the stories I could find online, in order to facilitate reading. In the case of the novels and some of the novellas, I link to the books’ Amazon pages. I’ve also added “Goodnight Stars” to the short story list, for the reasons explained in my previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Best Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ancillary Sword<\/a> by Ann Leckie
\nThe Goblin Emperor<\/a> by Katherine Addison
\nThe Three Body Problem<\/a> by Liu Cixin
\nLock In <\/a>by John Scalzi
\nCity of Stairs<\/a> by Robert Jackson Bennet<\/p>\n

Best Novella<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Slow Regard of Silent Things<\/a> by Pat Rothfuss
\nThe Regular by Ken Liu (epub<\/a>, mobi\/Kindle<\/a>).
\nYesterday\u2019s Kin<\/a> by Nancy Kress (Excerpt<\/a>)
\nGrand Jete <\/a>by Rachel Swirsky
\nThe Mothers of Voorhisville<\/a> by Mary Rickert<\/p>\n

Best Novelette<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Day the World Turned Upside Down<\/a> by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
\nEach to Each <\/a>by Seanan McGuire
\nThe Devil in America<\/a> by Kai Ashante Wilson
\nThe Litany of Earth<\/a> by Ruthann Emrys
\nThe Magician and Laplace\u2019s Demon<\/a> by Tom Crosshill<\/p>\n

Best Short Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jackalope Wives<\/a> by Ursula Vernon
\nThe Breath of War<\/a> by Aliette de Bodard
\nThe Truth About Owls<\/a> by Amal El-Mohtar
\nWhen It Ends, He Catches Her<\/a> by Eugie Foster*
\nA Kiss With Teeth<\/a> by Max Gladstone
\nGoodnight Stars<\/a> by Annie Bellet<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Apart from the novels, I’ve read three of these so far – Grand Jete, The Jackalope Wives, and The Mothers of Voorhisville – and they were all excellent. Oh, and The Day the World Turned Upside Down – which I read because it was Hugo-nominated – which I thought was okay, it had some nice bits, and I liked what an awful person the protagonist was, but overall not a memorable story.<\/p>\n

Which have you read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tobias Buckell posted this compilation of the Hugo nominees that would have been if the nomination process hadn’t been hijacked with slate voting. One of the most unfair things about the use of slates this year, is that many stories … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hugo-awards","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20215,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions\/20215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}