Unconditional Love

2021 Hugo Awards
FINAL VOTING DEADLINE: November 19, 2021

✓: read
grey: unread
strikeout: skipping
blue: my pick for the category
★☆ stars

Best Novel
✓ Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ Harrow The Ninth, Tamsyn Muir ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Network Effect, Martha Wells ★★★★★ [ Review ]
✓ Piranesi, Susanna Clarke ★★★★★ [ Review ]
✓ The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]

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Best Novella
✓ Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire ★★☆☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ Finna, Nino Cipri ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]

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Best Novelette
✓ “Burn, or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super,” A.T. Greenblatt ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ “Helicopter Story,” Isabel Fall ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ “The Inaccessibility of Heaven,” Aliette de Bodard ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ “Monster,” Naomi Kritzer ★★★★★ [ Review ]
✓ “The Pill,” Meg Elison ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Two Truths and a Lie, Sarah Pinsker ★★★★★ [ Review ]

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Best Short Story
✓ “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse,” Rae Carson ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ “A Guide for Working Breeds,” Vina Jie-Min Prasad ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Little Free Library, Naomi Kritzer ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ “The Mermaid Astronaut,” Yoon Ha Lee ★★★★★ [ Review ]
✓ “Metal Like Blood in the Dark,” T. Kingfisher ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ “Open House on Haunted Hill,” John Wiswell ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]

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Best Graphic Story
✓ DIE, Volume 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Ghost-Spider vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over, Seanan McGuire ★★★★☆ [ Review ]
✓ Invisible Kingdom, vol 2: Edge of Everything, G. Willow Wilson ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]
✓ Monstress, vol. 5: Warchild, Marjorie Liu ★★★★★ [ Review ]
✓ Once & Future vol. 1: The King Is Undead, Kieron Gillen ★★★★★ [ Review ]
✓ Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Octavia Butler ★★★☆☆ [ Review ]

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Best Series
✓ The Daevabad Trilogy, S.A. Chakraborty
The Interdependency, John Scalzi
✓ The Lady Astronaut Universe, Mary Robinette Kowal
✓ The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells
October Daye, Seanan McGuire
✓ The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang

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Best Related Work
✓ Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley
✓ CoNZealand Fringe
✓ FIYAHCON
✓ “George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun, Or: The 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony”
✓ The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy

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Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
✓ Birds of Prey
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
✓ The Old Guard
Palm Springs
✓ Soul
Tenet

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Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
✓ Doctor Wo: Fugitive of the Judoon
✓ The Expanse: Gaugamela
✓ She-Ra & The Princesses of Power: Heart
✓ The Mandalorian: Ch. 13: The Jedi
✓ The Mandalorian: Ch. 16: The Rescue
✓ The Good Place: Whenever You're Ready

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Best Professional Artist
✓ Tommy Arnold
✓ Rovina Cai
✓ Galen Dara
✓ Maurizio Manzieri
✓ John Picacio
✓ Alyssa Winans

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Best Semiprozine
✓ Beneath Ceaseless Skies
✓ Escape Pod
✓ FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
✓ PodCastle
✓ Uncanny Magazine
✓ Strange Horizons`

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Best Fanzine
✓ The Full Lid
✓ Journey Planet
✓ Lady Business
✓ nerds of a feather, flock together
✓ Quick Sip Reviews
✓ Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog

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Best Fancast
✓ Be the Serpent
✓ Claire Rousseau's YouTube Channel
✓ The Coode Street Podcast
✓ Kalanadi
✓ The Skiffy and Fanty Show
✓ Worldbuiling for Masochists

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Best Fan Writer
✓ Cora Buhlert
✓ Charles Payseur
✓ Jason Sanford
✓ Elsa Sjunneson
✓ Alasdair Stuart
✓ Paul Weimer

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Best Fan Artist
✓ Iain J. Clark
✓ Cyan Daly
✓ Sara Felix
✓ Grace P. Fong
✓ Maya Hahto
✓ Laya Rose

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Best Video Game
✓ Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Blaseball
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Hades
The Last of Us: Part II
✓ Spiritfarer

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Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas
A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik
Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
Legendborn, Tracy Deonn
Raybearer, Jordan Ifueko
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher

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Astounding Award for the Best New Science Fiction Writer
Lindsay Ellis
Simon Jimenez
Micaiah Johnson
A.K. Larkwood
Jenn Lyons (*)
Emily Tesh (*)

* Finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility