2017 Hugo Ballot

My final ballot for the 2017 Hugo Awards, with links to my review posts:

Best Novel

1. Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
2. A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers
3. Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
4. All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
5. The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
6. Death’s End, Cixin Liu, tr. Ken Liu

Best Novella

1. A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson
2. The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
3. Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold
4. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
5. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson
6. This Census-Taker, China Mieville

Best Novelette

1. The Jewel and her Lapidary, Fran Wilde
2. “The Tomato Thief”, Ursula Vernon
3. “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong
4. “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman
5. “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan
6. No Award
7. Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, Stix Hiscock

Best Short Story

1. “The City Born Great”, N.K. Jemisin
2. “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong
3. “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar
4. “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander
5. “That Game We Played During The War”, Carrie Vaughn
6. No Award
7. “An Unimaginable Light”, John C. Wright

For everything below this point, I have been limited by what I was already able to read/watch prior to the voting, hence the incomplete ballots in most places.  Some particular notes:

• I did read a few excerpts of each of the Best Related Work nominees, but not in most cases the entire thing.
• For the artist awards I looked through the provided portfolios.
• The editorial awards are primarily based off which of their various edited works I read and enjoyed; I deeply appreciate this year’s Hugo packet including lists of editorial credits.
• Some categories I haven’t read from at all, and have just omitted as a result.

You might see No Award pop up here or there; while I’m just leaving most works I haven’t seen off the ballot because I do not have enough information to make a judgment, there are a few cases that have specifically squandered any benefit of the doubt I might have had.

Best Related Work

1. The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley
2. Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin
3. The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher
4. The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman
5. The “Women of Harry Potter” posts, Sarah Gailey
6. Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Best Graphic Story

1. Saga, volume 6, Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

1. Hidden Figures
2. Ghostbusters
3. Rogue One
4. Deadpool

Best Professional Editor, Short Form

1. Ellen Datlow
2. Jonathan Strahan
3. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
4. Neil Clarke
5. John Joseph Adams
6. Sheila Williams

Best Professional Editor, Long Form

1. Sheila E. Gilbert
2. Liz Gorinsky
3. Devi Pillai
4. Mirian Weinberg
5. Navah Wolfe
6. No Award
7. Vox Day

Best Professional Artist

1. Julie Dillon
2. Chris McGrath
3. Sana Takeda
4. Galen Dara
5. John Picacio
6. Victo Ngai

Best Semiprozine

1. Uncanny Magazine
2. Strange Horizons

Best Fanzine

1. Rocket Stack Rank

Best Fan Writer

1. Mike Glyer
2. Chuck Tingle

Best Fan Artist

1. Vesa Lehtimäki
2. Elizabeth Leggett
3. likhain
4. Ninni Aalto
5. Spring Schoenhuth
6. Steve Stiles

Best Series

1. The Vorkosigan Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold
2. The Craft Sequence, Max Gladstone
3. The October Daye books, Seanan McGuire
4. The Temeraire series, Naomi Novik

John W. Campbell Award (for best new writer)

1. Ada Palmer
2. Malka Older
3. Sarah Gailey