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See also my 2015 reading list for all the fiction I chose from.  Nominations are in no particular order (though mostly in the order in which I read them).

Best Novel

• The Flux, Ferrett Steinmetz
• Apex, Ramez Naam
• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
• Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Best Novella

• Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
• The Last Witness, K. J. Parker
• “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn”, Usman T. Malik
• Envy of Angels, Matt Wallace

Best Novelette

• \”Fabulous Beasts\”, Priya Sharma

Best Short Story

• “Variations on an Apple”, Yoon Ha Lee
• “Some Gods of El Paso”, Maria Dahvana Headley
• “Damage”, David D. Levine
• “Oral Argument”, Kim Stanley Robinson
• “Schrödinger’s Gun”, Ray Wood

Best Related Work

• Writing Excuses, Season 10, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells
• The Wheel of Time Companion, Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons

Best Graphic Story

• Schlock Mercenary: Delegates and Delegation, Howard Tayler
• Gunnerkrigg Court, Tom Siddell
• Erfworld, Rob Balder, Xin Ye, Laura Ahonen
• Order of the Stick, Rich Burlew

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)

• Inside Out
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)

• Waterdrop, Ren Wang

Best Editor (Long Form)

• Marco Palmieri
• Beth Meacham
• Lee Harris
• Joe Monti
• Harriet McDougal

Best Professional Editor (Short Form)

• Ellen Datlow
• Ann VanderMeer
• Liz Gorinsky
• Beth Meacham
• Carl Engle-Laird

Best Professional Artist

• Cynthia Sheppard (example)
• Magali Villeneuve
• Gary Gianni

Best Semiprozine

Best Fanzine

• File 770
• Making Light

Best Fancast

Best Fan Writer

• Mike Glyer
• Mark Oshiro
• Emily Asher-Perrin
• Leigh Butler
• Chris Lough

Best Fan Artist

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

• Andy Weir (for The Martian)

Remaining categories to be filled in soon!

I\’ve decided to start doing some long-form blogging, and I\’m going to repurpose Pyrlogos to do so.  The comics won\’t be going away, but the Comicpress theme will, and I\’ll be editing the posts to include image links to comics (or whatever I need to do to make them appear reasonably in the archives).

Just so you know.  Changes inbound.  See you on the proverbial flipside…

It\’s been hard to figure out how to approach the subject; I\’m still not quite sure just how \”done\” I am with Pyrlogos I am right now.  The world still interests me; the story still interests me; the characters still won\’t get out of my head.  But I\’ve been pretty deeply unsatisfied with the way I\’ve written the story so far, and trying to figure out how to address that has been one of the things I was hoping for a few months to resolve so I could move on with the comic.  But it\’s not happening, and my immediate priorities have moved on to other things, and it\’s time I admit that Pyrlogos is essentially dead at this point.

I\’m not done with Pyrlogos, as a whole – but I\’m not really convinced I\’m capable of telling the story as a serial comic at this point.  I hope to pick up the project again some day, in some incarnation or another, and when I do I\’ll be posting about it here.  But for now, well, I don\’t have any plans to continue it in its current state.

Thanks for reading, and sorry for leaving things like this.

Page 029 is mostly done, but between sleeping issues and trying to rework my schedule to accomodate the curling season starting, I haven\’t quite been able to finish it.  It should be up by Wednesday at the latest.

In related news, Pyrlogos updates are going to be about this spotty for another few weeks, until I can get things to settle down again.  If you don\’t want to have to check the site and see no new updates, we do have an RSS feed you can use…

I had a pretty rough week last week, for a few different reasons.  Long story short, page 029 will go up Monday, October 12th.  See you then!

I\’m getting married this month, and after that will be on my honeymoon until early July.  As of July 20th, I hope to be able to resume a once-a-week schedule, but it may take me a bit of time to ramp up to that.  Further details on the 20th – see you then!

Because there wasn\’t enough going on, my tablet crapped out on me as I was starting the lineart for the comic.  I only got the new one (thanks for the loan, Gwynne!) set up and working this weekend; I expect I\’ll have the comic up by next Monday.

Thanks for your patience.

I haven\’t been able to keep up with the schedule, largely due to wedding planning and related activities.  I\’ve discovered that, with my life as busy as it is, I simply can\’t do a page a week.  Accordingly, Pyrlogos will be updating once every two weeks until July, after my wedding.

Next page will be up Monday, March 9th.  See you then!

With the holidays over and some vital wedding-planning work done, I\’m able to start working on comics again.  Pyrlogos will return Monday, February 2nd.  My hope is to return to a weekly schedule at that time.

I just have to finish up the backgrounds, but it\’s getting late.  I\’ll get page 008 posted tomorrow evening.