Awards eligibility and 2016 publications.: seanan

Awards eligibility and 2016 publications.

The nomination period for the 2017 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is now open, and that means it's time to go over the list of what I published in 2016. Please keep in mind that you must have been a member of last year's Worldcon, OR be a member of this year's Worldcon, OR be a member of next year's Worldcon to be eligible to either nominate or vote.

A lot of people have put up their eligibility posts, and you can check the eligibility of your favorite authors by hitting their personal blogs. Here is mine.

Novels.

Indexing: Reflections
Chaos Choreography
Velveteen vs. The Seasons
Once Broken Faith
Feedback (as Mira Grant)

Novellas.

"Every Heart a Doorway"
"All the Pretty Little Horses" (as Mira Grant)
"Coming to You Live" (as Mira Grant)
"Dreams and Slumbers"

Novelettes.

"Swamp Bromeliad"
"Waking Up In Vegas"
"Stage of Fools"
"In Little Stars"
"Full of Briars"
"The Voice of Lions"

Short stories.

"Heaps of Pearl"
"The Jaws That Bite, the Claws That Catch"
"Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands"
"Regulation"
"Long Way Down"
"Threnody for Little Girl, With Tuna, At the End of the World"
"Tailed"
"The Levee Was Dry"
"In the Desert Like a Bone"
"In the Before, When Legends Were True"
"Sleepover"
"Forbidden Texts"
"Falls Like Snow"

The things I am probably proudest of from this year would have to be "Every Heart a Doorway," "In the Desert Like a Bone," and Feedback. The 2017 Hugo Awards will have a special category for Best Series, and because of the release of Feedback and RISE during the 2016 calendar year, Newsflesh is eligible. Feed was my first Hugo nomination, and it would be sort of amazing to have a second shot at a rocket for one of my first and best beloved books. "Every Heart a Doorway," on the other hand, is...

If that had been the only thing I ever published, I would still have had something to be proud of.

Turning away from me, I would ask you to consider Sheila Gilbert for Best Editor, Long Form; John Joseph Adams and Ellen Datlow for Best Editor, Short Form; Chris McGrath and Aly Fell for Best Artist; and Moana for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long.

What do you think people should be considering for this year's awards?

priscellie

January 9 2017, 18:00:33 UTC 5 months ago

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I wonder if "Hidden Figures" is Hugo-eligible? Because holy crap, that movie was amazing.

marziek

January 9 2017, 18:18:00 UTC 5 months ago

Not Hidden Fences? Hmmmm. 😉

seanan_mcguire

January 9 2017, 21:15:34 UTC 5 months ago

What is that?

January 9 2017, 22:06:04 UTC 5 months ago

That is an egregious faux pas oft repeated by various commentators or presenters during Golden Globes 2017 in which evidently all black actors and musicians just merge into one identity and film- Fences and Hidden Figures being so similar and all. (Insert eye roll here). Hence, Hidden Fences. Sigh.

January 9 2017, 21:15:24 UTC 5 months ago

I think it's not quite SF, but the rules don't define what that means, so I would consider it to be eligible.

autographedcat

January 11 2017, 04:13:16 UTC 5 months ago

"The Right Stuff" was nominated for a Hugo in 1984, so there's a precedent.

January 13 2017, 01:56:05 UTC 5 months ago Edited: January 13 2017, 04:43:34 UTC

I'm back to comment because at first I thought this was just a passing fancy or light repartee but now I'm even seeing this film listed for Long Form on the Hugos Wikia site.

I know you loved the film, as you say it was amazing, but I have to say that as a female scientist, I really find the idea of nominating a film about (edited to add: real-life) African-American women mathematicians, physicists and engineers at NACA/NASA for a Hugo to be demeaning. (I fully understand that was not your intent at all.)

Katherine Johnson is a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner. Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson were lauded NASA employees who fought tooth and nail for their education, their training, their positions. These were real women and to liken their work to science fiction is just wrong. The Martian was (amazing) science fiction. These women and their work are real. The very last thing that women and especially women scientists need at this juncture is to have their work and lives convolved with science fiction.

Stepping off my soap box and sorry if anyone takes offense.

January 13 2017, 19:39:11 UTC 5 months ago

Huh, I hadn't considered that perspective. It never occurred to me that nominating "Hidden Figures" for a prestigious award could undercut the extraordinary achievements of the women involved. But while you make an excellent point, I would note that "Apollo 13" was nominated back in 1997--20 years ago, voters were willing to expand the Hugo umbrella to include another true story about NASA ingenuity. It seems ghastly to me to deny "Hidden Figures" the same honor because a few ignorant people might have difficulty discerning fact from fiction. It would be like holding the fact that the film is about unsung black women /against/ it.

All the marketing for "Hidden Figures" and the film itself make it very clear that the film is about real historical heroines of the space race. Although I haven't been particularly attuned to the subject, I haven't heard of any instances of people in the general public being confused about the film's historicity. I would hope that anyone geeky enough to pay attention to the Hugos would be savvy enough to know the difference between fiction and a biopic.

5 months ago

January 9 2017, 18:15:52 UTC 5 months ago

Wait, Newsflesh over Toby Daye for series? Or nominating both? Because nominating both work against. I know it's crass but which has sold more and therefore likely to gather more nominating votes?

January 9 2017, 21:15:59 UTC 5 months ago

Crass as this might sound, I genuinely think Newsflesh has a better chance, both of being nominated and of winning.

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January 10 2017, 00:14:31 UTC 5 months ago

It'll be a category where people who can nominate can enter their information.

mneme

January 10 2017, 22:53:29 UTC 5 months ago

I'll note that one (intended, by me, at least) consequence of the change to nominating rules this year is that if people nominate whichever (or both) of them they like the best, the one that has the greater chance of winning (as measured by having a greater number of nominating ballots) will likely make the ballot, and whichever has a lesser chance of winning will likely be bumped (rather, as happened in previous years, also making the ballot and resulting in people who weren't your fans and didn't like the same person getting multiple nominations voting against your work in principle). So this is the kind of thing that can work itself out.

In theory, at least.

January 10 2017, 22:55:06 UTC 5 months ago

As I mentioned downthread, nominating both isn't a problem this year; the changes to the nominating rules will still likely result in only one work making the ballot.

Dev Singer

January 9 2017, 21:51:18 UTC 5 months ago

I'm not someone who can be of any help with nominations and such, but I wanted to point out that while your website says ""Dreams and Slumbers," included in all editions of Once Broken Faith," it's not in the Audible edition. Or at least not the Audible edition that I bought when it first came out.

Dev
whose plans to run to the library to get a print copy this weekend died when the snow hit

January 10 2017, 00:15:16 UTC 5 months ago

That's not a print edition; I don't have any control over what goes in the audio editions, and questions should be directed at Audible, not me. I'm sorry for any confusion.

January 10 2017, 15:51:05 UTC 5 months ago

Oh, I'm extremely grateful your books are even available in audio editions! I just thought you might like to know since others may be confused by the "all editions" on your website.

geekhyena

January 10 2017, 06:16:56 UTC 5 months ago

For Patreon posts, is "The Toaster Project" the proper way to fill in the "where published" section, or is Patreon better?

Thanks for the eligibility post! "Threnody for Little Girl, With Tuna, At the End of the World" is definitely on my list - that one made me cry. You wrote a lot this year that did that and that's awesome.

naath

January 10 2017, 11:56:56 UTC 5 months ago

It is so perfectly sad, I want to nominate it too, but also am unsure about how to cite it.

Beth Woodward

January 11 2017, 01:54:06 UTC 5 months ago

1) Your output astounds me. Seriously. My meager word counts are jealous.

2) "Every Heart a Doorway" was one of my favorite books this year. It might just be one of my favorite books, ever.

thedragonweaver

January 12 2017, 01:56:31 UTC 5 months ago

Dear God, you're prolific.

And as for Feed, when I read it and found out how many books you had out, I was wondering how I had missed you before. Until I found out you'd only been published for three years at that point.

*wanders off, thinking of a particular Hamilton lyric*...

notalwaysweak

January 17 2017, 09:58:57 UTC 4 months ago

If that had been the only thing I ever published, I would still have had something to be proud of.

Absolutely. I'm going to be off work from the 19th to the 29th of January as I'm having ulnar nerve surgery on my right elbow, and rereading Every Heart a Doorway is on my list of things to do while I'm recovering. I already have the scar on my left elbow from that surgery; it's long-ish and jaggedy.

I was going to have Hobbiton tattooed at one end and Mount Doom at the other. I'm thinking of doing Dark Tower for the right. Having the Tower itself as the endpoint makes sense, but what do you think should be the starting point? Gilead? I can't think how to represent it, and I thought I would ask you because you might have thoughts on it as a King fan.

I am making my own eligibility post! It is two items long, but I am very pleased with myself for having anything at all.

mirandafloyd

January 20 2017, 01:26:11 UTC 4 months ago

What about Best in Show? I loved that story! :)

ladymurmur

January 22 2017, 00:57:22 UTC 4 months ago

If that had been the only thing I ever published, I would still have had something to be proud of.

Yes. Yes, you would. But I am glad, and so very grateful that it isn't the only thing. :-)

mayakitten

March 5 2017, 03:12:16 UTC 3 months ago

Hi Seanan. Can I ask what category "Something In the Rain" from Defying Doomsday belongs to, or was it previously published elsewhere? Because I loved that story.

Thanks!

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