Hugo Recommendations 2015

This is how I am voting for the 2015 Hugo Awards. Of course, I offer this information regarding my individual ballot for no particular
reason at all, and the fact that I have done so should not be confused
in any way, shape, or form with a slate or a bloc vote, much less a
direct order by the Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil to his
390 Vile Faceless Minions or anyone else.

Voting closes on July 31, so don’t procrastinate.

Best Novel

  1. The Three-Body Problem
  2. Skin Game
  3. The Goblin Emperor
  4. The Dark Between the Stars

 Best Novella

  1. “One Bright Star to Guide Them”
  2. “Big Boys Don’t Cry”
  3. “The Plural of Helen of Troy”
  4. “Pale Realms of Shade”
  5. “Flow”

Best Novelette

  1. “The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale”
  2. “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium”
  3. “The Journeyman: In the Stone House”
  4. “Championship B’Tok”
  5. “The Day the World Turned Upside Down”

Best Short Story

  1. “Turncoat”, Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House)
  2. “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House)
  3. “On A Spiritual Plain”, Lou Antonelli (Sci Phi Journal #2, 11-2014)
  4. “A Single Samurai”, Steven Diamond (The Baen Big Book of Monsters, Baen Books)

Best Related Work

  1. “The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF”
  2. Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
  3. “Why Science is Never Settled”
  4. Letters from Gardner
  5. Wisdom from My Internet

Best Graphic Story

  1. No Award


 Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)

  1. Guardians of the Galaxy
  2.  Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  3. Edge of Tomorrow
  4. Interstellar
  5. The Lego Movie

 Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)

  1. Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper”
  2. The Flash: “Pilot”
  3. Grimm: “Once We Were Gods”
  4. Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”

 Best Editor, Short Form

  1. Vox Day
  2. Jennifer Broznek
  3. Bryan Thomas Schmidt
  4. Mike Resnick

Best Editor, Long Form

  1. Toni Weisskopf
  2. Anne Sowards
  3. Jim Minz
  4. Vox Day
  5. Sheila Gilbert    

Best Professional Artist

  1. Kirk DouPonce
  2. Alan Polack
  3. Julie Dillon
  4. Nick Greenwood
  5. Carter Reid

Best Semiprozine

  1. Abyss & Apex
  2. Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  3. Strange Horizons
  4. Lightspeed Magazine
  5. Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine

Best Fanzine

  1. Black Gate
  2. Tangent Online 
  3. Elitist Book Reviews
  4. Journey Planet
  5. The Revenge of Hump Day

Best Fancast

  1. The Sci Phi Show
  2. Adventures in SciFi Publishing
  3. Galactic Suburbia Podcast
  4. Dungeon Crawlers Radio
  5. Tea and Jeopardy

Best Fan Writer

  1. Jeffro Johnson
  2. Dave Freer
  3. Amanda S. Green
  4. Cedar Sanderson
  5. Laura J. Mixon

Best Fan Artist

  1. Elizabeth Leggett
  2. Spring Schoenhuth
  3. Ninni Aalto
  4. Steve Stiles

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

  1. Eric S. Raymond
  2. Wesley Chu
  3. Jason Cordova
  4. Rolf Nelson