Indicados do prêmio Hugo 2010

O prêmio Hugo é o mais antigo e popular da ficção científica estadunidense. Ele premia não somente livros e escritores, mas também quadrinhos, filmes, editores, fanzines e fãs-artistas. Confira a seguir alguns dos indicados.

Melhor romance

• Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
• The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
• Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
• Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
• Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
• The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Melhor novela

• “Act One”, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s 3/09)
• The God Engines, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
• “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
• “Vishnu at the Cat Circus”, Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days; Pyr, Gollancz)
• The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Melhor noveleta

• “Eros, Philia, Agape”, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/09)
• “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
• “It Takes Two”, Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three; Night Shade Books)
• “One of Our Bastards is Missing”, Paul Cornell (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three; Solaris)
• “Overtime”, Charles Stross (Tor.com 12/09)
• “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”, Eugie Foster (Interzone 2/09)

Melhor conto

• “The Bride of Frankenstein”, Mike Resnick (Asimov’s 12/09)
• “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
• “The Moment”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Footprints; Hadley Rille Books)
• “Non-Zero Probabilities”, N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09)
• “Spar”, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)

Melhor livro de referência

• Canary Fever: Reviews, John Clute (Beccon)
• Hope-In-The-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees, Michael Swanwick (Temporary Culture)
• The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children’s and Teens’ Science Fiction, Farah Mendlesohn (McFarland)
• On Joanna Russ, Farah Mendlesohn (ed.) (Wesleyan)
• The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms, Helen Merrick (Aqueduct)
• This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), Jack Vance (Subterranean)

Melhor fã-escritor

• Claire Brialey
• Christopher J Garcia
• James Nicoll
• Lloyd Penney
• Frederik Pohl

Prêmio John W. Campbell para melhor autor novo

• Saladin Ahmed
• Gail Carriger
• Felix Gilman
• Seanan McGuire
• Lezli Robyn

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