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Te Shutle April 2018 The Next NASFA Meeting is 6P Saturday 21 April 2018 at the New Church Location

All other months are definitely open.) d Oyez, Oyez d FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS At present, all 2018 NASFA Meetings are expected to be at The next NASFA Meeting will be 21 April 2018, at the reg- the normal meeting location except for October (due to Not-A- ular meeting location and the NEW regular time (6P). The Con 2018). Most 2018 meetings are on the normal 3rd Saturday. Madison campus of Willowbrook Baptist Church is at 446 Jeff The only remaining meeting currently not scheduled for the Road—about a mile from the previous location. See the map normal weekend is: below for directions to the church. See the map on page 2 for a •11 August—a week earlier (2nd Saturday) to avoid closeup of parking at the church as well as how to find the CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES meeting room (“The Huddle”), which is close to one of the In general, the monthly Shuttle production schedule has been back doors toward the north side of the church. Please do not moved to the left a bit (versus prior practice). Though things try to come in the (locked) front door. are a bit squishy, the current intent is to put each issue to bed APRIL PROGRAM about 6–8 days before each month’s meeting. Les Johnson will speak on “Graphene—The Superstrong, Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. the World.” New Church ~0.8 miles APRIL ATMM Location north of US 72 Sue Thorn and Mike Kennedy will host the April After-The- Map To Meeting Meeting at the church. The usual rules apply—that is, Willowbrook Madison please bring food to share and your preferred drink. Also, 446 Jeff Road NW New please stay to help clean up. We need to be good guests and Huntsville AL 35806 leave things at least as clean as we found them. Meeting FUTURE PROGRAMS Location

•October—The program will be subsumed by Not-A-Con 2018. Road Jeff Other programs for 2018 are still in work. Judy and Sue are US 72W Kroger Fuel always looking for new program ideas, especially if you can (aka University Drive) Center run one yourself. Kroger Shopping FUTURE ATMMs Center

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to volunteer or inquire. Road (May is spoken for by Mary and Doug Lampert. October is nullified by Not-A-Con 2018. November may be spoken for Old Church but if that’s the only month for you we can make it work. Location Continuing Our 38th Year of Publication

Inside this issue… Hugo, YA, & Campbell Awards Nominations...... 5 News & Info...... 2 Retro-Hugo Awards Nominations...... 6 Minutes of the March Meeting...... 3 Awards Roundup...... 7 NASFA Calendar...... 4 Letter of Comment...... 11 Deadline for the May 2018 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 30 April 2018 JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST All NASFAns who have email are urged to join our email list, which you can do online at . The list is usually low traffic, though the rate is rather variable. Generally the list is limited to announcements about club activ- ities plus the occasional message of general interest to north- WORLDCON 76 LGBTQ INITIATIVE Alabama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NASFAns are both encouraged Inspired by John Picacio’s Mexicanx Initiative to sponsor and welcomed to join the list, but please only do so if you’re memberships for Worldcon 76, Chuck Serface has announced a interested in the above restricted topics. LGBTQ Initiative to “fund [up to 50] sponsored NASFA has an online calendar on Google Calendar. Interest- [Worldcon 76] memberships for LGBTQ science-fiction and ed parties can check the calendar online, but you can also sub- professionals and fans.” scribe to it and have your Outlook, iCal, or other calendar au- You can make a contribution through the San José Worldcon tomatically updated as events (Club Meetings, local sf/f/h website . You can apply events, etc.) are added or changed. You can view the calendar for a sponsored membership by emailing Serface at . [email protected]>; see the blog entry above for more info. SHIMMER WINNERS TO ATTEND WORLDCON 76 The Shimmer Program and Storycom have announced the winners of “World- News & Info con 76 Attending Funding for Chinese fans.” Lin Jiayu (aka Mackenzie Lin) and Shi Ran (aka Sharon Shi) will each DUFF, TAFF, & GUFF WINNERS receive RMB10,000 [a bit under $1,600 at press time -ED] Marlee Jane Ward has won the Down Under Fund for expenses toward attending Worldcon 76 in San José. and will represent Aus- Both will also be expected to work at the con “to gain expe- tralasia as she travels from Melbourne to Worldcon 76 in San rience in the Worldcon organizational work and help with fu- José CA later this year. Ward was the sole candidate. Voting ture Chinese bids.” The winners were chosen by Mike Will- stats can be seen on at . moth (Worldcon 76 Facilities Deputy Division Head) and Yang Johan Anglemark has won the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund Sumin (who attended the 2017 Worldcon in Helsinki under the and will represent Europe as he travels from same program). Sweden to Worldcon 76. Anglemark defeated Fia Karlsson and WE’RE NUMBER SEVEN! Helena McCallum in a pretty close race. Voting stats can be A recent U.S. News & World Report ranking of the “125 Best seen at . Places to Live in the USA” placed Huntsville in a very re- Marcin Klak has won the Get Up-and-over/Going Under Fan spectable 7th place—1st in the small city category. Criteria in- Fund and will represent Europe as he cluded good value, desirability, job market, and quality of life. travels from Poland to Continuum XIV in Melbourne in June. The next highest Alabama city was Birmingham, at #95. You Klak defeated the joint candidacy of Steve Lawson and Alice can see the full list at .

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2 THE PRESSES ARE ROLLING •Argo Chasma—for the ship sailed by Jason and the Arg- Industry reports show sales of print books are up again, con- onauts while seeking the Golden Fleece tinuing a trend starting in 2013. Year-over-year, 2017 unit sales • Butler Mons—honoring Octavia E. Butler were up almost 2% according to NPD BookScan, bringing the • Caleuche Chasma—for the ghost ship that travels the seas cumulative climb to better than 10% from the most recent low. around the small island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile Bookstores and online sales are up, though other channels • Clarke Montes—honoring Sir Arthur C. Clarke (think airports kiosks, grocery stores, etc.) are down. • Dorothy Crater—for the character in Oz adventures Nonfiction and YA fiction are all up but adult fiction is down • Kubrick Mons—honoring Stanley Kubrick marginally. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks are up, but mass • Mandjet Chasma—for the boat from Egyptian mythology market paperbacks are down. Audiobook CDs—counted which carried the sun god Ra across the sky among print books for these purposes—are down sharply; digi- • Crater—for the protagonist of humorous folktales tal seems to have won the day for audio. in the Middle East, southern Europe, and parts of Asia THESE PRESSES MAY STOP • Nemo Crater—for the captain of the Nautilus Some Shuttle readers cheered recently • Pirx Crater—for the character in stories by Stanislaw Lem when Penthouse Global Media an- • Revati Crater—for the character in the Hindu epic narrative nounced they would be relaunching a Mahabharata, the first time travel story print version of sf/fact magazine OMNI. • Sadko Crater—for the adventurer who trav- Now we’ve learned that PGM filed for eled to the bottom of the sea in the medieval Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early January, Russian epic Bylina making the future of OMNI once again MISTER ROGERS FOREVER STAMP uncertain. Is Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood genre? THESE PRESSES GIVE FREE COMICS You bet your sweet Yo-Yo LaBelle. The This year’s Free Comic Book Day will be Saturday 5 May 2018. Participating shops ing Fred Rogers—so you can honor the chil- in the Huntsville metro area include Rogue Merchant dren in your life (or your own childhood Games and The DeeP Comics & Games (both in Huntsville) memories) next time you buy stamps. plus Haven Comics, Etc. and 2nd & AAAAAAAAAH! FURRY RUSSIANS! RUN! HIDE! Charles (both in Madison). Probably too many genre fans have a dim view of furries as a AND THIS PRESS GIVES sub-subculture—see, for instance, the Geek Hierarchy chart FREE FICTION originally published by the late humor site Brunching Kasma Magazine has published an Shuttlecocks . This should change. ma magazine.com/blog-2018-10-years- Unfortunately, it seems that Russian Trolls (not the of-sf.cfm>, available as a free e-book in fun kind, at right) have found Tumblr and are there either .mobi or .epub format. You can posing as furries and doing their all too usual stir- also make a contribution at the URL the-pot-as-hard-as-possible thing. See the story at above, or buy the book from Amazon, . Two authors with genre connections—Lauren Groff and ALABAMA COMIC CON Miéville—are included in the 2018 class of Guggenheim DECLARES SUCCESS, RETURN Fellows (for “individuals who have Alabama Comic Con (run by an out-of-state already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive for-profit group) declared its late-March in- scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts”). Each augural event at the Birmingham-Jefferson Guggenheim grant runs 6–12 months and is intended “to help Convention Complex a success and vowed provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work to be back next year. The con centers on visual with as much creative freedom as possible.” media, comics, and cosplay—the latter receiving TERRAN AWARD GIVEN FOR TAOS TOOLBOX much of the press coverage of course. Joey Yu has been selected for the inaugural Terran Award scholarship (funded by George R.R. Martin) to cover tuition and fees for the Taos Toolbox writing workshop . Yu lives in Shanghai and is the author of several March Minutes novels published in China. by Steve Sloan POUL & KAREN ANDERSON MEMORIAL INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FUND The March meeting of the North Alabama A memorial fund has been established by Astrid and Greg Association was called to order on Saturday, March 17, 2018, Bear (the late Anderson’s daughter and son-in-law) to help in the new Madison satellite location of Willowbrook Baptist defray international travel expenses for a participant in Clarion Church at 6:00:20P by Vice President Mike Kennedy. The West’s summer workshop. The fund is crickets were still in the bag, so a substitute app was used instead. currently set up to provide $1000 each year for a 10-year peri- OLD BUSINESS od. The first winner is Ted Mahsun from Ipoh, Malaysia. We were planning to take a group picture for the church. IS A SFNAL PLACE Sam forced Judy to bring an actual camera. Extra Con†Stella- ’s largest moon, Charon, has received its first official tion t-shirts were available for people who forgot to wear one. feature names (the features based on observations by the New NEW BUSINESS Horizons mission) and they all have genre/legend links: Judy looked into storage units for the Art Show and Con 3 Suite equipment. (1) U Lock It Storage near the Madison 21–22 Tupelo Con—Tupelo MS. Boulevard Walmart had a 5ʹx10ʹ room for $39 a month, a 21–22 , Comic & Toy Con—Clarksville TN. 5ʹx15ʹ room for $44 a month, and gate hours from 6A to 9P. 21* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- (2) Life Storage had a 5ʹx10ʹ room for $65 a month. A 5ʹx8ʹ lowbrook Madison. Program: Les Johnson will speak room would probably be too small. (3) [Name missed] had a on “Graphene—The Superstrong, Superthin, and Su- 5ʹx10ʹ room for $55 a month. Judy will type up and email the perversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the details to the NASFA officers. World.” ATMM: Mike Kennedy and Sue Thorn will Sam and Judy went to DeepSouthCon 56 in Kentucky last host at the church. month. They announced that Huntsville is willing to host 21 BD: Randy B. Cleary. DeepSouthCon 60 in four years. The vote for DeepSouthCon 21 Enchanted Pub Crawl—Atlanta GA. 60 bids will be held at the 2020 DeepSouthCon in New Orleans. 21 Mobile Bay Anime Fest—Daphne AL. CON BUSINESS 22 Earth Day. Not-A-Con has a hotel now, the Holiday Inn Express & 25 Administrative Professionals Day. Suites off Madison Boulevard, near Wall Triana and I-565. 26 BD: Chloie Airoldi. Not-A-Con 2008 will be held Friday night and during the day 26 Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. on Saturday. We can have food in the room we’ve booked, but 27 Arbor Day (many US states—local date varies by state). nothing red. We also have a block of hotel rooms available in 30 BD: Mark Maxwell. the same hotel. 30 Día del Niño. Doug asked if we will sell art if artists send it to us. Judy MAY replied that we have no other space for selling art in the room 01 May Day/Labor Day/Día del Trabajo. we’ve booked. If we sold art from another room, someone 04 Bash Of The Empire VII—Atlanta GA. would have to stay up there with it. 04–06 WHOlanta—Atlanta GA. Note that the more hotel rooms we reserve, the cheaper the 05 National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Day. function space. (That’s refreshing for once.) 05 Cinco de Mayo. We will probably have a Spades tournament Friday night, and 10 Día de la Madre. a couple of activities during the day on Saturday. Sunday morn- 11–13 Outlantacon—Atlanta GA. ing breakfast will serve as the Dead Dog Party. If you want 12–13 Heroes & Villains—Nashville TN. something else at Not-A-Con, tell Judy what you plan to do. 12–13 Walker Stalker—Nashville TN. Maria also looked into storage rooms. (1) Life Storage has a 13 Mother’s Day. 10ʹx10ʹ room for $67 a month. (2) [name missing] for $67. 14 BD: Nancy Whittle. (3) Self Storage has a room for $55, but it’s old and possibly 15 Peace Officers Memorial Day. rat-infested. The cheapest she found was $54 per month. She 16 First day of Ramadan. will email more details to the officers, especially Steve. 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. Sam moved to adjourn at 6:21:24P. Everyone who was there 17–20 Frolicon—Atlanta GA. moved out into the hallway to take the group photo. 17–20 Atlanta Game Fest 31—Atlanta GA. The March program was a session of Trivia for Chocolate. 19* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- The After the Meeting Meeting was hosted by Tracey and Jim lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: Doug Kennedy at the regular meeting location. and Mary Lampert will host at the church. 19 Armed Forces Day. 19 BD: David O. Miller. 19–20 Southern Expo—Gulfport MS. NASFA Calendar 20 Shavuot. 24–27 MomoCon—Atlanta GA. APRIL 25 National Missing Children’s Day. 01 Easter. 25–27 Mobicon—Mobile AL. 01 April Fools’ Day. 25–27 Treklanta—Atlanta GA. 03 BD: Kevin Ward. 25–27 Escape Velocity— DC. 05–08 Furry Weekend Atlanta—Atlanta GA. 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. 06 Orthodox Good Friday. 28 Memorial Day. 06 National Tartan Day (Canada). JUNE 07 BD: Mary Lampert. 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. 07 Last Day of Pesach. 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. 07 Tupelo Titan Con—Tupelo MS. 05 Alabama Midterm Primary Election. 08 Orthodox Easter. 06 D-Day Observance. 13 Isra and Mi’raj. 08–10 Magic City Con—Birmingham AL. 13 BD: Thomas Jefferson. 08–10 NuCon—Gadsden AL. 13–15 221B Con—Atlanta GA. 08–10 Southern-Fried Gaming Expo—Atlanta GA. 13–15 Salute To Supernatural—Nashville TN. 09–10 Con Kasterborous—Huntsville AL. 14–15 TigerCon—Valdosta GA. 10 Laylat al-Qadr. 15 BD: “Uncle Timmy” Bolgeo. 14 Flag Day. 15 BD: Manda Freeman. 14 BD: Ali Scanland. 16 Patriot’s Days. 15 Eid al-Fitr. 17 Tax Day. 16* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- 20–22 JAMPcon—Chattanooga TN. lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 20–22 JordanCon—Atlanta GA. 16–17 Blacktasticon—Atlanta GA. 4 17 Father’s Day. HUGO NOVELLA NOMS 17 BD: Jeff Freeman. River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing) 21 BD: PieEyedDragon. Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 21 Summer Solstice. Publishing) 21–24 GIJoeCon—Chattanooga TN. Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing) 22–24 Hamacon—Huntsville AL. “And Then There Were (N-One),” (Uncanny, 22–24 Sci Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. March–April 2017) 29–01 LibertyCon 31—Chattanooga TN. All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) 29–01 Anime Blues Con 8—Memphis TN. The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing) 29–01 Fanboy Expo Comic Con—Knoxville TN. HUGO NOVELETTE NOMS JULY “Children of Thorns, Children of Water,” Aliette de Bodard 01 Canada Day. (Uncanny, July–August 2017) 02 BD: Deb Stone. “Extracurricular Activities,” Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, 15 February 2017) 04 Independence Day. “The Secret Life of Bots,” Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, 06–08 Hypericon—Nashville TN. September 2017) 08 Atlanta Comic Convention—Atlanta GA. “Wind Will Rove,” Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s, September–October 2017) 13 Burton Nightmare Bash—Atlanta GA. “A Series of Steaks,” Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld, January 2017) 13–15 ConGregate 5—High Point NC. “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time,” K.M. Szpara 13–15 Atlanta Comic Con—Atlanta GA. (Uncanny, May–June 2017) 15 BD: Courtney Clark. HUGO SHORT STORY NOMS 17 Alabama Midterm Primary Runoff (where required). “The Martian Obelisk,” Linda Nagata (Tor.com, 19 July 2017) 21* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- “ for Robots,” Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny, Sep- lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. tember–October 2017) 21 DC ZineFest—Washington DC. “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™,” Rebecca 22 Tish’a B’Av. Roanhorse (Apex, August 2017) 22 Parents’ Day. “Sun, Moon, Dust,” Ursula Vernon, (Uncanny, May–June 2017) 24 BD: Jay Johns. “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” Fran Wilde (Un- 27 National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. canny, September 2017) 27–29 Akaicon—Nashville TN. “Carnival Nine,” Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless 27–29 Rob-Con—Bristol TN. Skies, May 2017) 29 BD: Mark Paulk. HUGO SERIES NOMS OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO The Divine Cities, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway) The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the The Memoirs of Lady Trent, Marie Brennan (Tor US; Titan UK) third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby World of the Five Gods, Lois McMaster Bujold (Harper Voy- convention being held that weekend—in which case we often ager/Spectrum Literary Agency) move the meeting to the second or fourth Saturday.) The regu- InCryptid, Seanan McGuire (DAW) lar meeting location is the Madison campus of Willowbrook The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson (Tor US; Gollancz UK) Baptist Church—446 Jeff Road NW. The Executive Commit- The Books of the Raksura, Martha Wells (Night Shade) tee meeting (if scheduled) is before the business meeting. The HUGO RELATED WORK NOMS business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 6:30P. Anyone is Sleeping with : Readings and Reactions in Science welcome to attend any of the meetings. There is usually an After- Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct Press) the-Meeting Meeting (starting at about 7:30P) either at the Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), Paul Kin- church or with directions available at the program. caid (University of Illinois Press) No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexan- Hugo, Worldcon YA, and dra Pierce and Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Press) Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, Campbell Awards Noms and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, Zoë Quinn (PublicAffairs) Finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards, Award for Best A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of , Nat Young Adult Book, and John W. Campbell Award for Best Segaloff (NESFA Press) New Writer have been announced. Winners will be an- HUGO GRAPHIC STORY NOMS nounced at Worldcon 76 , to be Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch, written by Kelly Sue held 16–20 August 2018 at the San Jose McEnery Conven- DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro and Taki tion Center and various hotels in San José CA. Voting in the Soma, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, lettered by Clayton final round is open only to members of Worldcon 76. By Cowles (Image Comics) category, the nominees are: Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, written by Saladin Ahmed, HUGO NOVEL NOMS illustrated by Christian Ward, lettered by Clayton Cowles , N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) (Marvel) Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit) Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, written by Marjorie M. Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit) Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image Comics) Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) My Favorite Thing is Monsters, written and illustrated by New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor) Paper Girls, Volume 3, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illus- 5 trated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, let- HUGO FANCAST NOMS tered by Jared Fletcher (Image Comics) The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Saga, Volume 7, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Gary K. Wolfe Fiona Staples (Image Comics) Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace HUGO DRAMATIC PRESENTATION Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay William (LONG FORM) NOMS Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra 2049, written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts; produced by Andrew Finch Green, directed by Sword and Laser, presented by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt , written and directed by Verity!, presented by Deborah Stanish, Erika Ensign, Katrina Griffiths, The Shape of Water, written by and Vanessa L.M. Myles, Lynne M. Thomas, and Tansy Rayner Roberts Taylor, directed by Guillermo del Toro HUGO FAN WRITER NOMS : The Last Jedi, written and directed by Rian Johnson Camestros Felapton Sarah Gailey Thor: Ragnarok, written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Foz Meadows Charles Payseur Bogi Takács Christopher Yost; directed by Taika Waititi HUGO FAN ARTIST NOMS Wonder Woman, screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder Geneva Benton Grace P. Fong Maya Hahto & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, directed by Patty Jenkins Likhain (M. Sereno) Spring Schoenhuth Steve Stiles HUGO DRAMATIC PRESENTATION AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK NOMS (SHORT FORM) NOMS (not a Hugo) , “USS Callister,” written by William Bridges and In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House) , directed by Toby Haynes A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK; “The Deep” [song], Clipping Harry N. Abrams US) , “Twice Upon a Time,” written by Steven Moffat, Summer in Orcus, written by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), directed by Rachel Talalay illustrated by Lauren Henderson (Sofawolf Press) , “Michael’s Gambit,” written and directed by The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen) Michael Schur Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking) The Good Place, “The Trolley Problem,” written by Josh Sie- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf) gal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Holland JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR Star Trek: Discovery, “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go BEST NEW WRITER NOMS (not a Hugo) Mad,” written by Aron Eli Coleite and Jesse Alexander, Katherine Arden Sarah Kuhn* Jeannette Ng directed by David M. Barrett Vina Jie-Min Prasad Rebecca Roanhorse Rivers Solomon HUGO EDITOR (SHORT FORM) NOMS *Finalist is in their 2nd and last year of eligibility John Joseph Adams Neil Clarke Lee Harris Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas and Sheila Williams Retro-Hugo Awards Noms HUGO EDITOR (LONG FORM) NOMS Finalists for the 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards, have been Sheila E. Gilbert Joe Monti Diana M. Pho announced. Just as for the 2018 Hugos, winners will be an- Devi Pillai Miriam Weinberg Navah Wolfe nounced at Worldcon 76. Voting in the final round is open only HUGO PROFESSIONAL ARTIST NOMS to members of Worldcon 76. Categories in which there were Galen Dara Kathleen Jennings insufficient nominations were dropped. The YA and Campbell Bastien Lecouffe Deharme Victo Ngai Awards are not Hugos, so no retrospective versions of them are John Picacio Sana Takeda given. By category, the nominees are: HUGO SEMIPROZINE NOMS RETRO-HUGO NOVEL NOMS Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews The Uninvited, Dorothy Macardle (Doubleday, Doran; S.J.R. Saunders) The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James , Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) , edited by Mur Lafferty, S.B. Divya, and Norm (Astounding Science-Fiction, April and May 1942) Sherman, with assistant editor Benjamin C. Kinney Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak (Black Mask, September–No- Fireside Magazine, edited by Brian White and Julia Rios; vember 1942) managing editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry; special feature Second Stage Lensmen, E.E. “Doc” Smith (Astounding Sci- editor Mikki Kendall; publisher and art director Pablo ence-Fiction, November 1941–February 1942) Defendini Darkness and the , Olaf Stapledon (Methuen; S.J.R. Saunders) , edited by Kate Dollarhyde, Gautam Bhatia, A.J. Islandia, Austin Tappan Wright (Farrar & Rinehart) Odasso, Lila Garrott, Heather McDougal, Ciro Faienza, Tahlia RETRO-HUGO NOVELLA NOMS Day, Vanessa Rose Phin, and the Strange Horizons staff “Hell is Forever,” (Unknown Worlds, Au- Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael gust 1942) Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Julia Rios; podcast “The Compleat ,” (Unknown produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky Worlds, April 1942) HUGO NOMS “Nerves,” (Astounding Science-Fiction, Sep- File 770, Mike Glyer, ed. tember 1942) Galactic Journey, Gideon Marcus, ed. “Waldo,” Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) (Astound- Journey Planet, Team Journey Planet, ed. ing Science-Fiction, August 1942) nerds of a feather, flock together, The G, Vance Kotrla, and “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag,” John River- Joe Sherry, eds. side (Robert A. Heinlein) (Unknown Worlds, October 1942) Rocket Stack Rank, Greg Hullender and Eric Wong, eds. “Asylum,” A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science-Fiction, SF Bluestocking, Bridget McKinney, ed. May 1942) 6 RETRO-HUGO NOVELETTE NOMS The Devourers, Indra Das (Del Rey) “Bridle and Saddle,” (Astounding Science-Fic- Dreadnought and Sovereign, April Daniels (Diversion) tion, June 1942) An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager) “Foundation,” Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1942) Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Gray Wolf) “The Star Mouse,” Fredric Brown (Planet Stories, Spring 1942) An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic) “Goldfish Bowl,” Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) Black Tides of Heaven and Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor) (Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1942) Additionally, the jury compiled a list of twenty-six other “There Shall Be Darkness,” C.L. Moore (Astounding Science- works they found worthy of attention. That list can be seen on Fiction, February 1942) the Tiptree website at . tion, December 1942) PHILIP K. DICK AWARD RETRO-HUGO SHORT STORY NOMS The winner and runner-up (styled as a Special Citation) of “Runaround,” Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1942) the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award “Etaoin Shrdlu,” Fredric Brown (Unknown Worlds, February 1942) (for an original paperback sf book published in the US) have “Proof,” (Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1942) been announced. The award is sponsored by the Philip K. Dick “The Sunken Land,” (Unknown Worlds, February 1942) Trust and the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society . “The Twonky,” C.L. Moore and (Astounding The award was announced at 41 , held 29 March–1 April 2018 at the DoubleTree by “Mimic,” Martin Pearson (Donald A. Wollheim) (Astonishing Hilton Seattle Airport in SeaTac (Seattle area) WA. The winner Stories, December 1942) is Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Har- RETRO-HUGO DRAMATIC PRESENTATION court). The Special Citation went to After the Flare, Deji Bryce (SHORT FORM) NOMS Olukotun (The Unnamed Press). Bambi, written by Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, et al., directed BAEN MEMORIAL SHORT STORY AWARD by David D. Hand, et al. The winner (styled as a Grand Prize) and runners up of the Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Jacques Tourneur 2018 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award (“to encourage writers to cre- ed by Erle C. Kenton ate exciting and positive stories about hu- I Married a Witch, written by Robert Pirosh and Marc Connel- mankind’s near future in space”) have been ly, directed by René Clair announced. The awards will be presented Invisible Agent, written by Curtis Siodmak, directed by Edwin L. Marin at the 2018 International Space Devel- Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, written by Laurence Stallings, opment Conference , directed by Zoltan Korda to be held 24-27 May 2018 at the Shera- RETRO-HUGO EDITOR (SHORT FORM) NOMS ton Hotel in CA. John W. Campbell Oscar J. Friend Dorothy McIlwraith The winner will receive paid publica- Raymond A. Palmer Malcolm Reiss Donald A. Wollheim tion on the Baen Books website, ISDC and RETRO-HUGO PROFESSIONAL ARTIST NOMS National Space Society membership, and a Hannes Bok Margaret Brundage Edd Cartier package of Baen and NSS merchandise. Runners Virgil Finlay Harold W. McCauley Hubert Rogers up will receive similar packages less the paid publication. RETRO-HUGO FANZINE NOMS Grand Prize...... “Homonculus,” Stephen Lawson Futurian War Digest, J. Michael Rosenblum, ed. 2nd Place...... “Dangerous Company,” C. Stuart Hardwick Inspiration, Lynn Bridges, ed. 3rd Place...... “Falling to the Moon,” Wendy Nikel The Phantagraph, Donald A. Wollheim, ed. ANISFIELD-WOLF FICTION AWARD Spaceways, Harry Warner, Jr., ed. Winners of the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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