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Awardy Eligible Things!

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Mur

It’s HEY I AM ELIGIBLE FOR AWARDS time again! So hang up your Hugo stocking and start singing those Nebula carols and cook the Locus beast! Here’s what I accomplished in 2017:

  • Eligible for Science Fiction novel categories: Six Wakes
  • Eligible for Nonfiction/Related Works categories: I Should Be Writing
  • Eligible for Podcast/Fancast categories: Ditch Diggers and I Should Be Writing
  • Eligible for Semi-Prozine categories: Escape Pod
  • Eligible for Best Editor (Short form): Mur Lafferty, Divya Breed, Norm Sherman (Escape Pod editorial team of 2017 – please include each name if you’re inclined to nominate one of us) 
  • Eligible for Best Short Story: “Not for Nothing” (From a Certain Point of View)

Did I forget something? Probably. I’m bad with the “what hat am I wearing at this point in time?” problem.

Not-Me Work That’s Awesome Too

I don’t like to promote too much of other people’s stuff for awards time, partly because I feel so bummed when others post their favorite stuff and my work doesn’t make the cut. I’m a softie. But I would like to put forth a few things I enjoyed, namely:

  • “An Unexpected Honor” for Best Related Work — although B&N published it as a flash story so maybe it’s eligible for best short story: this was Ursula Vernon’s wildly popular and completely absurd Hugo acceptance speech about whalefall.
  • clipping’s The Deep for Best Short Dramatic Work: (they continue to push the envelope with SF storytelling in hiphop.)
  • Horizon Zero Dawn for Best Long Dramatic Work: (This one was amazing, because I felt I had the whole thing figured out, but no, it still blew my mind.)
  • The Good Place Season 1 for Best Long Dramatic Work: (If you want to go Short Dramatic work and choose one episode that aired last year, I’d vote for “Chapter 14: Everything is Great!” with “Ch. 10: Chidi’s Choice” and “Ch. 12: Mindy St. Claire” as close, tied seconds)
  • Alasdair Stuart for Fan Writer, one of the hardest working and least self promoting people I know.
  • The other podcast magazines from Escape Artists: Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders for Semipro Zine and Best Short Fiction Editor(s).  (All four podcasts have been releasing free short fiction for years, with little recognition.)