The campaigner for the 2016 Hugo Awards have been announced , with the ballot to take the success open in mid - May , 2016 . We ’ll find out the winners on August 20th .
Here are the nominees , straight from MidAmeriCon II , the 74th World Science Fiction Convention :
BEST NOVEL ( 3695 ballot )
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie ( Orbit )
The Cinder Spires : The Aeronaut ’s Windlass by Jim Butcher ( Roc )
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin ( Orbit )
Seveneves : A Novel by Neal Stephenson ( William Morrow )
Uprooted by Naomi Novik ( Del Rey )
BEST NOVELLA ( 2416 ballots )
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor ( Tor.com )
The Builders by Daniel Polansky ( Tor.com )
Penric ’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold ( Spectrum )
Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson ( Dragonsteel Entertainment )
dim smoke by Alastair Reynolds ( Tachyon )
BEST NOVELETTE ( 1975 ballots )
“ And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead ” by Brooke Bolander ( Lightspeed , Feb 2015 )
“ Flashpoint : Titan ” by CHEAH Kai Wai ( There Will Be War Volume X , Castalia House )
“ Folding Beijing ” by Hao Jingfang , trans . Ken Liu ( Uncanny Magazine , Jan‐Feb 2015 )
“ Obits ” by Stephen King ( The Bazaar of Bad Dreams , Scribner )
“ What Price Humanity ? ” by David VanDyke ( There Will Be War Volume X , Castalia House )
BEST SHORT STORY ( 2451 ballots )
“ asymmetric Warfare ” by S. R. Algernon ( Nature , Mar 2015 )
The Commuter by Thomas A. Mays ( Stealth )
“ If You Were an Award , My Love ” by Juan Tabo and S. Harris ( voxday.blogspot.com , Jun 2015 )
“ Seven Kill Tiger ” by Charles Shao ( There Will Be War Volume X , Castalia House )
Space Raptor Butt Invasion by Chuck Tingle ( Amazon Digital Services )
BEST RELATED WORK ( 2080 ballot )
Between Light and Shadow : An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe , 1951 to 1986 by Marc Aramini ( Castalia House )
“ The First Draft of My Appendix N Book ” by Jeffro Johnson ( castaliahouse.com )
“ Safe Space as Rape Room ” by Daniel Eness ( castaliahouse.com )
SJWs Always Lie : Taking Down the Thought Police by Vox Day ( Castalia House )
“ The Story of Moira Greyland ” by Moira Greyland ( askthebigot.com )
BEST GRAPHIC STORY ( 1838 ballots )
The Divine written by Boaz Lavie , art by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka ( First Second )
Erin Dies Alone pen by Grey Carter , art by Cory Rydell ( dyingalone.net )
Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams ( ffn.nodwick.com )
Invisible Republic Vol 1 written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman , art by Gabriel Hardman ( Image Comics )
The Sandman : Overture written by Neil Gaiman , artwork by J.H. Williams III ( Vertigo )
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION ( LONG descriptor ) ( 2904 ballots )
Avengers : Age of Ultron written and directed by Joss Whedon ( Marvel Studios ; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures )
Ex Machina write and directed by Alex Garland ( Film4 ; DNA Films ; Universal Pictures )
Mad Max : Fury Road write by George Miller , Brendan McCarthy , and Nico Lathouris , directed by George Miller ( Village Roadshow Pictures ; Kennedy Miller Mitchell ; RatPac‐Dune Entertainment ; Warner Bros. Pictures )
The Martian screenplay by Drew Goddard , directed by Ridley Scott ( Scott Free Productions ; Kinberg Genre ; TSG Entertainment ; 20th Century Fox )
Star Wars : The Force Awakens written by Lawrence Kasdan , J. J. Abrams , and Michael Arndt , address by J.J. Abrams ( Lucasfilm Ltd. ; Bad Robot Productions ; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures )
topper DRAMATIC PRESENTATION ( SHORT FORM ) ( 2219 ballots )
medico Who : “ Heaven Sent ” drop a line by Steven Moffat , directed by Rachel Talalay ( BBC Television )
Grimm : “ Headache ” written by Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt , directed by Jim Kouf ( Universal Television ; GK Productions ; Hazy Mills Productions ; Open 4 Business Productions ; NBCUniversal Television Distribution )
Jessica Jones : “ AKA Smile ” written by Scott Reynolds , Melissa Rosenberg , and Jamie King , directed by Michael Rymer ( Marvel Television ; ABC Studios ; Tall Girls Productions ; Netflix )
My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic : “ The Cutie Map ” Parts 1 and 2written by Scott Sonneborn , M.A. Larson , and Meghan McCarthy , directed by Jayson Thiessen and Jim Miller ( DHX Media / Vancouver ; Hasbro Studios )
Supernatural : “ Just My Imagination ” write by Jenny Klein , directed by Richard Speight Jr. ( Kripke Enterprises ; Wonderland Sound and Vision ; Warner Bros. Television )
BEST EDITOR – SHORT FORM ( 1891 ballots )
John Joseph Adams
Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
Jerry Pournelle
Sheila Williams
BEST EDITOR – LONG anatomy ( 1764 ballots )
Vox Day
Sheila E. Gilbert
Liz Gorinsky
Jim Minz
Toni Weisskopf
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST ( 1481 ballots )
Lars Braad Andersen
Larry Elmore
Abigail Larson
Michal Karcz
Larry Rostant
BEST SEMIPROZINE ( 1457 ballots )
Beneath Ceaseless Skies edited by Scott H. Andrews , Nicole Lavigne , and Kate Marshall
Daily Science Fiction edited by Michele‐Lee Barasso and Jonathan Laden
Sci Phi Journal edit by Jason Rennie
Strange Horizons edit by Catherine Krahe , Julia Rios , A. J. Odasso , Vanessa Rose Phin , Maureen Kincaid Speller , and the Strange Horizons stave
Uncanny Magazine cut by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas , Michi Trota , and Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
BEST FANZINE ( 1455 balloting )
Black Gate edited by John O’Neill
Castalia House Blog edited by Jeffro Johnson
File 770 redact by Mike Glyer
Superversive SF delete by Jason Rennie
Tangent Online edit by Dave Truesdale
BEST FANCAST ( 1267 ballot )
8 - 4 Play , Mark MacDonald , John Ricciardi , Hiroko Minamoto , and Justin Epperson
Cane and Rinse , Cane and Rinse
HelloGreedo , HelloGreedo
The Rageaholic , RazörFist
Tales to Terrify , Stephen Kilpatrick
BEST FAN WRITER ( 1568 vote )
Douglas Ernst
Mike Glyer
Morgan Holmes
Jeffro Johnson
Shamus Young
BEST FAN ARTIST ( 1073 vote )
Matthew Callahan
disse86
Kukuruyo
Christian Quinot
Steve Stiles
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER ( 1922 ballots )
Pierce Brown *
Sebastien de Castell *
Brian Niemeier
Andy Weir *
Alyssa Wong *
- finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility .
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