Awards Eligibility: Our Stuff and All the Stuff We Covered in One Handy Place of Awesome

It’s that time of year. Awards Season. For us, that mostly means the Hugo Awards. And since everyone is posting their eligibility posts, we decided we’d do one, too. But instead of just telling you where we’re eligible, we’re going to do that and tell you about the cool stuff and peoples we talked to throughout the year who are eligible for something, too. If we missed anything, let us know!

Note: to nominate works for the Hugos, you need a membership to this year’s Worldcon in Spokane by Jan. 31st. Full memberships are $140 until Jan. 31st. Supporting memberships (i.e., non-attending; mostly just for those that want to nominate and vote) are $40. If you were registered for last year’s Worldcon in London, you can nominate works for 2015, but you won’t be able to vote w/o at least a supporting membership. If you’re not attending, do consider getting a supporting membership so you can vote for your favorite sf/f stuff. It’s definitely worth it. Thanks to Gareth Kavanagh for the reminder.

So, here goes:

As always, The Skiffy and Fanty Show is eligible for the Best Fancast category, so feel free to nominate us again if you liked what we did throughout 2014. You can click here to get a refresher on our 2014 episode slate. Our World SF Tour may also be eligible in the Best Related Work category, which would include podcast audio and written materials, and the Skiffy and Fanty blog is eligible for Best Fanzine (we published some great essays and reviews, after all). Either way, we think 2014 was a great year for the show.

Now for a bit about our hosts. Here is everything they are individually eligible for:

Shaun Duke
- Nothing, except the podcast. I don’t think my 2014 contributions on my blog, etc. were enough for a fan-related nod.
- Note: I do have a post on my blog for works I’m eyeing for the awards season. And the 2013/2014 WISB Awards were announced, which features some awesome stuff. Have a look.
Julia Rios
- Best Fancast — The Outer Alliance Podcast
- Best Semiprozine — Strange Horizons (serves as Fiction Editor)
- Best Editor (Short Form) — for Strange Horizons and Kaleidoscope (w/ Alisa Krasnostein)
Paul Weimer
- Best Fan Writer (see his posts on this site and his excellent essay, “Writing in Ink to Samarkand,” on A Dribble of Ink)
Rachael Acks
- Best Short Story:
  - They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain from Lightspeed Magazine
  - Asleep in Zandalar from Abyss and Apex
  - List of Items in Leather Valise Found on Welby Crescent from Shimmer #19
  - What Purpose a Heart from Scigentasy
  - The Heart-Beat Escapement from Crossed Genres
  - Perfect Blue, Scorched Black from Perihelion
  - A World of Speculation from Lakeside Circus
  - And Still Champion from The Lorelei Signal
  - Black Smoker Hero from SQ Mag
Mike Underwood
- Best Novella: Attack the Geek: A Ree Reyes Side-Quest
- Best Novel: Shield and Crocus and The Younger Gods
- Best Related Work: “25 Secrets of Publishing or Inside The Bookish Shatterdome” on Chuck Wendig’s blog
Stina Leicht
- Best Related Work: “The Wendybird” in Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction
- Best Related Work: “How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess” in Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction
David Annandale
- Short Stories:
  - “The Conversion” (in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters)
  - “The Tribute of Flesh”
  - “Sermon of Exodus” (in Sedition’s Gate)
  - “Sarcophagus”
  - “A Plague of Saints”
  - “The Gallows Saint”
  - “Concordat”
  - “The Deeper Wounds” (in Sabbat Crusade)
  - “Honour and Wrath”
- Best Novella:
  - Shadow Captain
  - Forge Master
- Best Novel:
  - Yarrick: Imperial Creed
  - The Damnation of Pythos
  - Maledictus
Jen Zink
- Nothing, except the podcast. Unless they add Best Friend to the ballot…

We also had a couple regular contributors throughout the year who you might consider for Best Fan Writer:

Charles Tan (posts can be found here)
Joyce Chng (posts can be found here)
- She also has a post listing her eligible fiction, etc. here.
Additional contributions were provided by Daniel Haeusser, Cecily Kane, and Trish Matson, though most of them were blogging elsewhere before they joined our magic crew.

And that’s it for Skiffy and Fanty crew stuff. Now for everything else!

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Best Novel

Shadow Ops: Breach Zone by Myke Cole (Ace)
Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Waking Engine by David Edison (Tor Books)
The Three by Sarah Lotz (Little, Brown, and Company)
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (Harry N. Abrams Books)
Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone (Tor Books)
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot Books)
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown Publishing)
Hurricane Fever by Tobias Buckell (Tor Books)
Into the Grey by Celine Kiernan (Candlewick Press)
Random by Alma Alexander (Dark Quest Books)
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Orbit Books)
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (Harper Voyager)
Fire with Fire and Trial By Fire by Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Stories of the Raksura (Vol. 1) by Martha Wells (Night Shade Books)

Best Graphic Novel

Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch by Eric Orchard (Top Shelf Productions)
Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (Marvel Comics)

Best Editors