The progress report:
Best Short Story - DONE
Best Novelette - DONE, one abandoned (T-Rex)
Best Fan Artist - DONE
Best Professional Artist - DONE
Best Novella - 4/5, one abandoned (Census)
Best Series - 2/5, one abandoned (Craft)
Best Graphic Story - 3/6
Best Dramatic, Long - 1/6
Best Dramatic, Short - 0/6, though I'll be voting for the filk album out of general favoritism if I don't get to them.
Best Novella - 4/5, one abandoned
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (read it, liked it)
Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (read it, liked it)
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (wow)
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (meh)
This Census-Taker by China Miéville (abandoned)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (tbr)
Best Novelette DONE, one abandoned
“The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (read it
online, liked it)
“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong (read it
online, liked it)
“The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan (read it
online, liked it)
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (read it
online. The fiction of the science was really weird, but the ending redeemed my effort of reading it.)
“The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde. Very good, but oddly disjointed with the vignette interruptions.
Not read, not interested: "Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex" by Stix Hiscock
Best Short Story - DONE
“That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn (read it
online, loved it)
“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin (read it
online, loved it)
“Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar (read it, liked it - it was part of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales)
“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander (read online
here, I liked it but thought the presentation was poor.)
“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (read it online
here, well written but not to my taste)
“An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright, an interesting take on an old theme.
Best Graphic Story (progress: 3/6)
Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (good!)
Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks (good)
Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (not bad)
Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze
Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa
The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta
Best Series (progress: 2/6)
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (read all but two)
The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire (read all of them)
The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (we own the first few)
The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (we own them)
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (I think we own the first two..?)
Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (progress: 1/6)
Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve (seen it, loved it)
Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller
Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig
Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi
Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards
Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers
Best Novel (progress: 0/6)
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Death’s End by Cixin Liu
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Best Related Work (progress: 0/0)
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
“The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (progress: 0/0)
Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris
Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette
The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough
Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik
Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender
Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (progress: 0/0)
Sarah Gailey
J. Mulrooney
Malka Older
Ada Palmer
Laurie Penny
Kelly Robson
Best Professional Artist - DONE (6/6),
commentaryTakeda
McGrath
Dillon
Picacio
Dara
Ngai
Best Fan Artist - DONE (6/6),
commentaryLeggett
Schoenhuth
Aalto
Likhain
Lehtimaki
Stiles
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