2024 Hugos -- eligible works -- lists

Works published in 2023 are eligible for the Hugo and Lodestar Awards in 2024.

Rtrace set up a Novels list and I've set up a Novella one. If you set up lists for the other relevant awards as you read things, let us know here.

Read or heard of something good or interesting? Add it to the list.
Going to nominate a particular work? Add it to the list.
Use "Explain your choice" however you like.

Please, thumbs down only for eligibility, and then explain why.

List of 2023 NOVELS eligible for the 2024 Hugos
List of 2023 NOVELLAS eligible for the 2024 Hugos

w00t! Thanks

That reminds me, I'm eligible to nominate and, for what it's worth, I need to get on with that. I expect this to be a fiasco, or an outrage, like everything else associated with the Chengdu convention.

It took me a couple of tries to get the confirmation number to nominate, but it did work.

However the site was down when I tried to add to my nomination a couple of days ago (and I've been offline since then and haven't tried again).

I've just added a Lodestar 2024 list because I read a book I *needed* to put on it.

List of 2023 NOVELS eligible for the 2024 Lodestar Award

>5 Aquila: Xclnt! Thx

Hugo nominations are open https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/hugo-awards-nomination/

>7 Aquila: Thanks for the reminder. Nominations close March 9th.

Worldcon members who can nominate:
-- 2023 Chengdu Worldcon
-- 2024 Glasgow Worldcon (joined by Jan. 31, 2024)

>8 karenb: The nominations system is off-line since last Sunday for some reason. They say there is a software issue.

Added a list:

List of 2023 GRAPHIC STORIES eligible for the 2024 Hugos

Nominations have reopened after a software issue was sorted out.

The novels I have nominated for this year's Hugo Awards:
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Hopeland by Ian McDonald
Beyond the Reach of Earth by Ken MacLeod
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Green Man's Quarry by Juliet E. McKenna
Good luck to all.

>12 pgmcc:

Yep Hopeland made my list too for novel. I also had The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (I thought it was a fun book - who doesn't love sapient talking trains), and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

I didn't nominate Ken - because it is the middle book of the series, and I think it suffers a bit from that. I definitely thought the first book was stronger (at least in parts). But I think that it will be strongest when considered as a cohesive series (but it isn't complete yet). And that is where Juliet McKenna's The Green Man ended up for me - Best Series. I haven't got around to reading Titanium Noir yet. Haven't read the Chakraborty - I didn't get on with The City of Brass so was unlikely to pick up the first in a new series on a whim.

I did surprisingly well by nominating 4 novellas as well - which is unusual for me.

>13 andyl:
I also nominated The Green Man for Best Series. The last story was one of the best so far.

Titanium Noir really tickled me. If you like old Noir movies you will like this book. There are some allusions to some famous Noir characters which are fun to spot. It is an interesting combination/merging of Noir and Science Fiction.

The City of Brass really spoke to me. Having grown up through The Troubles in Northern Ireland I felt The City of Brass was a story that encapsulated the dynamics, feelings, motivations and horror of living in a divided community during a time of conflict. For every violent act, every political manoeuvre, every incident of inter-community bigotry and violation of individuals in the book I could identify real life incidents from my own experience that happened while I was growing up in Belfast. I thought Chakraborty captured the real-life essence of inter-community conflict driven by unscrupulous politicians and troublemakers who were out to enhance their own relevance and power. I felt her book could be applied to virtually every inter-community conflict on the planet. I say virtually because although I have not identified a situation that does not fit that model I concede that there could be one; I just haven't found it yet.

Sorry for the sermon, but I think it explains why I think highly of Chakraborty's work and why I loved The City of Brass. It was on the strength of that regard for her work that I bought and read The Adventures of Amina al Sirafi and found that I enjoyed it a lot.

I agree that Ken's trilogies work well as a three book unit. The Engines of Light series was fantastic in its complete form; I thought the trilogy was much more than the sum of the parts. Likewise The Corporation Wars was a great trilogy; the first in the trilogy was the strongest book.

Hopeland is quite an achievement. I really enjoyed it.

I haven't read any novellas or short stories from 2023 so am not in a position to nominate any.

I must keep an eye out for The Terraformers and The Strange. A recommendation from you is not something to be ignored.

>13 andyl:
"who doesn't love sapient talking trains" -- thanks, I'll use this in my pitch for The terraformers to my SF book group

>14 pgmcc:
"I haven't read any novellas or short stories from 2023 so am not in a position to nominate any."
It's not too late!

>15 karenb:

Well the trains don't turn up until quite late in the book, and I enjoyed the earlier sections of the book too. I also thought it was pretty ambitious in scope - it unfolds over a thousand years or so. I have heard some people absolutely hated the book. As I said for me it was a fun read, but that doesn't mean it is devoid of important themes. I think there would be tons to talk about with the book though - both on a literary and a socio-political level.