2026 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award Finalists

Congratulations to the finalists!

https://www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

I was going to list all the nominees but there are a lot of special
characters and I don't want to spend the time editing it.
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In article <10s8h21$e40$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

2026 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award Finalists

Congratulations to the finalists!

https://www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

Other than O. Westin (MicroSFF) none of my nominations made it. I'm a
bit surprised / disappointed that some of the finalists made it onto
the ballot with as few as a dozen nominations -- we need more people
to be nominating in these categories! (Or alternatively maybe those
categories should just be dropped if #6 on the list has that little
support.)

I note also that Ada Palmer's campaign to get nominators to consider
her history of (the conceptualization of) the Renaissance a "related
work" seems to have been successful. Not sure what that means for
other academics who also happen to be well-known writers or fans.

-GAWollman

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In article <10s8h21$e40$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

2026 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award Finalists

Congratulations to the finalists!

https://www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

I was going to list all the nominees but there are a lot of special characters and I don't want to spend the time editing it.

Being a member of the 2025 Worldcon, I had the opportunity to nominate
various titles. One of them was a finalist, which was a bit surprising,
since I submitted a Cantankerous Curmudgeon list (stories that were not
in the 2026 Locus recommended reading list).

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James Nicoll wrote:

2026 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award Finalists

Congratulations to the finalists!

I have read:

Best Novella:
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Coxy mystery in space. I will be reading the next story, "Nobody's
Baby", soon.

Best Novelette:
?Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy? by Martha Wells

Murderbot without Murderbot.


I will be reading these two as I enjoy the authors.

?The Millay Illusion? by Sarah Pinsker
?When He Calls Your Name? by Catherynne M. Valente

I will probably gather up as many of the short works as are available
online and make my own e-book anthology in OpenOffice Writer to convert
to epub in Calibre.


Best Series:
White Space by Elizabeth Bear (Saga Press; Gollancz)

I have read two of this series:

Ancestral Night (2019)
Machine (2020)

I was not aware there was a third, The Folded Sky. I had checked
periodically over the years and kind of gave up on another. I have it
now and will read it soon.



Brian


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