Selected Hugo 2010 Nominees

Hot off the press: the Hugo nominees were just announced here at Odyssey 2010. The winners will be voted on by Ausiecon 4 members until July 31 and will be announced during Aussiecon 4 (Sept 2-6).

The full data can be found on the Aussiecon 4 site, but I'll present a nominees from a few catagories here.

First, a few interesting/useful bits of info.

1) the twitter hashtag is #hugos
2) Americans gave most of the voting ballets, with just over half. Next most numerous were from Canada, then Australia-New Zealand, followed by UK, Europe, and the rest of the world.

John W Campbell, Best New SF Writer
- Saladin Ahmed
- Gail Carriger
- Felix Gilman
- Seanan McGuire
- Lezli Robyn

And now, some selected Hugo nominees:

Best Fanzine
- Argenta
- Banana Wings
- Challenger
- Drink Tank
- File 770
- Starship Sofa

Best Semiprozine
- Ansible
- Clarkesworld
- Interzone
- Locus
- Weird Tales

Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form
- Doctor Who "The Next Doctor"
- Doctor Who "Planet of the Dead"
- Doctor Who "Waters of Mars"
- Dollhouse "Epitaph 1"
- FlashForward "No more good days"

Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
- Avatar
- District 9
- Moon
- Star Trek
- Up

Best Graphic Story
- Batman: Whatever happened to the caped crusader
- Captain Britain and MI13: Vol3 Vampire State
- Fables Vol 12: Dark Ages
- Girl Genius Vol 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the heirs of the storm
- Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse

Best Novel
- Boneshaker, Cherei Priest
- The City & The City, China Mieville
- Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America, Robert Charles Wilson
- Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente
- Wake, Robert J. Sawyer
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

Interesting. Whereas, last year it seemed most of the Novel nominees were British, or at least living in the UK, this year belongs to the Americans with 4 authors from the US, 1 Canadian and 1 Brit.

That's all from me. There are a number of other catagories, but these are the ones I was most interested in. Anyway, now I'd better get down to some serious reading. After some sleep.