Life’s Weirder Than Fiction

The nominations for this year’s Hugo awards and John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer have been announced. The awards will be presented at LA Con IV (the 64th World Science Fiction Convention) in Anaheim, Calif., from Aug. 23 to Aug. 27, 2006. Congratulations to Robert Charles Wilson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Cory Doctorow for their nomination.

Novel

• Charles Stross - Accelerando
• George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows
• Ken MacLeod - Learning the World
• John Scalzi - Old Man’s War
• Robert Charles Wilson - Spin

Novella

• James Patrick Kelly - Burn
• Robert J. Sawyer - Identity Theft
• Connie Willis - Inside Job
• Ian McDonald - The Little Goddess
• Kelly Link - Magic for Beginners

Novelette

• Paolo Bacigalupi - The Calorie Man
• Cory Doctorow - I, Robot
• Howard Waldrop - The King of Where-I-Go
• Michael A. Burstein - TelePresence
• Peter S. Beagle - Two Hearts

Short Story

• Dominic Green - The Clockwork Atom Bomb
• Mike Resnick - Down Memory Lane
• Michael A. Burstein - Seventy-Five Years
• Margo Lanagan - Singing My Sister Down
• David D. Levine - Tk’tk’tk

Related Book

• Gary Westfahl - Science Fiction Quotations
• David Langford - The SEX Column and Other Misprints
• Gary K. Wolfe - Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996
• Kate Wilhelm - Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop
• Mike Ashley - Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970

Dramatic Presentation: Long Form

• Batman Begins
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Serenity
• Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Dramatic Presentation: Short Form

• Battlestar Galactica - “Pegasus”
• Doctor Who - “The Empty Child” & The Doctor Dances”
• Doctor Who - “Dalek”
• Doctor Who - “Father’s Day”
• Jack-Jack Attack
• Lucas Back in Anger

Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony

Professional Editor

• Ellen Datlow
• David G. Hartwell
• Stanley Schmidt
• Gordon Van Gelder
• Sheila Williams

Professional Artist

• Jim Burns
• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• Stephan Martiniere
• John Picacio
• Michael Whelan

Semiprozine

• Ansible
• Emerald City
• Interzone
• Locus

The New York Review of Science Fiction

Fanzine

• Banana Wings
• Challenger
• Chunga
• File 770
• Plokta

Fan Writer

• Claire Brialey
• John Hertz
• Dave Langford
• Cheryl Morgan
• Steven H. Silver

Fan Artist

• Brad Foster
• Teddy Harvia
• Sue Mason
• Steve Stiles
• Frank Wu

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

• K.J. Bishop
• Sarah Monette
• Chris Roberson
• Brandon Sanderson
• John Scalzi
• Steph Swainston

For more details, check out Locus online.