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Another year, another Hugo nomination season! Once again, nominations for the Hugo Awards are open, to anyone who is currently a member of this year's upcoming Worldcon in Chicago or last year's Worldcon in Washington, D.C. as of January 31st. Nominations are open until March 15th, so that's plenty of time to read all those things you've been meaning to get to before nominations close… right?

Never fear, the editors of Lady Business are here to provide our suggestions as you decide what to prioritize on your To Be Read/Watched/Played. Of course, this is by no means a comprehensive list of everything that might be worthy of a Hugo nomination, and nor is it meant to be. It's just a selection of some of the works we loved in 2021, and a few reasons why we loved them. Each editor's opinions are their own, although we suspect you'd find a fair amount of agreement if we had sat down to discuss our picks.

( Get all your recs behind this cut! )

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It's Hugo season once again, and we've gathered to talk about some of our favorite media from 2019 that's eligible for the Hugo Awards. We've very excited about all the great stuff that was made last year. Although it's too late to join as a member to nominate, if you can nominate, we highly recommend checking out some of our suggestions! For categories we don't have recommendations in yet (there's still a few weeks left to nominate), please check out the crowdsourced Hugo Awards Rec spreadsheet, full of excellent stuff collected by members of fandom over the last year.

The Hugo Awards will be presented at CoNZealand later this year. You can vote once the nominees are out by getting a membership to the con—either attending, if you'll be heading to New Zealand, or Supporting, if you can't make it this time. If you want to be prepared to nominate media released in 2020, you can become a Supporting member of DisCon III, the 2020 Worldcon in Washington, D.C.

On a personal note: while we've already seen some folks list us on their potential ballots, this year Lady Business will be recused from consideration in the Fanzine category and will turn down any nominations. We won last year! THAT'S STILL UNREAL! WHAT?! Thanks, from the very bottom of our hearts! We appreciate your support, but want to encourage everyone to check out the Hugo Awards Rec spreadsheet for other Fanzines. There's tons of great fans out there doing awesome work and we really want everyone to see the scope of what fans are making.

And now: on to the recs! ( Read more... )

helloladies

We are beyond thrilled to announce that Lady Business is a finalist in the Best Fanzine category for the 2019 Hugo Awards!

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happy Cookie Monster with a giant cookie

You can find the complete list of finalists here.

Our deepest thanks and appreciation to our readers and commenters: to everyone who nominated us, and to everyone who has read and supported the blog over the years. We're so grateful that our work speaks to you, and that you find it worthy of this amazing honor. Thanks also to the volunteers over at WorldCon 77 who put in the heroic effort to make these awards possible.

If this is your first time checking out Lady Business, or if you'd like an idea of what we've been up to in the last year, here's a selection of posts from 2018:

Let's Get Literate! The Bone Witch & Understanding Queer Contexts

Quick Hits with Ira: "Black Panther" literally is "Iron Man" except SO MUCH BETTER

Celebrating Mothers in SFF Books

"Be gone. I have to librarian" — Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

Let's Get Literate! The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Quick Hit: "A Wrinkle in Time," Black Femininity, and the Invisible Made Visible

Mystery, Murder, Lost Selves, and Editing Choices: "Six Wakes" and "Jane, Unlimited"

WisCon 42 Panel Writeups: "Redemption And Revenge: Antiheroines And Villainesses Taking Control"

Review: Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Volume 1 by CLAMP

Putting the World in Worldcon

Guest Column: Where Have All the SFF Moms Gone?

Again, thank you so, so much!

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bookgazing

I always go into Hugo voting with the best of intentions. I'm going to read all the things, view all the things, and not just get bogged down in the Novel category. 2017 is going to be different!

Yes. Well.

Appropriately for the Hugo Awards this optimistic view proved to be, as usual, pure fantasy. Still, I did pretty well for a lady with a long commute and limited data; particularly when it came to the Best Short Story category. I read four of the six stories nominated in this category for 2017. And what better way to get back into writing than to share all my thoughts with you?

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helloladies

We're excited to announce that Lady Business is a finalist for the Hugo Awards! \o/ You can read the official finalist list here. Now: PARTY BREAK.

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Viola Davis showered with confetti and then raising a glass of wine to the viewer in a celebratory toast

This is our second time as a finalist in the Best Fanzine category, and we're super thrilled to be here. To everyone who nominated us and our friends and supporters who read and recommend our work: thank you! We're so glad you enjoy our work and find us worthy of this award. You help make this project fun and rewarding and we appreciate you all so much!

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gray and white cat laying under a blanket and hugging a teddy bear

Thanks to Worldcon 75 and the World Science Fiction Society for all their work to manage the Hugo Awards. Running the award is a massive undertaking, and it's done entirely by volunteers — fans! — and we are stoked to be a part of it.

For those new to Lady Business, we're a group of women and genderqueer people who write about media from an intersectional feminist perspective. You can learn more about our individual editors here. If you'd like a sampling of our posts in 2016, here is some of what we've done:

In conclusion:

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helloladies

We're happy to welcome forestofglory to Lady Business to discuss the Hugos Awards and their history (and their future! Which you can influence!) with an award for Young Adult literature. Thanks, forestofglory!

I’m part of a committee helping to create new award for YA books to be given out at Worldcon (short for the World Science Fiction Convention) like a Hugo award. Currently the committee working on the award is running a survey to gather name suggestions. If you are interested in this we’d love for you to take the survey. It is online at bit.ly/worldconya. The survey will remain open until November 15.

If you’ve been reading Lady Business you have probably heard about the Hugo awards – some of you even nominated Lady Business for the Best Fanzine Hugo last year. But for those of you not familiar with the awards, they are a big deal in SFF and one of the few awards people who don’t follow SFF closely have frequently heard of. The Hugos are given out every year at Worldcon and are voted on by the members of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). ( Read more... )

bookgazing

It's just three weeks until nominations for The Hugo Awards close. With that in mind, I present my draft Best Novel ballot. There's still (barely) time to bury your faces in some of these great novels before nominations close and make your own decisions even harder. You're welcome!

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If you're planning to nominate for The Hugo Awards, drop into the comments and let me know what's on your draft novel ballot.

bookgazing

February is such a short month. I swear, it just started yesterday and now we're almost at the end of it. Every year around this period in Hugo nominations I start to freak out that there is. Just. NOT. Enough. Time! Even though logically I know that I don't have to read and watch everything - hell, I don't even have to nominate in every category if I don't want to - I tend to kick into overdrive in February and start trying to guzzle down five books at a time. Trust that the next (and final) installment of The Little Rocket That Could is going to be epic.

Before I move on to talking about what I've read and watched, a quick public service announcement. This week I discovered that I'm eligible to vote in The Locus Awards, from the shortlists they've already created. Turns out, anyone can vote in The Locus Awards for free (although votes from subscribers to the magazine count as double). And they've got a YA category. The deadline for voting is April 15, 2016. Yeah, my reading is not slowing down anytime soon.

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helloladies

Every year, we get together with some of our pals (and the wider internet) to crowdsource a list of eligible items for the Hugo Awards, the official award of WorldCon, run by members (fans!) of the World Science Fiction Society. You can learn about the award and how to participate at thehugoawards.org. If you choose to take part, do come and rec your favorite media. We love learning about things other fans have enjoyed. :)

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bookgazing

If you're planning to nominate for The Hugo Awards you need to have your membership (supporting or otherwise) for MidAmeriCon II by now. Nominations for The Hugo Awards have opened. Hugo PINs are now apparently on their way out. This thing is really happening.

If you're anything like me, then you briefly freaked out when you saw the announcement that nominations had opened. THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH TIME - my brain screams until it calms the fuck down and remembers that I can nominate right up until March 31st. It's going to be OK, everyone.

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