2023 Hugo and Lodestar and Astounding Award shortlists

TM: After much uncertainty (one can only guess as a result of how much dancing around, or utterly embracing, the politics and special pleading involved in running the first World SF Convention in China under the current state of affairs there and elsewhere), the final ballot has been released (after a retracted release the other week), as detailed in Locus magazine:

https://locusmag.com/2023/07/2023-hugo-astounding-and-lodestar-awards-finalists/

Best Novel

• Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
• Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)

Best Novella

• A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
• What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
• Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
• Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

• “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
• “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld 12/22)
• “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
• “The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
• “We Built This City”, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld 6/22)
• “The Space-Time Painter”, Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge 4/22)

Best Short Story

• “The White Cliff”, Lu Ban (Science Fiction World 5/22)
• “On the Razor’s Edge”, Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World 1/22)
• “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
• “Resurrection”, Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World 12/22)
• “Zhurong on Mars”, Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers 9/22)
• “D.I.Y.”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)

Best Series

• Rivers of London Series, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
• The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• October Daye, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• The Locked Tomb Series, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Scholomance Series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
• Children of Time Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
• DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel
• Monstress, Volume 7: Devourer
• Once & Future, Volume 4: Monarchies in the UK
• Saga, Volume 10
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Best Related Work

• Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
• Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Volume 1, Yang Feng (Chengdu Times Press)
• “The Ghost of Workshops Past”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com 8/17/22)
• Buffalito World Outreach Project, Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem)
• Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, Wil Wheaton (William Morrow)
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Nope
• Severance, Season One
• Turning Red

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Andor: “One Way Out”
• Andor: “Rix Road”
• The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”
• For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?”
• Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”

Best Editor, Short Form

• Scott H. Andrews
• Neil Clarke
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• Xu Wang
• Feng Yang

Best Editor, Long Form

• Ruoxi Chen
• Lindsey Hall
• Lee Harris
• Sarah Peed
• Huan Yan
• Haijun Yao

Best Professional Artist

• Sija Hong
• Kuri Huang
• Paul Lewin
• Alyssa Winans
• Jian Zhang
• Enzhe Zhao

Best Semiprozine

• Escape Pod
• FIYAH
• khōréō
• PodCastle
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny

Best Fanzine

• Chinese Academic SF Express
• Galactic Journey
• Journey Planet
• Nerds of a Feather
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog
• Zero Gravity Newspaper

Best Fancast

• Coode Street Podcast
• Hugo, Girl!
• Hugos There
• Kalanadi
• Octothorpe
• Worldbuilding for Masochists

Best Fan Writer

• Chris M. Barkley
• Bitter Karella
• Arthur Liu
• RiverFlow
• Jason Sanford
• Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

• Iain J. Clark
• Richard Man
• Laya Rose
• Alison Scott
• España Sheriff
• Orion Smith

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book [Not a Hugo Award]

• Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
• Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry)
• In the Serpent’s Wake, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
• Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
• Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, Catherynne M. Valente (McElderry)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Award]

• Travis Baldree
• Naseem Jamnia
• Isabel J. Kim*
• Maijia Liu
• Everina Maxwell*
• Weimu Xin*

*Finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility.

The 2023 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award will be presented on Saturday evening, October 21, 2023, at a formal ceremony at Chengdu Worldcon.

Questions about the Hugo Awards process should be directed to hugoteam@chengduworldcon.com.

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"Filipina Baby" by Gene Wolfe, THE LAUREL REVIEW, Spring 1969, edited by Willis H. Austin: Short Story Wednesday

This is a brief, and all but "lost" story rediscovered. It's not Absolutely yet proven it's by the Gene Wolfe who was a notable fantasy and sf and historical fiction writer, but it sure reads like his work, and the dealing with Roman Catholic matters in its short focus (unsurprising in a story set, essentially, in the Philippines) doesn't disqualify it from being his in any way. 

It's not quite as short as a vignette, as it concerns a Filipina-born widow of a US sailor, returning to her birth-city of Zamboanga after the death of her husband, having lived with him in the States for most of the years since their marriage, apparently just after World War 2's conclusion (he is cited as having commanded the Kusunoki, a Japanese vessel turned over to the Allies after Japan's surrender, and mostly used to repatriate Japanese citizens from the Philippines and probably elsewhere through 1947).  She is observing a year of mourning, and took a long sea voyage back to Mindanao on a craft commanded by an old colleague of her husband's, and shortly after landing, she meets an old flame of hers from back in the day, who reminds her of her brothers' threats (presumably for marrying a Yank, in the resumption of US occupation briefly after "liberation" from the Japanese), though the severity of the threat and the reasons for it are not made explicit.  A good work to read, if not quite a key work of Wolfe's, and apparently he didn't think of it as such, himself, but it does have me wondering what inspired it. 

I'm not sure this is posted anywhere that one can access directly (I haven't searched for it on Archive.org as yet, though there are citations of its Laurel Review issue in other texts collected there); the copy I read was procured via interlibrary transmission from the Michigan State University library. 

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