(Updated!) 2014 Hugo Nominee Ballot: The Full List + 1939 Retro-Hugo Nominees

I've decided to collapse everything into one post so I don't have to drop a dozen things tonight.  Due to time constraints, I have also left out a lot of the explanations and introductions for the various sections, as I wanted to do some more short fiction reading before I submitted my final ballot.

Here's the full ballot:
Best Novel
I feel like this is one of those categories where no matter what I do, I'll always miss something.  2013 wasn't a huge reading year for me, and that means there are just too many bloody novels I didn't have time to get to.  Thankfully, I got to read some exceptional books, even if they are only 1% of the things published in sf/f in 2013.  My list:

• The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
• Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Best Novella

• "Wakulla Springs" by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
• "Martyr's Gem" by C.S.E. Cooney (GigaNotoSaurus)

Best Novelette

• "Monday's Monk" by Jason Sanford (Asimov's)
• "The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard (self-published)
• "Painted Birds and Shivered Bones" by Kat Howard (Subterranean Press)

Best Short Story

• "The Water That Falls on You From Nowhere" by John Chu (Tor.com)
• "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
• "Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clakesworld)
• "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com)
• "Walls of Skin, Soft as Paper" by Adam Callaway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

Best Related Work

• Speculative Fiction 2012 edited by Jared Shurin and Justin Landon
• Feminist Frequency:  Tropes vs. Women by Anita Sarkeesian
• Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
• The Agony Column by Rick Kleffel
• SF History Column by Andrew Liptak (at Kirkus Reviews)

Best Graphic Story

• Batman Vol. 1:  Court of Owls by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (DC)
• Avengers, Vol. 1:  Avengers World by Jonathan Hickman and Jerone Opena (Marvel)
• Saga, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
• Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1:  Revolution by Brian Michael Bendis, Chris Bachalo, and Frazier Irving (Marvel)
• All-New X-Men, Vol. 1:  Yesterday's X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen (Marvel)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Pacific Rim
• Her
• Elysium
• The World's End
• Gravity

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• "The Rains of Castamere," Game of Thrones
• "The Sin Eater," Sleepy Hollow
• "The Midnight Ride," Sleepy Hollow
• "Trou Normand," HannibalI will explain why I picked this episode with an image.
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• "The Poet's Fire," The Following

Best Editor (Short Form)

• Djibril al-Ayad
• Fabio Fernandes
• Andy Cox
• Neil Clarke
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Best Editor (Long Form)

• Tim Holman (Orbit Books)
• Lee Harris (Angry Robot Books)
• Devi Pillai (Orbit Books)
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books)
• Anne Perry (Hodder)

Best Professional Artist

• Noah Bradley
• Richard Anderson
• Sam Burley
• Kentaro Kanamoto
• Kekai Kotaki

Best Semiprozine

• Interzone
• Clarkesworld
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Strange Horizons
• Apex Magazine

Best Fanzine

• A Dribble of Ink
• Pornokitsch
• The Book Smugglers
• Fantasy Book Cafe
• LadyBusiness

Best Fancast

• The Coode Street Podcast
• The Writer and the Critic
• Galactic Suburbia
• The Incomparable
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show

Best Fan Writer

• Kameron Hurley
• Foz Meadows
• Paul Weimer
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Justin Landon

Best Fan Artist

• Euclase
• Yuumei / Wenqing Yan
• Sarah Webb
• Alice X. Zhang
• Angela Rizza

The 2014 Campbell Award

• Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• Max Gladstone
• Brian McClellan
• Myke Cole
• John Chu

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And these are my selections for the 1939 Retro-Hugos (with a lot of gaps):

Best Novel

• The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
• Galactic Patrol by E.E. Doc Smith
• Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
• The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson

Best Novella

• "The Time Trap" by Henry Kuttner
• "The Black Drama" by Manly Wade Wellman
• "The Sleepers of Mars" by John Wyndham 

Best Novelette

• "The Loot of Time" by Clifford D. Simak
• "Reunion on Ganymede" by Clifford D. Simak
• "The Dead Spot" by Jack Williamson

Best Graphic Story

• Action Comics #1

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• A Christmas Carol (film)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Flash Gordon:  The Planet of Terror (or the whole series)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (radio series)
• The War of the Worlds (radio series)
• The Shadow (radio series)

Best Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Mort Weisinger
• Farnsworth Wright
• Raymond A. Palmer
• T O'Conor Sloane

Best Fanzine

• Imagination!

Best Fan Writer

• Forrest J. Ackerman

And that's it!

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