Hugo Award for Best Related Work
We are asking you to consider “The Embroidered Worlds Funding Campaign” by Valya Dudycz Lupescu and E.D.E. Bell for Best Related Work. This includes our work securing an international grant after the already received grant was rescinded, and our community and culture celebrating crowdfunding camapign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/embroidered-worlds/ featuring guest writers from around the world. Because of the grant requirements, the entire process from the start of crowdfunding through translation, editing, sensitivity reading, typesetting, and production, to full publication was done within eleven weeks starting 01 September 2023. This late in the year release was therefore, necessary after previous external delays, but put us in a difficult position for awards visibility. Short stories from this collection are included on the following list:
Hugo-Award Specific Consideration
- Best Novel:
- Renegade by Gregory A. Wilson
- Inkbloom by E.D.E. Bell
- Best Novella:
- Pluralities by Avi Silver
- Best Novelette:
- “Morning Star Blues” by Tessa Fisher
- Best Short Story:
- “Svitla” by A.D. Sui
- “LDR” by Cameron Van Sant
- “Havrylovna” by Oleksiy Zhupansky, translated by Kateryna Darchyk
- Best Related Work:
- The Embroidered Worlds Funding Campaign by Valya Dudycz Lupescu and E.D.E. Bell
- Best Editor, Short Form:
- Bogi Takács
General 2023 Eligibility
Novel
- June 2023: Renegade by Gregory A. Wilson, Dark Fantasy, American (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- May 2023: Inkbloom by E.D.E. Bell, Quiet Fantasy, Bi+, Queer, Neurodivergent, American, Self-Published (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
Novella
- October 2023: Pluralities by Avi Silver, Slipstream Space Adventure, Trans, Nonbinary, Queer, Canadian (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
Audio
- March 2023: Grayshade by Gregory A. Wilson, narrated by Tren Sparks, Dark Fantasy
- April 2023: The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus by Alanna McFall, narrated by C. S. E. Cooney, Fantasy, Paranormal, Queer
- October 2023: Night Ivy by E.D.E. Bell, narrated by E.D.E. Bell, Quiet Fantasy, Bi+, Queer, Neurodivergent, Self-Published
- November 2023: Inkbloom by E.D.E. Bell, narrated by E.D.E. Bell, Quiet Fantasy, Bi+, Queer, Neurodivergent, Self-Published
Anthology / Short Stories / Novelette
- September 2023: Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders, edited by Bogi Takács
- The following stories are in their first English publication:
- “Rewilding Nova” by Polenth Blake (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “Render Raze Revise” by Stefani Cox
- “Cavern of Dreams” by Julie Nováková
- “The Vanishing of Ultratatts” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “The Starship Ariel” by Lydia Moon
- “Singing Goblin Songs” by Leigh Harlen
- “The Tightrope Walker” by Celia Neri
- “Circle Packing”, Ursula Whitcher
- “If Strange Things Happen Where She Is”, Premee Mohamed
- “Animal Behavior” by Emma Alice Johnson
- “The Elusive Plague” by Santiago Belluco
- “To Keep the Way” by Phoebe Barton
- “Blood and Iron” by Jennifer Lee Rossman
- “Possible Discontinuity and Unusual Secondary Structure of Okazaki and Okazaki” by Kanika Agrawal
- “Leech Clinic” by Laura Jane Swanson
- “Great Things Of Which To Speak Of” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
- “The Bull of the Moon Holds His Horns to Time’s Grindstone; or, Cybernetineti in Ur” by Vajra Chandrasekera
- “LDR” by Cameron Van Sant (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “Morning Star Blues” by Tessa Fisher – (SFWA Member Download, Recommend, novelette)
- “The Astronomer Aspiring” by Hal Y. Zhang
- “The Ocean Sings to You” by Isha Karki
- The collection also includes these stories, not in first publication:
- “Collecting Ynés” by Lisa M. Bradley
- “The Android That Designed Itself” by Julian K. Jarboe
- The following stories are in their first English publication:
- December 2023: Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora, edited by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Olha Brylova, and Iryna Pasko
- The following stories are in their first English publication:
- “Svitla” by A.D. Sui (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “Havrylovna” by Oleksiy Zhupansky, translated by Kateryna Darchyk (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “Neptune’s Day” by Ostap Ukrainets, translated by Oksana Katsanivska
- “Closest to the Pole” by Max Kidruk, translated by Tetiana Savchynska
- “Big Nose and the Faun” by Mykhailo Nazarenko, translated by Claire Haffner (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “The Dreamers of Ungvár” by Éva Berniczky, translated by Bogi Takács
- “The Bike Shadow” by Yaryna Katorozh, translated by Kateryna Darchyk
- “A Hole in the Shape of God” by Vasyl Dukhnovskyi, translated by Tetiana Savchynska
- “The Stray Streetcar (A ’90s Businessman’s Tale)” by Myroslava Hornostayeva, translated by Konstantin Boulich
- “The Rainbow Bridge” by Iryna Pasko, translated by Hanna Leliv (SFWA Member Download, Recommend)
- “Scream” by Olena Krasnoselska, translated by Oksana Katsanivska
- “The Midst of Snow” by Oleksiy Gedeonov, translated by Svetlana Lavochkina
- “The Long Black Veil” by Stefan O. Rak
- “Family v1.1” by Ihor Silivra, translated by Konstantin Boulich
- “In the Belly of the Dinosaur” by Károj D. Balla, translated by Bogi Takács
- “The Last of the Beads” by Halyna Lipatova, translated by R.B. Lemberg
- “Revenge in Pursuit” by Vira Balatska, translated by Michael M. Naydan and Alla Perminova
- “To See Jupiter” by Oleh Silin, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky
- “‘Kestrel’ Travel Agency” by Tatyana Adamenko, translated by Gari Light
- “Battle of the Gods” by Svitlana Taratorina, translated by Tetiana Savchynska
- “To the Garden” by Volodymyr Arenev, translated by Hanna Leliv
- The collection also includes these stories, not in first English publication:
- “An Embroidered World” by Yuriy Vynnychuk, translated by Michael Naydan
- “Geddarien” by R.B. Lemberg
- “A Bitter Thing” by N.R.M. Roshak
- “Three Forest Tales” by David Demchuk
- “Iron Goddess of Compassion” by Olha Brylova, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky
- “Three Love Stories” by Anatoly Belilovsky
- “Lest We Forget” by Elizabeth Bear
- “A Brief History of the Little : People” by Askold Melnyczuk
- “Honey” by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
- The following stories are in their first English publication:
Illustration
- Laura Antoniazzi, Canada, Cover for: Pluralities by Avi Silver
- Mia Carnevale, Canada, Cover art for: Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders, edited by Bogi Takács
- Taras Kopansky, Ukraine, Cover art for: Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora, edited by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Olha Brylova, and Iryna Pasko
- okenki, France, Cover art for: Inkbloom by E.D.E. Bell
- Peter Tikos, Hungary, Cover for: Renegade by Gregory A. Wilson
Editorial
- E.D.E. Bell, Long Form, for Renegade by Gregory A. Wilson and Pluralities by Avi Silver
- Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Olha Brylova, and Iryna Pasko, Short Form, for Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora
- Bogi Takács, Short Form, for Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders
Canadian Eligibility
- Pluralities by Avi Silver, novella
- “Svitla” by A.D. Sui, short story from Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora
- “To Keep the Way” by Phoebe Barton, short story from Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders
- “If Strange Things Happen Where She Is” by Premee Mohamed, short story from Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders
- Lorna Antoniazzi, cover illustration for Pluralities by Avi Silver
- Mia Carnevale, cover illustration for Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders, edited by Bogi Takács