Best Novel
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
Best Novella
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist", Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11)
Best Novelette
"Six Months, Three Days", Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
Best Short Story
"The Paper Menagerie", Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
SS F&SF (Fantasy & Science Fiction) March/April 2011 – fantasy
An American boy's Chinese mother makes origami paper animals for him. She breathes life into them, at least
figuratively, perhaps more. The paper tiger, Laohu, takes on the neighbor kid's Obi-Wan Kenobi toy. The boy wants his mother to be less foreign, more American, and speak English to him.
A good story. When grown-up, the boy regretfully realizes he didn't know his mother, who was a mail-order bride, that well.
2012 Hugo Award nominees for Best Novella
"The Ice Owl", Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF 11-12/11)
"Countdown", Mira Grant (Orbit Short Fiction)
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist", Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11)
"Kiss Me Twice", Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11)
"The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary", Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)
2012 Hugo Award nominees for Best Novelette
"Six Months, Three Days", Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
"The Copenhagen Interpretation", Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)
"What We Found", Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/11)
"Fields of Gold", Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse Four)
"Ray of Light", Brad R. Torgersen (Analog 12/11)
2012 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story
"Movement", Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s 3/11)
"The Paper Menagerie", Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
"The Homecoming", Mike Resnick (Asimov’s 4-5/11)
"Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Prologue)", John Scalzi (Tor.com 4/1/11)
"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)
Best Novel
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Best Novella
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
Best Novelette
"The Emperor of Mars", Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s 6/10)
Best Short Story
"For Want of a Nail", Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 12/10)
2011 Hugo Award nominees for Best Novella
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon", Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
"The Sultan of the Clouds", Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 9/10)
"Troika", Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window", Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)
2011 Hugo Award nominees for Best Novelette
"The Jaguar House, in Shadow", Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 7/10)
"Plus or Minus", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
"Eight Miles", Sean McMullen (Analog 9/10)
"The Emperor of Mars", Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s 6/10)
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made", Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)
2011 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story
"Ponies", Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
"For Want of a Nail", Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 12/10)
"Amaryllis", Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 6/10)
"The Things", Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)
Best Novel (tie)
The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Best Novella
"Palimpsest" by Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace; Orbit)
Best Novelette
"The Island" by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
Best Short Story
"Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
