Voting For 2011 Hugo Awards Now Closed

The nominations for the 2011 Hugo Awards were announced in April 2011 but I just noticed at John Scalzi's blog that voting on the nominations have now closed. The nominations and winners of the 20111 Nebula awards have already been announced. The Hugo and Nbula awards are tyhe most prestigious awards for speculative works of fiction. Generally, authors select the Nebula award winners and fans pick the Hugo winners.

This year, only two books managed to make the Best Novel category of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, both of which I have read. They are The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin and Blackout/All-Clear by Connie Willis. Willis has won the Nebula-Hugo double before, for the brilliant Doomsday Book. She has already won the 2011 Nebula Award for her diptych Blackout/All-Clear. Jemisin is a first-time author whose book people either love or hate (I hated it).

Last year there was a tie for the Hugo Award for Best Novel between Paola Baacigalupi's The Wind-up Girl  and China Mieville's The City and the City, neither of which I thought was amazing.

This year's winner will be decided at the World Science Fiction convention on August 20 in Reno, Nevada.
Here's the full list of nominees for Best Novel.

Best Novel

• Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
• Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
• Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)

    

I hope Connie wins!