Campbell Nominations

The Campbell Award for Best New Writer is not a Hugo award but is awarded together with it. Unlike the Hugo, writers have two bites at the cherry as you are eligible for nominations in the two years after your first professional sale. My list therefore has the best writers from the eligibility list at Writertopia eligible for the second year in a row:

• Carmen Maria Machado
  I read two of her short stories in my SF marathon and liked both of them, she has a somewhat more literary bend than is the norm within science fiction and deserves some recognition for it.
• Helene Wecker
  I just wish I’d read The Golem and the Djinni in time for last year’s Hugo Nominations.
• Bogi Takács
  A writer with a lot of potential and I want to read more of e’s fiction.
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew
  Despite the revelations about her being the blogger behind Requires Hate, I still like her fiction and think she is one of the brighter talents on the SF scene currently.
• Usman Malik
  I read two of his short stories in my SF marathon, which were almost good enough for a Hugo nomination, were it not for the stiff competition from others.