Seeking Ferret

Best Fan Writer

skygiants

Best Novelette

“A Sky and a Heaven” by Eric Choi

Best Novel

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Things I am planning to nominate for a Hugo at the moment

"Mirror Workout" from Saturday Night Live for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. It's a sketch in which a couple of bro-y guys do a peloton-style workout video that the audience slowly realizes is actually being broadcast from a demonic prison. But the bro-y guys don't realize, they seem to just think it's weird video shtick! It does so much with so little, honestly it's the piece of new media from this past year I've gone back to the most. I know the Hugo voters and think it's unlikely anyone else will think it worthy, but it's a haunting fantasy tale that is also hilarious, and it packs it a surprising depth

The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum for Best Novel. Incredible story of love and coming of age in a time of Far Future revolution. I didn't read a lot of new novels this year, but this one was highly anticipated and completely delivered.

"Gitl Schneiderman Learns to Live With Her In-Laws" by Rebecca Fraimow for Best Short Story. Third story in an amazing cycle of shtetl fantasies. How is it both so funny and such a punch in the feels?

Because of the year overlap, the following episodes of The Good Place seem to be eligible for the 2020 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form

S3

"The Book of Dougs"
"Chidi Sees the Time-Knife"
"Pandemonium"

S4

"A Girl from Arizona"
"A Girl from Arizona" (Part 2)
"Chillaxing"
"Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy"
"Employee of the Bearimy"
"A Chip Driver Mystery"
"Help Is Other People"
"The Funeral to End All Funerals"
"The Answer"

There's a lot of great storytelling in there, but I think my favorites are "Chidi Sees the Time Knife" and "The Answer".