SAD PUPPIES 3: announces its 2015 Hugo sample slate

Here is the announcement from the official Sad Puppies Sample Ballot, from Sad Puppies central, as compiled by Brad R. Torgersen. The words below are his:

And here it is! After much combobulating, the official SAD PUPPIES 3 slate is assembled! As noted earlier in the year, the SAD PUPPIES 3 list is a recommendation. Not an absolute. Assembled here is the best list (we think!) of entirely deserving works, writers, and editors — all of whom would not otherwise find themselves on the Hugo ballot without some extra oomph received from beyond the rarefied, insular halls of 21st century Worldcon “fandom.”

Which is where YOU guys come in. Everyone who’s signed up as a full or supporting member of either Loncon 3 (last year’s Worldcon) or Sasquan (this year’s Worldcon) or MidAmeriCon II (next year’s Worldcon.) If you agree with our slate below — and we suspect you might — this is YOUR chance to make sure YOUR voice is heard. This is YOUR award (as SF/F’s self-proclaimed “most prestigious award”) and YOU get to have a say in who is acknowledged.

Remember: only YOU can combat puppy-related sadness!

Best Novel
“The Dark Between the Stars” – Kevin J. Anderson – TOR
“Trial by Fire” – Charles E. Gannon – BAEN
“Skin Game” – Jim Butcher – ROC
“Monster Hunter Nemesis” – Larry Correia – BAEN
“Lines of Departure” – Marko Kloos – 47 North (Amazon)

Best Novella
“Flow” – Arlan Andrews Sr. – Analog magazine November 2014
“One Bright Star to Guide Them” – John C. Wright – Castalia House
“The Jenregar and the Light” – Dave Creek – Analog magazine October 2014
“Big Boys Don’t Cry” – Tom Kratman – Castalia House

Best Novelette
“The Journeyman: In the Stone House” – Michael F. Flynn – Analog magazine June 2014
“The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale” – Rajnar Vajra – Analog magazine July/Aug 2014
“Championship B’tok” – Edward M. Lerner – Analog magazine Sept 2014
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium” – Gray Rinehart – Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show

Best Short Story
“Goodnight Stars” – Annie Bellet – The Apocalypse Triptych
“Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer” – Megan Grey – Fireside Fiction
“Totaled” – Kary English – Galaxy’s Edge magazine
“On A Spiritual Plain” – Lou Antonelli – Sci Phi Journal #2

Best Related Work
“Letters from Gardner” – Lou Antonelli – Merry Blacksmith Press
“Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth” – John C. Wright – Castalia House
“THE HOT EQUATIONS: THERMODYNAMICS AND MILITARY SF” – Ken Burnside
“Wisdom From My Internet” – Michael Z. Williamson
“Why Science is Never Settled” – Tedd Roberts – BAEN

Best Graphic Story
“Reduce Reuse Reanimate (Zombie Nation book #2) – Carter Reid – (independent)

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
“The Lego Movie” – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
“Guardians of the Galaxy” – James Gunn
“Interstellar” – Christopher Nolan
“The Maze Runner” – Wes Ball

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
Grimm – NBC
Marvel’s Agent’s of Shield – ABC
Warehouse 13 – SyFY

Best Editor (Long Form)
Toni Weisskopf – BAEN
Jim Minz – BAEN
Anne Sowards – ACE/ROC
Sheila Gilbert – DAW

Best Editor (Short Form)
Mike Resnick – Galaxy’s Edge magazine
Edmund R. Schubert – Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
Jennifer Brozek (Shattered Shields)
Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Shattered Shields)

Best Professional Artist
Carter Reid
Jon Eno
Alan Polack
Nick Greenwood

Best Semiprozine
Sci Phi Journal – Jason Rennie
Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show – Edmund Schubert
Abyss & Apex
Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine

Best Fanzine
Tangent SF On-line – Dave Truesdale
SF Signal – Jon DeNardo
Elitist Book Reviews – Steve Diamond
The Revenge of Hump Day – Tim Bolgeo

Best Fancast
“The Sci Phi Show” – Jason Rennie
Dungeon Crawlers Radio
Adventures in SF Publishing

Best Fan Writer
Matthew David Surridge (Black Gate)
Jeffro Johnson
Amanda Green
Cedar Sanderson
Dave Freer

The John W. Campbell Award
Jason Cordova
Kary English
Eric S. Raymond
Amy Turner Hughes

To Mr Torgersen’s words must be added these wise and trenchant comments from our spokesmanatee, Wendel:

wendell2-2Profound words, Wendel! We are all uplifted. I wipe a sincere but manly tear from my eye.

For myself, I hope any Gamergaters who have been vexed enough at the low and dishonest gangster-style tactics used against them, will be stirred by their love of honest entertainment and their old-fashioned rebellious instinct so deeply rooted in the American character to venture into the science fiction field and discover they have allies among the conservatives here.

Yes, Gamergaters, we also like newspapers that are not crooked, and big American breasts on our cartoon cheesecake pics.

And we like not being slandered by shameless liars and weasels.

I also hope fans of Jim Butcher are outraged that his works, slighted by the snoots, will help our efforts to give him the public applause he so richly deserves will make common cause with us.

Join with us, Butcherites! Do it for Molly!

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Forward, faithful fans of Dresden! We can overcome the obstacles that face us! Shout PARKOUR and leap! Leap like the wind! parkour

Together, we can say farewell to poorly-written dino-revenge fantasies and putrid lesbian were-seal elf-p0rn and socially relevant tales were nothing much happens at all, except the author promises to entertain you, but instead lectures and upbraids you over non-problems of no interest to anyone living outside the Bedlam Asylum for the Criminally Hysterical.

Remember, it makes puppies sad to see quality work ignored while and incestuous clique of ‘mean girls’ grants awards to their friends based solely on lamebrain political correctness, and not on the merit of the work.

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This sad puppy, Fluffmuffin Twinklenose, owned by Mrs Vinolent Mugwump of Tenafly, New Jersey , just discovered that the mediocre ‘If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love‘ won a Nebula and was shortlisted for a Hugo, while John C Wright’s NIGHT LANDS stories were ignored. He is sad! How sad he is!