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The Hugos are awarded for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.  This year’s finalists for Best Novel are:

• Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
• Neptune’s Brood, by Charles Stross
• Parasite, by Mira Grant
• Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles, by Larry Correia
• The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Finalists in other categories are available at the Hugo Awards Site. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon“), who are fans.  The Awards will be presented at Loncon 3, on August 17, 2014.

The Hugo is one of the major U.S. awards for SF&F: the other is the Nebula, voted on, and presented by active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in May.  The 2013 Nebula Nominees for Best Novel are:

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
• Fire with Fire, by Charles E. Gannon
• Hild, by Nicola Griffith
• Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
• The Red: First Light, by Linda Nagata
• A Stranger in Olondria, by Sofia Samatar
• The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker.