Most Wandering Monster Ballots will crowdspawn from your write-in recommendations.. (❧ = most-recommended four books (last time we checked)):
Adrian Tchaivosky's CHILDREN OF TIME
Alastair Reynold's SLOW BULLETS
Aliette de Bodard's THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS
Alison Croggon's THE RIVER AND THE BOOK
Ann Leckie's ANCILLARY MERCY ❧
Anne Charnock’s SLEEPING EMBERS OF AN ORDINARY MIND
Ayize Jama-Everett's THE LIMINAL WAR
B.R. Sanders's ARIAH
Bernhard Hennen and James A. Sullivan's THE ELVEN
Catherynne M. Valente's RADIANCE ❧
Daniel Jose Older's HALF-RESURRECTION BLUES
David Hutchinson's EUROPE AT MIDNIGHT
David Mitchell's SLADE HOUSE
E. J. Swift’s TAMARUQ
Elizabeth Bear's KAREN MEMORY ❧
Elizabeth Hand's WILDING HALL
Frances Hardinge's CUCKOO SONG
Gareth Powell's MACAQUE ATTACK
Ian Tregillis's THE MECHANICAL
James Bradley’s CLADE
Jo Walton's THE JUST CITY ❧
Joanne Hall's SPARK AND CAROUSEL
John Scalzi's THE END OF ALL THINGS
Jonathan L. Howard's CARTER & LOVECRAFT
Justina Robson’s GLORIOUS ANGELS
Kai Ashante Wilson's THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS
Karen Lord's THE GALAXY GAME
Ken Liu's THE GRACE OF KINGS
Laura Van Den Berg’s FIND ME
Less Wrong's HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY
Liu Cixin's THE DARK FOREST
Lois McMaster Bujold's GENTLEMAN JOLE AND THE RED QUEEN
Matthew de Abaitua’s IF THEN
Mira Grant's CHIMERA
Natasha Pulley's THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET
Neal Asher's DARK INTELLIGENCE
Nnedi Okorafor's LAGOON
Patrick Ness's THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE
Paul Meloy’s THE NIGHT CLOCK
Ramez Naam's APEX
Raphael Ordoñez's DRAGONFLY
Robert Levy's THE GLITTERING WORLD
Scott Hawkins's THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR
Seth Dickinson's THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT
Silvia Moreno-Garcia's SIGNAL TO NOISE
Stephanie Saulter's REGENERATION
Steven Poore's HEIR TO THE NORTH
Ursula Vernon / T. Kingfisher's BRYONY AND ROSES
Zen Cho's SORCERER TO THE CROWN
(This list will be regularly updated while voting is open).
One or two Wandering Monster Ballots will also be dispatched by specially-invited master monster-mongers. Here's just one rumor of the kind of folks who may already be sharpening their pointy bits deep in the Dungeons of Democracy:
Cabbages, Kings, and Many Things: the Wandering Monsters of Jonah Sutton-Morse
Swedenborg's Demons (20 HP, treat as Mithril): Kai Ashante Wilson's THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS
A Lamed Wufnik (20 HP, treat as Dalek): Kate Elliott's BLACK WOLVES
The Perytion (20 HP, treat as Hedgehog): Ian Sales's ALL THAT OUTER SPACE ALLOWS
Guilinbursti (20 HP, treat as Witch): Ken Liu's THE GRACE OF KINGS
Past Winners
While 2016 is the first year that Terrans can vote in the Award, it has been going strong in other parts of the universe for eons. Past winners include:
#TeamHedgehog
Robert Silverbellied, Majiporcupine Chroniprickles
Theodore Pincushion, E Pluribus Unomnomnomnomnom
David Gerrolledup, The Hedgehog Who Folded Himself Right Up
William Gibsonic, Mario Luigi Overdrive
#TeamWitch
E.E. Smithryn, Expecto Galactic Patronum
David Broom, Hat of the Kermit
Frank Herb, Dune: House Hufflepuff
Joe Haldemon, The Forever Wart
Joe Haldemon, The Forever Wart
Vernor Vingerbread, A Frog Upon the Lap
#TeamDalek
Philip K. Dalek, Through a Stairwell Dalekly
J.K. Rolling, Harry Plunger and the Order of the Peppershaker
Kevin J. Anderselfiestick, The Dalek Between the Stairs
Ann Dalekie, Ancillary Justice! Ancillary Justexterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!
Links & Resources
Kevin Standlee's Three Possible Hugo Voting Alternatives (May 2016). And a summary and follow-up, a Hugo Voting Idea Toolkit, and the whole Hugo Awards tag at File 770.
Ben Yalow's history of the Hugos.
Making Light: discussion Hugo finalists in 2015 and 2016.
Discussion of the Clarke Award, especially whether or not to have a longlist.
Books & Pieces on bookish awards and the BooktubeSFF Awards.
The Kitschies, the Compton Crook award, the WSFA Small Press award, the Nommos for African speculative fiction, Wikipedia's list of speculative fiction awards.
Links & Resources
Kevin Standlee's Three Possible Hugo Voting Alternatives (May 2016). And a summary and follow-up, a Hugo Voting Idea Toolkit, and the whole Hugo Awards tag at File 770.
Ben Yalow's history of the Hugos.
Making Light: discussion Hugo finalists in 2015 and 2016.
Discussion of the Clarke Award, especially whether or not to have a longlist.
Books & Pieces on bookish awards and the BooktubeSFF Awards.
The Kitschies, the Compton Crook award, the WSFA Small Press award, the Nommos for African speculative fiction, Wikipedia's list of speculative fiction awards.
