Every year those with a membership to the Hugos are rewarded with pretty amazing Voter Packet containing the various nominees in each category (excluding Best Dramatic Presentation); the packet includes 5 complete novels and a ton of other awesome prose.
That’s over $300 worth of science fiction and fantasy (at minimum), in PDF form, for the most part (there are some epub files, as well), for a voting membership that costs $50.
Visit Chicon 7, this year’s World Con for more information on Hugo voting memberships, the packet, and the awards.
This release includes all of the fiction categories (Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story and John W. Campbell Award) plus Best Professional Artist; with will the remaining categories to be added over the next few days. (The Best Fancast nominees are not included in the download files but are already freely available online, with a separate page here.)
Click here for further info, and to register and receive a packet.
Novels
Among Others by Jo Walton
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
Deadline by Mira Grant
Embassytown by China Mieville
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Short Fiction
Countdown by Mira Grant
Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons by John Scalzi
Related Works
Jar Jar Binks Must Die by Daniel M. Kimmel
Steampunk Bible by Jeff Vandermeer
Wicked Girls by Seanan McGuire
Graphic Novels
Digger by Ursula Vernon
Fables Vol 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham
Locke & Key Volume 4, Keys to the Kingdomby Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
The Unwritten (Volume 4): Leviathan by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
Anthologies and Full Magazines
Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams
Lightspeed edited by John Joseph Adams
Clarkesworld Magazine edited by Neil Clarke
Analog edited by Stanley Schmidt
Interzone edited by Andy Cox
Locus edited Liza Groen Trombi
Fanzines
Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
The Drink Tank edited by James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
File 770 edited Mike Glyer
Journey Planet edited by James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
SF Signal edited by John DeNardo
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
I am looking forward to getting my packet, even though I’ve already read most of the best novel noms.
FYI, folks – of the novels, currently only Tor’s “Among Others” is available in anything other than PDF.
(well done Tor! A hi-five to your sensible PR dept from me!)
Note, by the way, that the Voter Packet is not guaranteed and has been happening only for the past few years. Each year’s Worldcon has to start over from scratch with getting the permissions to distribute the voter packet, and there’s no guarantee that any given work will appear in the packet, since it’s up to the owner of the rights to that work to determine whether it’s included or not.
How is the packet delivered? A zip file? or someother download?
epub? Can any reader read that tyoe of file?
@@.-@:Each group (Novel, Novella, …) is in a zip file. Then, each book( story, etc) is in a directory with a selection of formats (sometimes only pdf).
Most readers can read epub.
Thanks.So I can download it to my computer.. now when i transfer it to my itouch, will it reformat itself so I can read it?
@6 John, I recommend heading over to http://www.mobileread.com/forums for help. They have experience transfering every possible ebook format to every possible device :-D