Cover Art: Coralie Bickford-Smith

Coralie Bickford-Smith, a senior cover designer at Penguin Books, has launched her own website.  Her clothbound designs are absolutely beautiful.

Awards: 2010 Hugo Nominees

BEST NOVEL (699 nominating ballots)

• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (Tor)
• The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
• Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
• Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

BEST NOVELLA (375 nominating ballots)

• “Act One” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s 3/09)
• The God Engines by John Scalzi (Subterranean)
• “Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (Wireless)
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow (Tachyon)
• “Vishnu at the Cat Circus” by Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
• The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker (Subterranean)