Where To Find the 2019 Hugo Longlist For Free Online

 This is intended as a supplement to JJ’s File 770 post, Where To Find The 2019 Hugo Award Finalists For Free Online. If you want to read the actual Hugo finalists, that’s where to look.

If you are interested in reading works that were on this year’s Hugo longlist but did not make the final ballot, here’s a guide to find material which is available for free online. Where available in their entirety, works are linked. If not available for free, an Amazon link is provided and a free excerpt has been linked if I could find one online. I highly encourage you to purchase books via your local independent bookseller instead of Amazon if possible.

Works are provided in the order of longlist finish. No attempt has been made to verify eligibility or lack thereof.

Novel

• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) (excerpt)
• Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (Ecco) (excerpt)
• Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown) (excerpt)
• Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com) (excerpt)
• The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (Tor) (Prologue) (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2)
• Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown) (excerpt)
• In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky Literary Agency) (excerpt)
• Semiosis by Sue Burke (Tor) (excerpt)
• Before Mars by Emma Newman (Ace) (excerpt)
• Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) (excerpt)

Novella

• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Tor.com) (excerpt) — declined nomination
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (Tor.com) (excerpt) — declined nomination
• Time Was by Ian McDonald (Tor.com) (excerpt)
• The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang (Tor.com) (excerpt)
• The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency)
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts (Tachyon)
• “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld)
• The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor.com)
• Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant (Subterranean Press) (excerpt)
• Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield (Tor.com) (excerpt)

Novelette

• “How to Swallow the Moon” by Isabel Yap (Uncanny Magazine)
• “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births” by José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed)
• “A Study in Oils” by Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld)
• “An Agent of Utopia” by Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld)
• “Evernight” by Victor Milán (Tor.com)
• “Thirty-Three Percent Joe” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
• “The Nearest” by Greg Egan (Tor.com)
• “A World to Die For” by Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld)
• “No Flight Without the Shatter” by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)

Short Story

• “Meat and Salt and Sparks” by Rich Larson (Tor.com)
• “Field Biology of the Wee Fairies” by Naomi Kritzer (Apex Magazine)
• “Waterbirds” by G. V. Anderson (Lightspeed)
• “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts (Clarkesworld)
• “She Still Loves the Dragon” by Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny Magazine)
• “The Starship and the Temple Cat” by Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• “You Can Make a Dinosaur But You Can’t Help Me” by K.M. Szpara (Uncanny Magazine)
• “Mother Tongues” by S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov’s)
• “Asphalt, River, Mother, Child” by Isabel Yap (Strange Horizons)
• “And Yet” by A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine)

Series

• Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (most recently Saga Press) (excerpt from A Wizard of Earthsea)
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (Tor.com) (excerpt from All Systems Red)
• Wildcards edited by George R. R. Martin (most recently Tor)
• Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
• Planetfall by Emma Newman (Ace) (excerpt from Planetfall)
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (Ace)
• Sin du Jour by Matt Wallace (Tor.com) (excerpt from Envy of Angels)
• Fractured Europe by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris) (excerpt from Europe at Midnight)
• The Arcadia Project by Mishell Baker (Saga Press) (excerpt from Borderline)
• Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz) (excerpt from Lies Sleeping)

Related Work

• Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin (Bantam) (excerpt)
• Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller (Melville House) (excerpt)
• Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster) (excerpt)
• “I Belong Where the People Are: Disability and The Shape of Water” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Tor.com)
• “Hard Enough” by Melissa Lingen (Uncanny Magazine)
• How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller by Ryan North (Riverhead Books) (excerpt)
• “The 2017 #BlackSpecFic Report” by Cecily Kane (Fireside Magazine)
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin by Arwen Curry (Grasshopper Film) (trailer)
• “One Atom of Justice, One Molecule of Mercy, and the Empire of Unsheathed Knives” by Alexandra Rowland (The Stellar Beacon)
• “On motherhood and erasure: people-shaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventures” by Aliette de Bodard (Intellectus Speculativus)

Graphic Story

• The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 7: Mothering Intervention, written by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie, colored by Matt Wilson, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Image Comics)
• The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, written by the McElroy Brothers, art by Carey Pietsch (First Second)
• Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Nico Leon, colored by Ian Herring (Marvel Comics)
• The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Skybound Books)
• Shuri: The Search for Black Panther, written by Nnedi Okorafor, illustrated by Leonardo Romero and Jordie Bellaire (Marvel Comics)
• X-Men Gold Annual #2, written by Seanan McGuire, art by Marco Failla, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg (Marvel Comics)
• Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #1, written by Seanan McGuire, art by Rosi Kämpe, colored by Ian Herring (Marvel Comics)
• Mister Miracle, written by Tom King, illustrated by Mitch Gerads (DC Comics)
• Runaways, Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home, written by Rainbow Rowell, illustrated by Kris Anka (Marvel Comics)
• The Forever War: Forever Free, written by Joe Haldeman, illustrated by Marvano (Titan Comics)

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• A Wrinkle in Time  (trailer)
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (trailer)
• The Expanse (season 3) (trailer)
• Incredibles 2 (trailer)
• Ready Player One (trailer)
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (trailer)
• Deadpool 2 (trailer)
• Isle of Dogs (trailer)
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (season 1) (trailer)
• Ant-Man and the Wasp (trailer)

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Doctor Who: “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” (trailer)
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: “Promise”
• Westworld: “Kiksuya” (trailer)
• Steven Universe: “Reunited” (trailer)
• The Expanse: “Immolation” (trailer)
• The Magicians: “A Life in the Day” (trailer)
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: “Princess Prom” (trailer)
• Star Trek: Discovery: “What’s Past is Prologue” (trailer)
• The Expanse: “Fallen World” (trailer)
• DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: “The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly” (trailer)

Professional Editor, Short Form

• Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve [reprint anthology], Infinity’s End [original anthology], Black Helicopters, The Million, Time Was, Tor.com [5 stories])
• John Joseph Adams (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (with N.K. Jemisin) [reprint anthology], Lightspeed Magazine (with Wendy N. Wagner), Nightmare Magazine (with Wendy N. Wagner)
• Sheila Williams (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
• C. C. Finlay (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• Scott H. Andrews (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• Ellen Datlow (The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 10 [reprint anthology], The Best of the Best Horror of the Year [reprint anthology], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [original anthology], Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Tor.com [10 stories])
• S.B. Divya and Mur Lafferty (Escape Pod)
• Dominik Parisien (Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, Robots vs. Fairies (with Navah Wolfe)
• Trevor Quachri (Analog Science Fiction & Fact)
• Ann VanderMeer (Tor.com [4 stories])

Professional Editor, Long Form

• Joe Monti (The Long Sunset, The Tangled Lands, Trail of Lightning)
• Jenni Hill
• Brit Hvide (Annex, A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, The Tower of Living and Dying)
• Sarah Guan (There Before the Chaos, Afterwar, Empire of Sand, Torn)
• Lee Harris (Bedfellow, Outbreak)
• Liz Gorinsky (The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky, Ball Lightning)
• Miriam Weinberg (The Phoenix Empress, Vengeful)
• Anne Sowards (Ascendant, Burn Bright, Lake Silence, Magic Triumphs, Marked, Mecha Samurai Empire, Phoenix Unbound, River of Bones, Shadow’s Bane, Smoke and Iron, Stars Uncharted)
• Toni Weisskopf
• Devi Pillai (The Stars Now Unclaimed)

Professional Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Julie Dillon
• Will Staehle
• Greg Ruth
• Simon Stålenhag
• Rovina Cai
• Sana Takeda
• Michael Komarck
• Reiko Murakami
• Maurizio Manzieri

Semiprozine

• Escape Pod
• Book Smugglers
• PodCastle
• Interzone
• GigaNotoSaurus
• Lightspeed
• Cast of Wonders
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Apex Magazine
• Glittership

Fanzine

• File 770 — declined nomination
• Women Write About Comics
• The Rec Center
• SF Bluestocking
• Banana Wings
• The Drink Tank
• Black Gate
• The Wertzone
• Ansible
• SF in Translation

Fancast

• Ditch Diggers
• Sword and Laser
• Verity!
• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• Kalanadi
• Books and Pieces
• Hammer House of Podcast
• Fansplaining
• Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men
• Lindsey Ellis

Fan Writer

• Orjan Westin
• Adam Whitehead
• Sarah Gailey
• Cora Buhlert
• Liz Bourke
• Mike Glyer
• Paul Weimer
• Jason Sanford
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Erin Horáková

Fan Artist

• Jemina Malkki
• Richard Man
• Steve Stiles
• Maurine Starkey
• Vandy Hall
• Michael Carroll
• Elizabeth Leggett
• Iguanamouth
• Geneva Benton
• Caio Santos

Art Book

• Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium by Paul Kidby (Gollancz) — ineligible, published in 2017
• Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan by Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo Books) (teaser)
• A Middle-Earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag-End to Mordor by John Howe (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Art of Black Panther by Eleni Roussos (Marvel)
• The Chronicles of Exandria, Vol II: The Legend of Vox Machina by Liam O’Brien et al. (Hunters Books)
• Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross by Alex Ross et al. (Pantheon)
• The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Skybound Books)
• Monster Portraits by Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar (Rose Metal Press) (excerpt)
• Cicada by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine)
• Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy by Yoshitaka Amano (Dark Horse)

Young Adult Book (Lodestar)

• Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (Delacorte Press) (excerpt)
• Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce (Random House) (excerpt)
• Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien (Henry Holt) (excerpt)
• Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown) (excerpt)
• Arabella: Traitor of Mars by David D. Levine (Tor) (excerpt)
• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (Jimmy Patterson)
• The Hidden City by David Bowles (IFWG Publishing International) (excerpt)
• Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Ember) (excerpt)
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (Flatiron Books) (excerpt)
• Cross Fire by Fonda Lee (Scholastic) (excerpt)

New Writer (Campbell)

• Tasha Suri – Empire of Sand (excerpt)
• Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Blood and Bone (excerpt)
• Nibedita Sen – “Never Yawn Under a Banyan Tree“, “Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep“, “Pigeons“
• Alexandra Rowland – A Conspiracy of Truths (excerpt), “Love in Every Stitch“
• Karen Osborne – “An Equal Share of the Bone“, “Dollhouse“, “The Bodice, the Hem, the Woman, Death“
• C. L. Polk – Witchmark (excerpt)
• Sam Hawke – City of Lies (chapter 1) (chapter 2) (chapter 3) (chapter 4)
• K Arsenault Rivera – The Tiger’s Daughter (chapter 1) (chapter 2) (chapter 3) (chapter 4), The Phoenix Empress (excerpt)
• Simone Heller – “How Bees Fly“, “When We Were Starless“
• Anna Smith Spark – The Court of Broken Knives (excerpt), The Tower of Living and Dying