Hugo and Orwell award nominations

The shortlisted novels for the Hugo Award are:

Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald 
Feed by Mira Grant
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

The shortlisted books for the Orwell Award are:


The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
Death to the Dictator! by Afsaneh Moqadam
Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan by DR Thorpe

The winners of the Hugo Award will be announced Saturday, August 20th, 2011, while the announcement for the Orwell will come three months earlier on the 17th of May.