"Flashpoint: Titan", Kai Wai Cheah

"Folding Beijing", Hao Jingfang

"What Price Humanity?", David VanDyke

"Space Raptor Butt Invasion", Chuck Tingle

"Obits", Stephen King

The preliminary recommendations for the Best Novelette category.We have been repeatedly informed that homophobia and the lack of diversity is a serious problem in science fiction, and speaking as the leader of Rabid Puppies, I could not agree more. The decades of discrimination against gay dinosaur love in space by the science fiction community stops now, and it stops here!Let's face it, there are just three words to describe the only event that might happen in 2016 that I can imagine would be more spectacularly awesome than "Space Raptor Butt Invasion" winning a Hugo Award this year, and those three words are "President-elect Donald Trump".

Labels: Hugo Award, Puppies