If you don't want to join, a number of the short stories, novelettes, novellas and graphic stories are available online to read, for the duration of the voting period (yes, you are expected to vote, but there is little to stop you from skipping this part), which ends 31 July 2010 23:59 PDT. You can sign up online, HERE, but you will have a decision to make: let them process the charges in Australian dollars, which will mean possibly paying a small exchange fee to your bank or credit card company, and a total based on the current exchange rate (when I checked, it worked out to around $65US; PayPal tells you how much before you complete the transaction), OR you can use their manual registration and payment option via PayPal and pay a flat $50US (directions are on the registration page). If a bargain price is your main consideration, the latter is the way to go. However, you'll want to add to your PayPal message that you wish to get all your material via email, or they will send you everything via snail mail - adding at least a week to get anything, here in the States. In addition, rather than the automated system set up to issue registration info (which you need to download the books), your registration is handled manually, by a group of volunteers; even with several emails to them to check on status, mine took three weeks to complete and get my password via email. With only two months left in the voting period, that would not leave much time to read the entries if I chose that method today.
I'm listing below the complete packet contents, with links to the freely available items (many are only online until voting ends). I've included Kindle or Amazon book links to the novels (along with prices), so you can check out reviews or a few samples before deciding if you want to participate.
The 2010 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award Nominees
864 Total Ballots CastBEST NOVEL (699 nominating ballots)
Boneshaker
($9.99) by Cherie Priest (Tor)The City & The City ($9.99) by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America ($8.99) by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Palimpsest ($9.99) by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
WWW: Wake ($6.29) by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
The Windup Girl ($10.17 paperback) by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
BEST NOVELLA (375 nominating ballots)
Act One ($4.99) by Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09) - Free Download (PDF)
The God Engines ($13.60 paperback) by John Scalzi (Subterranean)
"Palimpsest" by Charles Stross (Wireless ($10.79); Ace; Orbit) - Read Online
Shambling Towards Hiroshima ($10.17 paperback) by James Morrow (Tachyon)
"Vishnu at the Cat Circus" by Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days ($9.59); Pyr; Gollancz)
The Women of Nell Gwynne's (hardcover) by Kage Baker (Subterranean)
BEST NOVELETTE (402 nominating ballots)
"Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/09) - Read Online
"The Island" by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos) - Read Online
"It Takes Two" by Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three; Night Shade Books) - Free Download (PDF) or Audio
"One of Our Bastards is Missing" by Paul Cornell (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three; Solaris) - Free Download (PDF)
"Overtime" by Charles Stross (Tor.com 12/09) - Read Online
"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster (Interzone 2/09) - Read Online
BEST SHORT STORY (432 nominating ballots)
"The Bride of Frankenstein" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 12/09) - Free Download (PDF)
"Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09) - Free Download (PDF)
"The Moment" by Lawrence M. Schoen (Footprints; Hadley Rille Books) - Read Online
"Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09) - Read Online
"Spar" by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09) - Read Online
BEST RELATED WORK (259 nominating ballots)
Canary Fever: Reviews ($30.40 paperback)by John Clute (Beccon)
Hope-In-The-Mist: The Extraordinary Career & Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees by Michael Swanwick (password protected; Temporary Culture)
The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy) ($45.00 paperback) by Farah Mendlesohn (McFarland)
On Joanna Russ ($29.95 paperback) edited by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan)
The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms ($14.82 paperback) by Helen Merrick (Aqueduct)
This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I") ($29.20 paperback) by Jack Vance (Subterranean)
BEST GRAPHIC STORY (221 nominating ballots)
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? ($16.49 Deluxe Edition, Hardcover)Written by Neil Gaiman; Pencilled by Andy Kubert; Inked by Scott Williams (DC Comics)
Captain Britain And MI13 Volume 3: Vampire State ($14.99 paperback) Written by Paul Cornell; Pencilled by Leonard Kirk with Mike Collins, Adrian Alphona and Ardian Syaf (Marvel Comics) - Read Issues #10 and #11 Online
Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages ($12.23 paperback) Written by Bill Willingham; Pencilled by Mark Buckingham; Art by Peter Gross & Andrew Pepoy, Michael Allred, David Hahn; Colour by Lee Loughridge & Laura Allred; Letters by Todd Klein (Vertigo Comics)
Girl Genius Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and The Heirs of the Storm ($15.61 paperback) Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment) - Read Online
Schlock Mercenary : The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse Written and Illustrated by Howard Tayler - Read Online
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - LONG FORM (541 nominating ballots)
Avatar Screenplay and Directed by James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox)
District 9 Screenplay by Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell; Directed by Neill Blomkamp (TriStar Pictures)
Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
Star Trek Screenplay by Robert Orci & Alex Kurtzman; Directed by J.J. Abrams (Paramount)
Up Screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter; Story by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, & Thomas McCarthy; Directed by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter (Disney/Pixar)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - SHORT FORM (282 nominating ballots)
Doctor Who: "The Next Doctor" Written by Russell T Davies; Directed by Andy Goddard (BBC Wales)
Doctor Who: "Planet of the Dead" Written by Russell T Davies & Gareth Roberts; Directed by James Strong (BBC Wales)
Doctor Who: "The Waters of Mars" Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
Dollhouse: "Epitaph 1" Story by Joss Whedon; Written by Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon; Directed by David Solomon (Mutant Enemy)
FlashForward: "No More Good Days" Written by Brannon Braga & David S. Goyer; Directed by David S. Goyer; based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer (ABC)
BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM (289 nominating ballots)
Lou Anders
Ginjer Buchanan
Liz Gorinsky
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Juliet Ulman
BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM (419 nominating ballots)
Ellen Datlow
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
Sheila Williams
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (327 nominating ballots)
Bob Eggleton
Stephan Martiniere
John Picacio
Daniel Dos Santos
Shaun Tan
BEST SEMIPROZINE (377 nominating ballots)
Ansible edited by David Langford
Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
Interzone edited by Andy Cox
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi
Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal
BEST FAN WRITER (319 nominating ballots)
Claire Brialey
Christopher J Garcia
James Nicoll
Lloyd Penney
Frederik Pohl
BEST FANZINE (298 nominating ballots)
Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
CHALLENGER edited by Guy H. Lillian III
Drink Tank edited by Christopher J Garcia, with guest editor James Bacon
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
BEST FAN ARTIST (199 nominating ballots)
Brad W. Foster
Dave Howell
Sue Mason
Steve Stiles
Taral Wayne
THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (NOT A HUGO AWARD) (356 nominating ballots)
Saladin Ahmed
Gail Carriger
Felix Gilman *
Seanan McGuire
Lezli Robyn *
* Second year of eligibility
