Geekery: And Your Hugo Award Nominees Are…
The possible winners for year’s Hugo Awards have been announced. If you’re looking for something to read, this list has some excellent suggestions.
The Hugos were first presented in 1953 and are the longest running fan voted awards in sci-fi and fantasy. The awards recognize the work of professionals and fans, and folks from all over the publishing industry. Previous winners include Willam Gibson, Arthur C. Clark, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Neil Gaiman.
WorldCon has gone virtual this year due to health concerns, so the Hugo awards have as well. They will be announced online July 29 through August 2. You can see the full list of nominees here; it included artists, movies and tv series, fan, and retro categories.
Best Novel
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Best Novella
- Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
- In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Best Novelette
- “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim
- “Away With the Wolves” by Sarah Gailey
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker
- “Emergency Skin” by N.K. Jemisin
- “For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carroll
- “Omphalos” by Ted Chiang
Best Short Story
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)
- “As the Last I May Know” by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)
- “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger” by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)
- “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)
- “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)
Best Series
- The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
- InCryptid by Seanan McGuire
- Luna by Ian McDonald
- Planetfall series by Emma Newman
- Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
- The Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson
Best Graphic Story or Comic
- Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
- LaGuardia written by Nnedi Okorafor
- Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen written by Marjorie Liu
- Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker
- Paper Girls, Volume 6 written by Brian K. Vaughan
- The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: Okay by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
