Hugos awarded, Emily Tesh and Ann Leckie take top honors

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Emith Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch took the top Hugo awards this year at a ceremony in Glasgow yesterday.

The list of winners and finalists, as well as a link to the final ballot and nominating statistics and a supplementary Administrators’ Report, is on the 2024 Hugo Awards page.

A total of 3,436 final ballots were counted from the members of Glasgow 2024, after 377 fraudulent ballots were disqualified.

You can watch the ceremony in the video below:

Hugo award for best novel

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh took the prize for best novel.

This debut novel is a queer space opera about a genetically-enhanced young woman raised on a space station to fight the aliens who destroyed planet Earth. But as you get into the book, you soon realize that all those familiar old tropes are going to be subverted and the story turns into a different and unexpected direction.

John Scalzi said: “This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write.”

The book was released in April of 2023 and has gone on to rack up a number of awards and immediately made national and international bestseller lists.

Tesh is also the author of the novella Silver in the Wood, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2020.

Hugo award for best series

Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch took the prize for best series.

The first book in this New York Times-bestselling series, Ancillary Justice, came out in 2013, and won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Author C. Clarke awards, among others. 

It’s about a warship trapped in a human body who goes on a quest for revenge. The third book in the series, Ancillary Mercy, came out in 2015 and won the Locus Award in 2016.

The most recent book in the series, Translation State, came out last year.

Full list of Hugo Award winners and nominees

Best Novel:

Other nominees:

Best Novella:

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Best Novelette

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Best Short Story

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Best Series

Other nominees:

Best Graphic Story or Comic:

Other nominees:

  • Bea Wolf, written by Zach Weinersmith, art by Boulet
  • Shubeik Lubeik, Deena Mohamed (Pantheon); as Your Wish Is My Command
  • 三体漫画:第一部 / The Three Body Problem, Part One
  • The Witches of World War II written by Paul Cornell, art by Valeria Burzo
  • Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, art by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott

Best Related Work: A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith

Other nominees:

  • All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays by Niall Harrison, 中国科幻口述史, 第二卷, 第三卷,(Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, vols 2 and 3) ed. 杨枫 / Yang Feng, The Culture: The Drawings, by Iain M. Banks, 雨果X访谈 (Discover X), A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, by Maureen Kincaid Speller

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein

  • Other nominees: Barbie, Nimona, Poor Things, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and 流浪地球2 / The Wandering Earth II

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”

  • Other nominees: Doctor Who: “The Giggle”, Loki: “Glorious Purpose”, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Those Old Scientists”, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Subspace Rhapsody”, and Doctor Who: “Wild Blue Yonder”

Best Game or Interactive Work: Baldur’s Gate 3

  • Other nominees: Alan Wake 2, Chants of Sennaar, DREDGE, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Best Editor Short Form: Neil Clarke

  • Other nominees: Scott H. Andrews, 刘维佳 (Liu Weijia), Jonathan Strahan, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, 杨枫 (Yang Feng)

Best Editor Long Form: Ruoxi Chen

  • Other nominees: Lindsey Hall, Lee Harris, Kelly Lonesome, David Thomas Moore, and 姚海军 (Yao Haijun)

Best Professional Artist: Rovina Cai

  • Other nominees: Micaela Alcaino, Galen Dara, Dan Dos Santos, Tristan Elwell, and Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons

  • Other nominees: Escape Pod, FIYAH Literary Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, khōréō, and Uncanny Magazine

Best Fanzine: Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G. Brown, Vance Kotrla.

  • Other nominees: Black Nerd Problems, The Full Lid, Idea, Journey Planet, and Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog

Best Fancast: Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty

  • Other nominees: The Coode Street Podcast, Hugos There, 科幻Fans布玛 (Science Fiction Fans Buma), and Worldbuilding for Masochists

Best Fan Writer: Paul Weimer

  • Other nominees: Bitter Karella, James Davis Nicoll, Jason Sanford, Alasdair Stuart, and Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist: Laya Rose

  • Other nominees: ​​Iain J. Clark, Sara Felix, Dante Luiz, Alison Scott, and España Sheriff

Lodestar Award for Best YA Book:

Other nominees:

Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Xiran Jay Zhao

  • Other nominees: Moniquill Blackgoose, Sunyi Dean, Ai Jiang, Hannah Kaner, and Em X. Liu

The following nominees received enough votes to qualify for the final ballot, but declined nomination:

  • Best Novel: System Collapse, by Martha Wells
  • Best Novelette:  极北之地 (“The Far North”) by 海漄 (Hai Ya)
  • Best Related Work: Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood’s promotional tweets for This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Best Editor, Long Form: Natasha Bardon
  • Best Fan Writer: Camestros Felapton

MetaStellar editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist, writing stories set in a future virtual world. And, during the day, she is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@metastellar.com. She is also the editor and publisher of Hypergrid Business, one of the top global sites covering virtual reality.

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