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:
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Other nominees:
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
- Witch King by Martha Wells
Best Novella:
- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Other nominees:
- “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” by He Xi published in Adventures in Space
- Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
- The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
- Rose/House by Arkady Martine
- “Seeds of Mercury” by Wang Jinkang published in Adventures in Space
Best Novelette
- The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer
Other nominees:
- I AM AI by Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
- Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition by Gu Shi
- Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk
- On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo
- One Man’s Treasure by Sarah Pinsker
Best Short Story
- Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
Other nominees:
- “Answerless Journey” by Han Song published in Adventures in Space
- How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub by P. Djèlí Clark
- The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard
- The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones
- 美食三品 (“Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times”) by 宝树 / Baoshu, published in Galaxy’s Edge Vol. 13: Secret Room in the Black Domain
Best Series
- Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie
Other nominees:
- The Final Architecture by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Last Binding by Freya Marske
- The Laundry Files by Charles Stross
- October Daye by Seanan McGuire
- The Universe of Xuya by Aliette de Bodard
Best Graphic Story or Comic:
- Saga, Vol. 11 written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples
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:
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
Other nominees:
- Abeni’s Song by P. Djèlí Clark
- Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
- Promises Stronger than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
- Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
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
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