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Over the weekend, WorldCon announced the Hugo Award Winners in Chengdu, China, this year’s host city for one of the oldest genre conventions in the world.
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This year was notable because Chengdu WorldCon announced that the nominations and voting included “the largest-ever participation of non-English speaking members in the history of the Hugo Awards.” Additionally, Chinese authors and artists came away with some hardware. “Sci-fi writer Hai Ya [won] the Best Novelette for his The Space-Time Painter; sci-fi artist Zhao Enzhe [received] the Best Professional Artist award; and Zero Gravity Newspaper [won] the Best Fanzine award,” according to a Chengdu WorldCon announcement.
While fan-favorite cozy fantasy novel Legends & Lattes lost Best Novel to T. Kingfisher’s excellent horror-fantasy Nettle & Bone, Legends & Lattes author Travis Baldtree won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Everything Everywhere All at Once snagged film’s top honor, and The Expanse’s finale episode did the same for televsion, beating out both nominated Andor episodes among others.
Some other great standouts include short fiction editor Neil Clarke, who has kept Clarkesworld magazine running despite getting swamped by AI-generated submissions earlier this year.
Check out the winners, highlighted in bold text, from this year’s awards ceremony below.
Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Travis BaldtreeNaseem JamniaIsabel J Kim (finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility)Maijia LiuEverina Maxwell (finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility)Weimu Xin (finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility)
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts) by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen/Titan Books)The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)In the Serpents Wake by Rachel Hartman (Random House Books for Young Readers)Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods by Catherynne M. Valente (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Best Fan Artist
Iain ClarkRichard ManLaya RoseAlison ScottEspaña SheriffOrion Smith
Best Fan Writer
Chris M. BarkleyBitter KarellaArthur LiuRiverFlowJason SanfordÖrjan Westin
Best Fancast
Coode Street Podcast presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, produced by Jonathan StrahanHugo, Girl! by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin AndersonHugos There by Seth HeasleyKalanadi created and presented by RachelOctothorpe by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz BattyWorldbuilding for Masochists by Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca
Best Fanzine
Chinese Academic SF Express by Latssep and Tianluo_QiGalactic Journey by Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammi Bozich, Erica Frank, Arel Lucas, and Mark YonJourney Planet by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Jean Martin, Erin Underwood, Steven H Silver, Pádraig Ó Méalóid and their other co-editorsNerds of a Feather by Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer, Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, G. BrownUnofficial Hugo Book Club Blog by Olav Rokne and Amanda WakarukZero Gravity Newspaper by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen
Best Semiprozine
Escape Pod, co-editors Mur Lafferty & Valerie Valdes; assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney & Premee Mohamed, host Tina Connolly, producers Summer Brooks and Adam PrachtFIYAH, edited by the entire FIYAH teamkhōréō, edited by team khōréōPodCastle, co-editors Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor R. Wood; assistant hditor Sofia Barker; Host Matt Dovey; audio producers Peter Adrian Behravesh, Devin Martin, and Eric ValdesStrange Horizons, edited by the Strange Horizons Editorial TeamUncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky
Best Professional Artist
Sija HongKuri HuangPaul LewinAlyssa WinansJian ZhangEnzhe Zhao
Best Editor, Long Form
Ruoxi ChenLindsey HallLee HarrisSarah PeedHuan YanHaijun Yao
Best Editor, Short Form
Scott H. AndrewsNeil ClarkeOghenechovwe Donald EkpekiSheree Renée ThomasXu WangFeng Yang
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Andor: “One Way Out” written by Beau Willimon, Tony Gilroy, and George Lucas, directed by Toby Haynes (Lucasfilm)Andor: “Rix Road” written by Tony Gilroy and George Lucas, directed by Benjamin Caron (Lucasfilm)The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes” written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land” written by Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, directed by Craig Zisk (Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television)She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?” written by Jessica Gao, Francesca Gailes, and Jacqueline Gailes, directed by Kat Coiro (Marvel Entertainment)Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy” written by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, and Paul Dichter, directed by Shawn Levy (21 Laps Entertainment)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Avatar: The Way of Water, screenplay by James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, directed by James Cameron (Lightstorm Entertainment / TSG Entertainment II)Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, screenplay by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, directed by Ryan Coogler (Marvel Studios)Everything Everywhere All at Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)Nope, written by Jordan Peele, directed by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures / Monkeypaw Productions)Severance (Season 1), written by Dan Erickson, Anna Ouyang Moench et al., directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle (Red Hour Productions / Fifth Season)Turning Red, screenplay by Julia Cho and Domee Shi, directed by Domee Shi (Walt Disney Studios / Pixar Animation Studios)
Best Related Work
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)Buffalito World Outreach Project by Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem LLC)Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral History, Volume 1 by Yang Feng (Chengdu Times Press)“The Ghost of Workshops Past” by S.L. Huang (Tor.com)Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton (William Morrow)Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)
Best Graphic Story or Comic
Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel by Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid (Legendary Comics)Monstress Vol. 7: Devourer by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image Comics)Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK by Kieron Gillen / Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)Saga, Vol. 10 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)
Best Series
Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)October Daye by Seanan McGuire (DAW)Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich (Orion)The Scholomance by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Best Short Story
“D.I.Y.” by John Wiswell (Tor.com, August 2022)“On the Razor’s Edge” by Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World, January 2022)“Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)“Resurrection” by Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World, December 2022)“The White Cliff” by Lu Ban (Science Fiction World, May 2022)“Zhurong on Mars” by Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers, September 2022)
Best Novelette
“The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Solaris)“A Dream of Electric Mothers” by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Tordotcom)“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022)“Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” by S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld, December 2022)“The Space-Time Painter” by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)“We Built This City” by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)
Best Novella
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
Best Novel
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Tor Books)Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Tor Books)Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)
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