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Sep 15

Hugo Awards 2020

Posted on September 15, 2020 at 12:01 PM by Bobbie Clark

For anyone who missed it, the Hugo Awards for best science fiction were announced in early August. There are some new and some established authors on the list this year! Here are the finalists in black and the winners in RED for four of the Hugo categories. Full award winners can be found at the Hugo Awards website.

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Best Novel

A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)

Middlegame, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)

Best Novella

This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)
In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)

“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))
The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Gallery)

Best Novelette

Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))
“Omphalos”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))

“Away With the Wolves”, by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
“For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, 10 July 2019)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019)
“The Archronology of Love”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, April 2019)

Best Short Story

“As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)
“Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)
“A Catalog of Storms”, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)
“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)