Hugo Award Winners Announced
August 18, 2017
The 2017 Hugo Awards, presented by the World Science Fiction Convention, were announced last week at a ceremony in Helsinki, Finland. N. K. Jemisin won the best novel award for the second year in a row, a feat not accomplished since Lois McMaster Bujold in 1991 and 1992. Jemisin’s winning novel is The Obelisk Gate.
The other winners include:
Best Novella: Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
Best Novelette: “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon
Best Short Story: “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar
Best Related Work: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Graphic Story: Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes” written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy)
Best Editor, Short Form: Ellen Datlow
Best Editor, Long Form: Liz Gorinsky
Best Professional Artist: Julie Dillon
Best Semiprozine: Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
Best Fanzine: Lady Business, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan
Best Fancast: Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman
Best Fan Writer: Abigail Nussbaum
Best Fan Artist: Elizabeth Leggett
Best Series (Special Category added by option of Worldcon 75): The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards): Ada Palmer
Related reading: NPR’s review of The Obelisk Gate.
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