Two of the 2024 Hugo Awards went to Orbit UK authors, including Emily Tesh, who won the award for best novel for A desperate fame and Ann Leckie, who took home the award for Best Series for Imperial Radch.
The awards recognize outstanding achievements in the science fiction and fantasy community. The winners were announced at the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), which took place on August 11 at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow. The winners in each category will be determined by majority vote of the members of the 2023 and 2024 Worldcon.
Other awards included the prize for best novella, which went to T Kingfisher for Thorn hedge (Titan UK) and Naomi Kritzer won the award for best novel with The year without sunshinepublished in the November-December 2023 issue of Spooky Magazine.
The non-fiction title by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith A city on Mars (Penguin Press) received the Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga Volume 11 (Image Comics), with art by Fiona Staples, took home the award for Best Graphic Story or Comic.
Neil Clarke, Editor of Clarkeworld Magazinetook home the award for Best Short Form Editor and Ruoxi Chen took home the award for Best Long Form Editor.
Natasha Bardon of HarperCollins received enough votes to qualify for the final award but declined a nomination, according to the Hugo Award website.
The awards also recognize science fiction and fantasy films, television series and games. “Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves” by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein won the award for Best Long Drama Presentation, while “Long, Long Time,” the third episode of the television series “The Last Of Us” based on the video game of the same name, won the award for Best Short Drama Presentation.
The full list of winners can be found on the Hugo Awards website.
This year’s ceremony comes after a period of controversy following last year’s awards ceremony, in which authors RF Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Neil Gaiman were deemed ineligible for their respective categories despite receiving enough nomination votes.
On August 11, Kuang posted photos on Instagram from the Alfies, a private event hosted by George RR Martin for those who were ineligible for last year’s Hugo Awards. Kuang received an “Alfie” for best novel with Babylon (HarperVoyager), which was disqualified for the Hugo Best Novel Award last year.
