2018 Hugo Awards Announced
The 76th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) wrapped up in San Jose, and on Sunday night the conference held its annual Hugo Awards ceremony. There was a lot of wonderful work to be celebrated by a diverse array of creators, but we’d be remiss not to point out that, in particular, this was another great year for women and female-identifying artists, who were winners or co-winners in 17 of the 19 categories.
The biggest headline of the event comes from the Best Novel category, in which N. K. Jemisin made history as the first author to win the award for three consecutive years (every installment of her Broken Earth trilogy has now earned her the award, so if you haven’t read them yet: get to it!). Consecutive awards have only been awarded two other times: to Orson Scott Card in 1986 and 1987 for Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, and to Lois McMaster Bujold in 1991 and 1992 for The Vor Game and Barrayar. Jemisin, who was also nominated in 2011 for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, is only the fifth author to have earned three or more Best Novel Hugos (Connie Willis, Vernor Vinge, and Isaac Asimov also hold three wins, while Lois McMaster Bujold has earned four, and Robert A. Heinlein six). It’s no surprise, then, that Jemisin was selected to edit 2018’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (due out October 2 from Houghton/Mariner).
Best Novel
The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin
Runners Up
The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi
New York 2140,by Kim Stanley Robinson
Provenance, by Ann Leckie
Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee
Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty
Best Novella
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
Runners Up
And Then There Were (N-One), by Sarah Pinsker
Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor
The Black Tides of Heaven, by JY Yang
Down Among the Sticks and Bones,by Seanan McGuire
River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey
Best Series
World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Runners Up
The Books of Raksura, by Martha Wells
The Divine Cities, by Robert Jackson Bennett
InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire
The Memoirs of Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan
The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson
Best Related Work
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, 
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Runners Up
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win and Fight Against Online Hate, by Zoë Quinn
Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), by Paul Kincaid
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, by Nat Segaloff
Luminescent Threads: Connected to Octavia E. Butler, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Liz Bourke
Best Graphic Story
Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, by Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
Runners Up
Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro and Taki Soma
Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, by Saladin Ahmed, illustrated by Christian Ward
My Favorite Thing is Monsters, by Emil Ferris
Paper Girls, Volume 3, by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang
Saga, Volume 7, by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples
he Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
(*technically not a Hugo)
Akata Warrior, by Nnedi Okorafor
Runners Up
The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman
In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan
A Skinful of Shadows, by Frances Hardinge
Summer in Orcus, by T. Kingfisher, illustrated by Lauren Henderson