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Locus Awards Winners 2019


Full details: https://locusmag.com/2019/06/2019-locus-awards-winners/
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

WINNER: The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)


FANTASY NOVEL

WINNER: Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)


HORROR NOVEL

WINNER: The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

WINNER: Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)


FIRST NOVEL

WINNER: Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

NOVELLA

WINNER: Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

WINNER: The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)


SHORT STORY

WINNER: "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington", Phenderson Djeli Clark (Fireside 2/18)

ANTHOLOGY

WINNER: The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

COLLECTION

WINNER: How Long 'til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

MAGAZINE

WINNER: Tor.com

PUBLISHER

WINNER: Tor

EDITOR

WINNER: Gardner Dozois


ARTIST

WINNER: Charles Vess


NON-FICTION

WINNER: Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)

ART BOOK

WINNER: Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)


SPECIAL AWARD 2019: COMMUNITY OUTREACH & DEVELOPMENT

WINNER: Mary Anne Mohanraj

The Locus Awards, except for the Special Award, are chosen by a survey of readers in an open online poll.
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2019 Hugo Awards Winners

www.thehugoawards.org/2019/08/2019-hugo ... announced/
Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, August 18, 2019.

BEST NOVEL

The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

BEST NOVELLA

Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

BEST NOVELETTE

"If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again," by Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 29 November 2018)

BEST SHORT STORY

"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies," by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)

BEST SERIES

Wayfarers, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager)

BEST RELATED WORK

Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Monstress, Volume 3: Haven, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Sony)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

The Good Place: "Janet(s)," written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by Morgan Sackett (NBC)

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM

Gardner Dozois

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM

Navah Wolfe

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Charles Vess

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Uncanny Magazine, publishers/editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, managing editor Michi Trota, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue editors-in-chief Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

BEST FANZINE

Lady Business, editors Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay & Susan

BEST FANCAST

Our Opinions Are Correct, hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders

BEST FAN WRITER

Foz Meadows

BEST FAN ARTIST

Likhain (Mia Sereno)

BEST ART BOOK
(A one-off category created as per WSFS rules by Dublin 2019)

The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess, written by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga Press /Gollancz)

The following awards which are administered by WSFS and voted on alongside the Hugo Awards were also included in the ceremony.

LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK

Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt / Macmillan Children's Books)

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for BEST NEW WRITER

Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility)

The 2019 Hugo Award winners were announced at a ceremony held at Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon on Sunday August 18th, 2019 in Dublin, Ireland.
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I'm Murrin wrote:2019 Hugo Awards Winners

www.thehugoawards.org/2019/08/2019-hugo ... announced/
Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, August 18, 2019.
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I'm Murrin wrote:2019 Hugo Awards Winners

www.thehugoawards.org/2019/08/2019-hugo ... announced/
Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony on the evening of Sunday, August 18, 2019.
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BEST RELATED WORK

Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Thank you Savor Dam, that's neat to know that a Hugo winner has a KW connection! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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British Fantasy Award Winners 2019

https://locusmag.com/2019/10/2019-briti ... s-winners/
The British Fantasy Society announced the winners for the 2019 British Fantasy Awards on October 20, 2019 during FantasyCon 2019 at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

WINNER: The Bitter Twins, Jen Williams (Headline)


Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

WINNER: Little Eve, Catriona Ward (W&N)


Best Novella

WINNER: The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)


Best Short Story

WINNER: "Down Where Sound Comes Blunt", G.V. Anderson (F&SF 3-4/18)


Best Collection

WINNER: All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)


Best Anthology

WINNER: Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5, Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly, eds. (Undertow)


Best Independent Press

WINNER: Unsung Stories


Best Non-Fiction

WINNER: Noise and Sparks, Ruth E.J. Booth (Shoreline of Infinity)


Best Magazine / Periodical

WINNER: Uncanny


Best Artist

WINNER: Vince Haig


Best Comic / Graphic Novel

WINNER: Widdershins, Vol. 7: Curtain Call, Kate Ashwin (self-published)


Best Audio

WINNER: Breaking the Glass Slipper Podcast


Best Film / Television Production

WINNER: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse


Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

WINNER: Tasha Suri, for Empire of Sand (Orbit)


Ian Whates received the Karl Edward Wagner Award, a "special award for contribution to genre." Winners were chosen by jury, except for the Karl Edward Wagner Award, which was chosen by the BFS committee.
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World Fantasy Awards Winners 2019

www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awar ... 4%A0-2019/
2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Hayao Miyazaki
Jack Zipes

Novel

Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)

Novella

"The Privilege of the Happy Ending" by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)

Short Fiction

"Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake" by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018)
"Like a River Loves the Sky" by Emma Torzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018)

Anthology

Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)

Collection

The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)

Artist

Rovina Cai

Special Award - Professional

Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)

Special Award - Non-Professional

Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy


Judges: Nancy Holder, Kathleen Jennings, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Stephen Graham Jones, and Tod McCoy
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2020 Hugo Award Finalists

www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2020-hugo-awards/
Best Novel

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

Best Novella

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

Best Novelette

"The Archronology of Love", by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, April 2019)
"Away With the Wolves", by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
"The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye", by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019)
Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))
"For He Can Creep", by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, 10 July 2019)
"Omphalos", by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))

Best Short Story

"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing", by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)
"As the Last I May Know", by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)
"Blood Is Another Word for Hunger", by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)
"A Catalog of Storms", by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)
"Do Not Look Back, My Lion", by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)
"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island", by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)

Best Series

The Expanse, by James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
Luna, by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
Planetfall series, by Emma Newman (Ace; Gollancz)
Winternight Trilogy, by Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
The Wormwood Trilogy, by Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Related Work

Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood, by J. Michael Straczynski (Harper Voyager US)
Joanna Russ, by Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press (Modern Masters of Science Fiction))
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, by Mallory O'Meara (Hanover Square)
The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, by Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
"2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech", by Jeannette Ng
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, produced and directed by Arwen Curry

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)
LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books; Dark Horse)
Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image)
Mooncakes, by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, letters by Joamette Gil (Oni Press; Lion Forge)
Paper Girls, Volume 6, written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image)
The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: "Okay", by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Avengers: Endgame, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios)
Captain Marvel, screenplay by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios/Animal Logic (Australia))
Good Omens, written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios/Narrativia/The Blank Corporation)
Russian Doll (Season One), created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, directed by Leslye Headland, Jamie Babbit and Natasha Lyonne (3 Arts Entertainment/Jax Media/Netflix/Paper Kite Productions/Universal Television)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, screenplay by Chris Terrio and J.J. Abrams, directed by J.J. Abrams (Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm/Bad Robot)
Us, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions/Universal Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

The Good Place: "The Answer", written by Daniel Schofield, directed by Valeria Migliassi Collins (Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television)
The Expanse: "Cibola Burn", written by Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck and Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Amazon Prime Video)
Watchmen: "A God Walks into Abar", written by Jeff Jensen and Damon Lindelof, directed by Nicole Kassell (HBO)
The Mandalorian: "Redemption", written by Jon Favreau, directed by Taika Waititi (Disney+)
Doctor Who: "Resolution", written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Wayne Yip (BBC)
Watchmen: "This Extraordinary Being", written by Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, directed by Stephen Williams (HBO)

Best Editor, Short Form

Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
C.C. Finlay
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

Sheila E. Gilbert
Brit Hvide
Diana M. Pho
Devi Pillai
Miriam Weinberg
Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

Tommy Arnold
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
John Picacio
Yuko Shimizu
Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor Scott H. Andrews
Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya, assistant editor Benjamin C. Kinney, audio producers Adam Pracht and Summer Brooks, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart
Fireside Magazine, editor Julia Rios, managing editor Elsa Sjunneson, copyeditor Chelle Parker, social coordinator Meg Frank, publisher & art director Pablo Defendini, founding editor Brian White
FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, executive editor Troy L. Wiggins, editors Eboni Dunbar, Brent Lambert, L.D. Lewis, Danny Lore, Brandon O'Brien and Kaleb Russell
Strange Horizons, Vanessa Rose Phin, Catherine Krahe, AJ Odasso, Dan Hartland, Joyce Chng, Dante Luiz and the Strange Horizons staff
Uncanny Magazine, editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, nonfiction/managing editor Michi Trota, managing editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

The Book Smugglers, editors Ana Grilo and Thea James
Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus, senior writers Rosemary Benton, Lorelei Marcus and Victoria Silverwolf
Journey Planet, editors James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Alissa McKersie, Ann Gry, Chuck Serface, John Coxon and Steven H Silver
nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, and The G
Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur
The Rec Center, editors Elizabeth Minkel and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Best Fancast

Be The Serpent, presented by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske and Jennifer Mace
Claire Rousseau's YouTube channel, produced & presented by Claire Rousseau
The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, producer Andrew Finch
Our Opinions Are Correct, presented by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
The Skiffy and Fanty Show, presented by Jen Zink and Shaun Duke

Best Fan Writer

Cora Buhlert
James Davis Nicoll
Alasdair Stuart
Bogi Takacs
Paul Weimer
Adam Whitehead

Best Fan Artist

Iain Clark
Sara Felix
Grace P. Fong
Meg Frank
Ariela Housman
Elise Matthesen

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)

Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
Deeplight, by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney/Hyperion)
Minor Mage, by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
Riverland, by Fran Wilde (Amulet)
The Wicked King, by Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo)

Sam Hawke (2nd year of eligibility)
R.F. Kuang (2nd year of eligibility)
Jenn Lyons (1st year of eligibility)
Nibedita Sen (2nd year of eligibility)
Tasha Suri (2nd year of eligibility)
Emily Tesh (1st year of eligibility)
The Astounding Award for Best New Writer was previously known as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book is a new award.
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2019 Otherwise Award Winner

https://otherwiseaward.org/2020/04/akwa ... -wins-2019
Akwaeke Emezi has won the 2019 Otherwise Award for Freshwater (Grove Press, 2018).

The Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree Award) celebrates science fiction, fantasy, and other forms of speculative narrative that expand and explore our understanding of gender. The jury that selects the Award's winner and the Honor List is encouraged to take an expansive view of "science fiction and fantasy" and to seek out works that have a broad, intersectional, trans-inclusive understanding of gender in the context of race, class, nationality, disability, and more.

Honor List

"Dreamborn" by Kylie Ariel Bemis
The Book of Flora by Meg Elison
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley
"Of Warps and Wefts" by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks
The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
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Since those two posts above both included awards that have changed their name this year, some context!

Last year at the Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon, Jeannette Ng, winner of the 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, used her acceptance speech to call out John W. Campbell as a fascist who had used his position as one of the most prestigious editors in science fiction to gatekeep which types of work and which kinds of author were getting published based on his own personal politics. This led to a debate about whether it was appropriate to name awards after him, and reignited the debate about whether it was ever a good idea to name awards after individuals (previous such debates had led to the World Fantasy Award changing its statue from a bust of the notoriously racist H P Lovecraft to a tree design). The people who owned the Campbell Award (which is not a Hugo Award but a seperately run one sponsored by Dell Magazines) quickly announced that they would be renaming it the Astounding Award, after the magazine Campbell edited.

The same debate also brought light to a similar argument around the Tiptree Award, named for James Tiptree Jr, aka Alice B Sheldon. Sheldon is highly regarded as an author, but there is some controversy surrounding her death and the death of her disabled husband, whom she killed in what was either a suicide pact or a murder-suicide. The Tiptree Award was subsequently renamed the Otherwise Award to remove the negative association.
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I can't believe the praise the Avengers are getting from the critical community.

I absolutely despised both Infinity War and Endgame.

Still, I enjoy looking at these short-lists for new authors to follow.
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I've been paying less attention to this stuff lately and thus neglected this thread. I'm not sure how many awards I've missed this year. Here's one I do know for sure:

2019 Nebula Award Winners

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2019/
Best Novel

Winner: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker, published by Berkley

Best Novella

Winner: “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, published by Gallery and Saga Press

Best Novelette

Winner: “Carpe Glitter” by Cat Rambo, published by Meerkat Shorts, LLC

Best Short Story

Winner: “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Clarkesworld

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Winner: Good Omens: “Hard Times” written by Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios and BBC Studios)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Winner: Riverland by Fran Wilde, published by Harry N. Abrams

Best Game Writing

Winner: The Outer Worlds by Leonard Boyarsky, Kate Dollarhyde, Paul Kirsch, Chris L’Etoile, Daniel McPhee, Carrie Patel, Nitai Poddar, Marc Soskin, and Megan Starks, published by Obsidian Entertainment
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Digging up some other stuff.

2019 Bram Stoker Award Winners

http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/fron ... d-winners/
Superior Achievement in a Novel

Winner: Goingback, Owl - Coyote Rage (Independent Legions Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Winner: Read, Sarah - The Bone Weaver's Orchard (Trepidatio Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Winner: Nzondi - Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Winner: Doran, Colleen & Gaiman, Neil - Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Books)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Winner: LaValle, Victor - Up from Slavery (Weird Tales Magazine#363) (Weird Tales Inc.)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Winner: Kiste, Gwendolyn - "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)" (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2019, Issue 86)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Winner: Tremblay, Paul - Growing Things and Other Stories (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Winner: Peele, Jordan - Us (Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Universal Pictures)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Winner: Datlow, Ellen - Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Gallery/Saga Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Winner: Kroger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. - Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Quirk Books)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

Winner: Kiste, Gwendolyn - "Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" (Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 1)


Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Winner: Addison, Linda D. and Manzetti, Alessandro - The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing)


Named in honor of the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, the Bram Stoker Awards® are presented annually for superior writing in eleven categories including traditional fiction of various lengths, poetry, screenplays and non-fiction. Previous winners include Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, George R. R. Martin, Joyce Carol Oates and Neil Gaiman.
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2020 Locus Awards Winners

https://locusmag.com/2020/06/locus-awards-winners-2020/
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

WINNER: The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)

FANTASY NOVEL

WINNER: Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)

HORROR NOVEL

WINNER: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

WINNER: Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)

FIRST NOVEL

WINNER: Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELLA

WINNER: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)

NOVELETTE

WINNER: “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)

SHORT STORY

WINNER: “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States)

ANTHOLOGY

WINNER: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US & UK)

COLLECTION

WINNER: Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf; Picador)

MAGAZINE

WINNER: Tor.com

PUBLISHER

WINNER: Tor

EDITOR

WINNER: Ellen Datlow

ARTIST

WINNER: John Picacio

NON-FICTION

WINNER: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

WINNER: Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

SPECIAL AWARD 2020: INCLUSIVITY AND REPRESENTATION EDUCATION

WINNER: Writing the Other, Nisi Shawl, Cynthia Ward, & K. Tempest Bradford
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2019 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/
NOVEL

The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter (Two Dollar Radio)

NOVELLA

Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

Luminous Body, Brooke Warra (Dim Shores)

SHORT FICTION

“Kali_Na,” Indrapramit Das (The Mythic Dream)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

The Twisted Book of Shadows, edited by Christopher Golden & James A. Moore (Twisted Publishing)
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And now to what prompted me to start updating this thread.

2020 Hugo Awards Winners

http://www.thehugoawards.org/2020/08/20 ... announced/
BEST NOVEL

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

BEST NOVELLA

This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)

BEST NOVELETTE

Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))

BEST SHORT STORY

“As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)

BEST SERIES

The Expanse, by James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

BEST RELATED WORK

“2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, by Jeannette Ng

BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC

LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books; Dark Horse)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

Good Omens, written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios/Narrativia/The Blank Corporation)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

The Good Place: “The Answer”, written by Daniel Schofield, directed by Valeria Migliassi Collins (Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television)

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM

Ellen Datlow

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM

Navah Wolfe

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

John Picacio

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Uncanny Magazine, editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, nonfiction/managing editor Michi Trota, managing editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

BEST FANZINE

The Book Smugglers, editors Ana Grilo and Thea James

BEST FANCAST

Our Opinions Are Correct, presented by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders

BEST FAN WRITER

Bogi Takács

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elise Matthesen

LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK (NOT A HUGO)

Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)

ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER, sponsored by Dell Magazines (NOT A HUGO)

R.F. Kuang (2nd year of eligibility)
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2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners

The Sur Julius Vogel Awards are New Zealand's local fan-voted SFF awards, given out this year as part of CoNZealand, the 2020 WorldCon.


https://locusmag.com/2020/07/2020-sir-j ... s-winners/
http://www.sffanz.org.nz/sjv/sjvAwards.shtml
Best Novel

WINNER: The Dawnhounds, Sascha Stronach (Little Hook)

Best Youth Novel

WINNER: The Clockhill and the Thief, Gareth Ward (Walker Australia)

Best Novella/Novelette

WINNER: From a Shadow Grave, Andi C. Buchanan (Paper Road)

Best Short Story

WINNER: “A Shriek Across the Sky”, Casey Lucas (Sponge 5/5/19)

Best Collected Work

WINNER: Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 1, Marie Hodgkinson, ed. (Paper Road)

Best Professional Artwork

WINNER: Cover for Dragon Pearl, Vivienne To

Best Professional Production/Publication

WINNER: Swords: The Webcomic, Matthew Willis

Best Dramatic Presentation

WINNER: Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade, David Bishop (BBC Audio)

Best New Talent

WINNER: Sascha Stronach

Best Fan Production/Publication

WINNER: Plant Life

Best Fan Writing

WINNER: SITREP, Alex Lindsay (Phoenixine)

Best Fan Artwork

WINNER: “Deet”, Laya Rose

Services to Fandom

WINNER: Grace Bridges

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

WINNER: Melanie Harding-Shaw
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If you're just looking at the latest post, I posted 6 full sets of award winners above this.

And now, some interesting related stuff concerning this year's Hugos and Worldcon.

Firstly, the Hugo winner for Best Related work this year was an acceptance speech for the John W. Campbell Award from last year - the very same speech that called out Campbell's fascist politics and editorial gatekeeping, leading to the award being renamed the Astounding Award.

Secondly, I did not experience any of it myself as I didn't attend the (virtual, due to covid) con, but apparently this year's Hugo ceremony was a real mess. It's causing a lot of buzz on Twitter - it ran overlong, the host, George R R Martin, got nominees' names wrong among other mistakes, and apparently he spent a lot of time talking about how great Campbell was (see previous point); it's generally being portrayed as poorly managed, backwards-facing and ignorant of the issues that have been major discussion points around the Hugo Awards and Worldcon in recent years.

In addition, there's been a lot of negative feeling over the lack of representation for New Zealand, this year's host country. For example, the Sir Julius Vogel Awards were presented at the back-end of the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards, a ceremony that:
a) nobody cares about,
b) gave awards to H. P. Lovecraft and, ahem, John W. Campbell, long-dead people who already have plenty of recognition and are frankly not deserving of more,
and c) was plagued by delays and technical issues.
All of which led to New Zealand fans' biggest awards seeming even further sidelined by a Worldcon that would rather celebrate the past than the present, and that would rather cater to the perennial American attendees than the actual host country of the convention.
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I'm Murrin wrote:If you're just looking at the latest post, I posted 6 full sets of award winners above this.
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Thanks Murrin. :D

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