Winners Of The 2020 & 1945 Retrospective Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2020 and 1945 Retrospective Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

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2020 Hugo Award Winners

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 NK Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))

Best Short Story

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

Best Series

• The Expanse, by James SA 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 McKinnon (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

Award for the best new book published for young adult readers. (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards.)

• Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)

Astounding Award for the Best New Science Fiction Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer. (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards.)

• RF Kuang (2nd year of eligibility)

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1945 Retro Hugo Award Winners

Best Novel

• “Shadow Over Mars” (The Nemesis from Terra), by Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories, Fall 1944)

Best Novella

• “Killdozer!”, by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)

Best Novelette

• “City”, by Clifford D Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1944)

Best Short Story

• “I, Rocket”, by Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories, May 1944)

Best Series

• The Cthulhu Mythos, by HP Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others

Best Related Work

• “The Science-Fiction Field”, by Leigh Brackett (Writer’s Digest, July 1944)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk”, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (Detective Comics, Inc.)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Canterville Ghost, screenplay by Edwin Harvey Blum from a story by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jules Dassin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
• The Curse of the Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Gunther V Fritsch and Robert Wise (RKO Radio Pictures)

Best Editor, Short Form

• John W Campbell, Jr.

Best Professional Artist

• Margaret Brundage

Best Fanzine

• Voice of the Imagi-Nation, edited by Forrest J Ackerman and Myrtle R Douglas

Best Fan Writer

• Fritz Leiber