Winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2023 Hugo Awards were presented at a ceremony during Chengdu Worldcon weekend - October 18-22 2023, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, China.

Best Novel

• Nettle & Bone, by T Kingfisher (Tor Books)

Best Novella

• Where The Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)

 

Best Novelette

• “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)

 

Best Short Story

• “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)

 

Best Series

• Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)

 

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)

 

Best Related Work

• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, by Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Everything Everywhere All At Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)

 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)

 

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke

 

Best Editor, Long Form

• Lindsey Hall

 

Best Professional Artist

• Enzhe Zhao

 

Best Semiprozine

• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.

 

Best Fanzine

• Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen

 

Best Fancast

• Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson

 

Best Fan Writer

• Chris M Barkley

 

Best Fan Artist

• Richard Man

 

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society)

• Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)

 

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines)

• Travis Baldree