The Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards, first presented in 1953 and presented annually since 1955, are Science Fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), which is also responsible for administering them.
2020 Winner: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Nominees: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
2019 Winner: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Nominees: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
2018 Winner: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Nominees: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi Provenance by Ann Leckie Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2017 Winner: The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
Nominees: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer Death’s End by Cixin Liu by translated by Ken Liu
2016 Winner: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Nominees: Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey) Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit) Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow) The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher (Roc)
2015 Winner: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu by Ken Liu translator
Nominees: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette) Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie Skin Game by Jim Butcher The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson
2014 Winner: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Nominees: Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross Parasite by Mira Grant The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia
2013 Winner: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
Nominees: Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed Blackout by Mira Grant
2012 Winner: Among Others by Jo Walton
Nominees: Embassytown by China Miéville Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey Deadline by Mira Grant A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
2011 Winner: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Nominees: Feed by Mira Grant Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
2010 Winners: The City & The City by China Miéville (tie) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (tie)
Nominees: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest Wake by Robert J. Sawyer Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente