The 2019 Hugo Award Winners

The winners of  the 2019 Hugo Awards were announced at the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin yesterday. The awards ceremony was live streamed and proceeded without any major glitches. Locus Magazine the full list of winners with runners up. These were the fiction award winners:

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)

Detailed results, including the voting breakdown (the Hugos use a preferential voting system) are available on the Hugo Awards web site (PDF link).

Every once in a while a novel comes out that everyone gets behind and it wins all the major awards. This year it was Mary Robinette Kowal's The Calculating Stars.  It also won the Nebula and Locus awards earlier in the year. In a nice touch, she had it presented to her by a real astronaut, Jeanette Epps.

I've read The Calculating Stars and was glad to see it win the Hugo. I've not read any of the short fiction nominees. I would have liked to have seen Astounding win the award for Betst Related Work (see my review here).