2020 Hugo Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at ConZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention in July.

The finalists for best novel are:

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

In general, female authors continue to dominate the field. There are also several authors with multiple nominations. I am not familiar with most of the nominees, as I have not kept up with current reading in the field. I do read several of the best of the year anthologies, but I am a couple of years behind.